Blog: Mixtape Maestro

Apparently Usher didn't get the memo that folks stopped endlessly covering "Pumped Up Kicks" once they discovered they'd rather focus on coming up with infinite personal twists on "Somebody That I Used To Know" and "Call Me Maybe", but we gotta say...the R&B superstar gets a pass for his tardiness cause his remake actually slams. Performed for BBC's Live Lounge , Ursh surprisingly makes hearing the Foster The People jam for the eleventy-billionth time a welcome occurrence, jazzing up the song with a fuzzy, stadium-friendly rock n' soul reading [...]

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