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 »

Apr 112018
 

Check out more Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2018 cover features here.

rock and roll hall of fame covers

This week we’ve posted tributes to three of this year’s six Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The Cars, Dire Straits, and Nina Simone. And lord knows we’ve posted plenty of covers of the other three over the years: Bon Jovi, The Moody Blues, and “Early Influence” inductee Sister Rosetta Tharpe. But to celebrate them all in one place in advance of this weekend’s induction ceremony, we thought we’d round up a few of the best covers we didn’t include in all those other features. Continue reading »

Jan 152014
 

Bob Dylan has a long list of love ballads, but only a few that are warm and tender – the kind that, in the wrong hands, can turn a little too sweet and saccharine. One of these is “Make You Feel My Love,” from Dylan’s 1997 album, Time Out of Mind. Shara Worden, aka My Brightest Diamond, recently released a simple arrangement of “Make You Feel My Love” as a present to her fans. Continue reading »

Jun 062012
 

A little less than a year ago, we over here at Cover Me couldn’t help but gush over Catherine A.D.’s delicate, weep-inducing take on Bon Iver‘s “The Wolves (Act I and II).” Since then, Cover Me has stalked her page and covered five of her covers. Needless to say we’re fans and couldn’t be more excited for her next covers release. Between finishing up at university and her debut full length album that’s due out this winter, Catherine A.D. found some time to put together all of her reworkings and covers for her album Reprise. Continue reading »

Jan 042012
 

If there is anyone out there who is familiar with how to truly cover a song it is British Singer-songwriter Catherine A.D. You might remember our posts about her previous Gaga and Bon Iver covers. Whether she’s taking on a hit pop song or a tear-jerker, Catherine A.D. always manages to turn a song into an enchanting ballad. Her new interpretation of My Brightest Diamond‘s “I Have Never Loved Someone” will make almost anyone fall in love with her. Continue reading »

Jun 082011
 

Download This! scours the web’s dark corners for cool cover freebies. View past installments.

There’s not much to say about Radiohead’s OK Computer that hasn’t been said since it was released 14 years ago. Here at Cover Me we seem to post Radiohead cover songs almost daily. Well, the sincerest form of flattery is covering a song by an influential artist or album, right? And love it or hate it, it’s difficult to dispute the impression that OK Computer left on music. So it’s no surprise that Stereogum rounded up 12 great artists a few years ago to do a song-for-song tribute to OK Computer. Since the tribute came 10 years after the original, they titled it OKX. Continue reading »