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…
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…
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…
Brixton Jones is a band that produces and performs Bowie cover songs, presenting them as fully realized audio-visual works that combine musical performance with cinematic storytelling. The group is comprised of Greg Kaye on vocals, guitars, and bass, Joie Corbin…
It was a weird week from which to select a new Bowie cover to feature today. Without naming some of the artists I didn’t select, I’d like to note that while Bowie covered “Wild Is the Wind” and “Let’s Spend…
After not encountering many new covers of “Life on Mars” for some time, suddenly I’m hearing more of them. No matter, this one is very good. What I primarily like about Tyler Ballgame’s rendition, recorded here live at the End…
In response to one of my recent "David Bowie Cover of the Week" posts, someone intimately involved with Bowie's creative process responded on Facebook that Bowie covers are a good way to get attention but never better than the original…
For this week’s “Cover of the Week,” I’ve selected Magdalena Bay’s recent performance of David Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes” for Triple J’s Like A Version series. Unlike many of the covers featured here, this one has already generated a fair…
“Panic in Detroit” is one of my very favorite songs. Part of what I like about Bowie’s studio version, as it appears on Aladdin Sane, is its intensity. The song has the pace and sound of a machine-gun massacre. And…
In what has become an annual tradition for this blog, I am featuring a cover of Bowie’s “Valentine’s Day” on, you guessed it, Valentine’s Day. And before you start writing a reply, yes, I know the song is not about…