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Bass Maverick JAH WOBBLE And His Two Sons Cover THE BEATLES

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22 June 2026

Post-punk bass icon JAH WOBBLE and his 2 sons, John T and
Charlie, who perform as Tian Qiji have an album out, August 14.


The Wobble sons

It’s dubbed Mystic Liverpool: The Beatles’ Psychedelic Psongbook.
A deeply personal re-imagining of the Fab Four’s psychedelic period.

The album draws on Wobble’s signature dub bass, John T’s drums,
Chinese percussion and yangqin, with Charlie’s erhu and vocals.

One of the tracks is not an easy one to cover, namely TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
pushed by backwards recorded guitars, from their unrivalled 1967 LP ‘Revolver‘. But
the Wobble family come up with a far-out, special take.

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THE DANDY WARHOLS Cover Punk Legends THE DAMNED

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24 February 2026


📸 Nicole Nodland

As announced before, the longtime Portland groove experts
THE DANDY WARHOLS, will release a covers album, named
Pin Ups on March 20th.

A total of 17 tracks with covers by big names such as The Cramps, The Clash,
Gang Of Four, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Runaways, and New York
Dolls.

Full tracklist and order details here.

They offer us another peppered appetizer with their slowed-down, blazing
hot, percussion-stuffed take on The Damned‘s 1979 rushing hit LOVE SONG.
Neat! Neat! Neat!

THE DANDYS

THE DAMNED

LEMMY And THE DAMNED Do It ‘NEAT NEAT NEAT’ For Upcoming MOTÖRHEAD Tribute LP

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13 September 2025

A tribute album for legendary earthquake machine MOTÖRHEAD,
titled KILLED BY DEAF will be released on Halloween (when else?).

Press info: “In celebration of Motörhead’s 50th anniversary in 2025, a collection of
punk royalty unite to honor the loudest band on Earth. Killed By Deaf features electrifying contributions from some legendary punk acts, including Rancid, Pennywise, Lagwagon,
The Bronx and many more.

It even features the great man himself – Lemmy – jumping on a track with The Damned!
Fueled by raw power and deep reverence, this tribute captures the spirit of a band whose influence still rattles stages and speakers worldwide.

1. Ace of Spades – Pennywise
2. Sex & Death – Rancid
3. Over the Top – The Bronx
4. Rock ‘n’ Roll – Lagwagon
5. The Chase Is Better Than The Catch – Fear
6. Bomber – GBH
7. Stay Clean – Murphy’s Law
8. Love Me Like a Reptile – Slaughterhouse
9. The Hammer – The Casualties
10. Born to Raise Hell – Anti-Nowhere League
11. No Voices in the Sky – Love Canal
12. Overkill – Soldiers of Destruction
13. Iron Fit – Wisdom in Chains
14. Neat Neat Neat – Motörhead & The Damned

THURSTON MOORE Covers ‘TEMPTATION INSIDE YOUR HEART’ From THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

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2 September 2025

Former Sonic Youth top dog is a busy man.

Last year THURSTON MOORE (now aged 67) released his 9th solo album,
named Flow Critical Lucidity. Earlier this year, he dropped one-off single
The Serpentine and teamed up with grindcore gang Napalm Death for
a cover of Ramones’ Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue.

And now he treats us with a cover of
a song by The Velvet Underground.

Not a really famous one. TEMPTATION INSIDE YOUR HEART
dates back from 1968, but did come out much later, on a VU
compilation from 1985.

It’s a fooling around, riff-rotating VU ripper
spiced with Lou Reed‘s characteristic vocality.

MOORE

VU

SUEDE Cover BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’s Classic ‘HUNGRY HEART’ With Glammy Glow

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6 August 2025

As all fans already know for weeks, London‘s glam pop-rock biggies SUEDE release their 10th longplayer, named Antidepressants on September 5th. They treated us with three singles, so far, which you can stream below.

It’s promo time, of course. They appeared recently on BBC’s Radio 2 Sofa Sessions
Show with Jo Whiley and besides performing some new songs, they did a cover of
Bruce Springsteen‘s grand 1980 hit Hungry Heart (almost 290 million streams
on Spotify) from his ‘The River’ LP.


