Pop quiz: What’s more awesome than an all-girl rock band? Answer: An Asian-American all-girl rock band performing a kick-ass cover of Britney Spears’s “Hold It Against Me.” World, meet Nylon Pink, a talented Hollywood-based pop-rock quintet claiming it’s the only all Asian-American female rock band in the States. Continue reading »
If you really think about it, Britney Spears‘ “Toxic” — released as the second single off of her fourth album, In the Zone – isn’t just another shallow dance track. Sure, it may have broken the top ten of Billboard‘s Hot 100 and hit number one on its Pop and Dance/Club Play Songs charts back in 2004. But if you strip away its fast tempo and electrobeats, it becomes a song all about the dangers of love so strong, it’s addictive. Thankfully, the world has LA-based singer-songwriter Christopher Dallman to show us how truly sobering Britney Spears tracks can be when performed the right way. Continue reading »
As you are surely aware, all week we are meticulously counting down the Best Cover Songs of 2011. While we do that list, though, other publications have been putting out their own best songs list. There is no firm consensus for #1, but we are seeing many of the same tracks pop up over and over again. So we tossed together a set of the best free covers of the best songs of the year. Continue reading »
They Say It’s Your Birthday celebrates an artist’s special day with other people singing his or her songs. Let others do the work for a while. Happy birthday!
They do say it’s my birthday. To which my go-to retort is, “Yep, me and Britney Spears.” Though the Princess of Pop Insanity owned December 2 since before I was born (girlfriend is turning The Big 3-0 today, while I’m not quite there yet…), our shared special day has cast its shadow on mine since she pranced down the “Hit Me Baby One More Time” high school hallway in those pigtail braids a dozen years ago. Continue reading »
“Weird Al” Yankovic first debuted his new “Polka Face” covers medley live last year, and now, 15 months later, we move from shaky concert footage to off-the-wall music video. Now, normally Al’s polkas get music videos for his concerts consisting of the original video clips synced to his medley (like this one), so this marks his polka-video debut. Continue reading »
If you’re a frequent reader of Cover Me, you may recall a piece we posted a couple months back featuring five covers of Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory,” proving that our cover-finding chops are better than Mother Monster’s (as they should be). This post happens to contain our first mention of Andi (a.k.a Andrea Kristinsdottir), a globe-hopping singer/songwriter who’s currently based in New York. The nu-jazz musician is at it again with a cover of Britney Spears’ “I Wanna Go,” and (unsurprisingly) it’s just as unique as her first one. Continue reading »
This Week on Bandcamp rounds up our favorite covers to hit the site in the past seven days.
This Week on Bandcamp took a week off last week, so we come back swinging with a double-header. Instead of five tracks…ten! Download the main set first, then scroll onwards for bonus covers of Stevie Wonder, Twin Peaks, XTC, Kurt Vile, and Angus and Julia Stone. Continue reading »
As you probably saw, last week Google changed their logo in honor of Les Paul’s birthday. The playable guitar, still available here, offered ten strings and a whole array of cover possibilities. We tweeted out some of our favorite covers that day – special shoutout to the person who did John Cage’s 4’33” – but some performances needed a little longer to develop. Here is one. Continue reading »
The Best Cover Songs of 2011 
They Say It’s Your Birthday: Jonathan Richman 
Noah Blows Up on YouTube with Acoustic Cover … 
Under the Radar: Camera Obscura 
The Civil Wars Unplug Portishead’s “Sour Time… 
Hey, Here’s More Lana Del Rey Covers 
They Say It’s Your Birthday: Brian Eno 
Ellen and the Escapades Whip Up “Addicted To … 
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