in The Name of The Beast

2013 release, the first studio album to bear the name 'Iggy & The Stooges' since Raw Power was released in 1973! Ready To Die finds Iggy Pop, guitarist James Williamson and drummer Scott "Rock Action" Asheton reunited for a full album of all-new material with Mike Watt filling in for the late Ron Asheton on bass. The results are the closest thing to a time capsule to 1973 - or at least to Iggy's subsequent efforts with Williamson, including 1977's Kill City and 1979's New Values - that rock 'n' roll is likely to proffer in this millennium. The new album's opening one-two of 'Burn' and 'Sex & Money' pair sublimely blunt and self-explanatory subject matter with back alley razor-blade guitars and a troglodytic rhythmic stomp as intensely single-minded as Iggy's lyrical statements of intent. Elsewhere on the album, anthems abound in the form of the most dead-on rallying cry for the lower-working-class dispossessed to date–the succinctly and aptly titled 'Job' - as well as a title track that mixes a signature Iggy Pop mission statement of angry desperation with guitar pyrotechnics that recall those halcyon opening salvos of 'Search & Destroy'.

Tangerine Tree was a project from 2002 through 2006 that was dedicated to the collection, preservation and distribution of unreleased concerts and other audio material by the band Tangerine Dream. The creators of the Tangerine Tree project received permission from Tangerine Dream to release the collection on a strict non-profit basis. Several of the Tangerine Tree volumes have been used as the basis for official Tangerine Dream releases. The project collected just under 300 hours of material (291:39:26).

BMG has announced the release of the limited edition box set, ‘Crücial Crüe: The Studio Albums 1981-1989′ featuring the band’s first five Platinum-selling landmark albums pressed on colored vinyl.
1981’s Too Fast For Love will be on white and black splatter, 1983’s Shout At The Devil on yellow and black splatter, 1985’s Theatre Of Pain on hot pink magenta and black splatter, 1987’s Girls, Girls, Girls on cyan blue and black splatter, and 1989’s Dr. Feelgood on Coke bottle green and oxblood splatter. The Crücial Crüe box set will also be released on CD with only 10,000 units of each configuration available globally, available February 17th.