Magdalena Bay Take On David Bowie's ‘Ashes to Ashes' for ‘Like a Version'
Los Angeles-based alt-pop duo Magdalena Bay have paid tribute to David Bowie for their recent appearance on Like a Version, the long-running segment from Australian radio station triple j.
Premiering on the morning of Friday, March 28 (Australian time), the pair – which comprises Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin – recorded their performance during a recent trip to Australia in early March. The two-song set saw them performing original track 'Image' before focusing on Bowie's 1980 single 'Ashes to Ashes.'
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First released as the lead single to Bowie's 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), the single did not impact the Hot 100, though it gave Bowie his first U.K. chart-topper since 1969's 'Space Oddity.' The album, meanwhile, peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 and was Bowie's first in six years to top the chart in his home country.
'It's a great, kind of weird experimental pop song that I think we took a lot of inspiration from,' said Lewin in a post-performance interview. 'We're always just kind of listening to it, it's never really left our rotation of songs that we love,' added Tenenbaum.
'I drew a lot of influence from his ideas of being an artist and what it means to create art,' continued Tenenbaum. 'I found [it] very inspiring as we were going into the creation of our latest album, Imaginal Disk.
'It's tough, because when you love a song so much and you know what you love about it and then you also want make it your own a little bit, it's like, 'How much should you really mess with it?''
Magdalena Bay's cover was indeed preceded by a cut from latest album, Imaginal Disk, with second single 'Image' also performed in the Like a Version studio. The track was voted in at No. 147 in triple j's annual Hottest 100 countdown, and in December 2024 was chosen by Billboard staff as one of the 20 Pop Songs From 2024 That Deserved to Be Smashes.
Having first launched in 2004, the Like a Version series has gone from being a near-impromptu acoustic affair to featuring larger studio productions. Numerous artists have taken part over the past two decades, with the likes of Billie Eilish, Childish Gambino, Arctic Monkeys, and more reinventing classic tracks in the process.
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