Cover

SLEAFORD MODS Cover PET SHOP BOYS With ‘WEST END GIRLS’ For Great Cause

Posted on by JL

22 November 2023

British rap-punk duo SLEAFORD MODS released their
12th LP UK Grim last March, followed by an extensive
tour that will continue into 2024.

The mods will have a new limited-edition 7″ single out next month – pre-order info here – with all profits going to Shelter, an organization that helps people with housing issues and homelessness.

Jason Williamson (SM’s voice/songwriter): “I’ve been listening to the Pet Shop Boys’ albums Please and Actually a lot, the music still fits this landscape so well. When Andrew suggested we cover ‘West End Girls,’ it was important to honour the track’s brilliance. So, when Neil and Chris gave the track their blessing our tiny minds were blown, and when we received their remix, it was almost too much. It was brilliant!”

You can now stream and/or watch the SM’s lively cover.

WATCH

STREAM


.
ORIGINAL

SM: Instagram

JULIANA HATFIELD Can’t Get ELO Out Of Her Head

Posted on by JL

20 July 2023

Flamboyant American alt-rocker JULIANA HATFIELD
has been around for a while now, actually since 1986.

The past few years, she showed that she’s a sucker for covering other
(celebrated) artist’s songs. She even made full albums of it. One with
Olivia-Newton John tunes (2018) and one with The Police songs.

And she keeps on doing the same. Her next cover LP is dedicated to melodic pop/rock masters ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA (ELO), led by the tremendous hit-smith Jeff Lynne.

The 10-track LP is out on 17 November. More info here.

After sharing her take on Don’t Bring Me Down we get her version
of the downhearted 1974 ballad CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY MIND.

She does it with endearment and elegance.

Tune in

ELO original

HATFIELD: Instagram

DEBBIE HARRY (Happy 78) And NICK CAVE Cover GUN CLUB Mastermind JEFFREY LEE PIERCE (Happy 65)

Posted on by JL

1 July 2023

Last Wednesday the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce, the wayward mastermind of underrated
indie mavericks Gun Club from L.A. would have celebrated his 65th birthday. Today
glam pop-punk diva Debbie Harry turns 78. Born Angela Trimble July 1, 1945 in Miami.

And yesterday she and expert crooner Nick Cave shared their duet cover of JLP song
On The Other Side. A pearl he only played live for a while. I’m sure there’s a connection between all those facts.

Cypress Grove (British songwriter who played with JLP): “Jeffrey Lee Pierce only performed the song live a few times, faster in tempo before being transformed into an exquisite ballad with Cave on piano, me on guitar, synth by Warren Ellis and Guido Benigni on bass providing
a sensitive backdrop to Nick and Debbie’s unearthly vocal.”

Turn Up The Volume‘s best cover of the month, June 2023.

Heart-and-Soul Touching.

The song will feature on a Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute album titled The Task Has Overwhelmed Us coming in September. Many other big names are on it too, such
as the late Mark Lanegan, Lydia Lunch, Dave Gahan, the Coathangers, Jim Jarmusch
and more.

Album details here.

NOEL GALLAGHER Covers JOY DIVISION

Posted on by JL

4 June 2023


(BBC)

NOEL GALLAGHER was the new guest to perform with the BBC Concert Orchestra as part of their Radio 2 Piano Room sessions. Among new material he played a cover of Joy Division classic Love Will Tear Us Apart.

Why that one?

NG: “You can’t get out the BBC without doing a cover. When they asked me to do this I was like ‘I’m afraid I’m all Bob Dylan-ed out… I don’t know what to do. I would play this song, this version of it, at home down the years. When they asked me to do it, I was like ‘How can I get away with that?’ Because it’s such an iconic [song] and, being from Manchester… well, this is going to be tricky. But now I’ve got my own studio, I went and did a little demo of it and I was like ‘You know what? I think I might be able to pull this off.’ So we’re going to do ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ by the Divs.”

NOEL

ORIGINAL
(Unbeatable)

JOY DIVISION: Bio – Discography

JDsingle

TOYAH And ROBERT Have A ‘RADAR LOVE’

Posted on by JL

On the seventh day – almost 3 years ago – TOYAH WILLCOX
and her beloved husband ROBERT FRIPP (King Crimson) started
their Sunday Lunch Sessions as a fun pastime while being locked
up in their kitchen due to that shit virus.

Three years later, they still have a party in their kitchen.

Last Sunday then went for a take on Radar Love (released in 1973),
the biggest hit (more than 135 million views on Spotify) of legendary
Dutch rock legends Golden Earring.

Here we go.

