OK, so the long and joyous journey through all of Bowie’s studio albums, one at a time and in chronological order of their release, finally brings me to Blackstar. Blackstar—the ultimate capstone of a musical artist’s catalogue. Blackstar, a meditation…
The idea of this exercise of listening to each Bowie album in order is not to analyze each album but just to record my reaction. I am writing about the albums in batches, but I am experiencing them as a…
The Drive-in Saturday Tuesday movie review is a seasonal feature in which I review movies I see at drive-in theaters. The name of the segment is taken from the Bowie song, though often the movies have no direct Bowie connection…
This video features the New Hampshire–based psych rock/soul band Tumbletoads performing a live cover of “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide.” The band—Nate Bosworth (guitar, vocals), Chrissy Cunningham (vocals), Ian Hayes (drums, vocals), and Keith Valcourt (bass, vocals)—delivers the song at an…
Welcome to my weekly roundup of Bowie news! This edition includes several reviews of the David Bowie: You’re Not Alone immersive experience. There were enough distinct perspectives to warrant a dedicated section, though a couple of more straightforward news pieces…
Saturdays are the days I typically post featured interviews on my YouTube channel. These interviews usually take the form of me asking one or more guests questions, sometimes in person but usually via video. Often, these interviews take weeks or…
My interview tomorrow is…well, it isn’t really an interview. And the video I’m going to post is hardly my work product. You’ll see, at the very beginning, that what will follow began like a typical interview. I supplied questions to…
I have a theory that I’ve tried to articulate, to limited success, in a few interviews: that had Let’s Dance been followed by Black Tie White Noise, and everything that happened between the two albums never happened, Bowie’s reputation would…
Bowie contributed to many soundtrack albums, especially in the 1980s. In most cases he recorded one song for the album (as with, for instance, Cat People or The Falcon and the Snowman), but a few are different. The soundtrack for…
Longtime Bowie guitarist Earl Slick returned to the Berklee College of Music last week to impart lessons from his 50+ years as a musician to students, some of whom joined him on stage for a mini-concert of Bowie songs. I…