The Telegraph — Car insurance company Swiftcover which features Iggy Pop in its adverts has admitted it refuses to cover musicians. more info

NME - Pinglewood — Back in 1986 I was too deep into Lego to realise the importance of NME's C86 tape. Now I'm off the bricks (six months clean) and that seminal cassette's influence has wafted back into my life. Bands like Wavves, PENS, Graffiti Island, Male Bonding a... more info

Persona Sauna — If you aren't familiar with it already, War Child: Heroes is charity album that has also chosen to create a compilation of covers, but it gives it an American Idol-esque flavor by asking the original artists to choose who should attempt to remake the... more info

Pitchfork — Above: T-shirt designs by Jay Reatard and MGMT Hey, you know when you're in a band and a venerable soft-porn magazine asks you to design a T-shirt? What? It happens.It's been happening for a couple of years now, actually. Since 2007, Playbo... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Plus: Joni Mitchell [ tickets ], Taylor Hicks [ tickets ], more... continued more info

Guardian Music — The once-flawless credentials of Detroit's late-60s garage-rock scene took a considerable dent recently thanks to Iggy Pop's badly timed car insurance advert. And let's not forget the readiness of MC5's surviving members to exchange their manifesto o... more info

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Chicago Tribune — Lux Interior is dead. It can't be. He had defied serious injury so many times before in performances that at times he seemed like an indestructible, pasty-skinned zombie who would never rest. more info

Chicago Tribune — Lux Interior is dead. It can't be. He had defied serious injury so many times before in performances that at times he seemed like an indestructible, pasty-skinned zombie who would never rest. more info

Detroit Free Press — The Red Hot Organization was founded 20 years ago to benefit HIV- and AIDS-related charities through the release of some pretty cool music compilations, the first being "Red Hot + Blue," a 1990 tribute to Cole Porter that featured his songs sung by K... more info