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The Best Cover Songs of February 2026

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Mar 032026

Asher White — Casper (Jessica Pratt cover)

Why does Asher White have a record titled Jessica Pratt? Because, as it turns out, it is a full-length cover of singer-songwriter Jessica Pratt’s 2012 debut record—which happens to be self-titled. Pratt herself approves: “White’s curiously inventive renditions took me by surprise,” she said in a press release. “A broad sweep stylistically and production-wise. Not just homage, but a record in its own right.”

The Belair Lip Bombs — Happiness (The 1975 cover)

“It was the first single that came out of their latest record and I just listened to it for like two years straight,” singer Maisie Everett said of the 1975 song the band covered on Like a Version. “I still do.” Continue reading »

Watch Wisp’s Spellbinding Cover of Green Day’s “Last Night on Earth”

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Feb 182026

Interscope Records artist Wisp (aka Natalie Lu) has been making waves in the music industry for several years now. She recently brought her nu-metal-meets-shoegaze sound to Green Day’s romantic ballad “Last Night on Earth.” “I chose this cover, it’s a very simple reason, I just think it’s a cute song,” she said. “I was curating a bunch of songs that I wanted to find inspiration in for the next album that I’m writing, and the Green Day song was one of those.” Continue reading »

Billie Joe Armstrong Performs “Heroes” with Son for ‘Survivor’ Anniversary

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Jan 272026

Billie Joe Armstrong joined his son Jakob Armstrong for a cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” during a special performance celebrating Survivor’s 50th season. While Billie Joe has previously shared the stage with his sons, this performance is likely their most visible collaboration yet. The song is also produced and engineered by Jakob. He posted the cover on Instagram, saying, “It’s the first time my dad and I have done vocals together on a track which is cool. It’s a tough song to do justice – I’m grateful for the opportunity to try.”

The appearance underscored Survivor’s effort to mark its milestone season with high-profile musical moments, while also spotlighting a generational crossover in rock music. You might also have “Heroes” stuck in your head from the December series finale of Stranger Things. The 1977 hit saw a 500 percent streaming increase, as reported by Rolling Stone.

Currently, Jakob leads the trio Ultra Q. As for the Survivor promos, season 50 will premiere in February. As for Billie Joe and Green Day, their latest release is Warning:25.

Billie Joe Armstrong Plays All-Covers Set In Between Coachella Shows

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Apr 292025

With time on his hands between his two weekends of headlining Coachella this year, Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong took to the stage of the considerably smaller venue of Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown, California alongside musicians in Green Day’s orbit to play a set under the name The Coverups. In keeping with their name, the set was made up of nothing but covers. The show took place on April 17th, with Green Day’s Coachella sets coming on April 12th and 19th. Continue reading »

The 40 Best John Lennon Covers Ever

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Feb 282025

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

Fifty years ago this month, John Lennon released his covers album Rock ‘n’ Roll, in which he tackled a bunch of pre-Beatles rock and roll classics by folks like Gene Vincent and Fats Domino. Admittedly, the album isn’t all that good. It was done under legal pressure, and sounds like it. But the anniversary is a good enough is excuse to celebrate Lennon covers our own way: Not covers by John, but covers of John.

We should our one rule state up front: No Beatles songs! We did a giant 75-song Beatles covers list last year, which, naturally, included a bunch of John songs. So, for this list, as we did with Paul McCartney a few years back, we’re focusing entirely on his solo output. “Solo” loosely defined as anything post-Beatles: co-billed with Yoko, officially backed by Plastic Ono Band, etc.

If you think the no-Beatles rule adds a pretty strict limitation, think again. There was no shortage of solo-Lennon song covers to choose from. And it’s not 50% “Imagine” covers either; in fact, on our list of 40 covers, only two “Imagine”s make the cut. Most “Imagine” covers are pretty damn saccharine, not a word often associated with the most caustic Beatle. But just about every other mood and sound appears below.

Click to the next page to get started. All we are saying is give these a chance.

– Ray Padgett, Cover Me Founder/Editor

The 50 Best Cover Songs of 2024

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Dec 202024

Follow all our Best of 2024 coverage (along with previous year-end lists) here.

Welcome to the 50 Best Tom Petty Covers of 2024!

We kid, of course. But for whatever reason, this year’s big trend in covers was: Tom Petty. At one point there were something like 20 Petty covers on our longlist. Many came from two all-star tribute albums that dropped, entirely coincidentally, the same year (they both made our Best Albums list). We narrowed it down, of course. Three Petty covers ended up in this Top 50, one not even from those albums. Then, just this week, another high-profile Petty cover dropped: Snoop and Jelly Roll reworking “Last Dance for Mary Jane”! Suffice to say that one wouldn’t have been a contender even if it hadn’t arrived too late.

That was the big surprise trend in 2024 covers. The less-surprising trend you could have called from a mile out: The new wave of young pop divas—Chappell, Sabrina, Charli—got covered a lot. We could have done an entire 50-song list of their covers, too (the “Good Luck Babe”s alone!). But, if we had, we would have missed out on gospel R.E.M. and country The Weeknd and electropop Mott the Hoople and soul Green Day and… you know what, just read the list.

(Moo-chas gracias and Deng-ke schoen to Hope Silverman for this year’s tiny-hippo art.)