This was eight years after the king fell. We saw it coming, they might have said. All those gospel albums, really beautiful. Biblical comparisons were part of the plan when the media dubbed him The King in 1956.
The ways that art challenges us to break away from the routine banality of everyday life is the reason these artworks exist.
When Warhol started mass producing other people’s works (many of them without copyright approval, in lawsuits that are still shaming his reputation today) that pretty said it all about the economic incentive as a power to erase true value in art.
Like an art critic wearing tinted sunglasses to the Louvre, I apparently saw something that wasn’t there when reviewing ‘Don’t Leave Your Mistakes Unattended.’
With more texture and passion than melody, the new single by Dropsonic, titled ‘Honeytrap’ is a gorgeous, dirty and powerful song about the push and pull of desire and tragedy. It’s a song filled with […]
In our wide ranging interview, top David Bowie tribute artist Julian Shah-Tayler shares his views on Bowie’s much delayed efforts at staging musicals, shows me some of his gear, disses Mick Jagger and Sting, and reveals his processes recreating ‘Diamond Dogs,’ the first Bowie album that he owned.
Celebrating her stylish new album, ‘Hex,’ Margot Day of Metamorph shares her life affirming approach to music.
