Smitt E. Smitty & The Fezztones Cover David Bowie
Photo by Smitt E. Smitty This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of David Bowie's iconic "Rebel Rebel," so Boston's Smitt E. Smitty & The Fezztones have released their own cover of the song. Somehow this cover is both faithful to the original and a complete bizarro reworking of it. Smitt E. Smitty & The Fezztones make their version a little less glam and a little more garage rock, but not by much. Of course, at times it has its very own style of glam, so maybe it's not less glam just... different? It's a more raw and strange version that is going to anger some Bowie fans but delight the true fans, because who really wants a note for note Bowie cover? Smitt E. Smitty says of his band's David Bowie cover: “I have wanted to cover this David Bowie song for quite some time,” Smitty says. “Long before he passed away in 2016. We did a version of ‘Panic in Detroit’ for our debut live performance at ONCE in Somerville. We did it again in Detroit at The Det...