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Iggy Pop seems to be in a good place.

The 69-year-old rocker, who many figured might well not make it out of the ’70s alive, was looking good and sounding better during our half-hour chat on the couch in a suite of a ritzy Old Montreal hotel early Monday afternoon. Pop was in town to take part in a conversation with Toronto-based journalist Carl Wilson on stage at the Monument-National Monday night as part of the Red Bull Music Academy, a festival/conference that runs till Oct. 28 in Montreal.

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Pop was happy to chat about this busy year that includes a new album, Post Pop Depression. Made with Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age, the album is considered by many to be a real return to form for the former Stooges frontman. There is also a new documentary about the Stooges, Gimme Danger, directed by Jim Jarmusch, which just got its North American première at the Toronto Film Festival.

In addition, there’s a live album and concert DVD, Post Pop Depression: Live at the Royal Albert Hall, coming out Oct. 28.