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Apr 232025
Just before heading out on their most recent tour, Fontaines DC have released a deluxe version of their 2024 album, with a few additional songs, including one cover. The band’s take on the late David Lynch’s “In Heaven,” is a mash-up, fitting in quite nicely with the band’s own “Starburster.” Continue reading »
Jan 272025
When Joe Rosso’s Almost Dead took the stage in Port Chester, NY on Friday, January 17th, they not only paid tribute to the Grateful Dead, as they usually do, but they also paid tribute to David Lynch.
The group, formed as a Grateful Dead tribute band, played a show filled with Dead songs and traditional covers, but for the encore they added a cover of Angelo Badalamenti’s “Laura Palmer’s Theme.” The song, was part of the soundtrack for the 1990’s cult hit TV show Twin Peaks, which Lynch co-created. The multi-hyphenate artist died on January 15th at age 78.
This cover was performed solo by keyboardist Marco Benevento. However, the group did also work the theme into their last song, the Dead classic, “Eyes of the World.” (The video below is labeled as “Eyes,” but includes “Laura Palmer’s Theme.”
JRAD is next scheduled to play in Atlanta, GA in mid-February, before a stand at Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas, NC in April.
Apr 012024
Aoife O’Donovan — The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan cover)
Bartees Strange — You Always Hurt The Ones You Love (Mills Brothers cover)
Beyoncé — Blackbird (The Beatles cover)
Apr 292022
Aimee Mann – Brooklyn (Steely Dan cover)
If you missed the whole brouhaha when Steely Dan dropped Aimee Mann as their opening act, it’s too long to recap here. To skip to the end, Mann tweeted, “All is forgiven if Donald [Fagan] just tells me what Brooklyn is about.” And he did! So, at a recent show at City Winery, she covered it. All does indeed appear to be forgiven. Continue reading »
Jun 212017
Laura Dern. Naomi Watts. And, of course, Kyle MacLachlan. David Lynch has long had muses, actors and actresses he’s returned to again and again through his career. All three of these appear in the new Twin Peaks, as does his latest muse, Chrysta Bell. The difference is, she’s not an actress. FBI Agent Preston is her first role.
Bell is a musician, one Lynch has recorded with on several albums and EPs. Her music falls right in the Lynchian mold, creepy and haunted and dark. And for her new song, she teams up with the other master for creepy and haunted and dark, This Mortal Coil co-founder John Fryer. In honor of her new role, it’s a cover of Julee Cruise’s classic Twin Peaks theme “Falling.” Continue reading »