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Iggy Pop: Punkrocker

Punkrocker, featuring Iggy Pop and the Teddybears.

The grandfather of punk meets Swedish pop and collides with the US mainstream.

The amazing Iggy Pop is at it again, and this time he's teamed with the Teddybears (formerly Teddybears STHLM), a Swedish rock band formed in 1991.

Iggy, the grandfather of punk, needs no introduction. The Teddybears on the other hand, were a little known band from Stockholm until their latest album, Soft Machine, landed in America. Saw them first on their US debut on Last Call with Carson Daly, where Aimee Echo (of theSTART) delivered a brilliant performance with them. Soon afterwards, "Punkrocker" was picked up and used in a new TV commercial for Cadillac.

The Teddybears began when Patrik Arve and Joakim Ahlund met at art school in Stockholm and formed a grindcore band called Skull. When Skull needed a guitar player they invited Joakim’s brother Klas to join and changed the band’s name to Teddybears.

The band sites their musical influences as Dead Kennedys, Romanian gypsy brass bands, NWA, Bruce Haack and Bad Brains but there’s clearly an influence from bands like Kraftwerk, Suicide, Neu, Can, Silver Apples etc Somehow this range of influences in the hands of the Teddybears comes out sounding like hardcore-punk mixed with Swedish pop with a sprinkling of a DJ scratching on top.

Besides their involvement with the Teddybears, all three band members also direct videos, short films and commercials through the production outfit Spader Knekt and have individual musical projects: Joakim Åhlund is also the lead guitarist and songwriter for the Caesars, who are best known for "Jerk It Out," a song used in an iPod commercial, Klas has an old school punk band called Suspiria, and Joakim and Patrik have a horror-jazz outfit called The Diamonds.

As well as collaborating with Iggy Pop, their latest album also includes appearances from Annie (pop artist and DJ Anne Lilia Berge Strand from Norway), Ebbot Lundberg of The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Mad Cobra, and Neneh Cherry.

The band directed the video themselves, and it's from their album Soft Machine. And if you can find the mp3 recording of this song, get it for sure!

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Comments (13)

	Chloe Thunders: 09/14/2007 3:20 AM Ah, Iggy's the best. This man will never get old, and God knows his body had hard times! I wonder what's his secret! This song is very good. It reminds me of Interpol or She Wants Revenge... I like it.
	JargonTalk ©: 09/14/2007 4:14 AM As noted earlier, first saw the Teddybears performing "Punkrocker" on Last Call with Carson Daly last spring. Aimee Echo of theSTART was the vocalist, and she delivered a brilliant performance... a must see! Just click here to see that video. If you haven't heard Aimee, the best way to describe her is that she has that that Kim Carnes "I've-smoked-too-many-damned-cigarettes" kind of voice, but it has a character that many other singers lack.
	raquel23: 09/14/2007 6:25 AM I saw Iggy Pop & The Stooges a few years ago in Portugal, humm not my kind of music but was cool. I like this video! : )
	bizarreland: 09/14/2007 8:35 AM You gotta love that crazy Iggy, just recently when Bam and Missey got married he was the entertainment at their reception. Well if you didn't see that most people know that Bam has a crazy lifestyle and his relatives know his antics and nutty friends. But Missey's relatives well....Their reactions were priceless when Iggy in his usual naked chest got on stage....LMAO......JJ :D
	Rhiwena: 09/14/2007 9:33 AM cool video.
	skintight: 09/14/2007 6:37 PM no Iggy Pop, you are not always looking good. The years have no been good to him. I saw him with the Stooges a few years ago & although it was an amazing performance seeing a ex-junkie 60 year old man was slightly jarring for a 15 year old girl. also props on the random Amiee Echo shout out. i love theSTART.
	heartsapocolypse: 09/14/2007 9:05 PM Yes, he is a punkrocker... an original in so many ways... and the Amiee Echo video was fabulous. What a voice... Now where can I get one of those bear heads?
	bennbell: 09/15/2007 4:31 AM Cool video!
	catiag: 09/15/2007 12:54 PM Grumpy, wrinkled and with lots of attitude - that's my kind of rock star!
	Ana: 09/16/2007 6:24 AM cool video...never seen it before...=)
	Rhiwena: 09/24/2007 12:44 PM skintight said: no Iggy Pop, seeing a ex-junkie 60 year old man was slightly jarring for a 15 year old girl. also props on the random Amiee Echo shout out. i love theSTART. Any ex junkie who makes it to 60, deserves some respect.
	jrw0517: 10/09/2007 8:46 PM heartsapocolypse said: Yes, he is a punkrocker... an original in so many ways... and the Amiee Echo video was fabulous. What a voice...Now where can I get one of those bear heads? I like this too, it's a cool video. And I want a bear head too!
	jrw0517: 10/09/2007 8:52 PM And I want that on mp3!