I’ll be presenting at Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse, a conference taking place November 5–6, 2026, at Kingston University’s Visconti Studio in Kingston upon Thames, England. The conference will explore David Bowie’s final creative period, particularly The…
In this interview, I welcome back Nick Smart, co-editor of the David Bowie Glamour fanzine and author of David Bowie: The Collector, to discuss the long-awaited 12th issue of David Bowie Glamour. Nick explains that the fanzine combines interviews and…
Arsalan Mohammad is a journalist, writer, and podcast producer whose David Bowie: Albumtoalbum podcast offers an in-depth examination of Bowie’s discography, discussing each album on its own terms through conversations with musicians, critics, writers, artists, and, at times, Bowie collaborators…
Dr. Leah Kardos has released a new video analyzing one of Bowie’s final songs, “No Plan.” The video is in the style of the series of videos based on her book, Blackstar Theory, from a few years ago, in which…
This installment of the year-in-review series, “The Bowie Academy,” brings together interviews with scholars and educators who approach Bowie through disciplines ranging from musicology, literature, law, political theory, physics, and religious studies to pedagogy itself. In truth, some of these…
Welcome to my weekly roundup of Bowie news. There were many stories this week about the Labyrinth 40th Anniversary trailer, which struck me as odd, as they amounted to coverage of what is essentially an advertisement. There were also multiple…
As we approach the 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s passing, I have sought to address themes relevant to that milestone in my upcoming interviews. The person I most wanted to speak with about Bowie’s legacy was Dr. Leah Kardos. The…
For some reason I was recently thinking about a sequence in Leah Kardos’s excellent book, Blackstar Theory, in which she comments on Bowie’s use of the color — more the word, “blue” in his song lyrics. I’m not going to…
I have seldom encountered commentary about Bowie’s use of animal imagery in his lyrics. Sure, there’s been plenty written about why he mentions specific animals in specific songs, but the less-noticed pattern is that a veritable Noah’s Ark of animals…