J Mascis & Mike Watt Cover Each Other on Split 7″

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Jun 032026
 
J Mascis & Mike Watt

J Mascis and Mike Watt are both legends of rock, both solo and with their groups Dinosaur Jr and the Minutemen, respectively. And on this new record, it’s 1991 all over again.

On a new 7″, the two cover each other. On his side, Watt takes on “The Little Baby” from Dinosaur Jr’s 1991 EP Whatever’s Cool with Me (Watt’s former Minuteman drummer George Hurley also plays on the track). On Mascis’ side, he covers, not the Minutemen, but Watt’s other band, fIREHOSE, offering up a version of 1991’s “Formal Introduction.” Continue reading »

Cover Me Q&A: What’s your favorite cover you learned about on Cover Me?

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Jul 172019
 

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, courtesy of Cover Me staffer Mike Misch: What’s a favorite song you learned about on Cover Me?
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Cover Me Q&A: Patrick Robbins, What Ten Cover Songs Matter To You?

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Feb 232017
 

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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Patrick Robbins lives in Maine. He’s been writing for Cover Me since 2011. Of all his Cover Me essays, he especially likes his John Denver tribute review and his curation of Ramones Week.

It’s been great writing and editing for Cover Me, not just because I like cover songs so much, but because it’s led me to discover so many great ones I never would have heard otherwise. My thanks to Ray for taking me on, and to all of you for reading what I have to say about my finds. Here are ten of them that I’ve made over the years, which all struck significant chords in my life for various reasons…
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