The Best Cover Songs of June 2025

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Jun 302025
 
The Best Cover Songs of June 2025
Alex Lahey — Rock & Roll Queen (The Subways cover)


Four years ago, Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey topped our year-end list with a truly phenomenal cover of Faith Hill’s 1998 hit “This Kiss.” She made the Top 10 again in 2023 singing Mama Cass’s Make Your Own Kind of Music.” At this point, whenever Lahey drops a new cover, we’re immediately interested. Her latest, the b-side to a new single supporting trans rights, tackles indie-rockers The Subways 2005 single “Rock & Roll Queen.” Unlike some of her other covers, Lahey doesn’t change it that much (no need to make the already loud-and-rocking song louder and rockier like “This Kiss”). Still, it rips. Continue reading »

After Ours Offers Dreamy Reimagining of MGMT’s “Congratulations”

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Jun 092025
 
After Ours

Indie artist After Ours has unveiled a captivating cover of MGMT’s “Congratulations,” breathing new life into the 2010 psychedelic pop song. It would be very easy to produce a similar vibe to the MGMT original. But this cover stands on its own unique twist by leaning into the nostalgic tones with a muted backing guitar and sleepy vocals. The music video visual of a summer rainstorm in a grassy field mirrors the wistful undertones of the cover and lyrics, while remaining close enough to the original to appease die-hard fans of the song. Continue reading »

Tkay Maidza Covers MGMT’s “Electric Feel” for Spotify

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Sep 302024
 
Tkay Maidza

What happens when you take a psychedelic-rock tune from MGMT and make it sleeker, and poppier? Meet Tkay Maidza, the Los Angeles-based, Zimbabwe-born rapper and singer.

This alluring single/cover was created for Spotify Sessions. According to the artist, Tumblr was one of the first platforms to give her a voice. This is also where the artist happened to find the MGMT tune originally.

Fans are reeling over the release, given that Maidza hasn’t released a full album since 2016. The cover is, overall, vibing. The bassline is synthy, and true to the original, while the vocal delivery is sensual, empowering, and fresh. Something about the way the diction is in this one makes it far easier to understand than the original. 

Here’s what she said about the release in her Instagram announcement:

Tumblr gave me a voice & shaped who I was in high school and I remember hearing this song on the coolest pages when I first discovered the internet! so I was beyond excited and honored to re-imagine this! 

Listen to it now:

For more great MGMT covers, check out this link.

The Best Cover Songs of February 2023

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Feb 282023
 
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Adam Lambert – Getting Older (Billie Eilish cover)

On his new covers album High Drama, Adam Lambert didn’t pick one of the obvious Billie Eilish songs to cover (“Bad Guy,” “Everything I Wanted,” etc). He goes for relative deep cut “Getting Older,” off her 2021 album Happier Than Ever. Eilish’s original was fairly minimalist. Lambert doesn’t do “minimalist.” His “glam” version, as he describes it, makes the song sound like a much bigger hit than it was. Continue reading »

Cover Me Q&A: What’s your favorite cover performed by a child?

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Feb 152023
 

Welcome to Cover Me Q&A, where we take your questions about cover songs and answer them to the best of our ability.

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Here at Cover Me Q&A, we’ll be taking questions about cover songs and giving as many different answers as we can. This will give us a chance to hold forth on covers we might not otherwise get to talk about, to give Cover Me readers a chance to learn more about individual staffers’ tastes and writing styles, and to provide an opportunity for some back-and-forth, as we’ll be taking requests (learn how to do so at feature’s end).

Today’s question: What’s your favorite cover performed by a child?
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The Best Cover Songs of October

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Nov 012021
 
the best cover songs of october
Andrew VanWyngarden – Dance Monkey (Tones and I cover)

One of the biggest one-hit wonders of the last few years, pop singer Tones and I’s “Dance Monkey” emerged out of seeming nowhere to top charts across the world last year. In her home country of Australia, it is the longest chart-topper ever, breaking a record held by Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas”! Despite its ubiquity, however, major covers have been sparse (perhaps because many people find the song, you know, annoying). Never one to shy away from putting off his audience, though, MGMT frontman Andrew VanWyngarden gave it a trippy psychedelic-folk cover as part of a radio station fundraising challenge. Continue reading »

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