If you’ve been paying attention to the NYC music scene (and you should be) you know that Brooklyn-based Australian transplants   WAZU   have been generating heaps of buzz as of late. And if you’ve heard their new single “ Murder 1 ,” you understand why. It’s synth-heavy, post-apocalyptic pop that tips its hat to dark wave gothic gloom while shimmering with a healthy dose of neon (Ziggy) stardust.  In 2011, WAZU released a series of self-produced singles, three of which were re-recorded, re-mixed, and re-mastered with legendary producer Kevin McMahon (Titus Andronicus, Real Estate, Swans, The Walkmen) and re-released as ...

I asked Santa to bring me this as it had received quite a number of excellent reviews towards the end of 2011.  I'm pleased I did. Nile Rodgers is best known as one of the founding fathers of disco thanks in part to the songs he wrote and recorded with Chic and the songs he wrote and recorded with others acts such as Sister Sledge and Diana Ross .  What I hadn't realised until picking up this immensely satisfying 300 pages was his contribution to the careers of so many others including David Bowie , Madonna and Duran Duran . OK ...

From now on, at the end of each month we'll be sharing with you some cover art from albums and EPs that have recently been released, and making a good old fuss over them. For now, as an introduction, we're showing you some albums from any period of time, just for the fun of it. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money – Will Slater Some might say that Frank Zappa's best early sign of peculiarity was when he appeared on television playing the bicycle, which he took very seriously. For me, it's this album sleeve, simply because the sight of him in a dress reminds me very fondly of his famous response to a journalist's question, "You have long hair. Does that make you a girl?" The response was of course, "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?" David Bowie – Lodger – Tim Boddy It's taken a while for Lodger to dismiss the cheap ideology that it was the runt of the so called 'Berlin trilogy', the final release (1979) in this iconic series, though iconoclastic types will dispute it ever really existed as such a series. The most Brian Eno fingerprinted of them all (he barely got to touch Low in all honesty), this post-Thin White Duke/post-cocaine Bowie album is one of the most experimental he procured and was alarmingly successful and focussed with it, bridging the gap between Neu!, reggae and Talking Heads (acting somewhat of precursor to them in fact). But ah yes the album cover; it's taken on a Polaroid SX-70 type camera with stale lighting, and then crudely blown-up out to create an amateurish low resolution effect. The image itself features Bowie on his back with limbs sodden and uncomfortably spread on the bathroom ...

Don Cornelius, who created Soul Train and hosted it for decades, has died . Cornelius created Soul Train as a black answer to American Bandstand in 1970; within a year it had outgrown its Chicago audience and went into national syndication. It remained syndicated for 35 years, which is a record. Don remained as host until 1993; the programme continued with out him until 2006. Given that Soul Train was, perhaps, the highest-profile regular slot for African Americans to appear on prime time television, who better to illustrate it than, erm, David Bowie? Here's Cornelius interviewing Janet Jackson - he owned ...

Now Born To Die has been out a few days, we’ve had a chance to really listen to the first ‘event’ album of 2012. And it’s a problematic listen. The biggest issue lies in separating the music from the madness. Questions of authenticity, or lack thereof have dogged Del Rey throughout her meteoric rise. When the album is so clearly meant as a vehicle for the singer as a 'personality' it’s hard to consume without wondering what personality that is- is it Lizzy Grant, surgically augmented daughter of a dot com millionaire, or is it Lana Del ...

Rufus Wainwright will release his Ronson">Mark Ronson produced new album 'Out Of The Game' on April 23rd on Polydor Records. What to expect from the teaming? Rufus states that it’s “the most pop album I’ve ever made” with Ronson adding “it’s the best work of my career” and says that ‘Out of the Game’ “has a real 70’s, Laurel Canyon spirit” while Rufus cites “all the greats- Elton, Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, basically the brash and beautiful. It’s also very Rufus.” Featuring appearance by the Dapkings, Wilco’s Nels Cline, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick ...

