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It took 28 years and a duet with Kate Pearson, but Iggy & The Stooges are reuniting this April at the Coachella festival. While that, in and of itself, counts as tres Pitchfork-worthy news, that ain't all there is! The remaining living members of the influential Detroit garage band-- Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton-- will be joined onstage by thunderstick god (read: bassist) Mike Watt. (Insert your own piss bottle joke here, our reservoir has run dry.) Watt steps in for David Alexander, who died 28 years ago in 1975, which is like before me and your moms and shit had you. Hopefully the band will be able to drag Watt away from San Pedro long enough to get him to Coachella in Indio, CA for the performance Sunday, April 27th.

Love The Stooges, but can't get to Coachella? Take heart in the fact that the band has also rejoined forces in the studio. The band has recorded four new songs that Pop has set for inclusion on his upcoming 2003 release on Virgin Records. The album, of which little is known, also features contributions from Green Day, and Pop's "other" band The Trolls. As for an album we do know something about, Iggy Pop: From the Front Row Live! is set for a DVD-audio release on Silverline this upcoming April 22nd. The performance was recorded at the Ritz in New York City during Pop's 1986 Blah Blah Blah Tour. Not exactly Pop's career zenith ("Zombie Birdhouse", anyone?), but hey, if you're all about the dude, you're not complaining. Here's the tracklist:

01 I Wanna Be Your Dog
02 Shades
03 Fire Girl
04 Lust for Life
05 Hide Away
06 Baby, It Can't Fail
07 Sister Midnight
08 Some Weird Sin
09 I Got a Right
10 Down the Street
11 Five Feet One
12 Nightclubbing
13 Winner and Losers
14 China Girl
15 Blah Blah Blah
16 Real Wild Child
17 Gimme Danger