Ahead of what would have been David Bowie’s 75th birthday, Spoon have shared their cover of the late icon’s “I Can’t Give Everything Away,” the closing track on Bowie’s final album Blackstar. “’I Can’t Give Everything Away’ is a tune [keyboardist Alex Fischel] and I have been playing since we …
Read More »David Bowie's 'Brilliant Live Adventures' Series Closes With Famed 1999 NYC Gig
David Bowie’s Brilliant Live Adventures— an archival series that collected six of the late singer’s Nineties concerts — will conclude with David Bowie at the Kit Kat Klub (Live New York 99), due out April 2nd. The 12-song performance was originally recorded on November 12th, 1999 at the small venue …
Read More »Iggy Pop Preps 7-CD 'The Bowie Years' Box Set
Iggy Pop’s fruitful collaboration with David Bowie in Berlin, Germany — resulting in the Stooges singer’s acclaimed 1977 solo albums The Idiot and Lust for Life — will be the focus of an upcoming 7-CD box set. The Bowie Years features The Idiot and Lust for Life and the 1978 …
Read More »Snoop Dogg Squarepants Makes Cameo in 'SpongeBob Movie' Trailer
Snoop Dogg makes a cameo in the new Super Bowl commercial for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, in theaters May 22nd. The clip opens with Mr. Krab telling SpongeBob that Super Bowl commercials are extremely expensive, and that he has exactly 26 seconds to list everything in the …
Read More »How David Bowie's Biggest 'Disappointment' Became a Posthumous, Reworked Album
David Bowie‘s five-decade career went through so many extreme highs and bizarre lows that pinpointing his single worst album may seem like a difficult task. To the singer himself, though, it was quite easy. “My nadir was Never Let Me Down,” he said in 1995. “It was such an awful …
Read More »Review: David Bowie's Experimental Berlin Era Explored in 11-CD Box Set
No period in David Bowie‘s career is more curious than the trilogy of albums he recorded in the late Seventies while living in Berlin’s artsy Schöneberg district. They’re defiantly uncommercial, stacking soundtrack-y, atmospheric soundscapes alongside pop songs, and they’re bizarrely endearing – “The hin-ter-land, the hin-ter-land/We’re gonna sail to the …
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