Cover of the Week

PEACHES Covers T.REX – Put On Your Glam Disco Shoes For ‘SOLID GOLD, EASY ACTION’

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10 August 2020

Gloriously controversial fatherfucker PEACHES is also part of the Marc Bolan tribute LP called ‘AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan’. Other artists such as Joan Jett, Kesha, Devendra Banhart, Nick Cave, and Father John Misty feature on the longplayer. The tribute was put together by the legendary producer Hal Wilnerr who sadly passed away
on 7 April from coronavirus.

Marc Bolan will be inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame soon.

Peaches picked groover Solid Gold, Easy Action
and turned it into a funky bang-bang disco stomper.

Time to get out of your lazy quarantine couch and dance, dance, dance…

The original…

PEACHES: Facebook

(photo on top: cover ‘Rub’ album)

Warm-Blooded Señoritas HINDS Cover Punk Rebels THE CLASH – Here’s ‘SPANISH BOMBS’…

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3 August 2020

Like so many other artists did during this science-fiction-like lockdown period,
Spanish power-pop señoritas HINDS also decided to cover a classic cracker. They
picked The Clash‘s 1979 track SPANISH BOMBS (featured on their masterpiece LP
London Calling) for obvious reasons, although the song’s story isn’t a happy one.

It’s about the chaotic political situation of Spain in the Seventies after the 1975
death of dictator Francisco Franco. The late great punk poet Joe Strummer got
the idea after he heard a radio news report of ETA terror bombings of tourist
hotels on the Costa Brava.

Hinds’ frontwoman said in a statement: “The Clash were my mom’s forever favorite
band. So it is always beautiful to connect generations through music. As Spaniards, we
don’t usually get shout-outs in songs, like New York or London, so the Clash writing a
song about our civil war made us feel honored.”

Hear the Madrid based grupo‘s version here…

Also on Spotify…

https://open.spotify.com/track/0afRlptGPpjFTmJWxCVJAr?si=DW_TuVdIQMyMvRyBZk6Kig
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HINDS: Facebook


New HINDS album

CAGE THE ELEPHANT Covers WRECKLESS ERIC – Here’s 1977 Cracker ‘THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD’

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27 July 2020

American rockers released their excellent

Unpeeled

Artist: Wreckless Eric
Active: since 1974
Single: The Whole Wide World

CAGE THE ELEPHANT Unpeeled  2017 album

CAGE THE ELEPHANT: Facebook


(photo by Turn Up The Volume! Amsterdam – 2017)

Heart And Soul Glow – Happy 56 To Awesome Vox CHRIS CORNELL- Here’s His Gripping Cover Of GUNS N’ ROSES Hit ‘PATIENCE’

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Awesome

20 July 2020

Following mental health problems, heartfelt songwriter and invigorating voice
CHRIS CORNELL, the driving force behind grunge stars Soundgarden and the
vox of Audioslave, the band formed by ex- Rage Against The Machine members,
took his own life three years ago.

Today would have been his 56th birthday (born in Seattle on 20 July 1964).
To celebrate this event his wife shared a cover of Guns N’ Roses massive
1989 hit PATIENCE, recorded by her late husband in 2016. An affectionate
and most gripping version of this blue ballad.

Listen here…

The original…

CHRIS CORNELL: Facebook

Black Psychedelia – MOON DUO Reaches For The Stars On SABBATH Song ‘PLANET CARAVAN’…

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13 July 2020

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of both the self-titled Black Sabbath debut LP
and second longplayer Paranoid, Sacred Bones Records released ‘What Is This That Stands Before Me?‘ last May. A compilation of Sabbath covers recorded by artists from
across their roster, with The Soft Moon, Thou, Zola Jesus, Uniform, Hilary Woods and more.

San Francisco’s psych-dream tandem MOON DUO is the ideal act to cover PLANET OF CARAVAN one of Sabbath‘s rare tranquil songs, about floating through the universe with one’s love. Moon Duo turns the ghostly original into an extended joyride. A feather-light, trippy, and imaginary journey with Sanae Yamada‘s angelic voice fitting the head-in-the-clouds mood just perfectly. Nine minutes of escaping our puzzling reality.

