The godfathers of contemporary electronic dance music appear to be working on their next album with one of the godfathers of dance music's original American chart takeover. On Monday, Houston's Culture Map reported that Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers, who gave disco a healthy jolt of funk before going on to produce such albums as David Bowie's Let's Dance and Madonna's Like a Virgin , would be meeting with Daft Punk about the French duo's upcoming fourth album. And now Rogers has reportedly confirmed the collaboration, which is potentially awesome news for anyone with ears and ...

Nile Rodgers co-founded and led Chic, probably the single greatest act of the disco era. He produced “Upside Down” for Diana Ross and “Let’s Dance” for David Bowie and “Like A Virgin” for Madonna. He’s in the process of whupping cancer. As far as dance-pop goes, he’s basically the motherfucking man. And he’s apparently also [...]

Words: Saam Das I'm one of those people that likes to check out support acts when they go to see gigs. And by that, I mean Googling the fuss out of them beforehand. Especially when the name is an unfamiliar one. So when I discovered Leah Kardos was supporting Rumour Cubes at the launch of their debut album, I decided to investigate further. In 'DFACE (Practice This Video)', I found a contemporary classical gem. Aussie-born Kardos is currently studying for a PhD in music composition, and produced her own David Bowie covers project, My Lithium & Me . She's moved ...

Se capitate al Cake Shop di New York, per tutto il mese di febbraio ci suonano gli Old Monk , band di Brooklyn che ha da poco debuttato con l'album Birds of Belize . Ho sentito finora solo due canzoni finora ma la quantità di "ehi, ma questi sono i Pavement!" che ti fanno venire in mente in tre minuti è così elevata ("me later") che non posso fare a meno di provare un'immediata simpatia per il trio. A quanto pare nel disco rendono anche omaggio a "Cassius Clay, David Bowie, and Thomas Pynchon" e questo suona come il definitivo ...

When it comes to sequels to classic jams, it's best to just not . Unless you're David Bowie and it's "Ashes To Ashes" and "Hello, Spaceman". Although, the later was, to quote Edina Monsoon discussing Lulu , like that , darling. That said, Brandy and Monica 's "It All Belongs To Me" has been unleashed on le Internet, and it's not horrific as some will have you believe. It's just, well, not really a sequel to their chart-topping 1998 hit "The Boy Is Mine", which it's being billed as. At least it doesn't sound like one ...

This is a truly wonderful free exhibition of photos on display in Glasgow until 27 February. From the accompanying website:- Harry began his photographic career in his Glasgow home town, standing outside the Apollo, flogging gig-goers newly-developed shots from bands' Edinburgh shows the night before. Harry's impulse to guerilla lensmanship swiftly drew him to London: from 1979 to 1984 he was a staff photographer for the music weekly Sounds, providing countless front covers. During those five years, Harry's photographs covered the post-punk waterfront, from Blondie to David Bowie; the Associates to Devo by way of Joy Division, Bryan ...

Our commemoration of Black History Month continues with the second installment of Black History Month Does Fashion, the highlighting of black supermodels of the present. PHOTOS: Black History Does Fashion: Black Models Of The Past In this first part of the series , we highlighted the original path builders who brought color to the mute runway: two of the timeless beauties of Versailles, Bethann Hardison and Pat Cleveland, and the first black model to be featured on the cover of Vogue, Beverly Johnson. PHOTOS: Naomi Campbell Dazzles In Harper's Bazaar Now, we will celebrate their successors who kept the dream ...

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 ...

This is an album which, within a few years of its release, justifiably came to be regarded as a classic. Perhaps it is one of the apogees of the glam rock era of the early seventies, along with The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars . The combination of sounds put Lou Reed along with David Bowie and Iggy Pop as influences on a generation of musicians. It also marked a turning point in direction of pop music. I recall seeing, around the time this came out, an American magazine article which cited Reed, Bowie and ...

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.