Apr 012011
 

This Week on Bandcamp rounds up our favorite covers to hit the site in the past seven days.

This week’s Bandcamp spotlight takes a somewhat unusual focus: covers of imaginary artists. Three of the featured songs come from unusual origins, to say the least. One is a song by a cartoon band, one is a song performed by a creepy character in a whacko movie, and one is the text of an online comic strip put to music. Yeah, some strange stuff. Bookending this bizarre trifecta, the other two featured covers spotlight two new free tribute EPs.

For the first time, though, we’re actually bringing you ten Bandcamp covers. Focusing our main selection on the oddball left a lot of terrific, more traditional covers by the wayside. In a week with an unusually large number of quality releases, we just didn’t have the heart to leave them behind, so find bonus covers of Huey Lewis and the News, the Fauves, Bing Crosby, Johnny Cash, and the Ronettes below the main set. Continue reading »

Dec 142010
 

Every Christmas season brings us a litany of competing versions of the same tunes. This year, though, comedic actors seem to battling it out as much as would-be Tony Bennetts. Last week we LOLed at Jack Black and Jason Segel’s bombastic arena rock version of the Bing Crosby and David Bowie duet “Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth.” This week, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly threw their hat into the ring with their own version of the holiday classic. Continue reading »

Dec 082010
 

An unlikely pair has chosen to enter the holiday music fray. Jason Segel – who starred in I Love You, Man – and Jack Black – who needs no introduction – reenact the Bing Crosby and David Bowie duet “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy.” Bing and Bowie recorded the medley in 1977 for Bing’s last Christmas special; he suffered a fatal heart attack a few weeks later after a round of golf that was apparently more invigorating than most. Black and Segel may not be the first names that come to mind when you think about the holidays, but then Bowie is hardly jolly old St. Nick. Continue reading »