17 November 2024
New Jersey‘s hip-pop-hop artist 070 SHAKE just released her 3rd longplayer Petrichor.
One of the tracks is her cover of SONG TO THE SIREN, a Tim Buckley (1947-1975) pearl
from 1970.
Shake invited Courtney
Love to do it together.
Entrancing take.
18 September 2024
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Blues-rock duo THE KILLS – vocalist Alison Mosshart and guitarist Jamie
Hince – released their excellent 6th full length God Games last October.
Some time ago they did an acoustic session for Sirius XM Radio. One of the songs
they played was a cover of massive Billie Eilish hit Happîer Than Ever (more than
1,3 billion streams on Spotify).
And now we get a bluesy, electric version.
Sounds like Eilish wrote it for Mosshart.
Mosshart: “It’s all Sirius XM’s fault. We were asked to do an acoustic session with them last year and they’d asked for a cover as part of the session. I’d always really dug “Happier Than Ever” and found myself singing it around the house all the time. After that radio session hit the airwaves, we were asked us to do an electric recording. Here we were in London, recording a non-electric EP, and what’s the first song on it? An electric cover of the acoustic cover we did… and the more electricity, the better. Thank you, Billie, for writing such a brilliant song.”
THE KILLS
BILLIE EILISH
Last night, Billie and her brother Finneas posted
this message on their socials. Way to go, guys!!
10 September 2024
Brand-new Apple TV series Bad Monkey, a black comedy crime drama featuring
Vince Vaughn as the private eye has a soundtrack containing 8 Tom Petty songs
covered by artists such as Jason Isbell, Eddie Vedder, Jamie Jackson and The War
Of Drugs.
Kurt Vile is also part of this project. He picked Sins Of My Youth
from Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers‘ 2014 album Hypnotic Eye.
A melancholic musing that fits Vile like a glove.
Tom Petty: Story
5 September 2024
Brand-new Apple TV series Bad Monkey, a black comedy crime drama featuring Vince Vaughn as the private eye has a soundtrack containing 8 Tom Petty songs covered by artists such as Jason Isbell, Eddie Vedder, Jamie Jackson and also THE WAR ON DRUGS.
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Maestro Adam Granduciel and his band do a great big banging job on Petty’s
1994 hit YOU WRECK ME from his Wildflowers LP which turns 30 next month.
WAR ON DRUGS
TOM PETTY
4 August 2024
The first ever comprehensive BRYAN FERRY solo career retrospective
will make his fans very happy when it lands on October 25.
RETROSPECTIVE: SELECTED RECORDINGS 1973-2023 is an 81-track collection
celebrating 50 Years of Ferry’s impressive career. Tracklist and pre-order info HERE.
It’ll feature several covers, with Bob Dylan‘s SHE BELONGS TO ME as one of them, showing Ferry‘s love for Dylan once again. Back in 2007 the former Roxy Music icon released a full Dylan songs album, named Dylanesque (stream below).
SHE BELONGS TO ME
DYLANESQUE
ALISON MOYET (born named Geneviève Alison Jane Ballard Moyet 63 years ago
in Essex, England) made her name with synth-pop tandem Yazoo (1981-1983).
Her solo career already spans 40 years. Last week she communicated details
of her new, 10th, album. KEY is her first in 7 years. It comes out on October 4.
Stream the 2 new shared tracks below.
New album artwork
A couple of days ago she covered David Bowie‘s 1986 gem
Absolute Beginners for BBC Radio 2 along with a rendition
of the new pieces.
MOYET
BOWIE
NEW TRACKS
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AM: Instagram
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
15 June 2024
British punk-rock team IDLES join the long queue of artists that delivered stuff for
the Spotify Singles Series. They all record one cover and add a song of their own.
For Idles the own song is Roy from their recent LP Tangk.
Their cover is a take on MOOD SWINGS, a cool hip-rap-hop
by British artist Little Simz from her new album Drop 7.
Idles threw some samples of Peaches and Chemical Brothers in their hepped-up
version and come up with a dance banger that goes Boom Boom Boom.
IDLES
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LITTLE SIMZ
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Idles: Instagram
2 June 2024
Danish glam-pop duo THE RAVEONETTES – Sune Rose Wagner and
Sharin Foo – released their awe-inspiring debut LP Chain Gang Love
21 years ago.
Next July they’ll launch their 9th one, entitled The Raveonettes Sing…
A cover album of 50S-60s pop/rock classics, from the Velvet Underground
to The Shangri-Las, from Graham Parsons to Buddy Holly and more.
They also gave the massive 1958 hit All I Have To Do Is Dream
by the The Everly Brothers their own glossy touch.
Sune Rose Wagner: “Sharin [Foo] and I used to perform songs by the Everly Brothers before we changed our name to the Raveonettes, so our love for this band goes way back. You won’t find a more dreamy song than ‘All I Have To Do Is Dream,’ it’s the perfect lullaby in my book. We loved recording our version and hope people will rediscover such a timeless classic.”
THE RAVEONETTES
THE EVERLY BROTHERS
The Raveonettes: Linktree
British pop legend TOYAH WILLCOX and her beloved partner and King Crimson
guitar wizard ROBERT FRIPP are still in the kitchen at parties, for almost 4 years
now. Their weekly Sunday Lunch Cover Sessions started back in April to kill time
in that awful Covid-19 lockdown year.
What they have done since is make us laugh to tears with their both hilarious and
utterly cool performances. They already covered tons of classic songs by classic artists/bands and there is no way of stopping them. Yes, it only takes two to tango.
Yesterday they slashed and trashed The Stooges classic Search And Destroy.
Watch Fripp‘s eyes rollin’ again from left to right and back
when seeing his colorful punk wife going berserk.
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Still rockin’ in the free world.
Toyah: Instagram
21 May 2024
PETTY COUNTRY: A COUNTRY MUSIC CELEBRATION is a tribute album
dedicated to the late great TOM PETTY (1950-2017). It comes out on June 21.
I’ll feature 20 covers by a star-studded cast of country artists such as George Strait, Steve Earle, Willie and Lukas Nelson, Marty Stuart, Luke Combs, Chris Stapleton, Dolly Parton, and Carly Pearce.
Wonderful country voices WYNONNA JUDD and LAINEY WILSON teamed up for taking on Petty‘s 1979 classic REFUGEE from the Damn The Torpedoes LP. Powerful perfomance.
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