Oct 232025
 
Rancid

There’s a new tribute record coming out at the end of the month, paying tribute to the great Motörhead. One of the tracks has been released, from Rancid.

They are offering up their cover of the 1995 song “Sex & Death” from Motörhead’s Sacrifice album. In a press release for the album, Rancid guitarist/singer Lars Frederiksen said, “It’s like it’s the perfect Motörhead song for me. You know as well as I do how much of a big Ramones fan Lem was. And it sounds to me like his take, Motörhead doing The Ramones. But there’s that little itty bitty guitar solo there. And it was the most Rancid-style song that Motörhead did that I thought it’s close enough to like a song we would write.” Continue reading »

Oct 052020
 
best tribute albums

Over our time tracking cover songs (13 years this month!), we’ve written about hundreds of new tribute albums, across reviews, news stories, and, when they’re good enough, our best-of-the-year lists. We also have looked back on plenty of great tribute albums from the past in our Cover Classics series. But we’ve never pulled it all together – until now. Continue reading »