McFly, Vampire Weekend, and The Band are among others that have covered Bruce Springsteen. In fact, there are so many covers of his songs, it's kinda ridiculous. It will never go out of style to cover Springsteen. I've limited myself to six covers that I think are pretty great. Awhile ago, I posted a Springsteen [...]
I've got a fever…and the only prescription…is more cello!
Today, us east coast kids are hunkered down, waiting for that hurricane that probably won't hit us at all but which provides a good excuse to take the day off! Of course, we at Consequence of Sound don't even know what this day off thingy means and will probably work through the 2012 apocalypse. But you should enjoy a day off, just for the sake of having more time to read all our great content AND listen to all the awesome music included on this week's Friday Mixtape. Once again, it's jam packed and thanks to the recent [...]
Tweet The fine WIAIWYA -label has a new free single ready for you, and this time it's the first single from The Vatican Cellars debut album. The single has two lovely folky indiepop songs on it, where one of them in fact is a cover of a Van Halen-song! The Vatican Cellars' album "the same crooked worm" will be released on wiaiwya in November. You can download the single from here: http://www.wiaiwya.com/ [...]
There are few things in this world more hit-or-miss than cover albums. If it's a tribute compilation for a particular songwriter, some artists "get it" more than others. If it's one artist putting out their own cover album, listeners inevitably like the songs they know more than those they don't. Such is life.Compiling this list, one album after another had to be eliminated because of a single