I’ve been drivin’ all night, my hands wet on the wheel
There’s a voice in my head that drives my heel
It’s my baby callin’, sayin’, “I need you here”
And it’s a half past four and I’m shiftin’ gear
When she is lonely and the longing gets too much
She sends a cable, coming in from above
Don’t need no phone at all
We’ve got a thing that’s called radar love
We’ve got a wave in the air
Radar love

TOYAH: Instagram

LENNY KRAVITZ Pays Tribute To His Friend HARRY BELAFONTE With His Cover Of ‘HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BLIND?’

Posted on by JL

27 April 2023

Two days ago famous singer-songwriter-actor star HARRY BELAFONTE (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr., 96 years ago in New York City) passed away following congestive
heart failure. R.I.P.

Today LENNY KRAVITZ shared his tribute to the legend, a good friend of his,
with a glowing cover of a Belafonte‘s song titled HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BLIND?
A powerful soul song that was, mysteriously enough, never released as a single, or as
an album track.

Watch/hear Kravitz‘s version.

Harry Belafonte with a magical live performance in 1985.

HARRY BELAFONTE: Bio – Discography

French Music Project GMBT LIFE Covers PIXIES And It’s Pretty Special

Posted on by JL

22 April 2023

Band: GmBt LIFE
Who: France-based trio from different countries, who live in diverse regions,
and who routinely meet to play music. They like to begin with bare melodies
and then improvise with various instruments and PCs.

They released a new, excellent, longplayer called 10 Minutes last year in April,
with a mix of tranquilizing piano-driven musings, cinematic reveries with spacey
Pink Floyd-like reverberating here and there, and tender, ambient synth meditations.

To celebrate the first anniversary of the album they decided to cover a Pixies song.
They picked one of their best-known Monkey Gone To Heaven from 1989. GmBt Life‘s take is pretty special and surprising. They slowed it down, infused it with piano play, distorted guitars and whispering vocals.

Check it out

Original

GmB Life: Facebook – Spotify

Southern Country Rocker BRANDON BLACKBURN Covers Glam Legends SKID ROW

Posted on by JL

19 April 2023

Southern artist BRANDON BLACKBURN y released a remarkable country cover.
It’s his take on the mega 1989 hit I Remeber You by glam rockers Skid Row.

Blackburn “My hope is that this version of song kind of bridges a gap. I hope it reaches a younger generation of people who might not know the song, or much about that era of music, while also appealing to the older, rock-oriented crowd. This is a song they’ve heard and loved for decades.”

Blackburn‘s warm voice fits this classic like a glove and
his glimmering guitar feat makes his take stand out.

Listen

.
Original

BRANDON BLACKBURN: Facebook – Instagram

Last Night In Tokyo Living Legend BOB DYLAN Played THE GRATEFUL DEAD ‘s 1970 Rocker ‘TRUCKIN’ For The First Time

Posted on by JL

13 April 2023


(Cover of 1987 live LP ‘Dylan & The Dead)

Back in 1987 living legend BOB DYLAN and his infamous rock buddies
THE GREATFUL DEAD (1965–1995) toured together. It resulted in a live
album 2 years later named Dylan And The Dead (album cover on top).

Yesterday night the now 81-year folk/rock legend (who can’t stop touring)
played in Tokyo. He performed the Dead‘s top groovin’ 1970 rocker TRUCKIN’
from their American Beauty album.

In the past, Dylan already covered several of the GD’s
songs on stage. For Truckin‘ it was the first time.

Listen here (not top quality, but not bad either).

Original.

BOB DYLAN: Website – Instagram

Dream Pop Duo LET’S EAT GRANDMA Cover NICK DRAKE On Upcoming Tribute Album

Posted on by JL

23 March 2023

On 7th July a new NICK DRAKE tribute album, named
The Endless Coloured Ways – The Songs Of Nick Drake
will be released.

Folk songsmith Drake (1948-1974) was/is an inspiration for many singer-songwriters.
His 3 LPs Five Leaves Left (1969), Bryter Layter (1970), and Pink Moon (1972) were and
still are widely lauded. The trouble artist died following an overdose of amitriptyline,
an antidepressant, aged only 26.

25 covers will feature on the compilation. Involved among others are Bombay
Bicycle Club & The Staves, Ben Harper, John Parish, David Gray, Craig Armstrong, Liz Phair, John Grant and Irish post-punk heroes Fontaines D.C.


Let’s Eat Grandma

British dream-pop duo is also part of the tribute. They picked FROM THE MORNING.
A characteristic, tender Drake musing. It was featured on his 1972 Pink Moon album.

Jenny Hollingworth from LEG: “I’ve always thought of it as the most hopeful song on Pink Moon and listening to its lyrics about nature showing us the beauty in the light and darkness and how life and death are connected helped me to find acceptance and comfort after loss. Thank you so much to David Wrench for working on it with me.”

Enjoy.

NICK DRAKE: Bio – Discography

(Image on top: from the cover sleeve of his Five Leaves Left LP)