They’ve issued a successful deluxe re-release of Raw Power, but are the Iggy and the Stooges ready to record a new album? Iggy Pop told Rolling Stone he thinks it’s going to happen.

The legendary proto punk pioneers have four studio albums to their credit (the most recent is 2007’s The Weirdness), and head Stooge, Iggy, thinks there might be a fifth once they finish their tour on September 3rd.  He revealed that he has been swapping demos with guitarist James Williamson.

“James is already sending me new music,” Pop told Rolling Stone. “The riffs are really good. And I even did vocals for it. I try to make songs out of it, but I don’t think any of it works yet.”

Pop said that one of the challenges of a new album would be moving the group forward musically while staying true to their original sound.

“I’m keen to respect the integrity of the group and what it stands for so I don’t want to do a new album lightly,” he says. “Whatever songs we do, I want them to be better.”

Iggy has recorded 16 solo albums and the early Stooges records are generally regarded as milestones in rock history. Henry Rollins and Jack White have both stated that Funhouse is the greatest rock album ever recorded.

Iggy and the Stooges will play the album Raw Power live in its entirety at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Monticello NY on the weekend of September 3rd.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that he rarely wears a shirt himself, Iggy is busy promoting his T-shirt line, Archive 1887.

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