While Vampire Weekend were down under for Australia’s Splendour In The Grass festival a couple of weeks ago, they treated Triple J radio listeners to a very ace cover of Fleetwood Mac! It’s so good, in fact - it might help to repair America’s fruit vendor relations with Australia. Have a listen, won’t you?
(Thanks to PMA for the heads up!)
MP3s:
Vampire Weekend - “Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac cover)”
Fleetwood Mac - “Everywhere”
The nice gents of The Morning Benders have decided to thank fans for their support by generously releasing a free album of ace cover songs! Recorded in their apartment and entitled The Bedroom Covers, the collection of songs is as charming as the band itself. They’ve even managed to put a fresh shine on The Cardigan’s “Lovefool,” a song that was so over-saturated twelve years(!) ago I thought I would never want to hear it again. Check out The Bedroom Covers below and definitely bend an ear to their debut full-length, Talking Through Tin Cans, if you haven’t already!
MP3s:
The Morning Benders - “Crying” (Roy Orbison)
The Morning Benders - “Mother and Child Reunion” (Paul Simon)
The Morning Benders - “Why Dont They Let Us Fall In Love?” (The Ronettes)
The Morning Benders - “Lovefool” (The Cardigans)
The Morning Benders - “I Won’t Share You” (The Smiths)
The Morning Benders - “He’s A Rebel” (The Crystals)
The Morning Benders - “Marie” (Randy Newman)
The Morning Benders - “Fools Rush In” (Johnny Mercer/Rube Bloom)
The Morning Benders - “Temptation Inside Your Heart” (Velvet Underground)
The Morning Benders - “Dreams” (Fleetwood Mac)
The Morning Benders - “Pull Up The Roots” (Talking Heads)
The Morning Benders - “Caroline, No” (Beach Boys Remix)
The Morning Benders - “Why Don’t They Let Us Fall In Love?” (Live Daytrotter Version)
PREVIOUSLY:
New Morning Benders - “Boarded Doors”
Today at Comic-Con, MTV announced their intentions to do the time warp by remaking the 1975 cult-classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show to broadcast on TV next Halloween. Apparently they will work off the original campy 1975 screenplay but ”may also include music not featured in the original.” No word yet on a director or cast, but hopefully execs will not send The Jonas Brothers or Hannah Montana to the ol’ Frankenstein place. What do you think - inspired idea or movie-mistake-in-the-making? Here’s a big batch of Rocky Horror covers to enjoy while you pray Heidi Montag isn’t cast as Janet…
MP3s:
Dresden Dolls - “Science Fiction/Double Feature”
Control-R - “Dammit Janet”
Kelly Kapowski - “Over at the Frankenstein Place”
String Cheese Incident - “Time Warp”
Casper & The Cookies - “Sweet Transvestite”
Pansy Division - “I Can Make You a Man”
Truth and Beauty - “Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a Touch Me”
Suburban Legends - “Rose Tint My World”
Paul Pecorino - “I’m Going Home”
As previously discussed, Gnarls Barkley have added an ace cover of Radiohead’s “Reckoner” to their recent setlists. Thankfully, better video and audio of the duo doing the In Rainbows track have emerged and from the looks of it, Cee-Lo’s got Thom Yorke’s flailing dance moves mastered.
MP3:
Gnarls Barkley - “Reckoner (Radiohead cover)” (Live in Barcelona/7.20.08)
VIDEO:
PREVIOUSLY:
Gnarls Barkley Covers Radiohead’s “Reckoner”
Delilah DiCrescenzo may have inspired the Plain White Ts to earn a Grammy a nomination and a top-spot on the Billboard Hot 100 last July with “Hey There Delilah,” but it looks like she won’t be going for the gold this summer in Beijing. The young Chicago woman sadly finished last in the 14-woman final of the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Olympic trials.
MP3s:
Plain White Ts - “Hey There Delilah”
Sugababes - “Hey There Delilah”