Iggy Pop

On Raw Power, Iggy And The Stooges compress lust, nihilism and amplifier abuse into eight songs that still feel like a structural flaw in rock itself, James Williamson’s scorched‑earth guitar and Iggy’s feral charisma defining the template for punk and everything unwholesome that followed.

The Acid Lands, created by the Prague-based Opening Performance Orchestra, was first heard in public in 2014 at the Movement-Sound-Space festival in Ostrava, to mark the centenary of William S. Burroughs's birth. The piece was performed live by Opening Performance Orchestra and their guests, the theremin player Martina Potucková, and the poet, musician and performer Pavel Z as the narrator. The studio version of The Acid Lands was made in late 2019/early 2020 in collaboration with Bill Laswell a…