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…
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,…
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,…
John Cameron Mitchell is one of the most distinctive figures in contemporary theater and film. A two-time Tony Award winner, he is best known as the creator and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the groundbreaking rock musical that…
I was somewhat reluctant to select Sing It Live’s “Space Oddity” video for cover of the week, but not because they don’t nail it. Rather, “Space Oddity” and “Heroes” are the two songs I encounter most as covers. In selecting…
My interview guests this week are the members of Brixton Jones, a UK-based trio consisting of Greg Kaye, Andy Demetriou, and Joe Corbin, who together have developed a distinctive approach to interpreting Bowie’s work that blends musical performance with visual…
In a post I have drafted but won’t publish until later this week, I make a point that “David Bowie” is a character created by David Jones, but that David Bowie is not David Jones. In that some cover bands…
In the immediate wake of Bowie’s death ten years ago, fans and critics began publishing an enormous number of remembrances in the forms of books, guest columns, social media posts and anything else you can think of. One thing I…
A few weeks ago I featured a video of Brixton Jones covering “Suffragette City” as a “cover of the week.” I liked both the sound and the video itself. Actually, I found the musical performance and the visuals of the…
Well, the fix was in. I have been looking forward to Canary’s cover of “Lazarus” since Josh Slifkin and Helena Nichols mentioned they were working on it for their annual Bowie cover during my interview with the band members last…