I have been thinking about writing a long, largely political post about the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, which brought down the World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon, and and led…
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…
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…
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…
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…
”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…
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…
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,…
I’m featuring this (apparent) bootleg video more as a curiosity than anything else. Well, that’s not exactly fair. The Hollywood Vampires’ cover of “Heroes” is well done for sure, but there are several aspects of this particular video that I…
Bowie’s song predicting the end of the world, “Five Years” (1972) from Ziggy Stardust, unexpectedly made news when Meta, the company that makes Facebook, Instagram, eyeglasses connected to the internet and other insidious mechanisms that have helped degrade how human…