Lady Gaga Says She's Like David Bowie, Queen & Madonna

Gaga said, "What I have in common with David Bowie and with Queen and with Prince and with Madonna is the way that I combine theatrics and the visual in all of my performance. The fashion and the imagery and what I am trying to say as an artist goes much further beyond the music".

She continues, "I don't like when bands compare themselves to artists from the past and try to mimic them and their music and it sounds like a copycat. The intention for me is not to sound just like Bowie or Madonna or Prince. It is to pull references from all of these different people and create something fresh and new and futuristic and pop and different."

She also said, "I do sing more like a guy than like a girl so all of those male references that I am pulling, you can hear it in my voice."

David Bowie: Tribute Album Comes Alive

A David Bowie tribute album is set for release on October 11th, in conjunction with War Child. Good music, good cause. It's titled We Were So Turned On, and features contributions from 34 acts like Vivian Girls, A Place to Bury Strangers, John Frusciante's Swahili Blondes, VoicesVoices, Duran Duran, and even Carla Bruni. The tribute album is available for pre order now from Manimal Vinyl and there are already a number of streams and advance downloads available.

STREAM: Swahili Blonde - Red MoneyMP3: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Memory Of A Free Festival
In August "Ashes to Ashes" will be released as a single. Pitchfork also reports that David Bowie will reissue a 3 disc special edition version of Bowie's 1976 classic Station to Station on September 28th.War Child is a humanitarian organization that raises money in innovative ways. One way that they raise money is War Child Music, which enlists artists from around the globe, records their music, and makes it available for purchase. Proceeds go to help out poor children from war torn areas around the globe.
Disc 1:

01 Space Oddity - Exitmusic

02 Boys Keep Swinging - Duran Duran

03 Sound + Vision - Megapuss

04 Ashes To Ashes - Warpaint

05 Be My Wife - Corridor

06 Always Crashing In The Same Car - Charlift

07 John, Im Only Dancing - Vivian Girls

08 Fame - All Leather

09 I'm Afraid Of Americans - We Are The World

10 Suffragette City - A Place to Bury Strangers

11 Repetition - Tearist

12 Look Back In Anger - Halloween Swim Team

13 Fashion - Afghan Raiders

14 Theme From Cat People - The Polyamorous Affair

15 Red Money - Swahili Blonde Feat. John Frusciante

16 I'm Deranged - Jessica 6

17 African Night Flight - Aska w/ Moon & Moon

18 China Girl - Xu Xu Fang

Disc 2:

01 Heroes - VOICEsVOICEs

02 Absolute Beginners - Carla Bruni

03 Blue Jean - Papercranes

04 Life on Mars? - Keren Ann

05 Changes - Lewis & Clarke

06 It Aint Easy - Zaza

07 Soul Love - Genuflex

08 Bewley Brothers - Sister Crayon

09 Art Decade - Marco Benevento

10 Ashes To Ashes - Mick Karn

11 World Falls Down - Lights

12 The Superman - Aquaserge

13 Starman - Caroline Weeks

14 Quicksand - Rainbow Arabia

15 Sound + Vision - Mechanical Bride

16 Memory Of A Free Festival - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

David Bowie: Victory claim in battle to save 6 Music

BBC 6 Music may be revived under a different name, figures within the corporation suggested yesterday, after a high-profile campaign involving stars such as Lily Allen and David Bowie prompted a rethink on its closure.

Sources suggest it may be re-branded as Radio 2 Extra, keeping several of its current DJs, and much of the same playlist it does now. A BBC spokeman described the idea as "speculation".
The station currently costs £6m a year to run and has a weekly audience of 695,000. When BBC director-general Mark Thompson confirmed last month that a proposal to close the station had been presented to the BBC Trust as part of a bid to scale back BBC operations and allow commercial rivals more room, it was pointed out that only one in five people had heard of the station.

