Laura Crutch is a French singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Lyon. My “cover of the week” selection is her recently posted “Lazarus,” made in collaboration with Italian musician and producer Luca Ascari, who records as The X. Crutch’s description credits…
This “Modern Love” cover comes from Are You Awake?, a small, anonymous Sweden-based YouTube channel launched in August 2024 whose creator describes it simply as, “When no one is looking I sing my favorite songs.” That’s all I can find…
I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t want to select another rendition of “Under Pressure” for “cover of the week.” But this video, capturing the performance of Dwayne Gretzky, is just too good. The singing and all-around musicianship is…
I had a busy summer, which actually isn’t over for a few more days. One of the most memorable events I attended was called Democracy Rocks 2, a day-long festival of music and politics in Woodstock, which happens to be…
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…
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…
An unusual number of solid Bowie covers were posted over the past seven days, making it particularly difficult for me to choose one to highlight. So, I’m taking the easy way out and featuring three, which happen to be by…
Since its release more than ten years ago, Blackstar has been embraced as one of Bowie’s best albums. Nonetheless, I rarely come across covers of songs from the album when I do my review for this weekly feature. This week,…
This cover of “I’m Afraid of Americans” brings together producer Liiiminal, vocalist Murfila, and guitarist Alex Guitar Dude for a modern industrial-rock interpretation of Bowie’s late-1990s warning about nationalism, manipulation and manufactured identity. According to the creators, the video is…
I don't really have much information on Thibaut Gad, which appears to be a two-member band that records covers on its YouTube channel. There's not much more information than that there, and I can't find any external references. That said,…