Portland’s Icarus The Owl is a band that knows how to work hard, and that hard work is paying off for them. The band sold over 10,000 copies of their debut album on the 2009 Vans Warped Tour, have completed over 20 tours, and plan to put out their fourth album on Will Swan of Dance Gavin Dance’s label, Blue
Read more‘ Punk Goes Pop Volume 6 is out, and while I could go into a whole commentary about how none of the bands featured on the compilation are actually neither “punk” nor “pop”, and that this thing should be renamed immediately, I’ll spare you that lecture. Though might I suggest they start calling this compilation “Fearless Records presents: Hot Topic’s
Read moreChicago native and rising hip hop star Chance The Rapper recently performed at Northwestern University’s Dillo Day celebration, a campus tradition at the university. Chance couldn’t help but do something special, as seen here in this tribute to the beloved animated ardvark. Arthur was an ardvark, right? Whatever. Anyway, check out the clip below:
Read moreEvery once in a while, John Mayer does the unexpected. A while ago, he re-joined Twitter, with one of the funnier proclamations that he was the “Kenny Powers of Twitter”. He made those weird comments in a Playboy interview that he would like everyone to forget. He used to have a prank show on VH1. I could go on, but
Read morePunk rock’s only super-cover-group, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are back at it, with a new album, “Are We Not Men? We Are Diva!”, due out May 13th. We can only assume that the album will feature similar shenanigans like this Paula Abdul cover. Really, any song known partially for it’s “Woah!”s makes for a great punk cover, but
Read moreThe world may be ending. The Flaming Lips have been preparing a full album remake of The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, and have released this version of “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”, featuring a faint appearance from Miley Cyrus and Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT. As you can see above, this photo from Wayne Coyne’s Instagram indicates
Read moreArtist, songwriter, and all out creative genius David Byrne can almost do no wrong in my eyes. The early Talking Heads records are perfectly creative, addicting, and totally different for their time period. There was a stretch in my life where I fell asleep to my Stop Making Sense DVD every night for weeks on end. But… He covered Biz
Read moreBruce Springsteen and Jesse Malin played a set at the Light of Day benefit concert to fight Parkinson’s Disease over the weekend, and they threw in a cover paying homage to legendary punk band The Ramones’ “Rock N’ Roll Radio”. As a longtime Ramones fan, I have to say that they butchered it, because it sounds like, well, Bruce Springsteen.
Read moreOh, dear. Not only is Lorde taking over the world with the singles from her “Pure Heroine” album, but it appears as though her 14 year old sister India also can really sing, as well. This past weekend, she put a homemade cover of “Say Something” by Christina Aguilera on Soundcloud, and showed off her own talent. You can definitely
Read moreYes, you read that right. Vampire Weekend recorded a cover of Italian Tenor Andrea Bocelli’s famous “Con te Partirò (Time To Say Goodbye)”. The recording is for an upcoming Starbucks-sponsored compilation of love songs (Valentine’s Day is just around the corner…) Stream frontman Ezra Koenig in Italian below. Also, you might remember this song from Stepbrothers. Because it was in
Read moreNathan Williams of Wavves covered the Misfits’ “Hybrid Moments” last night, and put it on Twitter as “an ode to the band”. I’m not sure if I like it, but I think it’s worth sharing. It’s a weird, poppy version of a Misfits song. Like, if The Misfits went to the beach and brought along a tape recorder or something.
Read moreIf you haven’t seen this by now, expect it to be everywhere soon. This is Karmin, a pop group from Brookline, MA, covering Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, and Busta Rhymes. At first, I didn’t want to watch this video. I figured it couldn’t be that good. Watch the video. It is: The only problem is that I feel like I’ve
Read moreMy friend Tom sent me this video yesterday. This is Lissie. She’s from Rock Island, Illinois. She does an awesome cover. I actually like the cover better than the original version. Whenever someone can do that, that’s something special. At least for them. You can check out Lissie at her official website by clicking here.
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