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"Life on Mars," directed by Mick Rock, 1973 So the first iconic image on display at MOMA's Monday-night Bowie fiesta is actually our host, Thurston Moore, bent at a 90-degree angle over a tiny podium, regaling us with tales of his own Connecticut-youth exposure to Ziggy Stardust, and admitting that he'd never seen Labyrinth until his young daughter forced him to watch it obsessively. Thurston does...
:: Conor Oberst recently sat down with NPR for a Q&A session. I didn’t listen, but I’m assuming it’s about playing vapid music, what’s it’s like to be overrated, hair care and making melodramatic teenage girls swoon. You know, that old horse. [link, The Music Slut] :: Spinner has an awesome picture of David Bowie singing [...]
We try to make our way up to MoMA as often as possible, if only just to pound Bloody Marys at The Modern . But tonight there is extra incentive to visit as Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore introduces and discusses some of David Bowie's music videos, which were recently gifted to the museum by Bowie as part of the museum's Looking at Music series. It's not exactly clear what Thurston is going to talk about...
The third of our Telepathe - Devil's Trident remix and video comes from the crafted hands of Diamond Vampires and Tommyboy. We leave you in the capable hands of Tommyboy for the post today. David Bowie and Amanda Lear About Tommyboy : I am the by-product of a Texas Republican, Evangelical, middle class upbringing. ...
Edith Piaf LouiesArmstrong Kylie Minogue David Bowie I caught a listen to British DJ Carl Harris on NPR this morning discussing his book Sleeveface: Be The Vinyl . The collection of photos comes from those collected on his website sleeveface.com . Mr. Harris describes the project as "one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion."...
By Joni Earekson Tada Bureaucracies aren’t programmed to be compassionate. It’s not in the nature of the thing. Take my friend, David Bowie, in his big, bulky wheelchair. After he became a quadriplegic in a care accident and his wife left him, he moved into a cramped one-room apartment and learned to rely on three or [...]
Filed under: Rock Almanac Spinner.com : On This Date in 1977: David Bowie appears on Bing Crosby's final Christmas special, on which they sing a duet version of 'The Little Drummer Boy.' The Almanac Advises for November 30: "The master-apprentice relationship is still common in many trades... Read more
Creating Peace Where We Are: Devotions for Advent and Christmas 2008 and Epiphany 2009 beginning shortly after midnight. “Peace on Earth” by Bing Crosby and David Bowie
It's late 1979 and the Human League are pioneering Britain's synthesiser pop revolution. The previous week, at a gig at the Nashville Rooms in London, David Bowie had bounded into their dressing room to proclaim them "the future of rock'n'roll", a comment picked up by NME. However, that doesn't count for much by the time the tour reaches the band's hometown, Sheffield. In the middle of the gig, singer...
There’s a David Bowie song called “This is Not America” - a wonderful tune about disillusionment in the American dream, and where that led in the tale of The Falcon and the Snowman. The lyrics are intriguing, multi-dimensional, and poetic. When I hear the tune in my head now and think of the financial hysteria, the paranoia [...]
Filed under: Count Five Spinner.com : TV on the Radio are best known for their seamless fusion of doo-wop, post-punk, jazz and beyond. With their psychedelic videos and collaborations with Antibalas, Celebration and David Bowie, it's not all that apparent that the Brooklyn-based... Read more
UK Chart sensation Aled Jones is to sing a duet with UK Eurovision Enfant Terrible Terry Wogan - ‘Britain’s best loved breakfast DJ on Radio 2′ (after, err, Aled Jones Sunday Breakfast Show) - of the Christmas classic “Little Drummer Boy.” Originally made famous by Bing Crosby and David Bowie in the 70’s, the reworked [...]
