Quickies: Holy Ghost!, Rebecca Zapen, Colossal Gospel, Nihiti, Great Gray Buildings

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Nov 152011
 

Quickies rounds up new can’t-miss covers. Download ‘em below.

• Ministry is best known for their rampaging industrial sound, but back in 1983 they were still your basic poppy synth band. It makes sense, then, the DFA synthpop duo Holy Ghost! chose a song from that period to cover on their new single. Nancy Whang (of LCD Soundsystem) and Juan Maclean help get the party started.
MP3: Holy Ghost! ft. Nancy Whang & Juan Maclean – I Wanted to Tell Her (Ministry cover) Continue reading »

This Week on Bandcamp: Roadkill Ghost Choir, The Shooter McGavins, Colossal Gospel, The Complainer, Crackity Flynn

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Sep 232011
 

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

Maybe you’ve heard it mentioned once or twice, but tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind. In honor of that (and the fact that ~20% of the new covers on Bandcamp this week were Nirvana), we bookend today’s set with two Nirvana covers. Every track’s a keeper today, so much so that we threw in three bonus tracks we just couldn’t leave out. Continue reading »