The three Stooges are back together and have recorded an album.
Three-quarters of the proto-punk band the Stooges, that is. Iggy Pop and Ron and Scott Asheton got together to record for Pop's new solo album, Skull Ring, due September 30, according to a Virgin Records spokesperson.
The collaboration marks the first time the original Stooges have recorded new music in 30 years, since the seminal Raw Power in 1973. The trio penned and performed four tracks, "Little Electric Chair," "Skull Rings," "Loser" and "Dead Rock Star," for the follow-up to Pop's 2001 LP, Beat 'Em Up.
Pop also worked with Sum 41, on the album's first single, "Little Know It All," which they recorded two days after Iggy & the Stooges headlined the Coachella Festival in April (see "Iggy, Beasties, White Stripes Lead Three-Pronged Invasion At Coachella"). The single, for which a radio add date has yet to be announced, was written by Pop, Sum 41 singer Deryck Whibley and the group's producer Greig Nori.
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool are also among Pop's collaborators. After touring Europe together for the past two years, Pop and Green Day hit the band's hometown studios, Berkeley, California's Studio 880, to record "Private Hell" and "Supermarket."
Potty-mouthed electro DJ Peaches appears on "Motor Inn," a collaboration that stemmed from Pop's remix of Peaches' "Rock Show." The pair recorded another song, which will likely surface on Peaches' next album.
For the six remaining tracks, Pop was backed by his band the Trolls: guitarist Whitey Kirst, drummer Alex Kirst and bassist Pete Marshall.
Skull Ring track list, according to Virgin Records:
- "Little Electric Chair"
- "Perverts in the Sun"
- "Skull Rings"
- "Superbabe"
- "Loser"
- "Private Hell"
- "Little Know It All"
- "Whatever"
- "Dead Rock Star"
- "Rock Show"
- "Here Comes the Summer"
- "Motor Inn"
- "Inferiority Complex"
- "Supermarket"
- "Till Wrong Feels Right"
- "Blood on My Cool"
- "Nervous Exhaustion"
