David Bowie

David Bowie and Iggy Pop: The Next Day and Ready To Die

There's always a question of whether or not icons can sustain their status and relevance as they age. Tied to histories that have cultivated their own mythology over time, we've been presented with comeback albums grasping onto some semblance of the youth they thrived in. In the chorus of the openin ... More >>

Beauty and the Vernacular Beast: Street-Art Meets Ballet at Lincoln Center Art Series Opening

Hunter S. Thompson, in his landmark book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, said that "every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened." Re ... More >>

New David Bowie Video!

There's been a lot of speculation about what's been up with timeless provocateur David Bowie over the last few years, but here he is, in a new video for a song that's been released at the iTunes store. And it's Bowie-r than ever.

"You Write From Your Soul and They Try and Make It Into A Minstrel Thing": Our Interview With Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire

Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire is Brooklyn's rap superstar-in-waiting. He released a new EP (Passion & Power) on Universal yesterday, and we interviewed the venerable eXquire for this week's print edition of The Voice. Here's the bonus beats of the chat, which includes eXquire revealing the song that snag ... More >>

Tilda Swinton and David Bowie Are the Same Person

I've said that before, but now someone has gone to the trouble of finding multiple pictorial examples of both slender, surreal stars being sad clowns, pompadoured crooners, mimes, and otherworldly aliens.

GRACELAND ODDITY

Glam rock and rockabilly collide

ENTER STARMAN

Let all the children boogie

My 13 Favorite Duets Of All Time

"It takes two, baby," as Marvin & Tammi once sang. So here are my all-time favorite twosomes -- musically, that is. (13) "Cruisin'," Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis, 2000 This cover version of the Smokey Robinson hit came from a rotten movie about karaoke, but it grabbed me, with Gwynnie's creamy ... More >>

SONIC BOOM

Artists and musicians take over DUMBO

Six Songs For A Desert Isle

Here's audio I could listen to through eternity ... or at least until a hawk swoops down and pecks my eardrums out. (6) "Losing My Religion by R.E.M. Don't tell me what it means! Don't even tell me they broke up! Just tell me I can have this on constant rotation! Its propulsive guitars and angst ... More >>

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

Karen O and company take on opera

Bowie & Marianne Faithfull: "I Got You Babe"

The year was 1973. TV's Midnight Special aired David Bowie's 1980 Floor Show, a mind altering revue of rock, frocks, and genderplay. In one highlight, Bowie, dressed like a glammed-up street hooker from Mars, and Marianne Faithfull, dolled up like a glitzy nun from the French highway, duetted o ... More >>

35 Years Later, David Bowie as ET in The Man Who Fell to Earth

THE LEPER MESSIAH

Catch all of Bowie’s films at MAD

Of Montreal

Bowieball

TEAM ZISSOU

Don the red cap in Red Hook

SEX, DRUGS & FILM

Rock 'n' roll legends caught on camera

Q&A: Seu Jorge And His Raucous New Band Update Brazilian Music For 2010

Dude looks pretty stressed out​Most American listeners probably know Brazilian singer-songwriter Seu Jorge as the soft-spoken dude singing David Bowie covers in Portuguese in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. He's also acted in City of God and alongside Brian Cox in the 2008 p ... More >>

THE FACTORY, REBORN

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Let’s find out!

D. A. Pennebaker Is Directing A Webcast For the National

​Right, so, the man who made Don't Look Back and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars will apparently be directing a YouTube stream of a National concert, scheduled for May 15th at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The show's a benefit for the Red Hot Organization, according to Brooklyn Vegan ... More >>

Klaus Nomi Movie In The Works!

​Klaus Nomi was an eccentric fellow from Germany via outer space who wore black butterfly lips and new wave outfits and sang operatic arias in a piercing falsetto that could smash your cocktail glass. He was quite the downtown sensation in the '70s and early '80s--there was even a SNL appeara ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 28 through May 4, 2010

BOW TO BOWIE

Celebrate the many faces of David Robert Jones

MASTER OF PUPPETS

One spoiled brat creates goblins gone wild

Good Morning, Terrifying David Bowie Spider

​ That right there is the Heteropoda davidbowie, a newly-discovered breed of spider "distinguished by its large size and yellow hair," and which can only be found "in parts of Malaysia." Musicians, and this is important: if you name a record The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders ... More >>

33 1/3's Recession List

The folks at Continuum and 33 1/3 continue to put on a clinic in the uninspiring and potentially dire realities of publishing in 2009: The final 33 1/3 slate is out, 11 books as compared to the original, optimistic promise of 20, almost all of which focus on records about which you are already proba ... More >>

Siren Fest Lineup Announced: Built to Spill, Micachu and the Shapes, More

Breaking! Preliminary lineup for the Village Voice Siren Festival is announced: Built to Spill (You know them! "My stepfather looks just like David Bowie..." 'Member that time?), The Raveonettes (that guy and that girl), Frightened Rabbit, Grand Duchy, Monotonix, and Micachu and the Shapes. There ... More >>

WE WERE SOLDIERS

Keen Company presents Heroes

GLAMDAMMIT

Celebrate Bowie’s birth with glitter

Good Clean Near-Pornographic Fun at MOMA's David Bowie Video Symposium

Regarding David Bowie's Music-Videos at MoMA

One man's total reinvention, live

LOST IN FANTASY

Be careful what you wish for

MIX MASTERS

From Captain Beefheart videos to Yoko Ono puzzlers

STAGE MAMA DRAMA

Life lessons in dance

The High-Art Grandeur of the Yngwie Malmsteen Album Cover

Anarchy Artifacts

Crass contemplated revolution, broke up instead

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Eyebrow Metal at the Disco Round

Have Your Gramm and Glam It Too

Jump on the Grenade

Boy, Those Hard Rock Kiddies Can't Play Guitar

Slags and Hags Invade NYC!

NY Mirror

Loving the Alien

D.A. Pennebaker's Stardust Memories

Music

This Year’s Remodel

New Abstract

The Music Choice Artifacts And Inspired Counterfeits

Fanning The Flames

Todd Haynes