Cover News is a weekly feature keeping you up to date on the goings-on in the world of cover tunes, tribute albums, etc. Plus, at the bottom we post our array of cover tunes we’ve been sent in the past week. Have you recorded a cool cover? Send an mp3 to the email address on the right!This Week’s NewsPhish covered the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. (we’d predicted Electric Ladyland) on
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Cover News: November 7, 2009
Full Albums: Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues Singers
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The first post of the month always features a look at songs covering every track on a famous album. Got an idea for a future pick? Leave a note in the comments!The King of the Delta Blues Singers compilation didn’t come out until 23 years after Robert Johnson’s untimely death, but was such a force in the burgeoning folk movement of the early sixties that it quickly brought his music to the mas
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Shuffle Sundays: Fairytale of New York
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Shuffle Sundays is a weekly feature in which we feature a cover chosen at random by my iTunes shuffle. The songs will usually be good, occasionally be bad, always be interesting. All downloads will only be available for one week, so get them while you can. After you listen, discuss this week’s tune in the comments.Retailers across the country are dusting off the plastic cranberries and
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Cover News: October 31, 2009
Cover News is a weekly feature keeping you up to date on the goings-on in the world of cover tunes, tribute albums, etc. Plus, at the bottom we post our array of cover tunes we’ve been sent in the past week. Have you recorded a cool cover? Send an mp3 to the email address on the right!This Week’s NewsHalloween is here and that means Phish’s full-album set is tonight! What’ll it be? Betti
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Cover Me Presents: John Dissed's "Bang a Gong (Get It On)"
Cover Commissions is a monthly series in which a featured artist produces a special cover for this blog. The song to be covered is usually chosen by blog readers via a poll or suggestions form. Any artists interested in participating in a future installment, please email me at the address on the right. Just last week we held a last-minute run-off to pick the winner of October’s Cover Commissio
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Cover News: October 24, 2009
Cover News is a weekly feature keeping you up to date on the goings-on in the world of cover tunes, tribute albums, etc. Plus, at the bottom we post our array of cover tunes we’ve been sent in the past week. Have you recorded a cool cover? Send an mp3 to the email address on the right!This Week’s NewsCandidate for Best Cover of 2009: Kings of Convenience taking on Leslie Gore’s “It’s My
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Interview: Elizabeth & The Catapult
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Brooklyn’s Elizabeth & The Catapult exploded into indie-pop consciousness this spring with their debut release Taller Children. A high point of the record, what Rolling Stone called “the album's finest moment,” is a funky stomp through Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” (available for download below). Cover Me caught up with the trio backstage before a sold-out Manhattan concert. We
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"Weird Al" Yankovic
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“Weird Al” Yankovic is one of the smartest men in music. Think about it. How many other wannabe jokesters have tried to do exactly what he does? And how many have even achieved one-tenth of his success? Everyone feels like they have a hilarious parody up their sleeves – in middle school my friend had a food-themed version of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” that never
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Shuffle Sundays: Burn Rubber On Me
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Shuffle Sundays is a weekly feature in which we feature a cover chosen at random by my iTunes shuffle. The songs will usually be good, occasionally be bad, always be interesting. All downloads will only be available for one week, so get them while you can. After you listen, discuss this week’s tune in the comments.If you don’t remember the Gap Band, consider yourselves lucky. If the Jonas
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Cover News: October 17, 2009
Cover News is a weekly feature keeping you up to date on the goings-on in the world of cover tunes, tribute albums, etc. Plus, at the bottom we post our array of cover tunes we’ve been sent in the past week. Have you recorded a cool cover? Send an mp3 to the email address on the right!This Week’s NewsFirst and most importantly, October's Cover Commissions is finally up! From Berlin to T. Rex,
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Cover Commissions: John Dissed
Cover Commissions is a monthly series in which a featured artist produces a special cover for this blog. The song to be covered is usually chosen by blog readers via a poll or suggestions form. Any artists interested in participating in a future installment, please email me at the address on the right.October may be half over, but at Cover Me we’re making up for lost time by announcing a true
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And Out Come the Wolves
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Halloween is still three weeks away, but everyone has already had it up to the neck with vampires (har!). Hopefully after the Twilight/Jennifer’s Body/True Blood fervor runs its course Dracula and his nocturnal ilk will slink off for a long sleep. When that happens, it’s the werewolf’s time to rise.The Pluto Tapes - Wolf Like Me (TV on the Radio)TV on the Radio pulled off the rare feat of
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Shuffle Sundays: Mama Tried
Shuffle Sundays is a weekly feature in which we feature a cover chosen at random by my iTunes shuffle. The songs will usually be good, occasionally be bad, always be interesting. All downloads will only be available for one week, so get them while you can. After you listen, discuss this week’s tune in the comments.In a recent Rolling Stone, Merle Haggard says Johnny Cash once told him, "Hag,
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Full Albums: Radiohead's Kid A
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The first post of the month always features a look at songs covering every track on a famous album. Got an idea for a future pick? Leave a note in the comments!There was never really any question which album Pitchfork would pick as its #1 of the 2000s. However, a predictable conclusion to their countdown shouldn’t distract from the merits of the winner, Radiohead’s Kid A. As the follow-up to
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Shuffle Sundays: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
Shuffle Sundays is a weekly feature in which we feature a cover chosen at random by my iTunes shuffle. The songs will usually be good, occasionally be bad, always be interesting. All downloads will only be available for one week, so get them while you can. After you listen, discuss this week’s tune in the comments.I first discovered this song when Bruce Springsteen played it live with his
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Cover News: October 2, 2009
Cover News is a weekly feature keeping you up to date on the goings-on in the world of cover tunes, tribute albums, etc. Plus, at the bottom we post our array of cover tunes we’ve been sent in the past week. Have you recorded a cool cover? Send an mp3 to the email address on the right!This Week’s NewsCouple new features here in the righthand column. First there’s a spanking new search bar.
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Radio Radio
One of my friends recently moved to Chicago and complained to me about the lack of good radio stations. This puzzled me, as it seemed to imply that there were good stations anywhere anymore. If there are, I don’t know ‘em, which leads me to ask this question:Jesse Malin – Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio? (The Ramones)Joey and the gang predicted the demise of radio by a good twenty
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Shuffle Sundays: Mamma Mia
Shuffle Sundays is a weekly feature in which we feature a cover chosen at random by my iTunes shuffle. The songs will usually be good, occasionally be bad, always be interesting. All downloads will only be available for one week, so get them while you can. After you listen, discuss this week’s tune in the comments.There’s an unwritten rule in cover songs that the cheesier the pop hit, the
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Nine Inch Nails
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Strange but true: I liked Trent Reznor before I liked Nine Inch Nails. Every article you read situates him as the pinnacle of a new-media artist. An internet whore in the best way possible, he gave away his last album for free, tweeted actually interesting content until belligerent fans jealous of his new marriage made him quit and, gracious pioneer that he is, posted a lengthy how-to for new
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Shuffle Sundays: The Sign
Shuffle Sundays is a weekly feature in which we feature a cover chosen at random by my iTunes shuffle. The songs will usually be good, occasionally be bad, always be interesting. All downloads will only be available for one week, so get them while you can. After you listen, discuss this week’s tune in the comments.I first encountered Rhode Island’s Math the Band on the spastic Unlimited
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