Today, the NY Times broke the news that Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Iggy Pop and Queens of the Stone Age/Eagles of Death Metal multi-instrumentalist Josh Homme secretly wrote and recorded an album together. Titled Post Pop Depression, the new release was completely done under the radar, and will independently be released in March.
Now that the cat’s out of the bag, however, Pop and Homme will rock hard on tonight’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where the public will get their first taste of the new sound. “We paid for whatever ourselves,” Mr. Pop said in the article. “But it was made to be heard — not to be some quirky thing that we did with our own money, ha-ha.”
Homme said, “This was to go where neither of us had gone before. That was the agreement. And to go all the way.” The collaboration started with a text message from Pop to Homme, and escalated into a phone call, and, eventually, a dossier full of poetry and inspiration sent to Homme’s home.
Of course, there was a contingency plan in place. Josh Homme explained, saying, “If we hate it, if we go, ‘This is terrible,’ I will take a shovel, and I will take the drives, and I will bury it in the dirt. It will say ‘Iggy and Josh,’ and someday, someone will build a house there, and they’ll go, ‘What the hell is this?’”
The band’s future plans are pretty minimal, according to Homme. “There won’t be hardly any shows, and they won’t be in big places, and you won’t be able to get a ticket. So almost everyone won’t see it. It will be like trying to catch smoke in your hands. And that makes it even better. It will be special, and it will be over in the blink of an eye.”
We’re looking forward to catching them on Colbert tonight!
[Via The New York Times]