Artist: TAKE COVER!

I quite like Out Like Pluto . They're fun. They err on the side of pop but not in a soft, fluffy way for they do indeed rock quite well at times, and they even took to heart my suggestion for a second guitar player to beef up the sound. They've been recording, mixing, and mastering these past few months for a new record entitled Take Cover that will drop early next year with a CD release show/party at the Kingcat on Friday, January 13th. More on that as the date approaches as they've been kind enough [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Zee Avi takes on Interpol's "Slow Hands." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! Despite the gloom often hovering amid Interpol's music, there is often heaps of romance at play. Over the course of four LPs, the band has [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Gillian Welch takes on the Byrds' "Hickory Wind." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! Punk-rock gestures come in many forms, often entirely divorced from the image we have of punk-rock style exhibited over the years by any number [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Queens Of The Stone Age takes on the Kinks' "Who'll Be The Next In Line." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! Listening to the Kinks' jangly, direct "Who'll Be The Next In Line," it's impossible to miss the [...]

House, house and more fucking house! Manchmal braucht es nicht mehr als diese einfache Formel und einen schlauen Kopf, der die einzelnen Tracks in eine schlüssige Reihenfolge bringt. Tubi aus Tel Aviv macht in seiner mittlerweile 19. Edition seiner The-Take-Cover-Reihe für Sweat Lodge Radio genau das: schlicht und ergreifend gute Tracks zu einem Mix verkochen. Darin ist das niederländische Label Rush Hour stark vertreten, was immer gut kommt. Die restlichen Zutaten stammen aus den so stilsicheren Häusern, wie Permanent Vacation, 3rd Strike, Meakusma und Fauxpas Musik. The Take [...]

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When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Damien Jurado & Rosie Thomas take on Bruce Springsteen's "Wages Of Sin." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! The Boss' haunting and sad "Wages Of Sin" originally appeared on Tracks, a four-disc boxed set released in 1998 filled [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Garbage takes on the Ramones' "I Just Want To Have Something To Do." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! With its slowly churning, thick-with-ennui minor chords laid atop a simple 4/4 beat, "I Just Want To Have Something [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week the Wooden Birds take on Hall & Oates' "Maneater." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! "A she-cat tamed/By the purr of a Jaguar." The whole of straight man-kind is both ruined and elated by the type of woman [...]

​The Dreamer and The Realist, the aptly titled album is a reflection of what Minneapolis band Take Cover represents: young men emerging into a new discreetly discerning sound. Written with certa

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week El Perro Del Mar takes on Lou Reed's "Heavenly Arms." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! When Lou Reed released Blue Mask in 1982, it was considered by many to be a return to form and a welcome [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week YACHT takes on X's "Nausea." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! There was always something different about Los Angeles-based, late-'70s punk icons X. Not different in the sense that our parents understood punk itself—fear everything they don't understand [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Madeleine Peyroux takes on Elliott Smith's "Between The Bars." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! Elliott Smith's "Between The Bars" is both a quiet testament to the ability of love to save us from ourselves and a crushing [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Bon Iver takes on Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" and Leon Russell's "A Song For You." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! When I originally pitched Bon Iver's cover of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Trentemøller takes on Chris Isaak's "Blue Hotel." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! Chris Isaak's eponymous second album was released in 1987, four years before his career would really take off with the popularization of "Wicked Game," from [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Wilco takes on Big Star's "Thirteen." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! Whether we like it or not, there's no stopping the process of growing old. At least not yet. And even if some bright Stanford researcher does [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week The Tallest Man On Earth takes on Bob Dylan's "I Want You." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! Forty-five years ago this month, Bob Dylan released sprawling double-album Blonde On Blonde, a collection so striking that its folk- and [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week The Black Keys take on Buddy Holly's "(Ummm, Oh Yeah) Dearest." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! It's well-known that the gravity of Buddy Holly's influence far outweighs the short time he spent on the earth. In the [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week the Twilight Singers take on Marvin Gaye's "Please Stay (Once You Go Away)." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! Marvin Gaye's 12th studio album, Let's Get It On, is widely regarded as one of the best and most [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Karate takes on Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! One of the great protest songs of all time, "Strange Fruit" was originally published in 1936 as a poem in The New York Teacher, three [...]

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week the Great Book Of John takes on INXS' "Never Tear Us Apart." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! For fans of legendary Aussie rock band INXS, "Never Tear Us Apart" is more than merely another great song in [...]