Today it’s exactly 42 years ago that Iggy Pop released Lust for Life (29th August 1977). It was his second solo studio album and also his second collaboration with David Bowie, following The Idiot that was released earlier in the same year. As well as achieving critical success, it was Iggy Pop's most commercially popular album to date, and remains his only Gold-certified release in the UK. The recording sessions for this album took place at the Hansa Studio by the Wall (Berlin) between April and June ’77, almost immediately after the The Idiot promotion tour which ended on 16th April.

Pop has stated, "David and I had determined that we would record that album very quickly, which we wrote, recorded and mixed in eight days and because we had done it so quickly, we had a lot of money left over from the advance, which we split.”

Lust for Life reached number 28 in the UK Album Chart and is his second highest-performing release in that country after 2016's Post Pop Depression. Initially the album did well in the US too but the sudden death of Elvis Presley (16th August 1977) caused record label RCA to quickly reissue Presley's catalogue and any promotional focus for Pop's album was lost.

Bowie, Pop and engineer Colin Thurston produced the album under the pseudonym "Bewlay Bros”, a name retrieved from a track on Bowie’s album Hunky Dory.

Besides probably the most popular track Lust For Life, The Passenger also found its way to alternative clubs and dance floors all over the world. Even if it was initially released as the b-side track of the 7” single Success.

Siouxsie and The Banshees made a cover of The Passenger in 1987 for their all-cover-versions album Though The Looking Glass. Iggy Pop praised their version and stated: "That's good. She sings it well and she threw a little note in when she sings it, that I wish I had thought of, it's kind of improved it … The horn thing is good."

David Bowie covered Tonight (minus the opening lines referencing drugs) with Tina Turner, along with Neighborhood Threat, on his 1984 release Tonight.

Lust For Life (tracklist)

A1. Lust For Life
A2. Sixteen
A3. Some Weird Sin
A4. The Passenger
A5. Tonight
B1. Succes
B2. Turn Blue
B3. Neighborhood Threat
B4. Fall In Love With Me

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Electro-Industrial music producer Miss FD releases her new cyberpunk single ‘Menticide’.

Miss FD's latest dark-electronic single ‘Menticide’ pulses and pulls the listener through eerie cyberpunk and chiptune inspired territory.

Expect to be immersed in video game style electronica with haunting lyrics that question the techno-dystopian nightmares being developed to immerse humanity in augmented and virtual realities.

‘Menticide’ is out now through Quantum Release Records, available worldwide on all major streaming outlets.

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On 9th September, darkwave artist Curse Mackey will release his highly anticipated new full length album, Immoral Emporium, the follow up to his 2019 industrial masterpiece, Instant Exorcism. Curse will also embark on a North American tour as a special guest for darkwave legends, Clan of Xymox.

Immoral Emporium is an intense, dark electronic music experience. Curse emphasizes, “This is a NEW album for modern times, in the here and now.”

True to his word, Immoral Emporium pushes the boundaries of genre with a vast dynamic range, from a tortured whisper to a triumphant howl. The first single, “Lacerations” is a dancefloor stomper with hypnotic vocals, a hard-hitting chorus with wailing synths and bin-shaking beats.

The album moves into poppy, upbeat club territory with the earworm “Dead Fingers Talk". The buildups are big, such as in “Omens and Monuments”, with monstrous synths that bring Immoral Emporium to a goosebump inducing, cathartic end leaving the listener looking forward to the future.

Curse says, “Immoral Emporium was created under very remote, unusual, stressful conditions. This record is a dangerous listen. By the time it reaches the last song, I, as the protagonist, am essentially already dead. However, my last words are meant to give hope to the listener, my friends around the world…that you can live to fight another day, knowing you don't have to give in to the fear, pain, and worry. These things will pass and you are not alone."

Immoral Emporium is slated for a 9th September 2022 release. A world tour begins in the autumn of 2022 starting in the US with darkwave legends Clan of Xymox.

11.3 – Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey

11.4 – Austin, TX @ Exysium

11.5 – Houston, TX @ Numbers

11.6 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger

11.8 – Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater

11.9 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall

11.11 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon

11.12 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre

11.13 – Portland, OR @ Star Theater

11.16 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall

11.17 – Costa Mesa, CA @ The Wayfarer

11.18 – San Diego, CA @Music Box

11.19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater

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The blackened witch house project, Morningstvr has just unleashed the debut solo album, The New Salem via Blvsphemy Records.

The New Salem encapsulates a love for occultism, history and horror films. It is a transformative spiritual journey into the new studio album.

Standout songs such as the title track “The New Salem” and “Ov Shadow And Light” tell the story of witches vengefully taking back what was stolen from them in 1692 while the songs “Dreaming Of The Damned” and “Ballad Of The Devil” give listeners a peak inside the mind of Morningstvr as he grapples with mortality.

Brimming with abyssal synths and guttural vocals that take the listener into the deepest pits of hell, The New Salem is projected as a pioneering piece into blackened witch house as a sub genre.

The New Salem is available on CD and digital formats via Blvsphemy Records

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On this day, 29 years ago, Front 242 released their seventh studio album 05:22:09:12 Off or simply pronounced as “EVIL Off” as each letter preceding “Off” is represented by its equivalent numerical position in the alphabet. It was released by Red Rhino Europe, a sub-label of Play It Again Sam, on 23 August, only three months after their sixth studio album, 06:21:03:11 Up Evil. Sony released 05:22:09:12 Off worldwide on 2nd November 1993 through their Epic sub-label.

Upon its release the album was received with mixed feelings by fans and music critics. For the first time it featured female vocals, those of Christine "99" Kowalski, while Jean-Luc De Meyer only appeared on a few tracks. EVIL OFF also seem to have had no significant input from Richard 23 who also didn’t get cited on the album's liner-notes. On the other hand, a variety of new contributors were listed as members of Front 242 on these albums, for instance Jean-Marc Pauly and Pierre Pauly of the Belgian electronic band Parade Ground.

While most electro industrial bands stuck to their ‘successful’ 4/4 beat formula, Front 242 decided to leave this well-trodden path behind and embraced new musical styles and elements emerging in the electronic scene music at the time. The ambient and rhythmic atmosphere on the album can be seen as groundbreaking and innovative in those days, however the sudden style change left many Front 242 confused ranters behind.

However, we at Peek-a-Boo Magazine encourage you to dig these albums up from your archive and to listen to them again at high volume! Just like wine, this music, and most likely your brain too, needed some aging!

Front 242 ‎– 05:22:09:12 Off (RRE 22 CD)

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