Daily Bowie - Red Sails

Of the "Berlin Trilogy," 1979's "Lodger" always seems to be overlooked and overshadowed by it's preceding albums, which is a shame, because it's a really, really great record, ahead of its time, and kind of the closing door on yet another phase of Bowie's career.  Listen to "Red Sails" below, your Daily Bowie.

Daily Bowie - Starman

It feels like a "Starman" kind of day, so without further ado, your Daily Bowie...

Feels

My wife and i actually got a little bit of time together this afternoon with no kids (thanks mom and Aunt Kiki!), so naturally we got some lunch over the east side and kicked it around SXSW for a little while, poking our heads into a number of different bars and parties, occasionally getting out of the heat (it's in the 90s today), and we caught a performance by LA's Feels, a collection of fuzzed out, garage rock bangers.  Good stuff.  The self-titled album is out now on Castle Face and features production by Ty Segall.  Listen to "Bird's Eye" below.

Daily Bowie - Loving the Alien

There is about a 10 year stretch of David Bowie's career that just doesn't do it for me.  A lot of the music from that spread of time just feels uninspired...and kind of boring.  That being said, there are certainly little gems that still popped up, nuggets of inspiration that shine all the same.  One of those is "Loving the Alien," the first track from 1984's "Tonight."  Listen below, your Daily Bowie.

Daily Bowie - Sound and Vision

"Sound and Vision."  One of my all time favorites.  Your Daily Bowie.

Cullen Omori

Former Smith Westerns front man Cullen Omori is set to release his solo debut "New Misery" next week on Sub Pop, and just in time for me to catch him perform during SXSW too.  The record finds him traversing in synthy dreampop sounds and 80's leaning homages.  Listen to "Synthetic Romance" below.

Daily Bowie - Velvet Goldmine

It can be quite hard to keep up with the complete discography of someone like David Bowie, whose career spanned several decades.  Releases, re-releases, singles, bootlegs, foreign market releases, and on and on...there's just so, so much to take in.  And so, we get a B-side like "Velvet Goldmine," the namesake for the Todd Haynes' film Bowie was reportedly not a fan of, originally recorded for "Ziggy Stardust," that finally saw release on a UK reissued of "Space Oddity" in 1975.  And it's a killer cut too, sexually ambiguous and swinging.  Your Daily Bowie.  Listen below.

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Gamma Knife

The unstoppable force that is the Australian psych-rock freaks King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard are back in April with new album "Nonagon Infinity."  The new record finds them plugged in again, after last year's delightful detour "Paper Mache Dream Balloon."  Watch the video for first single "Gamma Knife" below, rejoice, and get the album from ATO here.

Daily Bowie - My Death

In 1973, Bowie retired his Ziggy Stardust persona, and those final concerts were caught on film for the documentary "Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars."  The film spent several years in post-production, finally releasing in 1979, with the soundtrack following four years later.  In the final performance, Bowie covered the Jacques Brel penned "My Death," featuring some sparse arrangements (mainly just an acoustic guitar) with the focus primarily on his voice.  It's stunning.  Listen below.

The Body

Providence, Rhode Island's The Body have been demolishing my eardrums for a couple of years now (either on their own, or with Louisiana sludge purveyors Thou).  Taking cues from sludge metal and industrial metal and a whole lot of experimental boundary-pushing, the duo craft awful, cacophonous dirges to summon the end of the world to, noise-fueled screeds to drive you mad.  Their latest opus, "No One Deserves Happiness," out next week on Thrill Jockey, takes all this doom and noise and adds layers of choral vocal arrangements from the Assembly of Light Choir to create some almost chilling atmospherics.  Listen to the crushing "Hallow / Hollow" below.