New Iggy Pop coming! Hooray.



The three Stooges are back together and have recorded an album.



Three-quarters of the proto-punk band the Stooges, that is. Iggy Pop and Ron and Scott Asheton got together to record for Pop's new solo album, Skull Ring, due September 30, according to a Virgin Records spokesperson.



The collaboration marks the first time the original Stooges have recorded new music in 30 years, since the seminal Raw Power in 1973. The trio penned and performed four tracks, "Little Electric Chair," "Skull Rings," "Loser" and "Dead Rock Star," for the follow-up to Pop's 2001 LP, Beat 'Em Up.



Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool are also among Pop's collaborators. After touring Europe together for the past two years, Pop and Green Day hit the band's hometown studios, Berkeley, California's Studio 880, to record "Private Hell" and "Supermarket."