Covers

How To Dress Well – “Clowne Towne” (Xiu Xiu cover)

Music blog Ad Hoc, the phoenix rising from Altered Zones’ ashes, will release a benefit covers comp later this year, and our first sample from it is How to Dress…

Chairlift & Das Racist’s Kool A.D. cover Beyonce & Andre 3000

This is just great. Chairlift accompanied by Das Racist’s Kool A.D. stop by Australia’s Triple J studios and covered Beyoncé and Andre 3000′s “Party” for their Like A Version series.

Arctic Monkeys – “Katy On A Mission” (Katy B Cover)

Arctic Monkeys stopped by BBC Radio 1 and delivered this sweet cover of one of last year’s best dance floor jams, Katy B’s “Katy On A Mission.” Ch-ch-check it out.

MP3: WAVVES – “Hybrid Moments” (Misfits Cover)

Nathan Williams of Wavves took to twitter last night to post a new track, a cover of the Misfits classic “Hybrid Moments.” It’s admittedly rough (Williams later tweeted “I didn’t…

MP3: SBTRKT & Sampha – “Blue Cassette” (Friendly Fires cover)

Last fall, anonymous London producer SBTRKT disclosed plans to collaborate with Hertfordshire indie dance outfit Friendly Fires on his second album. Sounds great, but with a second album not really…

MP3: Memoryhouse – “This Will Be Our Year” (The Zombies cover)

We can’t wait for Toronto dream-pop duo Memoryhouse to put out their first full-length record The Slideshow Effect via Sub Pop on February 28, and even though their latest big…

MP3: Sondre Lerche – “Countdown” (Beyonce Cover)

Sondre Lerche has proven himself a pop culturally voracious man over the past few years, what with his choice of covers, but he’s outdone himself with his traditional holiday release…

Florence + the Machine – “Back To Black” (Amy Winehouse cover)

On this year’s VH1 Divas, Florence + the Machine paid tribute to the late, great Amy Winehouse with this short cover of “Back To Black,” the title track to Winehouse’s…

Youth Lagoon – “Goodbye Again” (John Denver Cover)

It’s indicative of Youth Lagoon mastermind Trevor Powers’ unique approach to his chillwavey dream pop that when offered the chance to perform a cover song on Sirius Radio’s XMU, he…

Titus Andronicus Cover Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen

Our love for Titus Andronicus, our generation’s Civil-War-concept-album-crafting, New-Jersey-celebrating, live-show-shredding answer to Bruce Springsteen, knows no bounds, and now that they’ve added “FCC-violating-Coldplay-covering” to that list of descriptive adjectives, we…

The Big Pink – “Mayonaise” (Smashing Pumpkins cover)

Cover of the day: The Big Pink took to BBC’s Radio 1 to record a few tracks from their upcoming second LP Future This (dropping January 16) and also delivered…

Foster The People – “Machu Picchu” (Strokes Cover)

Note to Mark Foster – just because your California synth-pop trio Foster the People are suddenly one of the hottest bands in the world doesn’t mean you can totally forget…

Florence + The Machine – “Take Care” (Drake & Rihanna cover)

Thanks to the wide-reaching appeal of his latest record Take Care, the Canadian rapper Drake has been on everyone’s mind for the past few weeks, and you can count British…

MP3: New Holy Ghost – “I Wanted To Tell Her”

We never thought we’d say this, but thanks Mountain Dew for hooking us up with this Ministry cover by a bunch of DFA artists! For real – your favorite hyper-carbonated…

Happy Halloween: 1,2,3 – Misfits EP

The awesome 1,2,3 have just shared with us a free, 6-track EP full of covers of tracks from the Misfits’ fourth commercially released album, Static Age. Just in time for…

Coldplay Cover Rihanna

One half of pop’s newest set of BFFs, Coldplay & Rihanna keep the magic alive by covering the other half on BBC Radio 1.

The Horrors – “Best Thing I Never Had” (Beyonce Cover)

The Horrors stopped by BBC Radio 1′s Live Lounge and delivered this woozy, fuzzy guitar-laden cover of Beyonce’s “Best Thing I Never Had” from her latest set, 4. This is…

MP3: New Tennis – “Tell Her No” (Zombies Cover)

Husband and wife duo Tennis return with their first new tune since releasing their charming and nautical debut album, Cape Dory, a cover of one of my favorite Zombies songs…

REC’D MP3: Oh Land – “Bloodbuzz Ohio” (The National cover)

Everyone loves it when their favorite artists cover their favorite artists, so you can probably understand our being super excited about our favorite Brooklyn-via-Denmark electro-songstress covering our favorite Brooklyn-via-Ohio album-of-the-year-delivering…

MP3: Lykke Li – “Unchained Melody”

Everyone’s favorite Swedish indie songstress Lykke Li took to Australia’s Triple-J radio recently to perform some songs from her fantastic latest release, Wounded Rhymes. Li also took advantage of her…

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