Category: News
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Funk to Funky
For those of you getting a jump on your holiday shopping, hop over to Chuck Hammer’s iTunes store and consider getting your loved ones some gorgeous guitar music. Or for that matter, getting a little present for yourself. The man behind the guitar riffs on Ashes to Ashes, Teenage Wildlife, and a few Lou Reed…
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List-making is the New Black
Every time I turn around there is another music-related list made. VH1 has turned into the List Network and barely shows videos anymore. Rolling Stone must release a gross of lists and slap each on their cover every year. The Herald Sun is no stranger to the trend, having just released a new list of…
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Rock N Roll (Or Some Simulation Of It) With Me
It was only a matter of time, really. With the advent of Guitar Queer-o, ahem, I mean Guitar Hero and the ability to virtually learn to play guitar riffs in popular songs, it is to be expected that David Bowie’s music would show up in a similar game. And it has. The makers of Rock…
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Bowie and SpongeBob
Tomorrow night is the night, kids and big kids! David Bowie will make his SpongeBob SquarePants debut as Lord Royal Highness, the King of Atlantis. The episode, Atlantis SquarePantis, is set to air November 12 (tomorrow night) at 8:00 pm eastern standard time. Immediately following the episode is a 15-minute documentary, Behind the Pantis. Be…
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Bowie Tutorials on Now Play It
NowPlayIt.com is a new site that features tutorials for learning to play songs by popular artists. And, of course, it has a Bowie page! The site features three types of tutorials – a lite tutorial with a video and chords, a house tutorial with a musician from NowPlayIt, and a full tutorial with the artist…
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Wanna Buy Some Bowie at Target?
On October 15, Target released their new fall collection for men – Bowie by Keanan Duffty. The line has some great looks that take their inspiration from the Thin White Duke era all the way to Bowie’s style of the late 90’s (which sadly has no catchy name). Like a good little Bowie fan, after…
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Record in the Shadow of Scary Monsters
Hey, dude, wanna lay down some tracks? Where better than the London studio where Tony Visconti recorded songs with Bowie for the Scary Monsters album? Starting today, Dean Street Studios (formerly known as Tony Visconti’s Good Earth Studios) is auctioning off some of their down time. When the auction ends on October 27th, the high…
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David Bowie Donates to Legal Fund for Jena Six
David Bowie recently donated $10,000 to a legal fund for a group of teenagers known as the Jena 6. Bowie stated via email to the AP, “There is clearly a separate and unequal judicial process going on in the town of Jena. A donation to the Jena Six Legal Defense Fund is my small gesture…
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Update on Soundtrack to Ian Curtis Biopic ‘Control’
As we reported this time last year, David Bowie and several other glam rockers will be featured on the soundtrack of ‘Control’, the upcoming biopic of the life and death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Both of Bowie’s songs will be featured in the movie itself. Among the artists featured on the soundtrack are…
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Let’s Dance the World Over
Indian singer Sona Mohapatra recently worked with Nile Rodgers on cutting a new version of Let’s Dance. The first reports are unclear if she worked directly with David Bowie in the studio or if she’s singing along to his existing vocal tracks. On the sound of the reworked song, Sona says “they obviously wanted us…