Hey Neatoramanauts, I’m testing out a new section here, kinda like Stacy’s Movie Trivia -only for music. For the first one, I decided to do one of my all time favorite musicians, Iggy Pop, but I’d love some suggestions for future pieces. (Photo: Robert Scales [Flickr]) If you want ...

Man, I'd love to hate on NME, but this sounds like a good idea. Why Tupac may never get the "Notorious" treatment. So a life insurance company hires Iggy Pop as its spokesman, but the same insurance company doesn't cover individuals in the "entertainment industry" due to risk of personal injury!? Ar...

Bowie hearts Iggy. This we already know. David Bowie’s musical life was changed when he first heard the Stooges perform in the early ‘70s and entered into a long friendship with Mr. Osterberg, a/k/a Iggy Pop. A few years and failed albums later, Bowie tracked the struggling, newly sober Pop down...

Car insurance company Swiftcover which features Iggy Pop in its adverts has admitted it refuses to cover musicians....

The BBC News Magazine examines the "science" of selling out concerning recent British spots featuring punk pioneers Iggy Pop and John Lydon. Ad: Iggy Pop's insurance commercial Ad: John Lydon's butter commercial Gee, I wonder why they don't show these......

Iggy, what happened? Did the royalty cheques for Lust For Life dry up? It appears so as the once radical and slightly mental member of The Stooges has forgotten his punk ethos and decided to sell his soul to an insurance company. Another pissing insurance company, why do they think that famous peopl...

Deathblog: Ron Asheton 1948 - 2009 So I was determined to get that Top 30 out of the way before posting anything else, but during the meanwhilst, as it is apt to do, stuff happened. In particular, it’s been a bad festive season for guitarists. Ron Asheton. Need I say more? In the field of memorabl...

Ron Asheton (left), guitarist for one of the most seminal bands in the history of recorded pop music (The Stooges), 60, died over the weekend of an alleged heart attack.  He was found in his home after having not been heard from in days.  We here can't comment enough (we're having trouble finding ...

Founder member of The Stooges Ron Asheton has been found dead at his Ann Arbor home. Before he picked up his first guitar at the age of ten, he'd already mastered one instrument - the accordion. It was an unusual choice of instrument for a five year-old, but he was under the spell of his great aunt ...

Ron Asheton, who played guitar for The Stooges, has died at the age of 60. The Stooges were born in the late 1960s in Ann Arbor, near Detroit, in the aftermath of psychedelia and garage rock explosion; often joining on gigs The MC5, who considered The Stooges their "little brother" band. Like Scott ...