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Iggy Pop album shuns ‘humiliating’ record labels

Punk pioneer Iggy Pop has taken his new solo album, a French-flavoured line-up of cover songs, straight to his fans online, shunning record majors convinced it would be a flop. “They would have preferred that I do a rock album with popular punks, sort of like ‘Hi Dad!’ I was…

Books you pretty much have to read while listening to music

It’s hot. It’s Friday. There’s a number of great albums coming out this summer (next Friday’s Genius Ten will discuss two), and so today I’ve been thinking more about music than politics. And about reading about music, too, since I like reading about music almost as much as listening to…