The Best Cover and Tribute Albums of 2025

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Dec 152025

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Hip-hop oldies become jazz instrumentals. Cult folk songs become grand spaghetti-western soundscapes. Blink-182 hits become DIY bedroom jams. We’ve got ’90s hardcore bangers shredded on acoustic guitar, Spanglish Latin-pop takes on Air Supply and Elvis, and, maybe most outrageously of all, a wild experiment in turning everyone from Chappell Roan to Smash Mouth into emo/screamo.

It’s an especially unruly set this year, but a rewarding one. Enough preamble. Dive in.

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Joel Brown says:

December 21, 2025 at 8:39 am

Read this twice and I’m missing something. What happened to “Spanglish Latin-pop takes on Air Supply.” I have some in-laws who actually love Air Supply – yes – and was going to hook them up on our holiday visit! Great list tho!

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- Patrick Robbins says:
  
  December 21, 2025 at 7:16 pm
  
  Hey, Joel – the #12 album Eterno includes a cover of “All Out Of Love.”
  
  https://youtu.be/g3ngT57ozXI?si=a9iqFI7BRM7i6UGw
  
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