Iggy Pop's "Jazz" Album Gets Release Date

Punk legend Iggy Pop has announced a release date for his "jazz" album Préliminaires, May 18. The record was influenced by, French novelist, Michel Houllebecq's book The Possibility Of An Island. "(The book) is about death, sex, the end of the human race, and some other pretty funny stuff. I read the book with intense pleasure when it came out, and in my mind, I created music that would have been the music that I would hear in my soul when I read this book," said the singer. "At one point I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music and I’ve started listening to a lot of New Orleans-era, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton-type of jazz. And I’ve always loved quieter ballads as well."