Helado Negro has dropped a cover of David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision,” set to appear on a Bowie tribute album from BBE Music. “The cover I imagined was something living in between sleep and awake where sound and vision dominate,” Helado Negro says. “Residue from your dream state mixed in …
Read More »Foo Fighters Perform 'Waiting on a War,' Dave Grohl Talks Emailing With Bowie on 'Fallon'
The Foo Fighters appeared on The Tonight Show Monday, February 9th, to perform a song from their new album, Medicine at Midnight, while frontman Dave Grohl joined Jimmy Fallon for an interview. The Foos sent in a characteristically supersized rendition of their track, “Waiting on a War.” The group even …
Read More »Charlie Worsham Covers David Bowie's 'Heroes' for Health Care Workers
Charlie Worsham has recorded and released a one-man-band version of David Bowie‘s 1977 song “Heroes” as an homage to the nation’s health care workers fighting COVID-19. The country singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist filmed a homemade video for the clip that shows him recording the track in the studio and hamming …
Read More »Final Words: How Some of Our Greatest Artists Used Their Music to Reckon With Death
Here’s a partial list of musicians we lost in the 2010s: Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, Chuck Berry, Ornette Coleman, B.B. King, Etta James, Whitney Houston, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Merle Haggard, Kitty Wells, João Gilberto, Ravi Shankar, Tabu Ley Rochereau, David Mancuso, Amy Winehouse, Abbie Lincoln, Gil Scott Heron, …
Read More »Hear David Bowie Reflect on Early Days in New 'Finding Fame' Doc Teaser
David Bowie examines his psyche in his formative years in a new teaser trailer for Showtime’s upcoming documentary on the artist, Finding Fame. “I’ve always been a very curious and enthusiastic person,” he says, as imagery of him in mime makeup from 1967’s The Mask and walking through the woods …
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