Every year like clockwork, since 2015, there’s been a deep dive box set, highlighting each period of David Bowie’s remarkable career. Rightly so, Five Years: 1969-1973, Who Can I Be Now?: 1974-1976 and A New Career In A New Town: 1977-1982 topped year-end critics lists. But the highlights of each were the hidden gems. The […]
The shape-shifting, genre-defying career of David Bowie can’t be reduced to simple terms — he was as innovative and, at times, challenging an artist as there’s ever been. The 1980s proved to be an intriguing era of his creative output, and a new box set titled Loving the Alien (1983-1988) continues the recent trend of […]
“No matter how many times I see it, I always learn something new about David,” pianist Mike Garson told me, after visiting the final stop of the David Bowie is exhibition in Brooklyn. “And I worked with him for 45 years!” David Bowie’s final tour — a remarkable museum show built around the legend’s vast […]
In the time since the passing of David Bowie in 2016, some very special events have sprung up honoring the legacy and career of the timeless artist and cultural icon — such as the David Bowie is exhibit and the Celebrating David Bowie tour and, now, A Bowie Celebration: The David Bowie Alumni Tour. On Monday, plans […]
Imagine rejecting a recording made by David Bowie. To the average music fan, such a thought probably seems inconceivable — but back before he was Bowie, world class entertainer and all-around legend, he was David Jones, a young musician trying to make himself a career. He was the saxophonist/vocalist for the Konrads, and a demo […]
The David Bowie vaults still have many musical gifts to bestow upon us, and on October 12, another elaborate box set will be released by Parlophone Records. This news comes right after word of the David Bowie Is exhibit becoming an immersive digital experience in the fall. Titled Loving the Alien (1983-1988), the set is […]
For the past six years, the David Bowie Is exhibit has toured the world, showcasing the irreplaceable style and singular artistic vision that the late music legend/cultural icon embodied over the course of his life and career — which inspired a dedicated tribute tour and countless warm memorial celebrations from the innumerable artists he inspired. The […]
On September 14, Ann Wilson of Heart will release Immortal, a collection of songs very special to her heart. Featuring 10 new recordings of songs made popular by other artists, Wilson is taking the opportunity to pay homage to some of her personal musical heroes that we’ve lost in recent years. Said Wilson of the […]
With an expansive musical catalogue of over 27 studio albums spanning over 50 years and a sophisticated and otherworldly style of artistry, honoring an iconic legend such as David Bowie with a concert tour performing his songs is no easy task, even if you are his longtime bandmate. For the second year in a row […]
“He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” exists in the lexicon as a classic tune covered by the likes of Neil Diamond and the Hollies — and now Mike Garson, longtime keyboardist and creative colleague of David Bowie. Teaming up with Grammy-nominated singer Gaby Moreno, Garson recorded a version of the song in reaction to some […]
