Anthony “Bones” Reid has posted a number of videos on YouTube and Facebook showing his impressive use of Chinese hammered dulcimer known as yangqin to cover rock and pop songs. Reid performs under the moniker Horns of Pan, and among his standout performances are covers of Tool’s 'Lateralus' and 'Descending', along with Nirvana’s 'Heart-Shaped Box', The Cure’s 'Close to Me', Radiohead’s 'Like Spinning Plates', Tears for Fears' 'Mad World', and Billie Eilish’s 'When the Party’s Over'.

The popular Netflix show 'Bridgerton' has resulted in a 350% increase in streams of the Vitamin String Quartet since the show was released in December. The Los Angeles based group makes classical covers of modern pop hits, including Ariana Grande’s 'Thank U, Next', Maroon 5’s 'Girls Like You', Shawn Mendes’ 'In My Blood' and Billie Eilish’s 'Bad Guy'. "We were taking what’s classic and making it fresh and similarly taking what’s fresh and making it classic" - their manager Leo Flynn told the Guardian.

A parrot Tico who likes to "sing" classic rock songs by Led Zeppelin, Guns N’ Roses, Coldplay, U2, Rolling Stones and more, has achieved internet fame this week after the former NBA player Rex Chapman shared a rendition of 'Stairway to Heaven' with his 1.1 million followers on Twitter. The clip amassed over three million views on the platform. Videos have been captured by its owner Frank Maglio, who has been uploading them to his YouTube since April. The parrot doesn’t sing any of the actual words of the songs it “covers”, but is able to quite accurately replicate each track’s vocal melody. Their latest cover - Neil Young's 'Hey Hey My My'.

King Crimson's Robert Fripp and his wife Toyah Willcox are just having fun during lockdown covering rock classics, but not really doing it the usual way. Their last cover was Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' with Fripp playing his Les Paul all buttoned up, and Willcox very much not. And she also rides an exercise bike while singing. Previously they covered Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love' with a bit of an S&M theme, Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid' while in "prison", The Kinks' 'You Really Got Me' with Willcox dressed as the devil, and more.

Super-group Kings of Quarantine, featuring members of Limp Bizkit, 311, Mastodon, Filter, The Used, Veruca Salt, and In Flames, teamed up to perform a socially-distant cover of Jane's Addiction's 'Mountain Song'. The project is in collaboration with the Roadie Relief effort, in hopes to raise awareness for touring industry workers whose jobs have been affected by the pandemic. Buy the song on Bandcamp.

Madlib is joined by Four Tet on the uplifting track 'Hopprock'; a sad story - after Justin Townes Earle died last year, his father Steve Earle recorded an album of his son's songs, and one of his own, 'Last Words', about their last conversation they had the night the younger Americana singer-songwriter died of an accidental overdose; emo-hardcore band Holy Figures released an EP about drugs, with songs named after women, melodic and powerful 'Lucille' stands out among them; Open Mike Eagle recorded a freestyle after hearing about MF Doom's passing, titled simply 'for DOOM'.

CoS writes about an interesting cover-band, Brass Against, a brass band that originally started as a Rage Against the Machine cover band, and then expanded with covers of Deftones, Alice In Chains, Panter, Deftones, Soundgarden etc. Their latest cover, Tool's 'Stinkfist' becomes "a horn-heavy track without losing the song’s key melodies and mood", with stand-out vocals by Sophia Urista.

BadBadNotGood are back where they left with Ghostface Killah - 'The Chocolate Conquistadors' with MF Doom goes totally into the psychedelic jazz-hip-hop territory; an interesting cover - a senior man named Frank Watkinson made a lovely folk-rock remake of Slipknot's 'Snuff'.

Dave Grohl and producer/multi-instrumentalist Greg Kurstin unveiled the fourth installment in their Hanukkah cover song series with a cover of Peaches' 'Fuck the Pain Away'. Grohl and Kurstin are celebrating Hanukkah with covers of songs by eight prominent Jewish artists - so far the pair has covered Beastie Boys’ epic 'Sabotage', Drake's 'Hotline Bling', and Mountain’s 'Mississippi Queen'.

Guns N' Roses' 'Patience', John Lennon's 'Watching the Wheels' and Sinead O'Connor's 'Nothing Compares 2 U' are some of the songs covered by Chris Cornell on an album surprise-released today, Seattle Times reports. 'No One Sings Like You Anymore' is Cornell's “last fully completed studio album”, and it also includes Ghostland Observatory (with 'Sad Sad City') Harry Nilsson ('Jump Into The Fire'), Carl Hall ('You Don't Know Nothing About Love') Electric Light Orchestra ('Showdown'), Terry Reid ('To Be Treated Rite'), Lorraine Ellison ('Stay With Me Baby'), and Janis Joplin ('Get It While You Can').