NME — This week's NME Music News is available to watch now on NME.COM (scroll down for the video). more info

NME — This week's NME Music News is available to watch now on NME.COM (scroll down for the video). more info

NME — The Stooges' bass player Mike Watt has paid tribute to the band's guitarist Ron Asheton, whose death was announced on Tuesday (January 6). more info

NME — The Stooges' bass player Mike Watt has paid tribute to the band's guitarist Ron Asheton, whose death was announced on Tuesday (January 6). more info

KEXP Seattle — Ron Asheton, the guitarist for the Stooges, has passed away unexpectedly, from what appear to be natural causes. He was 60. Asheton’s raw, driving sound helped to define the protopunk band, and the bold precedent he set helped to spawn — i... more info

My Old Kentucky — Friends, I urge you, waste not your time and hard-earned duckets on paper tigers and false idols. The album that will bring you the most joy and tingling in your naughty bits in 2009 comes from a band you've never heard of, primarily because they wen... more info

New York Times — Mr. Asheton was a guitarist of the Michigan proto-punk band the Stooges, and the guiding hand of some of the most simple, satisfying and copied riffs in rock ’n’ roll. more info

Washington PostMike Watt riffs on Ron Asheton and the StoogesLos Angeles Times - 3 hours agoMike Watt, bassist for punk groups the Minutemen and Firehose, was invited in 2003 by Iggy Pop to join the Stooges when the seminal Michigan band reunited for... more info

Rolling Stone — In June 2004, photographer Peter Norrman shot Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton at the Weber Family Restaurant in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was the guitarist’s favorite restaurant, which was just minutes from the home he grew up in — and the very same ... more info

The Telegraph — Ron Asheton guitarist and founding member of The Stooges has died aged 60. more info