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 and Nine Inch Nails get “Hurt”

David Bowie one of the best live collaborations has got to be and Nine Inch Nails’ co-headlining tour in 1995. From both artists each date included a full set, beautifully bridged together when Bowie and his band mates appeared from the surrounding darkness to join NIN in a dynamite moment in music history. All in support of Bowie’s Outside and NIN’s The Downward Spiral, the epic tour wrapped around the states and also featured both artists covering an assortment of Bowie and NIN songs.
You’d think a performance as epic as this would have been properly recorded. Sadly, that wasn’t the case. Well, until now that is.
For years fans have been searching frantically for high quality footage from the trek and now, they can finally be satisfied. Per the NIN Hotline and 24B, quality footage of the Bowie/NIN tour was recently added to Vimeo by David Williams and is now available for streaming!
Below you’ll find just one of four pro shot clips from the tour. It’s a beautiful and serene cover of NIN’s “Hurt”, that’s magnificently shot and features some wonderful close ups of Trent Reznor sweating like a pig and singing his heart out, never ceasing to smile. So hurry up and start watching kiddies. This is definitely something you don’t want to miss!

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: David Bowie tribute album in works for charity

In the form of 2 disc David Bowie will be getting the tribute treatment compilation to be released during the beginning of this upcoming fall. The release will be called We Were So Turned On and will hold thirty three Bowie covers between its sleeves from various sources. Many a strange band has come out of the woodwork for this project, including Duran Duran. John Fruscanti and more than thirty other Bowie inspired groups and artists. MGMT, along with Soulwax, was supposed to make an appearance on the album but as Ultimate Guitar News reports, scheduling and recording have interfered in the band's name gracing the album. The compilation is due out on September 6, and all of the profits made from the album will be going directly to the charity Warchild, which is described on the charity:"A small international charity that protects children living in the world's most dangerous war zones"

David Bowie's Station To Station

David Bowie has announced the re-release of his classic 1976 album Station to Station. The reissue will come out in both 3-CD and 5-CD versions,on September 20 scheduled to hit stores. Along with the original album, the new sets will include two discs worth of live material taken from a previously unreleased performance at Nassau Coliseum in 1976. It will also feature a 16 page booklet and three postcards. The deluxe edition will include the 1985 CD master of the album, along with a five track EP of single edits. There will also be a 12" vinyl version of the album and two 12" vinyl records of the Nassau Coliseum show. Station to Station is Bowie's tenth studio album. It reached number three on Billboard's pop albums chart when it was released in 1976. It includes the songs "Golden Years" and "TVC 15."

David Bowie to Release Deluxe Station

David Bowie to Release Deluxe Station to Station Reissue This Fall.

We haven’t heard much from David Bowie in current years. Since his last record, 2003’s Reality, the iconic Brit has given us a handful of compilations and reissues, and this September, he’ll offer his latest in the form of a new, special edition version of his 1976 album Station to Station. The album, which is set to include a number of juicy bonuses, in three versions will come. The first is a three CD set, with the original album accompanied by Bowie’s oft bootlegged show Live Nassau Coliseum '76, which spans across the latter two discs. The second is a five CD collection that will include the above, plus an un tracklisted five song CD of singles versions of some of the album tracks, and a 5.1 Surround Sound DVD of the original album. A final version of the album will be issued on deluxe vinyl, and will include, like the five CD version, an essay on the album by Cameron Crowe, postcards featuring never before seen footages of Bowie constructing the album, a replica backstage pass, a replica biography and lots more fan club related activity. All three versions are set to drop September 20 in the UK via EMI. No North American release date for the reissue has been announced.

Station to Station:

Disc One:

1. “Station to Station”

2. “Golden Years”

3. “Word on a Wing”

4. “TVC 15”

5. “Stay”

6. “Wild Is the Wind”

Disc Two (Live Nassau Coliseum '76):

1. “Station to Station”

2. “Suffragette City”

3. “Fame”

4. “Word on a Wing”

5. “Stay”

6. “Waiting for the Man”

7. “Queen Bitch”

Disc Three (Live Nassau Coliseum '76):

1. “Life on Mars?”

2. “Five Years”

3. “Panic in Detroit”

4. “Changes”

5. “TVC 15”

6. “Diamond Dogs”

7. “Rebel Rebel”

8. “The Jean Genie”

DVD (5.1 surround sound):

1. “Station to Station”

2. “Golden Years”

3. “Word on a Wing”

4. “TVC 15”

5. “Stay”

6. “Wild Is the Wind”

David Bowie: Takes Break From Touring

David Bowie says he does not plan on going on tour any time soon. A heart attack after surviving in 2004 and producing new records Heathen and Reality in 2002 and 2003, the "Ziggy Stardust" take a break from the fast paced life of the road star has decided. "I'm not thinking of touring," he said in a New York Times profile of his supermodel wife, Iman. "I'm comfortable."Bowie, who is ranked as the number 39 artist among Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Rock Artists of All Time, has not released any new material in seven years. Bowie's son Duncan Jones has made a name for himself, though, while his father has taken it easy. Duncan rose to prominence as one of the U.K.'s top independent film directors with his 2009 release Moon. The film won best work by new director at the 2010 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.