The "brave" people of Welch NHS have made an "extraordinary" rendition of 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', song's author Paul Simon has said. Medics, construction workers and council staff were filmed for the performance at the temporary coronavirus field hospital built in the north Wales resort of Llandudno.
Video editors Real Big Boys have created a funny short video masterpiece that sees a bunch of seals as they belt out the melody of Seal's song 'Kiss From a Rose'. The seals are singing somewhat in key. Seal joins them in the end.
Guitarist and singer The Tallest Man on Earth played some beautiful covers in his weekly livestream yesterday - The National‘s 'Pink Rabbits' performed on synthesizer, The Strokes‘ 'Someday', John Lennon‘s 'Jealous Guy', Daniel Johnston‘s 'Walking the Cow', Lucinda Williams‘ 'Greenville', Tom Waits‘ Take It With Me', traditional folk song 'The Moonshiner', and a couple of others. Watch below (80 minutes).
Nick Cave, Joan Jett, Devendra Banhart, Lucinda Williams, Father John Misty, Peaches, Beth Orton, King Khan, U2 (ft. Elton John), David Johansen, John Cameron Mitchell, Emily Haines, Perry Farrell, Marc Almond, Todd Rundgren, Kesha, Sean Lennon + Charlotte Kemph Muhl, Julian Lennon + Victoria Williams - more famous musicians than on some live aid are gathered 'round on Marc Bolan/T. Rex tribute album 'AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T.Rex'. It was curated by the late Hal Willner and it comes out September 4. The first song out from it is Nick Cave's rendition of T. Rex classic 'Cosmic Dancer'. The tribute album features 26 covers of songs Bolan released between 1968 and 1977, both with T. Rex and back when they were more of a folk rock band called Tyrannosaurus Rex.
"I hadn’t felt this much love for a new band in 20 years. That was both sad and disturbing. I’m not sure who it says what about, but regardless, I was head over heels in love with Big Thief" - ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer said about his now-favorite band. This week he shared a cover of Big Thief’s 'Not', and in the video he is jamming out on an acoustic guitar, on both of his knees, and you can't even see his head while he sings. That's love and passion!
"They’re one of the most important, influential, revolutionary hip hop groups of all time. They’re cross generational, and definitely get a big response when you say their name" a former nutritionist Lisa Roth told Variety about her 100th release - lullaby renditions of Wu-Tang Clan (out today). So far they've released lullaby covers of, obviously, 99 acts - Radiohead, Metallica, Elton John, Tool, The Beatles, AC/DC, Elvis Presley... - and the artists loved those - "Steven Tyler wrote liner notes to Aerosmith’s lullabies. Joe Elliot contributed liner notes to Def Leppard’s lullabies. Elton John has been nice to us, mentioning us in the press many times. Kirk Hammett from Metallica likes us. I’ve yet to hear anything angry or nasty", Roth says.
Lyricist Dana Jay Bein and vocalist Adrian Grimes remade Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' as 'Coronavirus Rhapsody' in light of the ongoing Covid-10 pandemic. Cheeky lyrics include nods to hand sanitizing and self-quarantining. Grimes describes the parody as an attempt to harness "some humor to see us through the COVID-19 crisis".
The Tallest Man On Earth has been uploading solo acoustic videos to Instagram from isolation, including Bob Dylan‘s 'Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again' and Wilco‘s 'Jesus, etc'. He rearranged both songs to fit his usual complex fingerpicking style, but the vocals stay faithful to the originals. Ben Gibbard played his last daily live stream show yesterday after a two-week run. It was all covers, as usual - Neil Young, The Cure, Simon & Garfunkel, Spiritualized & more. Watch it - here. Starting this Thursday he'll be doing a weekly show.
Singer and actress Kate Nash has shared a video of herself covering the Metallica classic 'Enter Sandman' on Twitter, while she self-isolates due to the coronavirus pandemic. She didn't play the whole song, but the minute-and-something that she did is just really funny and cool at the same time.
Actress Gal Gadot took to Instagram on the sixth day of her self-imposed quarantine, for a star-studded sing-along to John Lennon's 'Imagine'. Gadot enlisted fellow superheroes Natalie Portman (Thor) and Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), as well as Will Ferrell, Amy Adams, Kristen Wiig, Sia and Cara Delevingne and others to sing a line from Lennon's classic. Gadot said she had chosen the song for its "powerful and pure" message of unity during the coronavirus pandemic.
"A lot of the songs of the Beatles felt to me very complete, because they had a voice, they had lyrics, and it was fine that the songs were two, three, four minutes. But as an instrumental, without the voice and the lyrics and the fact that it was me making the record, I felt like I had to give it something else, and not do a cover of the song, but my own interpretations" - jazz fusion guitarist Al Di Meola told All Music about his approach in Beatles' covers album 'Across the Universe'. 'Norwegian Wood' is a good example of it - a 2-minute pop song is remade into a 6-minute epic - listen below.
The kids from the O'Keefe Music Foundation covered the tough Pantera song 'Walk', with 9-year-old Colt Sheddin singing Phil Anselmo's parts. The rest of the band are children also - guitarist Aidan Fisher is 16, bass player Jonas Miller is 15, and drummer Justin Laroche is 15 - but only when counting in years...