Hit the replies to watch *D'Angelo* (http://www.myspace.com/dangelo) cover *David Bowie* (http://www.davidbowie.com)'s "Space Oddity" live in Paris from last weekend.

Die US-amerikanischen Alternative-Rocker Foo Fighters veröffentlichen mit "These Days" ein neues Musikvideo aus ihrem letztjährigen Erfolgs-Album " Wasting Light ". Dass die Rock-Fraktion um Dave Grohl mit ihrem siebten Studioalbum zu ihren Ursprüngen zurückgekehrt ist und auf unverfälschten Garagen-Sound setzt, bewiesen die fünf Mannen bereits in der ersten Single-Auskopplung "White Limo", das mit keinem geringeren als Motörhead -Lemmy in einem trashigen Road-Movie endete ( motor.de berichtete ). Mit "These Days" besinnen sich die Foo Fighters auf ihre denkwürdigsten Auftritte und zahlreichen treuen Fans, was sie hier visuell mit eindrucksvollen Bildern unterstreichen. Überzeugt euch selbst: Foo Fighters – "These Days" Seit mittlerweile 17 Jahren treibt ...

"Che angoscia questo Justin Bieber! Come fa Ford ad ascoltarlo sempre?" Le vite degli altri per parlare di me. Un gruppo di film biografici e di personaggi che uniti gli uni agli altri regalano una fotografia, anzi un video, piuttosto completo dei miei (non) valori e delle mie (non) convinzioni. Dalle lotte per la libertà di stampa, espressione e parola a quelle contro il razzismo, dalla genialità di creare qualcosa in grado di cambiare il mondo a qualcosa in grado di cambiare solo noi stessi, da uno sguardo oltre le apparenze fino alla volontà di lottare contro tutte le avversità ...

D'Angelo continues to prove that his 2012 comeback is for real as he makes his way across Europe in his first tour in forever. We already saw him playing new material in Stockholm , and now there's footage of a remarkably faithful acoustic cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" in Paris from this weekend. Watch that video, along with a stunning high-quality clip of the iconic "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" from the same night, below.

The triumphant return to performing continues.

We're sorry if you're not as stoked for D'Angelo's return as we are, but with performances like this, how could we be anything but? The recently revitalised singer took the stage in Paris this past... Click on the headline to read the rest of the story.

Y’all might have heard that D’Angelo is back, but so far, his performances are flexing more muscle than anyone could have anticipated. In Paris’ Le Zénith, D’Angelo covered David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and it’s a fairly special, if not somewhat straightforward, rendition where D’Angelo leads his band, the Testimony, on acoustic guitar. Watch it below. [...]

David Bowie is 65 years old today. By the time you read this, he’ll be a week or two older, but I am marking the momentous event with a look at old Dave’s lyrics as he picks up his freedom pass.  When we think of Bowie we think of the fashion, the make-up, the glamour and the glitz. The ever-changing cultural chameleon: Aladdin Sane, Ziggy Stardust, The Thin White Duke. You don’t usually think of his lyrics. But in a career spanning five decades there are lashings of great lines and after some painstaking listening (and a ...

1- Mando Diao Tarih: 18 Şubat Mekan: KüçükÇiftlik Park - Bilet Fiyatı: 55.00 TL ’ Hurricane Bar’’ ile çıkış yapan ve 2004’te “Yılın Grubu” seçilen İsveçli Mando Diao, 1995’te Björn Dixgård ve Daniel Haglund’un Butler grubunda bir araya gelmelerinden doğdu. İkili 14 ay boyunca kendilerini dış dünyaya kapatıp şarkı yazdılar ve sonunda Mando Diao adıyla çeşitli kulüplerde çalmaya başladılar. Plak şirketi EMI’in dikkatini çeken grup, anlaşma imzaladıktan sonra ilk albümü Bring’Em In’ çıkardı.’Hurricane Bar’ın başarısının ardından 2007’de “Never Seen The Light Of Day” ve 2009’da “Give Me Fire” ile İngiltere listelerine girmeyi ...