Via TIRC, via NME: Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead at the age of 60 at his Michigan home. Cause of death is unknown right now.You know, it's almost easy to forget how influential the Stooges are on modern music -- all strains of it. Every time I listen to one of their older songs, I'm struck by how many new bands -- and for that matter, how many bands in the past, oh, nearly 40 years who were considered "new" -- take cues from the band. He'll be missed. In recent years, the Stooges
On Saturday night, a very cool exhibit is set to open at White Flag Projects. Destroy All Monsters: Hungry for Death is billed as "a survey of survey of artwork, music, video, and archival material by the seminal pre-punk/psychedelic noise group and art collective Destroy AllMonsters." Founded in 1973 in Detroit, the original collective included Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Jim Shaw and front woman Niagara. (Her website says Debbie Harry, Patti Smith and Chrissie Hynde "borrowed from the Niagara pun
