Feb 032025
Jan 282025
Saturday, January 18th, an amazing group of musicians gathered in Tulsa, Oklahoma to pay tribute and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks album. The celebration titled “Shelter From the Storm: Celebrating 50 years of Blood on the Tracks,” was held at Cain’s Ballroom, a legendary venue located close to the Bob Dylan Center, who were presenting the evening. Continue reading »
Oct 102024
The AppleTV+ mystery comedy Bad Monkey‘s full soundtrack album is now out, revealing the complete list of Tom Petty covers for those who haven’t been watching the show. (See flipturn’s cover of “Don’t Do Me Like That” for one of the covers that was released before the album dropped.) Sharon Van Etten is one of the more high profile artists to contribute to the soundtrack, though hardly the highest profile given the presence of Eddie Vedder and Weezer. Continue reading »
Aug 222024
“Seventeen” is a single from Sharon Van Etten‘s fifth album, 2019’s Remind Me Tomorrow. It got a fair amount of attention when it was released, including a performance on The Late Show with Norah Jones guesting. A song about looking back on the titular age, either through memory or through seeing a teenager who reminds her of herself, it’s a melancholic lyric that is rendered more intensely through the original performance by Van Etten and her band.
For season of AV Undercover, their first in seven years, indie rock artist IAN SWEET, Jilian Medford’s alter ego, was one of the invitees. Medford is a big fan of Van Etten, apparently, and jumped when she saw the song on the list.
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May 172023
For the new National Geographic series A Small Light, singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten has combined with Sopranos and White Lotus actor Michael Imperioli to cover the Ink Spots’ iconic track “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire.” Continue reading »
Apr 032023
Bria – When You Know Why You’re Happy (Mary Margaret O’Hara’ cover)
Bria’s “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?” made our list of the Best Covers of 2022. The track was a sneak peak at her covers EP Cuntry Covers Vol. 2, and the full thing dropped a few weeks ago. It includes a wonderful version of this much more obscure song. Bria explains: “Mary Margaret O’Hara is a creative force and one of my favorite Canadian artists. I have been a huge fan of hers for quite some time and really wanted to try my hand at one of her songs for Vol. 2. She is a real queen of vocal improvisation. It’s a trait of hers that I’ve always admired, so I really wanted to explore that when recording this cover. The video for this track is special to us, a sort of collage of memory; fragmented footage of summer taken over the last two years is dispersed throughout shots of a vast winter scene, filmed while we finished the record up North with our live band.” Continue reading »