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Twelve Reasons To Like David Bowie

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By Natalia Buia (CHARTattack) January 8, 2012 12:44 pm
65 years ago, a little blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy by the name of David Robert Jones was born in Brixton, London, England. Robert Jones would grow up to become Bowie, solidifying his place in the music industry as the pioneer of glam rock. It's hard to find an artist today that hasn't been charmed and inspired by David Bowie. He...
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Thirty-Two Banned Album Covers

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 7, 2011 2:55 pm
A while back, we ran a story about 20 amazing album covers with boobies on them. It was good PG-13 fun and all, but we wanted to get a little heavier, a little darker. So we decided to seek out the badasses.Here's 32 albums that have been either banned or censored after their initial release. World Trade Center Destruction 1) Dilated Peoples — "...
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I Read The News Today... For March 24, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 24, 2011 4:21 pm
Quick! Start practicing your falsetto! Bon Iver's long-awaited sophomore album is coming out sometime in June. —Rolling Stone Rufus Wainwright is releasing a box set later this year for all your Judy Garland-inspired needs. —rufuswainwright.com MUTEK's annual Avant_MUTEK series is coming to Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago and New York. International...
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I Read The News Today... For March 23, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 23, 2011 3:22 pm
Tokyo Police Club are the final addition to the list of acts who will perform at this year's Juno Awards on Sunday. OOOOOOH! OOOOOH! Does that mean they're winning something? Guess we'll have to watch to see. City And Colour's March 18 set at Austin, Texas' St. David's Episcopal Church as part of South By Southwest is already available as a live...
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I Read The News Today... For July 15, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff July 15, 2010 12:10 pm
Amy Winehouse's album will reportedly be out by January at the latest. Hey, have you also heard I'm the Queen Of England?! —Metro Rush have released an iPhone and iPod Touch application. It'll cost you a mere $2.99 U.S. ($3.11 Canadian) —Blabbermouth We Were So Turned On, a David Bowie tribute album featuring A Place To...
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I Read The News Today... For July 5, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff July 5, 2010 12:10 pm
Lady Gaga wants Marilyn Manson to guest on her next album. It sounds weird, but it isn't. It's appropriately freaky. —MTV News Kids, let Drake teach you something about how to treat your mom: When she has surgery, you cancel all your plans. Family first. —CBC News David Bowie's Station To Station will get a deluxe reissue. —Consequence Of...
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I Read The News Today... For June 7, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff June 7, 2010 1:43 pm
Against Me! recorded a Daytrotter session last week in Rock Island, Ill. Two of the tunes are from their upcoming fifth album, White Crosses, which is out tomorrow. —Daytrotter Tegan And Sara, Scarlett Johansson, Amanda Palmer and Holly Miranda are among those covering Steel Train on an all-females covers album that's due out June 29. —Paste...
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Today In Music History: David Bowie Arrives In U.S. For First Time On Jan. 27, 1971

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 27, 2010 12:16 pm
David Bowie made his first trip to North America on this date in 1971. Bowie didn't play live in the country until the next year, when he was touring in support of 1972's masterpiece, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, but nonetheless he did some promotion for his The Man Who Sold The World album. Bowie wore the...
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MGMT, Duran Duran Featured On David Bowie Tribute Album

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) January 4, 2010 3:07 pm
MGMT, John Frusciante, Keren Ann, Carla Bruni and Chairlift are some of the artists confirmed for an as-yet untitled David Bowie tribute album to be released this May in the U.K. through Manimal. According to Duran Duran's website the 27-track album will be released in limited editions in CD, LP and with extra tracks released digitally. All net...
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Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Is Gayest Album Of All Time

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 18, 2009 2:01 pm
David Bowie's The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars has the honour of being crowned the gayest album ever released. Bowie's masterpiece featuring his well-known gender-bending alien character beat The Smiths' 1984 self-titled debut album to take the top spot on Out magazine's list of the greatest and gayest albums. The...
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David Bowie Used Witchcraft To Get Over Coke Paranoia

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 26, 2009 4:23 pm
A new book about David Bowie claims the rocker used a New York-based white witch named Walli Elmlark to help him get over cocaine paranoia. Bowie, according to Spin magazine writer Marc Spitz's (How Soon Is Never) Bowie: A Biography, used to stay up for hours with a "pile" of cocaine on top of his coffee table and a sketchpad and books...
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David Bowie's Reality Tour To Become Two-CD Set

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) September 28, 2009 2:33 pm
David Bowie released the A Reality Tour DVD in 2004, and now he'll put out A Reality Tour as a two-CD, 33-track set in January through ISO/Columbia/Legacy. Although no release date has been confirmed, Bowie's official website has a Jan. 26 date tentatively set. The live effort was culled two shows in support of Bowie's last studio album,...
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Spider (Not From Mars) Named After David Bowie

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 9, 2009 1:15 pm
Ziggy Stardust And Spiders From Mars are pretty hard to find these days, since David Bowie long ago killed his alter ego and "backing band." So it's kind of fitting an endangered Malaysian spider has been named after Bowie. Heteropoda davidbowie, a giant yellow, hairy spider (was it named after Bowie because it's blond?) was discovered...
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Ziggy Stardust iPhone Application Released

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 21, 2009 10:17 am
David Bowie has released a new iPhone application that highlights his Ziggy Stardust period. The Ziggy Stardust eBook application includes over 600 photos taken by Mick Rock from 1972 to 1973. It covers Bowie's "career" as Stardust, from the acclaim that surrounded the release of 1972's The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The...
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Pumping: Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars The Motion Picture Soundtrack

Submitted by The Stereo on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 11:45am
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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) May 22, 2009 11:45 am
Here's what you should do: 1) Pretend this doesn't exist. 2) Pretend all the deluxe, bonus track and cash grab reissues of Ziggy Stardust don't exist. 3) Grab a copy of the original, proper album and listen to it all the way through. It's the best thing Bowie's ever done and it's the reason why everyone tolerates anything he's done since.
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Pumping: David Bowie - All Saints Collected Instrumentals 1977-1999

Submitted by The Stereo on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 3:44pm
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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) March 20, 2009 3:44 pm
Well, that was an hour of our life that we'll never get back.
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Bowie Coachella/Album Rumours False

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 28, 2009 1:48 pm
David Bowie would like you to know that he's not playing this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival... and he doesn't Twitter either. "The story goes that David Bowie was in talks to perform his Ziggy Stardust album at the festival this year, the rumour really took hold and the 'news' was reported online around the globe and in...
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Bowie Not Resurrecting Ziggy Stardust

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 26, 2009 11:46 am
David Bowie won't perform as his Ziggy Stardust alter ego at this year's Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival, despite rumours to the contrary. The rumours emerged after Britain's Daily Star tabloid published a story which said the festival's organizers were trying to persuade Bowie to headline the event as Stardust and play his classic...
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Pumping: David Bowie — Heathen

Submitted by The Stereo on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 11:37am
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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) December 12, 2008 11:37 am
Hey, this record's pretty good. How come we never really listened to it before? Oh that's right, because I found it buried under a pile of CDs deep in our publisher's office. Y'know what, if you took "David Bowie" off the spine of this and put, like, "Islands" or something, Pitchfork would give it a 7.7. Because it's David...
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Pumping: David Bowie — Christiane F. Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo Original Soundtrack

Submitted by The Stereo on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 10:59am
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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) December 12, 2008 10:59 am
We're digging the German-ified "Heroes" but the inevitable "for film" instrumental passages are totally snoresville. It makes for an album that's only about 20 per cent good — which, let's face it, is about consistent with most Bowie albums — yet we all still think he's awesome. Why is that?
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