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David Bowie

Film Review: Geek Out in “Moonage Daydream.” Oh, Yeah!

A new documentary artfully and excitingly suggests what made David Bowie tick.

By: Ed Symkus Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: "Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgen, David Bowie, documentary, Ed Symkus

Rock Album Review: David Bowie’s “Toy” — Perusing His Back Pages

David Bowie’s Toy is a solid, enjoyable, and buoyant effort from an artist who never failed to stay interesting and vital well into his later years.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review, Rock Tagged: David Bowie, Matt Hanson, Toy

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (April Entry)

Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the list includes Marvin Gaye, Link Wray, David Bowie, Jean Knight, and The Rolling Stones.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: "Mr Big Stuff", "What’s Going On", Allen Michie, Daniel Gewertz, David Bowie, David Daniel, Hunky Dory, Jean Knight, Jeremy Ray Jewell, Link Wray, Marvin Gaye, Matt Hanson, Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones

WATCH CLOSELY: “The Last Five Years” — David Bowie’s Immortal Artistic Vision

To the end of his life, David Bowie was excited about creating innovative sounds and collaborating with new musicians.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years, documentary, HBO, Peg Aloi

Commentary: #MeToo and Dethroning Rock Deities

We have the obligation to look behind the music and the culture that glorified and perpetuated it.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Rock Tagged: #MeToo, David Bowie, Emil Hansen, groupies, Harvey Weinstein, Led Zeppelin, Lori Mattix, rock groupies

Music Interview: Rob Sheffield on David Bowie

“It might sound a little kooky comparing David Bowie to poet William Butler Yeats, but they had similar pitfalls as artists.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Rock Tagged: David Bowie, On Bowie, Rob Sheffield

Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music

Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Ben Monder, Blackstar, Das Karussell, David Bowie, Donny McCaslin, Nicola Hein, Norbert Stein, Pata label, Rainer Maria Rilke, Steve Elman

Fuse Remembrance: Bowie on Film — Ageless Enigmas

Bowie the Legendary Rock Star and Bowie the Fashion Chameleon were flashier, bolder, than Bowie the Cinematic Iconoclast.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: Basquiat, David Bowie, Peg Aloi, The Hunger

Fuse Remembrance: Appreciating David Bowie — A Virtuoso of Intimacy.

I trust Bowie, the way I trust Stevie or Miles or Aretha or Duke or Bach or Debussy or Ornette or Rahsaan or the recently departed Paul Bley.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Music, Rock Tagged: David Bowie, Rock Dreams, Russ Gershon

Rock Remembrance: Prime David Bowie – Let’s Paint Our Faces and Dance

Before Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, before Iggy Pop, before the New York Dolls, David Bowie was my personal post-’60s music inamorata.

By: Milo Miles Filed Under: Featured, Fuse News, Rock Tagged: David Bowie, Milo Miles, Rock Dreams

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