Iggy and the Stooges workingon new album?

Tue 3rd Aug, 2010 in International News

Iggy Pop is prepping the reissue of his post-Stooges album – 1977’s collaboration with Stooges guitarist James Williamson Kill City, telling Rolling Stone that he considers the album to be “a very good minor work… an important work… my indie record.”

The reissue is set to hit shelves on Tuesday 19th October, and is the second reissue for Iggy and Williamson this year – following the remastered and expanded new edition of the Stooges third album Raw Power which was released in April.

In May Iggy Pop, James Williamson, Mike Watt, Scott Asheton and Steve Mackay also performed Raw Power live in its entirety as part of the Don’t Look Back series curated by All Tomorrow’s Parties.

The punk icon has also told Rolling Stone that he is considering recording another Stooges album, explaining that he and Williamson are working on their first new tracks in more than three decades.

According to Iggy the riffs are “really good”, but he says “I’m keen to respect the integrity of the group and what it stands for, so I don’t want to do a new album lightly. Whatever songs we do, I want them to be better.”

Hopefully any new Stooges recordings will do more for the “integrity of the group” than 2007’s poorly received reunion album The Weirdness.