The Best Cover Songs of October 2024

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Farmer’s Wife — Season of the Witch (Donovan cover)

Austin rockers Farmer’s Wife go full shoegaze-psych on this Donovan cover just in time for Halloween. They write: “Our cover of ‘Season of the Witch’ materialized out of a drum beat and pedal feedback two Halloweens ago. This creepy classic opened us to more experimentation and allowed us to dive into an eerier side of our sound.”

Fiona Apple — Lately (Don Heffington cover)

The late Don Heffington was an acclaimed drummer, so, naturally, his new tribute album includes drum greats like Jim Keltner. But he was also a singer-songwriter, so friends and collaborators like Jackson Browne, Victoria Williams, and Fiona Apple cover his songs. Apple selected “Lately,” the closing song on the final solo studio album of his lifetime, 2016’s Contemporary Abstractions in Folk Song and Dance. Continue reading »

DIIV Cover Pavement’s “Cream of Gold” for SiriusXM

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Oct 282024
 
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DIIV’s fourth album Frog In Boiling Water is one of the hits of the year, and the band is taking the opportunity to publicize it and indulge some of their passions. For a recent appearance on SiriusXM, they reprised a song which is part of their live set: Pavement’s “Cream of Gold.”

When completing the song, and the overall Terror Twilight album, Pavement were in flux. Stephen Malkmus did not have to be explicit about who he had a toxic relationship with, just that it was not going to go backwards, and would move relentlessly on, driven by his will to try and find a better place. The band took a hiatus after the album was released. Continue reading »

DIIV and Sky Ferreira Cover Cat Power’s “Nude As The News” After Arrest

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On the cusp of the release of her debut album, Sky Ferreira, along with DIIV lead singer/boyfriend Zachary Cole Smith, was reportedly arrested for possession of ecstasy and heroin. Not wanting this news to harm the release, Ferreira took to the stage with DIIV to stay active and cover Cat Power’s “Nude As The News” just a day after the reported arrest. Continue reading »