David Bowie News

Ireland's multi-platinum-selling band The Coronas are set to release new music ahead of what will be their third North American tour in less than a year. REPRISE, a five-song EP of new material, will be available on July 6 as the band prepares to kick off their latest tour at the iconic Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago's Grant Park on August 5.

Nosferatutu is very cleverly written and performed by Tommy Bradson.

This year, The Vaults celebrated its fifth birthday. It's a milestone that will culminate in our most ambitious project to date, Sounds and Sorcery Celebrating Disney Fantasia.

At last night's Reeperbahn Festival New York Edition at A2IM Indie Week presented by SoundExchange, the 2018 jury for the ANCHOR Award—the award that Reeperbahn Festival launched in 2016 to identify the most promising emerging musical talent—was detailed. It had previously been made public that KCRW's Chris Douridas and Jason Bentley, David Bowie's longtime producer Tony Visconti, and 2017 ANCHOR winner Jade Bird will be on this year's jury (just as 2016 winner Albin Lee Meldau was on 2017's jury); last night, producer/4 Non Blondes frontwoman Linda Perry and Morcheeba frontwoman Skye Edwards were announced as jury additions. Consequence of Sound broke the news on-site.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announces casting and creative teams for the summer season of new musicals and plays selected for development at the National Music Theater Conference and National Playwrights Conference.

This July Smash Fashion are set to release Rompus Pompous, the anticipated follow-up studio album to their 2014 critically acclaimed LP, Big Cat Love.

Jared Dylan has returned from Ireland where he has been working with Irish musicians and producers, writing new music, touring, and garnering critical acclaim and radio airplay. To celebrate his return and his brand new single, Jared will be performing to a hometown crowd at The Cutting Room before heading back to Ireland once again.

St. Ann's Warehouse will present the U.S. Premiere of The Jungle, the immensely acclaimed Good Chance Theatre co-production with the National Theatre and Young Vic. Currently opening a five-month run at London's Playhouse Theatre on the West End, The Jungle comes to St. Ann's beginning December 4, 2018.

Introducing Sterling Infinity, a truly unique artist and someone likely to surprise almost any listener. His music combines electronic soul and synth rock in a way that's reminiscent of the greatest performers. The charismatic singer has garnered comparisons to everyone from Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Steven Tyler, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, to the glittery star-blazer himself David Bowie.

A Proclamation! Tawnydog Productions has announced that the world premiere of Erin Murray Quinlan's lighthearted and whimsical new Off Broadway musical comedy GOD SAVE QUEEN PAM will take place on Thursday, the twenty-first day of June, Two Thousand and Eighteen with a limited engagement run through the twenty ninth day of July in the same year of our Lord. Get a first glance with rehearsal photos below!

Good Night Theatre Collective kicked off Pride weekend in Sioux Falls with their last cabaret show of season 2, PRIDE: The Love Cabaret. Thursday's sold out show featured songs written or performed by LGBTQ artists.

Welles arrives today with his melodic and psychedelic debut LP, 'Red Trees and White Trashes,' available via 300 Entertainment.

SPACE SHAMBLES, hosted by astronaut Chris Hadfield and comedian Robin Ince, was part of the Royal Albert Hall's inaugural Festival of Science on Friday 15 June. Verity Wilde was there.

David Bowie Saxophonist Donny McCaslin Premieres New Art-Rock Single

Dough Wright, president of the Dramatists Guild of America, has issued an open letter to the CEO of the CBS Network, Les Moonves, criticizing the omission of categories honoring playwrights and composers from Sunday's Tony Awards telecast.

A friendship between William Doyle, owner of the Museum of Style Icons in Newbridge, Ireland and Kurt Cobain's mother, sisters and daughter will bring to Ireland never exhibited intimate items of the rock legend's life. The Exhibition opens on July 19th and runs till September 30th in Newbridge, Ireland.

From the start to end of 2018, Art Factory will have presented eight fully produced musicals, and six explosive concerts. Four musicals and five concerts remain for audiences to enjoy before the end of the year!

The Pineapple Thief have revealed their first single, entitled “Far Below” from forthcoming new studio albumDissolution. The highly anticipated follow up to 2015's Your Wilderness, is the band's second album to feature King Crimson and Porcupine Tree virtuoso drummer Gavin Harrison.

Gillian Welch's celebrated fourth studio album, 2003's Soul Journey, will be released for the first time ever on vinyl via her own Acony Records on August 10th, to coincide with the album's 15th anniversary. The long awaited first pressing of Soul Journey, which The A.V. Club hailed as “raw, spare, direct, and achingly pretty,” contains some of her most beloved songs, including “Look At Miss Ohio,” 'Wayside/Back In Time” and “Wrecking Ball”. Soul Journey was mastered directly from the original tapes through custom Ortofon amplifiers to a Neumann VMS-80 cutting system and plated and pressed on 150-gram audiophile-quality vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, and can be pre-ordered here.

THE GREEN ROOM 42 - Broadway's newest intimate concert venue - has announced the return of acclaimed singer and  songwriter SPENCER DAY, who continues his debut residency on Friday, June 22 at 7:00 PM. The unique #1 Billboard  charting pop/jazz performer who has appeared at venues from Lincoln Center to the Hollywood Bowl is headlining monthly shows through August. This provides Day with unique opportunity to showcase his humor as well his diverse and eclectic original songs, material from his new album Angel City and interpretations of classic songs from Cole Porter to David Bowie. Day brings a spontaneity that feels new and fresh while simultaneously embracing the classic mood of a bygone era. The album's second single, "Angel City," was the #1 Most Added track this week from the Billboard Contemporary  Jazz Chart, in addition to being #1 Most Added track on the Groove Jazz Music Chart.