Iggy Pop Shares Live Version of Popular Track 'The Passenger'

On January 25 Iggy Pop and earMusic will release Iggy Pop Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023, an essential Iggy Pop live album, celebrating a career, a catalog and a performer that only gathers more raw power throughout the years.

Another taste of the album has been revealed with "The Passenger (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023),” the second single to be taken from the LP. With over 425 million streams, "The Passenger" is not only an iconic track but also Iggy Pop's most streamed song. Here with a 7-piece band and a sold out crowd, Iggy Pop brings the song roaring to full life at historic Stravinski Hall at the iconic Montreux Jazz Festival. 

On July 6, 2023 Iggy Pop returned to the Montreux Jazz Festival backed by a seven-piece band and thrilled an at-capacity Stravinski Auditorium crowd with a career-spanning set including tracks from his time with The Stooges, his Idiot, Lust for Life, and New Values albums, leading up to the release of Every Loser. It marked Iggy’s third appearance at the festival and his monumental performance was recorded and filmed by the Montreux Jazz Festival team. The concert will be available as a Blu-ray+CD Digipak, 2 LP Gatefold, and digital download on January 24, 2025 worldwide via earMUSIC.

There has never been an artist on stage quite like Iggy Pop and here he has never been better. With a band as versatile and acrobatic as the artist himself, there is everything from the glorious primitivism of Stooges-era “I Wanna Be Your Dog” and “T.V. Eye,” the swagger of “Lust for Life,” the precise metronomic drone of “Nightclubbing, “and the full-on unleashed rock fury of the recent “Modern Day Ripoff” and “Frenzy.”

Iggy Pop Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023 Track Listing:

1. Rune*
2. Five Foot One
3. T.V. Eye
4. Modern Day Ripoff
5. Raw Power
6. Gimme Danger
7. The Passenger
8. Lust for Life
9. Endless Sea
10. Death Trip
11. Sick of You
12. I Wanna Be Your Dog
13. Search and Destroy
14. Mass Production
15. Nightclubbing
16. Down on the Street
17. Loose
18. Frenzy

* Blu-ray/download video only

Photo credit: Marc Ducet