Covers

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…

Bon Iver – “With God On Our Side” (Bob Dylan Cover)

Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the twelve-piece band he’s recruited to tour his awesome self-titled album brought something else pretty special to the stage the other night in Portland, Oregon…

MGMT & Atlas Sound – “Lucifer Sam” (Pink Floyd Cover)

For some exciting reason, it’s Pink Floyd week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the indiest of late night shows. Brooklyn psychedelic popsters MGMT took advantage of the occasion to…

Check Out: Neon Hitch – “No Hands” (Waka Flocka Cover)

Nothing’s better than a good indie cover of a top 40 rap song, and no one knows that better than British electropop singer and songwriter Neon Hitch, who’s dropped personal…

Bon Iver – “If Hollywood Don’t Need You (Honey I Still Do)”

While playing at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Bon Iver covered an old 80s country ditty from Don Williams called “If Hollywood Don’t Need You (Honey I Still Do)”. The band stayed…

Peter, Bjorn & John – “Try A Little Tenderness” (Otis Redding Cover)

Here's the latest installment from A.V. Undercover, where bands come in and choose a song from a list and then perform their own rendition of it. This week's edition finds…

The Kooks – “Pumped Up Kicks” (Foster The People Cover)

The Kooks stopped by BBC Radio 1′s Live Lounge to promote their new album, Junk of the Heart, and performed a cover of Foster The People’s full blown hit “Pumped…

Tokyo Police Club – “Kim & Jessie” (M83 Cover)

If you've been keeping up with Tokyo Police Club's 10 Songs, 10 Hours, 10 Years project, then you've heard them tackle on tracks like The Strokes' “Under Control”, LCD Soundsystem's…

MP3: Tokyo Police Club – “All My Friends” (LCD Soundsystem Cover)

Tokyo Police Club are up to 2007 on their 10 years of covers project, a week in. I’d imagine that deciding to cover LCD Soundsystem’s unerring “All My Friends” for…

REC’D MP3: New HEALTH – “Goth Star” (Pictureplane Cover)

Experimental Los Angeles noise rockers HEALTH have been quiet since releasing their releasing their remix album, Health::Disco2 last year; and that itself only housed one new original song, the exceptional…

MP3: Tokyo Police Club Covers Phoenix, Queens of the Stone Age

Tokyo Police Club have added the 2005 and 2006 editions of their 10 Years, 10 Days, 10 Hours project, in which the young band records a cover for 10 hours…

Tokyo Police Club Cover The Strokes, Kelly Clarkson

If Tokyo Police Club wanted a way to be blogged and written about for ten days in a row without even releasing a new album, than they’ve certainly found one.…

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