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The Best Cover Songs of October 2024

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Oct 312024

Farmer’s Wife — Season of the Witch (Donovan cover)

Austin rockers Farmer’s Wife go full shoegaze-psych on this Donovan cover just in time for Halloween. They write: “Our cover of ‘Season of the Witch’ materialized out of a drum beat and pedal feedback two Halloweens ago. This creepy classic opened us to more experimentation and allowed us to dive into an eerier side of our sound.”

Fiona Apple — Lately (Don Heffington cover)

The late Don Heffington was an acclaimed drummer, so, naturally, his new tribute album includes drum greats like Jim Keltner. But he was also a singer-songwriter, so friends and collaborators like Jackson Browne, Victoria Williams, and Fiona Apple cover his songs. Apple selected “Lately,” the closing song on the final solo studio album of his lifetime, 2016’s Contemporary Abstractions in Folk Song and Dance. Continue reading »

The Last Dinner Party Pay Homage to Art-Rock Forebears Sparks with “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us”

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Sep 052024

The Last Dinner Party spent their pupal years in the pandemic. Their years behind a mask, or a veil, were spent honing their aural and visual craft. In 2023, they burst from their chrysalis as a fully conceived, fully formed, art-rock entity. They have spent this year barnstorming across sell-out tours and festival appearances. In March we praised their live cover of Sparks’ “This Town Ain’t Big Enough For the Both of Us.” Now, in preparation for a new album release in October, featuring several covers, they have released a pro recording of the Sparks tune with a video covering their performances of the classic over Brat summer. Continue reading »

The Best Cover Songs of March 2024

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Apr 012024

Aoife O’Donovan — The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan cover)

Bartees Strange — You Always Hurt The Ones You Love (Mills Brothers cover)

Beyoncé — Blackbird (The Beatles cover)

The Best Cover Songs of February 2024

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Mar 012024

Annie Lennox — Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince/Sinéad O’Connor cover)

The emotional highpoint of the Grammys—well, other than Tracy Chapman’s return (covers-adjacent!)–was Annie Lennox’s tribute to Sinéad O’Connor during the In Memoriam. Bonus points because she was backed by two longtime bandmembers of Prince (who, of course, wrote the song), Wendy and Lisa. The teardrop on Lennox’s eye was very Prince, and the political statement at the end was very Sinéad. Continue reading »