30 May 2022
Crystal voice ANGEL OLSEN releases her
new album Big Time at the end of next week.
But first her spellbinding cover of ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS,
one of the top tracks of Bob Dylan‘s breakthrough 1964 longplayer
The Times They Are A-Changin’.
She recorded it for the Apple+ TV Series Shining Stars
Just lovely…
The original
ANGEL OLSEN: Website
21 May 2022
Last week FLORENCE + THE MACHINE launched new album DANCE FEVER.
And since yesterday a deluxe edition of the longplayer has been available.
It includes acoustic versions of 4 songs from the album and one cover.
The cover is Florence Welch‘s version of The Stooges‘
1973 blast Search And Destroy (from the Raw Power LP).
Welch: “I was thinking about Nick Cave, I was thinking about Leonard Cohen. I was thinking about how, in some ways, although everyone undergoes huge changes, their physical bodies – especially moving through touring – have been allowed to remain unchanged and they can commit their body entirely to the stag. In the singing, I’m trying to still embody them. In the lower baritones, I’m trying to do a Leonard or a Nick or an Iggy Pop.”
Florence sounds a bit like Siouxsie Sioux here and searches not to destroy
this Stooges punk classic. Instead, she turns it into a Machine belter.
Nice one,
The raw Stooge power original…
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE: Facebook
20 May 2022
Israel-born and LA-based metalhead OHP (OREN HALMUT) is
a cover fanatic of mega pop hits from superstars such as Depeche
Mode, Starship, Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Everlong, Lenny Kravitz
and more. Every week he’s hammering one.
Here’s one of his most recent drones. I’m sure Billie Eilish
would aprove of this bad guy’s heavy metal version of her
cracking chart-topper.
Wham bloody wham bam…
The original
Check OHP’s YouTube channel for more cover fun HERE
I’m sure you know this daft couple by now.
And I’m sure you know what they do every Sunday.
This time they think they’re paranoid (which they are, right?)…
The original
TOYAH: Facebook
8 May 2022
(Still from the video clip)
It’s Sunday. It’s Toyah and Robert day. The tandem is simply
unstoppable. Today the comical pair picked The Black Keys‘
megahit Lonely Boy.
YouTube labeled the duo’s video age-restricted, so you need to go
directly to YT to see the clip. Why? Because Toyah looks terribly sexy?
Are you serious, YT? Incredibly ridiculous!
Check it out for yourselves, folks…
The Black Keys original…
29 April 2022
Last year German singer-songwriter ANIKA scored with her first album
in 11 years. CHANGE was one of the most fascinating 2021 LPs in my book.
New (to me, anyway) is that she’s a fan of the late great unconventional
Genesis P-Orridge and his band PSYCHIC TV. He was an experimental
artist who turned dance music upside down.
Anika picked GOD STAR one of his most famous crackersto cover.
“Genesis is a big inspiration, the humor and investigation element in their work. I remember going to a talk in NYC where G recommended that no-one finish art school. I like this concept. Perhaps it leaves things unfinished and room for the individual to grow shoots, continue on their own journey. Perhaps this is like music school or any creative school. I think G specifically thought the place was bull and that they could do it better on their own terms, which turned out great. They also told a story about an art school work, which involved a used tampon in the shell of a clock. It was called Period Piece. I like the humor in this piece and the deconstruction of social boundaries. They are for sure an inspiration, in how to do things your own way, carve out your own path and don’t worry too much about what other people are doing.”
Anika‘s magnetic take…
The original…
Anika’s North American/Canada Tour
ANIKA: Facebook – ‘Change’ album on Spotify
24 April 2022
And on the seventh day – a couple of years ago – TOYAH and her
dear man ROBERT FRIPP (King Crimson) created their Sunday Lunch
Sessions as a fun pastime while being locked up in their kitchen due
to that shit virus.
I wonder how much longer this comic
duo will invade YouTube on Sundays.
Anyway, don’t get fooled again by them, folks…
The original
TOYAH: Facebook
20 April 2022
Sturdy Texan rockers BLACKTOP MOJO shared a surprising acoustic cover a couple of weeks ago, of timeless classic My Girl performed (written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, by Motown’s soul legends THE TEMPTATIONS in 1964.
Blacktop Mojo: “We love the original tune. Everyone grew up listening to it. There’s definitely something special about Motown and that era of music and there’s a reason why artists like the Temptations have stood the test of time. However when you’re having a bad day, or maybe having it out with your lady, and a song like “My Girl” comes on, while nine times out of ten it’ll cheer you up, sometimes you just don’t want to hear a happy love song. Sometimes you’re in the ‘Lonely Hearts Club’ instead, and that’s where our version comes in.”
The band have a live version of the song too. Although with much respect for
the original Blacktop Mojo color it with their own magical touch. Just great.
Matt James: ”We wanted to play the song live in a place where you could really feel the dilapidation of a broken heart. We snuck into this old church here in Palestine and the natural reverb in the room was incredible. The cracked stained glass and paint peeling from the walls of a place that was once so magnificent was definitely reminiscent of a love that had been lost.”
Be impressed here…
BLACKTOP MOJO: Facebook – Website
The classic original…
Blacktop Mojo on tour
All dates and tickets HERE
11 April 2022
Beaut songstress SHARON VAN ETTEN just announced her 6th full-length WE’VE BEEN GOING ABOUT THIS ALL WRONG, out on 6 May. In the weeks before she shared two
new songs that will, weirdly, not be on that album.
And this 70 seconds of covering David Bowie‘s STARMAN (which came out 50 years ago)
won’t be on it either. It’s actually the end-credits song for the new Netflix documentary Return To Space about Eton Musk and his obsession for space missions.
Only 70 seconds, but quite special ones…
Bowie‘s original…
SHARON VAN ETTEN: Facebook
30 March 2022
Nebraska band BRIGHT EYES fronted by emotive songwriter and
spellbinding vox CONOR OBERST had their latest, magical album,
their 10th, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was out
two years ago.
Now they have planned reissues from early albums under the banner
of Companion Series. The first part features the band’s first three LPs.
More info here.
Ahead of that Bright Eyes recorded their version of ST. IDES HEAVEN.
A beloved song from the late great ELLIOTT SMITH‘s self-titled debut LP
from 1995. Their take is much heavier and rocks out with vehemence .
Listen here… .
The Elliott Smith original…
BRIGHT EYES on TOUR
BRIGHT EYES: Facebook – All Albums
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