David Bowie Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/david-bowie/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:09:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png David Bowie Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/david-bowie/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite 617 Q&A recommendations https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/11/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-617-qa-recommendations/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:32:24 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042795 One of the best parts of the 617 Q&A series (Six Questions; One Recommendation; Seven Somethings) is the one recommendation portion. Typically, if we haven’t flipped them already with our somewhat standard interview portion, it’s when the artist really comes alive and often provides some deeper insight into what they’re buzzing about off the stage as we ask them to tell us what they’ve been into recently that isn’t their current project. Over the years, we’ve had some doozies, from […]

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]]> 617 Q&A: Earl Slick on Bowie, Lennon, and teaching music to a new generation https://vanyaland.com/2025/04/14/617-qa-earl-slick-on-bowie-lennon-and-teaching-music-to-a-new-generation/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 08:49:05 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041183 The sidemen in rock and roll are often an under-appreciated lot, guns for hire that step into a situation at any given time, be it in the studio or on the stage for a marquee performer needing that extra juice, a musical shot in the arm to bring things alive. Usually nameless and faceless, there are the exceptions. Take Earl Slick, for example. The Brooklyn guitarist hooked up with David Bowie in the mid-’70s during the Diamond Dogs tour and […]

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]]> This Screening Is Tonight: ‘Moonage Daydream’ in Cambridge https://vanyaland.com/2025/01/08/this-screening-is-tonight-moonage-daydream-in-cambridge/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:58:37 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040356 It’s often noted how David Bowie’s unexpected — and utterly gutting — death in January 2016, just two days after his 69th birthday and the release of final album blackstar, was the start of the societal decay we’re still experiencing nearly a decade later. Today (January 8), the iconic musician would have turned 78, and The Brattle in Cambridge is raising a glass to the surrealist world he created with two screenings of Brett Morgen’s wonderful 2022 estate-approved documentary Moonage […]

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]]> Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy to lead Celebrating David Bowie tour https://vanyaland.com/2023/02/21/bauhaus-peter-murphy-to-lead-celebrating-david-bowie-tour/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:10:20 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10033474 The Celebrating David Bowie live tour is back in action for 2023, and it has one hell of a performer lineup. News surfaced this week that the annual celebration of the late icon, which launched in 2017, returns this year for 25 confirmed dates with Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy leading the show. Also joining the tour are famed Bowie guitarist Adrian Belew, as well as organizing guitarist Scrote, Royston Langdon of Spacehog, Matt McJunkins of A Perfect Circle, Devo and A […]

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]]> ACTORS, Leathers, and Bootblacks team up for David Bowie’s ‘Boys’ https://vanyaland.com/2022/10/20/actors-leathers-and-bootblacks-team-up-for-david-bowies-boys/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:23:30 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10032272 Warning: This new David Bowie cover could get you pregnant. It comes from a holy dark-pop trinity union of ACTORS, Leathers, and Bootblacks, who glam up and merge sinister seduction in the glorious sight and sound of David Bowie’s 1979 gender-bending mainstay “Boys Keep Swinging.” The Artoffact Records release, complete with hot-under-the-collar video directed by Dan O’Connell that pays drag homage to the Duke’s OG visual from 43 years ago, dropped just as ACTORS and Bootblacks head off for a […]

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]]> ‘Moonage Daydream’ is Brett Morgen’s fantastic voyage into David Bowie’s mind https://vanyaland.com/2022/09/27/moonage-daydream-is-brett-morgens-fantastic-voyage-into-david-bowies-mind/ Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:14:45 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10032048 A few months back, I had the pleasure of reading Dana Stevens’ Camera Man, which is a new biography of Buster Keaton that attempts to place Old Stone Face into a historical context. Stevens sees Keaton’s lifespan and the particulars of his story as a way of documenting the rapid changes in American life over the course of some seventy-odd years. He was born into a world that had cinema, of course. However, it was still seen as a novelty […]

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]]> Revisit David Bowie’s golden years with the trailer for ‘Moonage Daydream’ https://vanyaland.com/2022/05/23/revisit-david-bowies-golden-years-with-the-trailer-for-moonage-daydream/ Mon, 23 May 2022 13:40:23 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10030442 You might remember the minor furor last year that erupted when the David Bowie biopic Stardust landed unceremoniously on VOD, which served to illustrate one point: When it comes to depicting Bowie on screen, well, there’s no beating the real deal. The Thin White Duke had a lengthy career in film and was pretty goddamn amazing in a ton of projects, and it’s telling that the first major project endorsed by the Bowie Estate isn’t anything attempting to dramatize his […]

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]]> Pett Level dance on the glossy shores of psych-pop on ‘Red Hot’ https://vanyaland.com/2021/02/05/pett-level-dance-on-the-glossy-shores-of-psych-pop-on-red-hot/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:36:53 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10025155 Alright, first off, let’s clear the air for those not in England: “Pett Level” is not a fangled attempt to get down low to look your dear pup or kitten squarely in the eyes, aided by an extra “t” in the name because of some stupid TikTok challenge or something. No, in fact, Pett Level is a place southwest of London just off the English Channel, known for its ancient forest and coastline beach made famous in David Bowie’s “Ashes […]

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]]> Duran Duran honor David Bowie with a spirited cover of ‘Five Years’ https://vanyaland.com/2021/01/08/duran-duran-honor-david-bowie-with-a-spirited-cover-of-five-years/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:51:04 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10024738 Ever since David Bowie shuffled off this mortal coil back in January 2016, the world has seemingly gone insane. Now, nearly five years to the day the iconic musician left our landscape via his immortal spacecraft, and on what would have been the music and pop culture icon’s 74th birthday, Duran Duran have paid proper tribute with a cover of Bowie’s classic track “Five Years.” The significance of the title is surely not lost on anyone, and the pop legends are set […]

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]]> This Stream Is Tonight: ‘Just For One Day’ tribute to David Bowie https://vanyaland.com/2021/01/08/this-stream-is-tonight-just-for-one-day-tribute-to-david-bowie/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:52:27 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10024734 UPDATE: The Bowie tribute has been postponed for 24 hours. Here’s word from organizers: “Due to technical difficulties and COVID-19 restrictions, we must postpone the airing of A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day! for 24 hours. The stream will start on January 9 at 6 p.m. PT.”  *** Today would have been David Bowie’s 74th birthday, and as is only right, a wealth of friends, collaborators, and musicians are coming together this evening (January 8) to celebrate his life […]

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