david bowie

January was a heavy month for music. Not since the nineties have the biggest records of a period been as low-down and filthy as the likes of Blackstar and The Savages’ second LP Adore Life. While the thick instrumentation deployed on Bowie’s final LP had a jazz intonation though,...

I didn’t even know David Bowie could die.  His artistic status was secured by 1980 but his recent return, after a ten year absence, saw him producing some of the best music of an astounding career, and reinventing the mythology of the man in a way he hadn’t since...

Though inherently an incredibly manipulative medium, film becomes doubly so when scores and soundtracks play a prominent role; the site of intersection between image and sound is by turns cynically prescriptive and sentimentally liberating. From the taut strings of Psycho (1960) to the exhilarating rush of Bowie’s ‘Modern Love’...

Nina Simone is a unique voice in the annuls of soul history. Trained as a classical pianist in segregated North Carolina, and retaining a desire to perform such material while upholding one of the most acclaimed vocal jazz careers of the sixties. Her war-like persona is almost as famous...

David Bowie is one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. His music has produced some of the most iconic music of his era, but also some of the most innovative and challenging. A cultural chameleon, he became quickly bored of one style and leapt head first into...

A common consensus for Game of Thrones is that it’s simply a show containing sex and violence, which, often times, it is. Yet, the incredible depth of story interwoven between these features is what has hooked fans since its opening season, with regicide, trials by combat, and dragons all being part of...