David Bowie: Love is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for The DFA)

James Murphy's Bowie remix, Kishi Bashi, Boston Bun's "Flasher" and more in our look at the songs we tweeted this week

James Murphy’s Hello Steve Reich Mix of David Bowie’s 2013 track “Love is Lost” has a lot going on. There’s the busy Steve Reich “Clapping Music” beginning and bouncy synths reminiscent of Kraftwerk’s “Pocket Calculator” underscoring Bowie’s tumultuous vocals from the original, and a few piano references to “Ashes to Ashes”—a Ziggy Stardust classic. But as you would expect from two respective legends, the 10-minute …

Interview: Will Epstein of High Water

The frequent Nicolas Jaar collaborator debuts his ethereal EP "The Beautiful Moon" on music subscription service Other People

Since graduating from college last year, musician Will Epstein has kept a low profile despite assembling an impressive resume. Born and raised in NYC’s TriBeCa neighborhood, Epstein went on to study electronic music at Brown University, the same alma mater as his frequent collaborator, the Chilean-American producer Nicolas Jaar, who he’s been friends with since the age of nine. Epstein, a multi-instrumental artist, has toured …

This is Mars

Art and science merge in a book of hi-res space camera images that reveals the red planet's beauty

Eight years ago, the NASA space probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was fitted with the largest and most powerful camera (more commonly known as the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE for short) to ever be launched past Earth’s orbit. The gains to the scientific community from this mission have been enormous, including the discovery of large amounts of ice on Mars and that the …