Stooges Confirm Details For Comeback LP

12/12/06 5:30pm

It's a bit of a gambit these days coming back from a 20- or 30-year absence to make new music. A lot of people like the New York Dolls CD that came out in the summer, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find many fans of The Who's Endless Wire, which came out a few weeks ago.

Next up on the nostalgia-bands-riding-the-gravy-train cavalcade — The Stooges.

The band who made Iggy Pop famous will release their first record in 33 years on March 20 through Virgin. It's at Abbey Road Studios right now being mastered. The disc will feature 16 songs and some of the titles include "Trollin'," "ATM," "You Can't Have Friends," "My Idea Of Fun," "Greedy Awful People" and "Free And Freaky." The latter features a guest appearance from Raconteurs co-frontman Brendan Benson.

"At times, [the songs have] a lot going for the fences," Pop cryptically told Billboard.com. "But there's a great deal of structure and attention to detail. We were very prepared, and we always have been any time we stepped into a studio. Even the song 'L.A. Blues,' the last cut on Fun House, was pretty much exactly what you would have heard if you'd seen us live the week before we recorded it."

The band will tour this spring and are making an appearance at the increasingly ubiquitous South By Southwest in March.