The song that Chris Martin calls the most important he wrote in his career, has been remade by the Acapop! KIDS, an American acapella group famous for their covers of famous songs. Coldplay song in the new arrangement sustained its suspense and grandeur, although it's being sung by teenagers. There are 11 of them now.
Melodicka Bros are two Italian brothers making unusual covers, preferably funny. Last one they made is an acoustic cover of Pantera's 'Walk' recorded while - running. Previously, Melodicka Bros remade Korn's 'Freak on a Leash' in Christmas style, Radiohead's 'Creep' in happy style...
Acapella teen-nonet Acapop! KIDS made another can't-stop-listening cover - they remade Mark Ronson's 'Nothing Breaks Like a Heart', usually sang by Miley Cyrus, using not much more than their voices, hands and feet.
The National have covered INXS’ 'Never Tear Us Apart' to 'Songs For Australia', a compilation album put together by Australian singer-songwriter Julia Stone to benefit brush fire relief efforts. Kurt Vile has taken on Nick Cave’s 'Stranger Than Kindness', Rice remade Sia's 'Chandelier', Martha Wainwright covered Nick Cave’s 'Ship Song', and Stone herself made a cover of 'Beds Are Burning' Midnight Oil, along with a music video that pays tribute to Australian culture and wildlife.
She was at the Oscars last night to sing a cover of the Beatles’ 'Yesterday' during the In Memoriam segment. Billie Eilish sang the 1965 classic with her brother-collaborator Finneas on piano. The In Memoriam montage flashed across the screen behind them, showing people who died in the past year - actors Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Peter Mayhew, filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker and basketball legend Kobe Bryant, among many others.
“Incredible!!!” - Queens Of The Stone Age wrote reposting a video of remarkable drum cover of their track ‘No One Knows’ by nine-year-old girl Nandi Bushell. Last year she went viral for a cover of Nirvana’s ‘In Bloom’, and for playing with Lenny Kravitz. She has also covered The Prodigy, Billie Eilish, Rage Against The Machine, Prince, The Police and System of a Down.
Australian singer Mitch Tambo, an indigenous Gamilaraay and Birri Gubba man, delivered a rendition of John Farnham’s classic 'You're the Voice' as part of Australian Survival Day, Invasion Day and Australia Day events. The Gamilaraay language is no longer spoken, the last fluent speakers dying out in the 1950s. However, some parts have been reconstructed by late field-work.
Five-year-old Slipknot fan and viral air-drummer Caleb H got decked out in period-appropriate Slipknot gear to blast his way through the band's classic 'Before I Forget' on an electronic drum set. Previously, his father uploaded a video with the young drummer playing a cover of 'Toxicity' by the System of a Down (lower below).
Vincent is a funny guy making dead-pan serious covers of famous songs in various styles. This time around it's 'Down With the Sickness' by the Disturbed, sang in style of Simon & Garfunkel, Metallica, Earth, Wind & Fire, silent movies (he keeps quiet, of course), The Hu, Faith No More etc.
Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett surprise-released her 'MTV Australia Unplugged Live In Melbourne' this week, closing the set with a beautiful cover of Leonard Cohen’s 'So Long, Marianne' (watch below). The album is out digitally - on Bandcamp.
Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have shared their instrumental cover of the David Bowie classic 'Life on Mars'. The cover appeared in the seventh episode of HBO's 'Watchmen'. Coldplay refuse to tour so this is a chance to see them - recently they played an extended set at the BBC’s historic Maida […]
Acapop! KIDS are known for covering the hottest hits, and their latest addition to the series is 'Shallow' by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper from the movie 'The Star is Born', Billboard reports. Previously, the nine kids covered songs such as Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Amy Winehouse's 'Valerie', Post Malone's 'Sunflower'...
American metal-gaze come-backers Chrome Waves made a cover of Nick Cave's 'Push the Sky Away', very atmospheric and intense (listen below). The song is coming on their new EP featuring three new original songs and three covers, others being Slowdive’s 'When the Sun Hits' and Nirvana’s 'Something In The Way', both done in the similar […]
They look pretty much neo-hippie (how else, they're covering Mitchell, right?) and sound, well, great. Watch below.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ 1994 single 'Red Right Hand' is the theme song of British crime drama 'Peaky Blinders', and for the show's debut the series’ creators commissioned artists like PJ Harvey, Laura Marling, Iggy Pop, and Jarvis Cocker to each record their own interpretation of the song for the show. Now, Snoop […]
Tom Waits is turning 70 in December, so women of the world got together (well, not all women, chosen ones), and sang his songs. 'Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits' features Phoebe Bridgers, Aimee Mann, Iris Dement, Corinne Bailey Rae, Courtney Marie Andrews, Joseph, Rosanne Cash, Kat Edmonson, Patty Griffin (listen to her […]
Los Angeles "death disco" band Death Valley High is releasing a new EP, 'Duel', and each song sees them in a “duel” with a different guest artist, including Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks), Hanin Elias (Atari Teenage Riot), and Deftones frontman Chino Moreno, who’s on the just-released cover of Christian Death‘s 'Cavity – First Communion' (watch below). They found out about their […]
The Quietus has an interesting list - their writers tell about cover versions that acted as their gateway drugs to the work of the original artist. There's Muse covering Nina Simone, Nick Cave covering Leonard Cohen, and a perfect example - Saint Etienne covering Neil Young.
