C'est une entreprise éminemment louche, un cambriolage mené par des jaloux trop souvent malintentionnés. Quelques miettes de richesses dérobées puis dilapidées sur-le-champ, sans fierté, sans gloire. C'est autre chose qu'un tribute, qui est une opération de fans pour les fans solidement balisée. Là, il s'agit d'un groupe qui décide d'enregistrer un plein disque de covers d'un seul et unique autre artiste (ou groupe), comme s'il était en croisade extatique. C'est souvent un désastre, de temps en temps une nouvelle porte dérobée ouverte sur un groupe qu'ont pensait connaître par cœur. Un nouvel angle de vue. C'est [...]
I am not a fan of cover bands. I find the whole exercise to be rather pointless. If you've got musical talent, make your own music. If you haven't, well, you're probably in a cover band. That said, I salute Iron Horse for doing something rather different. On a most basic level [...]
Today's cover is a real bizarre one, a bluegrass cover of Modest Mouse. The band is Iron Horse who hail from Alabama. As so far they've released cover albums for Modest Mouse, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, and the Shins. It sounds gimmicky at first, and frankly that'd be the best way to describe Metallica being played via a mandolin and banjo, yet the results are really great. I find it especially intersting as bluegrass is a genre of music that I'm almost completely unfamiliar with, so to hear a song I love played with that style is [...]
I went to see The Spinto Band last night @ the Iron Horse. I really only went to see them do Oh Mandy. I mean, I like all their music, but obviously, Oh Mandy makes me dance, dance, dance. Dance Blogga! Dance! My buddy Brendan who was there says to me, "These guys blow CYHSY outta the water, eh?" I don't know if I would have said that, but they do rock, and listening to them right now sing Oh Mandy on my iTunes, they do sound so [...]
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Monday Music – 28 May 2012
