Forty years later, Bowie's influential masterpiece is still as electrifying and addicting as ever. If you analyzed the evolution of rock music over the last 50 years, you'd find that few artists, if any, were as thoroughly innovative, outrageous, diverse, dedicated, and influential as David Bowie. Born David Jones, he performed in a few bands as a teenager before quickly realizing that the charming and safe guise had to go (partially because an internationally adored Monkey was already making good use of the name). Since then, he's become a...
We are celebrating the 40th anniversary of David Bowie 's groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mar s with a very special giveaway! One lucky winner will receive a limited edition vinyl which features the 2012 album remaster and a DVD with high resolution audio and previously unreleased, Ken Scott remixes of Moonage Daydream (instrumental) , The Supermen , Velvet Goldmine , and Sweet Head. I WANT [...]

It's always hard to follow up a breakthrough records, but Japandroids have not only met any expectations that may have been placed on them, they've set themselves to break out to a bigger audience that no one, even the band themselves, may have ever expected them to reach. Although we're only halfway through the year, early reviews suggest that Celebration Rock is looking to be near the top of many critics' Best Of lists. Bigger, tighter, louder, and overall better than their already-stellar 2009 debut, Post-Nothing, the Canadian garage-rock duo take their songwriting to [...]