{"id":9840,"date":"2013-05-08T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9840"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:30:36","slug":"iggy-the-stooges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/iggy-the-stooges\/","title":{"rendered":"IGGY &#038; THE STOOGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9841\" alt=\"Iggy-And-The-Stooges-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Iggy-And-The-Stooges-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Iggy-And-The-Stooges-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Iggy-And-The-Stooges-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>IGGY &amp; THE STOOGES<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Ready to Die<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Fat Possum]<\/p>\n<p>Forty years after James Williamson last contributed to a Stooges album, the guitarist makes his presence known right away on the band\u2019s latest. Opener \u201cBurn\u201d uncorks with the crack of a drum and is immediately overrun with a tidal-wave riff that\u2019s loud, dirty and dangerous\u2014everything that\u2019s always been great about the Stooges. There\u2019s plenty of that on <i>Ready to Die<\/i>, an album whose best moments strike that careful balance between glorious sleaze and brutish heft. Iggy Pop remains a vivid, potent frontman, drawling his lyrics over a serrated guitar part on \u201cJob\u201d and sneering through a pounding beat on the title track. Steve Mackay adds blasts of skronking sax to \u201cSex and Money\u201d and underpins \u201cDirty Deal\u201d with low, moaning accompaniment. Although <i>Ready to Die<\/i> isn\u2019t as powerfully raw as <i>Raw Power<\/i>, it\u2019s an impressive display of rock abandon from musicians old enough to know better and wise enough not to let that stop them.\u00a0 \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IGGY &amp; THE STOOGES Ready to Die [Fat Possum] Forty years after James Williamson last contributed to a Stooges album, the guitarist makes his presence known right away on the band\u2019s latest. Opener \u201cBurn\u201d uncorks with the crack of a drum and is immediately overrun with a tidal-wave riff that\u2019s loud, dirty and dangerous\u2014everything that\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1517,6538,6467,6539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9843,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions\/9843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}