The Pittsburgh duo of Josh M. Slifkin and Helena Nichols, who together make up the band Canary, record a Bowie cover every year. That caught my attention a while back. I’ve featured some of their covers as “covers of the…
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…
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…
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…
A few weeks ago I went through the exercise of listening to all of Bowie’s albums in order and journaling through this blog about my reaction. Following that exercise I wrote the following, and one more post to come, but…
In this conversation, I speak with musician Julian Shah-Tayler about his new Bowie tribute album, Where Dreams Are Woven, created in recognition of the 50th anniversary of Station to Station. Julian previously released Bowie-related projects tied to Aladdin Sane and…
Welcome to my weekly roundup of Bowie news! Read on for summaries of Bowie-related stories that posted this past week, and click on the bolded story names to link to the original articles… — NEWS KillerStar Featuring Bowie Collaborators Release…
Welcome to my weekly roundup of Bowie news! News that Labyrinth is coming back to theaters was the most-reported Bowie related story this week, followed by the story about Damon Albarn almost having worked with Bowie (which appears below in…
Welcome to my weekly roundup of Bowie news! While it wasn’t a particularly news-heavy week, there were still plenty of stories either about Bowie or featuring him prominently. This week also included some of my best writing on the blog,…
Movie: Tron: Ares Bowie Connection: OK, this is a stretch, but, this movie has a lot of nostalgic ’80s references including several mentions of Depeche Mode. Depeche Mode was heavily influenced by Bowie and covered "Heroes." The idea was that…