It seemed like you couldn’t get away from Bonnie Raitt in the ’90s. It all started with her Grammy Award-winning album, Nick of Time. That led to a few more platinum albums, Top 40 hits on the Pop, Rock and Adult Contemporary charts, a few more Grammy Awards as well as an and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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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!
When it comes to religion and spirituality, I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. The paint-by-numbers elements of most religious rituals leave me cold. I am not moved by scripture, nor am I frightened by hellfire and brimstone preachers – all fury, self-righteousness, and condemnation, their empty words matched by their outstretched empty palms.
In my darker and much more cynical moments, I wrestle with the notion of a human soul. Does a soul really exist, or is it something that we conjured up to serve as a salve?
And then I remember Bruce Springsteen.
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This summer may be halfway over, but that doesn’t mean there still isn’t time for some choice sultry, hot nights. Los Angeles duo Night Club knows this, and as a teaser for their upcoming EP Black Leather Heart, they have released this fun, synth-laden cover of INXS‘s “Need You Tonight. Continue reading »
When HBO released its first teasers for the 4th season of Game of Thrones, snippets of an eery cover of INXS‘ “Devil Inside,” by London Grammar was also teased. While avid Game of Thrones fans still have to wait a few days before they see the beginning of the latest season, London Grammar fans don’t have to wait for a full version of the cover. Continue reading »
Bruce Springsteen is famous for many things, chief among which is the sheer epic-ness of his live shows with the E Street Band (and, now, new addition Tom Morello). “Epic” may be a massively overused word, but it applies to Bruce. One of the best things, especially for cover fans, is that he seems to love performing other artists’ music as much as his own. And that’s what has landed us with this latest news – the Boss adding the classic INXS single “Don’t Change” to his live repertoire for the first time ever. Continue reading »
In Memoriam pays tribute to those who have left this world, and the songs they left us to remember them by.
Michael Hutchence was born to be a frontman. With hair and shirtlessness that would make Jim Morrison proud, and a singing style that could be both passionate and cool in equal measures, Hutchence helped the songs of INXS stand out; they’re clearly from the ‘80s, but timeless in a way that most hits of the decade can’t claim.
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