ORGAN: Five music things – New Lana Del Rabies, Art Terry & The Black Bohemians, more Hack-Poets Guild, don’t ask us who the rather delightful Storm Bugs are, do ask us who Spirit of Hamlet are, Mike Watt of Minutemen, Firehose, The Stooges, Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple and…

Never mind the editorial bit at the top, same thing, different week. Another five slices of music things and however you slice it and of course it was fishy and here comes the introduction that heralds the latest Five Music Things feature thing. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Do we…

R.I.P Scott Asheton, of The Stooges, 1949-2014

SCOTT ASHERTON, co-founder and longtime drummer of proto-punk legends THE STOOGES, who, in recent years, was sidelined by unspecified medical issues, died Saturday night at age 64, bandleader Iggy Pop announced today via the group’s Facebook page, saying Asheton and his late brother Ron “have left a huge legacy to the world.” ““My dear friend…