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SUEDE
Top take

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

All 3 SUEDE singles


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INTERPOL Maestro PAUL BANKS Covers IGGY POP

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13 July 2025

INTERPOL voice/face has scored the soundtrack for black comedy
movie SISTER MIDNIGHT which premiered in Cannes last year.

He included two covers of Iggy Pop songs. Sister Midnight
from his 1977 album The Idiot and The Stooges‘ Gimme Danger
from their 1973 LP Raw Power.

Banks: “‘Gimme Danger’ is one of my favorite Stooges songs, and ‘Sister Midnight’ I was less familiar with, but it is the titular track of a film that is feral with Stoogian grit and joy, so I was equally excited to immerse myself in it, and find an interpretation that felt authentic to my voice‘

PAUL BANKS

IGGY POP

IGGY AND THE STOOGES

DREW FIVE – British Versatile Electro Musician Covers 1982 Pearl ‘SHIPBUILDING’

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8 July 2025

Artist: DREW FIVE
Who: A versatile musician from London who creates/records electronica, ambient minimalism, neo-classical and post-rock. He’s also half of electro pop duo Feral Five
and Dice Machine. Five also works on his own. Two weeks ago he released the atmospheric-ambient single The Runner

And now he comes up with his take on 1982 pearl Shipbuilding (linked to
the Falkland Wars), with lyrics by Elvis Costello, music by Clive Langer and sung
by the great Robert Wyatt.

A risky effort to cover this particular song, but Five does it
gracefully and stylishly, bringing soft Moby moments to mind.

DREW FIVE


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ROBERT WYATT

NELSON SOBRAL – Canadian Artist Delivers Soulful Cover Of CINDY LAUPER’S 1983 Classic ‘TIME AFTER TIME’

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11 June 2025

Artist: NELSON SOBRAL
Who: Singer-songwriter-guitarist hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, equally inspired
by the vast, wide open spaces of the country he calls home and the labyrinthine maze of the city in which he resides. Sobral’s music is as much Americana and blues as it is soul and rock’n’roll, perfectly balanced with the energy and sound of each of his respective influences.

Sobral‘s cover of Cyndi Lauper‘s (now 71) supreme 1984 classic Time After Time (more than 1 billion streams on Spotify) is a soulful and enticing accomplishment. A gripping vocal performance, bringing the emotive timbre of the sublime voices of Springsteen and Seger to mind.

On this very day – June 9 – in 1984, Lauper started a two-week
No. 1 run on the US Singles Charts with Time After Time.

Sobral: “I play a lot of cover gigs, part of the job. Some songs I play straight. Others, I bend until they feel like they came outta me. Cyndi Lauper’s classic “Time After Time” is one of those. It started out as just another tune in the set. But night after night, it kept landing differently. Somewhere along the way, it stopped feeling like a cover and started feeling like mine, like something I might’ve written. It’s about taking an already powerful song and saying it in my
own voice.”

NELSON SOBRAL

CYNDI LAUPER

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FRANZ FERDINAND & JOHNNY MARR Strike

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Scottish veteran pop heroes Franz Ferdinand released
their new longplayer The Human Fear 2 weeks ago.

Last weekend they played a live show for Amazon
Music UK’s Sounds In The City Sessions, in Manchester.

They were joined by The Smiths’ guitar legend Johnny Marr (who has a
longstanding habit for getting on stage as a guest with other artists) for
3 songs. One of them The Smiths‘ 1986 classic Big Mouth Strikes Again.

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Soul Giant AL GREEN Covers R.E.M. – Here’s His Version Of ‘EVERYBODY HURTS’

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20 November 2024

78-year-old soul star AL GREEN is one of those artists who
are known/loved by several generations, by old and young.

Let’s Stay Together from his same-titled 1972 LP was his greatest hit (almost
580 million streams on Spotify). It topped the US Charts and peaked at #7 in the UK.
He recorded/released 29 albums, with Lay It Down as his most recent one. It came
out in 2008. He still performs now and then.

Last year, he shared his cover of Lou Reed’s ‘Perfect Day.‘
Now, he has another cover to offer with his take on R.E.M.‘s
1992 tearjerker EVERYBODY HURTS.

Green: “Recording ‘Everybody Hurts,’ I could really feel the heaviness of the song, and I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and light into it. There’s always a presence of light that can break through those times of darkness.”

AL GREEN

R.E.M.