Wet Leg‘s Rhian Teasdale is appearing in a new commercial for Deutsche Telekom and the band is providing the music: a cover of The Cardigans‘ “My Favorite Game.” Appearing as part of a new campaign titled, “Not a Passenger,” the ad features Teasdale driving while being inundated with influencers, ads and AI slop. All the while, the background music is Wet Leg’s new take on The Cardigans’ song. Continue reading »
Harry Styles is in full promo mode for his new album, Kiss All the Time, Disco Occasionally, and part of that tour led him to the BBC Live Lounge. In previous appearances, Styles had indulged his interest in covers, playing songs by Fleetwood Mac, Lizzo, Wet Leg and Paul McCartney. Now, with his most recent appearance, Styles added Tears for Fears to the list. Continue reading »
“It’s My Party” was the bigger hit, but these days it feels like “You Don’t Own Me” gets covered more. It’s become something of a feminist anthem (probably an unlikely future for “It’s My Party”…). Dollyrots singer Kelly Ogden said, in sharing her band’s new revved-up cover, “The song is an anthem for female empowerment, about willing to be defiant in the face of something that’s just plain wrong. Sadly, it’s still just as timely as when Lesley sang it over 60 years ago.”
Remember “Sex on Fire”? Gotta be one of the dumbest singles of the 21st century. Folk Bitch Trio covered it for Like a Version, and they, against all odds, manage to redeem it. “It’s an underrated song,” they said. “It rocks. It’s filthy without you really knowing. The Folk Bitch Trio twist is kind of easy: We just sing it in three-part harmony, lock in, look at each other and we’re there.” Continue reading »
It was originally planned that Robbie Williams would be on a promotional tour now, with his new record Britpop. However, Williams decided to push the release to next February so as to not compete with Taylor Swift’s new album. But that doesn’t mean Williams isn’t out performing. On October 9th, he played one of his smallest gigs ever at a 600-person capacity club in London, and he made an appearance in the BBC Radio 1 Anthems Live Lounge. Continue reading »
Performing at the Truck Festival in Oxfordshire, England, post-punk indie darlings Wet Leg performed a surprise cover of the recent Charlie XCX smash hit “Brat.”
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The big story in 2022 covers came from a song that’s almost 40 years old: “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God).” After Kate Bush’s classic had its Stranger Things moment, every week we got a half dozen new covers. It’s been six months since the show came out, and they’re still coming! This entire list could have been “Running Up That Hill” covers if we’d let it.
We didn’t, and it isn’t. The song makes one appearance, as do a number of other trendy 2022 items: Wet Leg, GAYLE, and Beabadoobee; the latest Cat Power covers project; posthumous releases (Dr. John, Levon Helm); songs that tie into coming out of pandemic isolation.
But, as always, a joy of our list is all the covers that tie into nothing, and that you won’t find anywhere else. Doom-metal Townes Van Zandt? Bluegrass Eminem? Ska Eddie Murphy? Folk Björk? Psych-rock Groucho Marx? Those are just five of the fifty killer covers on this year’s countdown. So run up that road, run up that hill, run up that building, and read on at the link below.