Stereogum — Slash’s new blues cover album Orgy Of The Damned is out today, and it includes collaborations with Chris Stapleton, Brian Johnson, Beth Hart, Gary Clark Jr., Billy F. Gibbons, Paul Rodgers, Chris Robinson, Demi Lovato, and more. Slash has a ton ... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy 55th birthday guitar god Buckethead (Guns N’ Roses, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Iggy Pop, Les Claypool, Mike Patton, Viggo Mortensen, et al). Finger-pickin’ good. The post Happy 55th Birthday Buckethead (Guns N’ Roses, B... more info

Stereogum — “The Passenger” is one of those songs. To be able to sing “The Passenger” properly, you have to summon levels of intensity that few vocalists could even approach. Iggy Pop co-wrote and recorded the icy, anthemic original for his classic 19... more info

Consequence Of Sound — Listen to the first single "Killing Floor" featuring Johnson on vocals and Tyler on harmonica. Slash Announces New Blues Album Featuring Brian Johnson, Steven Tyler, Iggy Pop, and Demi Lovato Jon Hadusek more info

New York Post — Social Distortion, Bad Religion and Black Flag round out the throwback punk lineup. more info

Consequence Of Sound — The one-day punk gathering is slated for June 8th in Pomona, California. No Values Festival: Misfits, Iggy Pop, Turnstile, Social Distortion, Sublime Lead Inaugural Event Spencer Kaufman more info

Stereogum — In recent years, Goldenvoice — the massive festival promoter behind Coachella — has branched out into genre-specific festivals. There is Just Like Heaven (blog bait), there’s Cruel World (’80s goth/new wave), there’s Power Trip (heavy me... more info

JamBase — Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper and Jack White were among the many musicians who paid tribute to MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, who died at age 75. more info

Stereogum — Tom Waits made a rare public appearance at the SFFILM Awards on Monday evening, presenting a lifetime achievement award to Nicolas Cage. Waits and Cage go way back — they appeared in 1983’s Rumble Fish together (directed by Cage’s uncle Fran... more info

Stereogum — Back in 2012, Iggy Pop sang sonorous, unmistakable backup vocals on “Nothin But Time,” a long, sprawling, beautiful epic from Cat Power’s album Sun . Nearly 12 years later, Cat Power and Iggy Pop have teamed up again. This time, they’ve d... more info