Enjoy here…

The original…

Compilation in full…


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BLACK SABBATH: Facebook
MOON DUO: Facebook

Born In The USA To Run – New York City’s RICH GIRLS Doing SPRINGSTEEN

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6 July 2020

After sharing new stellar single The Fighter a week ago New York City’s RICH GIRLS,
led by soul-stirring vox Luisa Black, stun with The Boss‘ breakthrough hit BORN TO RUN.

I’m pretty sure the band chose this classic cracker with a purpose as the story of this 45-year old standout – released in 1975 – is highly relevant again in today’s Divided States
Of America. Rich Girls do not rock as much as the original, they give it a more haunting and yes, more gloomy timbre. Born in the USA to run away in 2020.

In the day we sweat it out on the streets
Of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through the mansions of glory
In suicide machines
Sprung from cages on Highway 9
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin’ out over the line
Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back
It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we’re young
‘Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run

Fuck you Trump…


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RICH GIRLS: Facebook

THE RACONTEURS Cover RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS – Here’s BLANK GENERATION

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29 June 2020

Last May JACK WHITE, the hardest working bluesman on this planet, and THE RACONTEURS released a 7-track live EP titled ‘LIVE AT THE ELECTRIC LADY‘
in New York City and a documentary film featuring the recording of the EP and
an interview with the band.

One of the tracks is a hectic cover of 1977 punk classic BLANK GENERATION
by the infamous NYC outlaw RICHARD HELL (once a member of Tom Verlaine‘s
Television) and his band THE VOIDOIDS with a special guest appearance of
original guitarist Ivan Julian.

The Raconteurs‘ version is a scorching wall-of-sound explosion.
Not bad, not bad at all. Here’s Jack White going meshuga…

Original version…

RICHARD HELL: Biography

Elegant And Stylish – Multifaceted Belgian Artist rOZZ Covers The Late Great ROBERT PALMER…

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22 June 2020

A couple of weeks ago Turn Up Up The Volume named the new album ‘ELECTROMANIA‘
by Belgian singer/songwriter/musician rOZZ ‘Album Of the Day‘. You can read and hear all about it here. She’s a multifaceted, experimental and terrifically innovative and productive artist.

When doing research about roZZ for the aforementioned feature I discovered her cover of JOHNNY AND MARY, one of the most famous songs by the late great Robert Palmer. Her version is elegant, stylish, moody and respectful. A beauty.

Listen here…

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The original…

Now that you’re here take some time to discover
this remarkable artist and her new longplayer
ELECTROMANIA…

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rOZZ: Website

Raging And Rip-Roaring – Hardcore Supergroup DEAD CROSS Covers BLACK FLAG

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15 June 2020

Hardcore supergroup DEAD CROSS (with Faith No More frontman Mike Patton and Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo with Retox’s Justin Pearson and Mike Crain) unleashed their wall-breaking cover of Black Flag’s anti-authority anthem RISE ABOVE referring to the Black Lives Matter protests after two black men were cowardly killed.

In a statement, Dead Cross says that their version “created in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and staunchly opposing police brutality and systemic racism.” The anger fueled steamroller opens with a powerful audio clip of a Los Angeles resident telling
the LAPD chief to “suck my dick and choke on it.”

We are tired of your abuse
Try to stop us, but it’s no use

FUCK YOU…

Here’s the BLACK FLAG original (live version)

DEAD CROSS: Facebook

Guerrilla Time! Mean Metal Machine INTER ARMA Covers NINE INCH NAILS

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Mean metal machine INTER ARMA out of Richmond, Virginia unleash a new EP
next month, entitled GARBERS DAYS REVISITED. A collection of covers recorded
‘for the hell of it‘ with their take on big tracks by Prince, Neil Young, Ministry, Cro-Mags,
and Tom Petty.

Also on the EP is a cover of MARCH OF THE PIGS. A thunderous highlight of NINE
INCH NAILS‘ 1994 album The Downward Spiral. Inter Arma‘s version is just monstrous.

It’s guerrilla time, folks! Power to the people! Highway to hell for all authoritarian world leaders! No more oppression, no more injustice, no more inequality! Stand up, get up
and fight for your right to be respected. Black Lives Matter!

Damn right…

INTER ARMA: Facebook