You know the first song ever played on MTV just about 30 years ago, right? Well, do you know the first cover played on MTV? You'll find out when you listen to this special tribute to 13 of the first videos shown on the network once known as Music Television. 64 minutes | Featuring: [...]
Honoring the number 42, with a show pulled right from the pages of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy". Songs with Live, Universe and Everything in the title! (reposted 8/3 - this time in stereo!) 56 minutes | Featuring: Title Artist Album [...]
Todays video is of a reinterpratation of Nick Caves' "The Ship Song". This video is done really nice, very professional. If you are even the smallest Concrete Blondes fan, you NEED to see this. Thanks to listener Dermott for the submission! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =bG7wbAfcKUI
Not sure why it flipped to mono, but a stereo version of last night's show will be on the feed momentarily!
Honoring the number 42, with a show pulled right from the pages of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy". Songs with Live, Universe and Everything in the title! 56 minutes | Featuring: Title Artist Album Original Artist [...]
This video will make run for your copy of "A Night at the Roxbury". This 902s dance medley is done completely acapella "Brady Bunch" style. The song is done by a Danish acapella group named Local Vocal. Thanks to Philly Z.
Two artists whose paths may never have crossed had they not passed away during the same week. A tribute to Dan Peek of America, and Amy Winehouse on tonight's Coverville! 52 minutes | Featuring: Title Artist Album Original Artist [...]
A tribute to America's Space Shuttle program, which concluded last week as Shuttle Atlantis touched down from the final mission. 53 minutes | Featuring: Title Artist Album Original Artist [...]
Five Easy Pieces? Turning Japanese? All that and more from this clip from SCTV's "The Gerry Todd Show"! Here's a laugh for Friday from the experts in the great white north. This is a clip of the very first episode of "The Gerry Todd Show". Lots of great stuff. This should be SEEN and not heard.
Work got ahead of me tonight, and instead of rushing through a show in order to get something out, I decided to push 789 to Tuesday night. Still looking for a Coverville fix, though? I've got something for you! The Coverville Radio Show, which airs on WFIT-FM in Melbourne, FL, is also available as a podcast! And last night's show was almost all new-to-Coverville music (with a Clarence Clemons tribute at the end). You can find it on the site for The Shuffle, the program that features a Coverville hour every so [...]
David Bowie's "Young Americans" album was released in 1975, at a time when an irresistible dance beat was pounding through the airwaves and clubs. Disco hadn't reached its apex—that would come in 1977, with the film "Saturday Night Fever." This week Lyrics Undercover considers David Bowie's contribution to that time, one of his first breakthrough US hits, "Young Americans." Lyrics Undercover 225: "Young Americans" - David Bowie (click here to listen)
If you can find something that these songs all have in common, then you're a step ahead of me. Besides the fact that they were almost all submitted by independent artists and labels. And they're all new and different takes on songs you may (or may not) know by heart. 38 minutes | Featuring: [...]
Featuring music you didn't hear in the following Coverville episode, and set aside for your Coverville Citizen listening pleasure: Coverville 710: The John Lennon Cover Story III This episode of Coverville Bonus Tracks features: Title Artist Album Original Artist 1 [...]
You might know them just for "Take On Me", but a-ha has been putting out solid albums ever since those days in the early 802s when they were all hand drawn and being chased by race car drivers with wrenches. Shall we listen to a few covers of and by the band? Yes. Lets. 52 minutes | Featuring: [...]
The closing song, preceded by trivia with Tina, preceded by all of your requests! Yes, that's how we do things here. 49 minutes | Featuring: Title Artist Album Original Artist [...]
Paying tribute to the Big Man, Clarence Clemons, who we lost on June 18, with some covers that he performed, or on which he guest-appeared. 43 minutes | Featuring: Title Artist Album Original Artist [...]
Taking the Musically Challenged segment a step further into a full show, and playing covers of songs that all share the same title, but are (mostly) covers of completely different songs. 43 minutes | Featuring: Title Artist Album Original Artist [...]
Really enjoying what I've been reading over at Letters About Music . And not just because Michael Ruger is a friend of the show, and keeps mentioning Coverville in his posts. It's a really good read about all kinds of genres of music, told in a music-geek-friendly, nostalgic way. Love it. You should check it out !
Really enjoying what I've been reading over at Letters About Music . And not just because Michael Ruger is a friend of the show, and keeps mentioning Coverville in his posts. It's a really good read about all kinds of genres of music, told in a music-geek-friendly, nostalgic way. Love it. You should check it out !
The music of Bill Withers - as well as a few surprises and a LOT of funk, tonight on Coverville! 66 minutes | Featuring: Title Artist Album Original Artist [...]
Coverville
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Nas - Daughters
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Shinichi Osawa – Big Beach Mix 2012