However, a campaign to keep the station open cited its minority status as justification for keeping it running rather than shutting it down. BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Chris Addison was quoted as saying: "6 Music serves a minority interest, does it? Then it's heartland BBC."
Last month 1,000 fans demonstrated outside Broadcasting House. The British Phonographic Industry has also protested at the closure, claiming it will block a much-needed outlet for new bands. The BBC has received 8,000 complaints over the proposed closure of the station. Only the "Sachsgate" scandal, and the decision to air the controversial Jerry Springer: The Opera, have prompted more. Several musicians have also expressed concern over the closure, including Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien, producer Mark Ronson and David Bowie. Conservative Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey initially supported the decision, but later changed his position saying: "It is brilliant with a passionate and articulate fan base."

Liam Gallagher: 'David Bowie and T.Rex have inspired my post-Oasis album' - video

Liam Gallagher has revealed that David Bowie and T.Rex have inspired his new post-Oasis album.

The singer told New York radio station RXP that his new group – featuring former bandmates Andy Bell, Gem Archer and Chris Sharrock – are aiming to head into the studio next month with a view to completing the record in June before releasing it next summer.

"Andy and Gem are on fire at the moment," he enthused. "There's a bit of T.Rex and Bowie on there, I’m telling you there's a good mix of psychedelia but there’s some good rock 'n' roll tunes on there [as well].

"We're going to record halfway through April, we've got three weeks to do some tunes and if it's all cool we'll go back in June and finish it off. I'd like to have a tune out in October and then put another one out after Christmas and then the album in the summer."

Although he has had several public digs at his brother Noel, who also had his first jovial pop at his younger sibling at his second Teenage Cancer Trust gig at the Royal Albert Hall last night (March 26), he did admit that the pair's new material will be "an exciting time for music".

"He'll go and do his thing and we'll go and do our thing and it'll be an exciting time for music not just in England but worldwide," he said.

But he still had the last word adding: "Noel's record will be good, and ours will be better."

The singer said that they still haven't spoken since Noel quit the band last August but he admitted that they "will at some point".

He also revealed that a new Oasis singles collection will be released in the near future, and he criticised the UK music scene.

"There's a few good bands but there's a lot of bands just making fast food music," he said. "It's not digesting well, they're not making albums. You hear a good tune on the radio and go out and buy the album and it's not all that."

Elsewhere in the interview, Liam explained his recent comments about U2 and Coldplay's dress sense, and he joked that they should go out and buy his own clothing range Pretty Green, which he is currently promoting in the US.

"I've met Bono before and he's a geezer, but someone asked me about fashion and you can see a lot of bands are styled like Coldplay.

"You know they don't buy their own clothes and you should, you should buy Pretty Green," he said before adding: "Coldplay are alright but they don’t do it for me that much, they're not rock 'n' roll enough man. They all live around the corner from me so I don’t want to say too much in case they come round and give me a paper cut."

David Bowie turns Peter Gabriel down for covers set

David Bowie has turned Peter Gabriel down flat and will not appear on the followup companion piece to his new album. Out now is Gabriel's latest collection, the covers project Scratch My Back. The album features Gabriel's takes on songs by Bowie, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Radiohead and others. The followup album is now in production for the artists Gabriel covered to record renditions of songs from his catalogue. Gabriel, who covered Bowie's 1977 classic "Heroes," had hoped that the "Thin White Duke" would be more than happy to reciprocate and cover a Gabriel tune -- but the semi-retired Bowie declined. Gabriel spoke about the situation to The Associated Press, explaining, "Sadly, David Bowie is the only artist that said he clearly didn't want to play with the song swap. I don't think he's doing much music at the moment. But (producer) Brian Eno was a co-writer on the song so it gets around that problem and he's going to do a version of this song, 'Don't Break This Rhythm.' But 'Heroes' is one of those classic songs . . . it's one of my favorite Bowie songs and I was a Bowie fan right from the beginning."