This week’s featured Bowie cover is “Fantastic Voyage” performed by Andrea Prodan and Bowie Remembered at Sofar Buenos Aires. Sofar Sounds describes itself as a worldwide community that brings artists and audiences together for intimate performances in distinctive venues. This video has all the features I like. First and foremost, the performance is excellent and just different enough from Bowie’s…

On the occasion of the release of his photobook, David Bowie by Denis O'Regan, I speak with photographer Denis O’Regan about his extraordinary history photographing Bowie and the experiences behind an archive that spans decades of Bowie’s career. Denis traces that relationship back to 1973, when he saw Bowie perform as Ziggy Stardust at the Hammersmith Odeon. The following year,…

The impetus for this post is really a desire to address the first three of these misconceptions, some version of which I (frustratingly) come across now and again in the course of writing this blog. The reality is that there are many more than five somewhat common misconceptions floating around out there, but five is a good number for a…

I recently had an email exchange with a future guest on my YouTube show who will be joining me to discuss Gnosticism. He asked for an example of a Bowie song that reflected Gnostic influences, and I offered “Blackstar.” After sending him an explanation, it occurred to me that this part of our exchange could be adapted into a blog…

This week’s cover is a version of Bowie’s “I’m Afraid of Americans” by Harmony Punks, a three-piece band from Tucson, Arizona, consisting of Jason Kelly on vocals and guitar, Marshall Prescott on vocals and bass, and Matt Wineinger on drums. The band describes the song as having become one of its favorites to perform and cites its lyrics about hedonism…

In this interview, I welcome back Simon Goddard, author of the David Bowie Odyssey series, on the occasion of the U.S. release of Bowie Odyssey 76. The seventh volume of Simon’s year-by-year account of Bowie’s life during the 1970s examines one of the most consequential, productive and controversial years of Bowie’s career. Much of our conversation focuses on the political…

You’ve seen The Odyssey, now get ready for Bowie’s Odyssey! I originally posted this last year when Simon Goddard joined me on my interview show to discuss his Bowie Odyssey series. At the time, we mostly discussed ‘74 because ‘75 had not yet been released. Tomorrow Simon returns to the show to discuss his newly released ‘76 book. You don’t…

I encounter posts from Far Out Magazine during the process of compiling my weekly Bowie-related news summaries. The only problem is that Far Out seldom actually reports Bowie-related news. Instead, likely to generate results from searches, it churns out recycled stories based on usually widely known information or adaptations of others’ original stories. Far Out often recycles its own so-called…

This interview is something of an experiment: a combination of video and written conversation. In the video above, you can hear directly from Dutch artist, writer and illustrator Hans Meertens as he introduces his new book, Constellation “Heroes.” Below, you can read our full exchange about the ideas, influences and connections he discovered within Bowie’s 1977 album. Constellation “Heroes” explores…

Buffalo-born, Chicago-based vocalist Paul Marinaro performed at the 2026 Lewiston (NY) Jazz Festival last week with his Chicago quintet, featuring Tom Vaitsas on piano, Mike Allemana on guitar, John Tate on bass and Neil Hemphill on drums. Marinaro is an internationally acclaimed jazz vocalist who returned to Western New York, which is also where I’m from, for the festival. Presumably,…

Emm Gryner is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and author whose career includes work with David Bowie. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, she performed as a member of Bowie’s touring band and contributed vocals to his studio work. One of her most memorable appearances with Bowie came at NetAid in 1999, a series of linked benefit concerts held in…

This post is an update and adaptation of an earlier version from last month. I’m revising it by way of previewing my interview tomorrow, which itself is an adaptation from a video that previewed on Emm Gryner’s Patreon. Emm is a highly accomplished and multi-talented artist from Canada whose paths crossed with David Bowie’s around 1999-2000 when she sang backup…

”I Want Your Love” is the first previously unreleased Bowie song that will be part of the 1965 Shel Talmy Recordings, set to be released next month. Talmy was a producer who recently passed away, known more his work with the Who and the Kinks than Bowie. The Bowie recordings are from 1965, when Bowie was 18, well before Bowie…

The deaths of Tim Curry and Dolly Parton within a day of each other mark the loss of two cultural icons. Parton had little direct connection to David Bowie, but she belongs here nonetheless. Like Bowie, she was one of those rare figures who became bigger than her original musical genre without ever abandoning it—a songwriter, singer, actor and instantly…

In this interview, I welcome back Nick Smart, co-editor of the David Bowie Glamour fanzine and author of David Bowie: The Collector, to discuss the long-awaited 12th issue of David Bowie Glamour. Nick explains that the fanzine combines interviews and contributions from Bowie’s friends and collaborators with work submitted by fans, with roughly half of its content coming directly from…

AAP Illusions appears to be a creature of the 21st century. It’s a YouTube channel by, or mainly by Robert Dada. Its content appears to only exist on YouTube, and the channel has a large following. As far as I can tell, Dada does not appear live, post his music anywhere else, or even have contact information. I often like…

In this interview, I speak with Alex Storer about his book Inside Outside: The Deconstruction of David Bowie’s Gothic Hypercycle, an examination of the development, making and legacy of Bowie’s 1995 album 1. Outside and the tour that followed. Alex explains that the book reaches back to Bowie’s position at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s,…

My guest for tomorrow’s interview is Alex Storer, author of the new book, Inside Outside, which we will be discussing. As you might guess from the book’s title, it is about Bowie’s 1995 album, 1. Outside (which I will refer to hereafter as Outside), which happens to be one of my favorite albums. Outside has been one of my favorite…

DoM’s mashups are usually pretty funny. They illustrate how two songs can be combined to create a new song that sounds like it should have always existed in the form he presents it. I often think these songs sound terrific, but there’s also something funny about them because I wouldn’t have guessed that the two songs could be combined in…