When we play it live today, 50 years after it was written, it seems to have more power and relevance than ever climate change, the pandemic, collapsing democracies. “This was the type of moment that turned our innocent minds inside out when we were young and hunkering greedily around the turntable. “Bowie steps into the listener’s life,” explained Cowboy Junkie Michael Timmins in the accompanying news release.
Not to be outdone, Cowboy Junkies are offering their own trip down memory lane with “Song of the Recollection.” As befits a band who’ve been recording slow, sad songs for the better part of four decades, the album opens with a somewhat downbeat rendition of David Bowie’s apocalyptic “Five Years,” one of the band’s personal favorites.
In addition to renditions of relatively recent songs by Frank Ocean and Lana Del Ray, she offers original interpretations of songs made famous by Nico, Jackson Browne, Bob Seger, Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, The Pogues and Billie Holiday. Singer-songwriter Cat Powers has released “Covers,” an album that gives away its contents in the title. Meanwhile, veteran artists who haven’t gone away are paying homage to artists who, in some cases, have. “We go 8-1 on the band getting back together during 2022, which means we give it about a 10 percent implied probability of happening.” Given the long animosity between the two brothers, a reunion this year seems about as likely as Ye and Kim getting back together (which West recently insisted will happen). Liam Gallagher, meanwhile, has recently begun teasing the possibility of an Oasis reunion, to which his estranged brother Noel offered a somewhat ambiguous response. That list would include ABBA, The Black Crowes, Blondie (who’ll be touring to promote their “Blondie 1974-1982: Against the Odds” collection) The Chameleons, The Cure, Daft Punk, the Michael McDonald version of the Doobie Brothers, The Eagles, Faces (featuring original members Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenny Jones), Guns N’ Roses, Jethro Tull, Journey, Mission U.K., Pavement, Porcupine Tree, Rage Against the Machine, Tears for Fears, Urge Overkill, A Flock of Seagulls, Backstreet Boys, Kid ’n Play, Men Without Hats, Missing Persons, Wang Chung, Phish and, as always, Kiss. Meanwhile, AARP Magazine, Rolling Stone and other media outlets continue to praise the seemingly endless procession of reunion tours and/or albums that will make 2022 a year to remember. The past 20 years have been about healing, dusting off and getting back up, and living life to our highest potential.”
“Today we are collectively older and wiser, but still there to carry on when we hear the call. “The world changed that day, and the next day we set about trying to change the world,” they declared. 12 Facebook post, the group waxed philosophical about the 20th anniversaries of both 9/11 and My Chemical Romance. Riot Fest, meanwhile, has yet to reveal its own roster, apart from announcing two of the three days’ headliners: A reunited Misfits - featuring Glen Danzig, Jerry Only and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein - will perform their 1982 debut album “Walk Among Us” in its entirety, while the aforementioned My Chemical Romance will draw upon the multi-platinum catalog that carried them through the 2000s, after which the band decided to take a decade-long hiatus. All three days feature the exact same lineup. A second and third date were soon added, and sold out just as quickly. concert.”īe that as it may, the When We Were Young Festival sold out the day tickets first went on sale. “One day is not a festival,” sniped the rival promoters, “it’s just a long. Shortly after its announcement, the Live Nation-sponsored event was ridiculed by Riot Fest organizers on social media. For many of these acts, it will be their first festival appearance since the glory days of the Vans Warped Tour - which presciently came to an end the summer before COVID struck.
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