The Best Cover Songs of August & September 2025

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Sep 302025
 
Best Cover Songs
Benson Boone — When We Were Young (Adele cover)

Benson Boone gets clowned on, but dude can sing (and, yes, backflip). “When We Were Young” is not exactly an easy song to nail. But, at a tour stop in Columbus, he did just that—one of many covers he’s been doing on the road.

BRAINSTORM — The Boys Of Summer (Don Henley cover)

Every summer comes, inevitably, more “Boys of Summer” covers. This metal-ish version comes from German power-metal vets BRAINSTORM (all caps so you know they’re serious). Singer Andy B. Franck says: “Even though ‘The Boys Of Summer’ deals with rather nostalgic themes of ‘summer love’ and the memory of a past relationship, for me – at the time a 13-year-old – it was, beyond the metal anthems of the 80s, a great song that I associated with summer, girls and the corresponding feeling for many, many years…Even today, this song still evokes great memories for me, and since it’s also a song about questioning the past, this track fits perfectly into our times.” Continue reading »

Iron and Wine and Ben Bridwell Cover Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is”

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Sep 172025
 
Sam Bean of Iron and Wine and Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses

Back in 2015, Iron and Wine teamed with Band of Horses‘ leader Ben Bridwell to record a covers album Sing Into My Mouth. Ten years later, they’ve reunited for a new covers EP entitled Making Good Time. We discussed their cover of Kendrick and SZA’s “Luther” last month and, now that the EP has been released, we can see that this cover both hinted at what would be on the EP and really didn’t. Continue reading »

Iron and Wine and Ben Bridwell Cover Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther “as Folk Country

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Aug 062025
 

There are few ways to perform a hip hop cover. One involves just trying to nail the cadence of the original rap. However sometimes rappers covering other hip hop songs often will change the lyrics or interpolate lyrics from other raps, or just change the cadence here and there. The other approach is to transpose the song to another genre and sing the raps. Continue reading »

The Best Talking Heads Covers Ever

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Mar 292018
 

‘The Best Ever’ series counts down our favorite covers of great artists.

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Let’s start by defining our terms: This list concerns the best covers of the Talking Heads. Because the best covers by the Talking Heads is a very short list.

Here is that list, in its entirety: Continue reading »

Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell Rework Talking Heads For Newly Released Covers Album

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Jul 272015
 
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Long time friends Sam Beam (better known under his stage name Iron & Wine) and Ben Bridwell from Band Of Horses finally get around to fulfilling their longtime wish of collaborating on a covers album with the release of Sing Into My Mouth earlier this week. Continue reading »

Iron & Wine And Ben Bridwell Tease Covers Album with Sade and Unicorn

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Apr 282015
 

You know how during summer blockbuster season trailers for awesome movies being released in December are shown? Turns out Iron & Wine‘s Sam Beam and Band of Horses‘ Ben Bridwell decided to take a similar approach when teasing their upcoming covers album. Sing Into My Mouth, a joint effort in covers, is not being released until July 17th, but the two singer songwriters figured they would give us a taste three months early with two covers of Sade and Unicorn. Continue reading »