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…
On the occasion of the release of his photobook, David Bowie by Denis O'Regan, I speak with photographer Denis O’Regan about his extraordinary history photographing Bowie and the experiences behind an archive that spans decades of Bowie’s career. Denis traces…
DoM’s mashups are usually pretty funny. They illustrate how two songs can be combined to create a new song that sounds like it should have always existed in the form he presents it. I often think these songs sound terrific,…
Following up on yesterday’s post about Meta’s use of “Five Years” in a (possibly) unintentionally chilling ad about AI and the future, I thought I’d rank Bowie’s top 10 songs about the apocalypse… 1. “Five Years” (1972) Yeah, had to…
Prince and Bowie are forever joined together in the unfortunate coincidence that they both died in 2016. They never worked together, but there were obvious connections in life, too. I have read that in the ’80s, Bowie lamented that Prince…
Regular readers of this blog will know of mashup artist DoM, who seamlessly combines existing, familiar songs to create new songs that sound like they were always supposed to be that way. DoM often uses Bowie as a source for…
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…
My interview tomorrow will feature Dr. Nicholas Greco, Provost and Professor of Communications and Media at Providence University College in Otterburne, Manitoba, who joined me to discuss his 2015 book, David Bowie in Darkness: A Study of 1. Outside and…
I have a theory that I’ve tried to articulate, to limited success, in a few interviews: that had Let’s Dance been followed by Black Tie White Noise, and everything that happened between the two albums never happened, Bowie’s reputation would…
DoM is a mashup artist from France who was my very first interview guest (prior to my launch of the YouTube channel). His mashups are masterful, and I always find them to be fun. This latest example combines Bowie’s “Let’s…