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Bruce Springsteen Breaks Out Clash Cover at LA Tour Stop

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Apr 142026

Bruce Springsteen just played Los Angeles on his Land of Hope & Dreams tour, which is featuring Tom Morello (formerly of Rage Against the Machine) on guitar along with The E Street Band.

And while he’s covered it before, Springsteen broke out his first performance of The Clash‘s “Clampdown” in 12 years. Singing the first verse, letting Morello take the second before the two trade off lines in the bridge, the performance very much invokes the line in the song, “anger has a power if you know how to use it.” Springsteen has opened shows with a speech about the importance of standing up for what’s right and fighting those with anti-American ideas, namely President Trump. (He adds the line “in these days of evil El Presidente” to the song, so it’s not hard to figure out what he’s lashing out at.)

The anger and fury that has made the shows on this tour so affecting continues in this performance. You have zero doubt that Springsteen and Morello strongly believe in standing up for what is right. If this performance doesn’t get you up and energized, I don’t know if anything else will.

Springsteen’s “Land of Hope & Dreams” tour runs through the end of May.

The Best Cover Songs of March 2026

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Mar 312026

Anna Prior — No More Drama (Mary J. Blige cover)

Metronomy drummer Anna Prior is back with a new EP, Firefly. The first single is a cover of the Mary J Blige classic. “I’ve wanted to do a cover song for a long time and I just never found the right one that fit with my sound,” Prior wrote. “The overall tone and feeling of the original fit so well with the ‘A minor’ theme of the EP that I just couldn’t resist. It’s a song that shaped my late teenage years and I really hope I’ve done it justice and I don’t get sued.” [Editor’s note: You won’t. That’s not how covers work…]

Bonnie “Prince” Billy — Trustfall (Pink cover)

Last December, the prolific Bonnie “Prince” Billy hopped onstage with Yo La Tengo to cover—of all people—current Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee Pink. The song was a pretty deep cut too, a single from 2023. Will Oldham must really like that song, because he’s returned to it again in a solo incarnation. As if that combo wasn’t wild enough, add this one: This video was recorded at the early 18th-century pub The Lamb in Bloomsbury London, regular haunt of Charles Dickens. Continue reading »

Springsteen Spends “A Rainy Night in Soho” on New Shane MacGowan Tribute Album

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Mar 182026

This coming November, a new tribute album to Pogues‘ lead singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan will be released. And to announce the album, a new recording featuring Bruce Springsteen‘s take on The Pogues’ “A Rainy Night in Soho” has been released. Springsteen’s version is a little slower than the original, and opens quieter, with just a piano, but a full band comes in, adding a lilting sound to the song, which sees it through the end. No matter the rearranged instrumentation, the melancholy, which makes the original so memorable, remains. Continue reading »

The 30 Best Warren Zevon Covers Ever

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Nov 072025

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

This weekend, Warren Zevon gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after decades of eligibility. So, as the culmination of a week-long tribute to the 2025 Rock Hall class where we posted covers of every artist (catch up here), we are sharing a countdown of the 30 best Zevon covers ever.

Warren Zevon is one of those musicians that other musicians love, so he bats way above his commercial weight in cover songs. The most casual person probably only knows one Zevon song—and it’s appropriate this list is posting just after Halloween. Many music nerds, though, including many musicians, revere the full catalog. Artists way more famous than Zevon, from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen, have paid tribute, as have a host of younger acts that consider him a primary influence.

So whether you always hum along with the air conditioner in “Desperados Under the Eaves” or just like aah-ooo-ing to “Werewolves of London,” dive into the Zevon catalog via thirty amazing versions of his songs.

The Best Cover Songs of October 2025

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Oct 312025

The Dollyrots — You Don’t Own Me (Lesley Gore cover)

“It’s My Party” was the bigger hit, but these days it feels like “You Don’t Own Me” gets covered more. It’s become something of a feminist anthem (probably an unlikely future for “It’s My Party”…). Dollyrots singer Kelly Ogden said, in sharing her band’s new revved-up cover, “The song is an anthem for female empowerment, about willing to be defiant in the face of something that’s just plain wrong. Sadly, it’s still just as timely as when Lesley sang it over 60 years ago.”

Folk Bitch Trio — Sex on Fire (Kings of Leon cover)

Remember “Sex on Fire”? Gotta be one of the dumbest singles of the 21st century. Folk Bitch Trio covered it for Like a Version, and they, against all odds, manage to redeem it. “It’s an underrated song,” they said. “It rocks. It’s filthy without you really knowing. The Folk Bitch Trio twist is kind of easy: We just sing it in three-part harmony, lock in, look at each other and we’re there.” Continue reading »

Masked Metallers Sleep Token Covers—Of All Things—“Dancing In The Dark”

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Oct 062025

During Sleep Token’s most recent tour for Even in Arcadia, the group shocked their audience in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by performing Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 single “Dancing in the Dark” in a stripped-down style. With piano and the lead singer Vessel alone, the intro was both simple and heartrending. From the effortless vibrato and vocal depth to the emotive crescendo (which led into the chorus), the performance had live listeners awestruck.

While the cover is currently facing stark criticism on Instagram, the cryptic diction and delivery are utterly spellbinding. “This man pours his heart and soul out through music and provides a sense of connection to others through our shared emotional experiences as humans,” one defender wrote. Listen to the music below, and see how Sleep Token transitions from “Dancing in the Dark” to the heartrending “Rain.”