One Timers are quick hits to keep your ears fresh throughout the day. Get down with these tracks, sans a bunch of words clogging up your brain. Wondering what a real one timer is? Watch this . Hint: He shoots, he scores! - Silent Rider takes on Bon Iver with his cover of "Skinny Love". I see some of you shaking your heads, maybe, but this is a pretty great cover. It's just different enough to stand on it's own, and faithful enough for the original's fans [...]
We know yr probably done with "Angels" (we thought we were too) but we can't help but fall deeply in love with KOTKEE's beautiful 3 A.M. re-imagining (and we stress re-imagining, as we've never heard the oft-covered track quite like this) of The xx hit. KOTKEE - Angels (The XX Cover) KOTKEEE ( Facebook ) Rating 8.3
With Sam Sparro being one of those vocalists we would gladly pay top dollar to see sing the phonebook and Daft Punk's already-billion-times-over-rem ixed/ covered "Get Lucky" firmly planted as one of the jammiest jams of the year, having the two entities join forces would of course end up something special. Sparro's cover of the track accomplishes that and more, his soulful divo pipes and a sleek, four-on-the-floor disco-synth arrangement managing to sit hand and hand with the original as a primary go-to feel-good source for not only the heatwave season lying just around the [...]
This fact may be hard to believe, but throughout their long and storied career the Preservation Hall Jazz Band have never released a studio album consisting entirely of their own original compositions. The legendary New Orleans act will change all that come July 9, with the release of That's It! via Sony Legacy. The 11-track record, which was recorded at the band's home-base at 726 St. Peter Street in the French Quarter, was co-produced by Pres Hall's own Ben Jaffe and My Morning Jacket front man Jim James , [...]
In celebration of #ZombieDiwas at NH7, I put together a list of the most interesting covers I could find on the internet of that legendary song. I did this because I don't know anything about zombies (unlike Siddhant Mehta ), and felt I needed to contribute towards this epic day at the NH7 office and in the world in general. Initially, I wanted to write a piece titled 'Zombie Nation' quite like our previous reads 'Metal Nation' and 'Dance Nation', but also nothing like them at all, but yeah, that didn't happen. So, I made this list [...]
One Timers are quick hits to keep your ears fresh throughout the day. Get down with these tracks, sans a bunch of words clogging up your brain. Wondering what a real one timer is? Watch this . Hint: He shoots, he scores! - Speak, those Austin rascals who recently popped onto your radar with "Peaks", decided it'd be awesome to release an EP of female fronted/female vocalist covers. It is pretty awesome, no lie. They took on "Little Man" by Little Dragon, which was quite [...]
Second in a six-EP series features a new song, a remake and a cover After a less-than-satisfying engagement with his last record label, Marshall Crenshaw’s taking his music straight to the people. Funded through a Kickstarter campaign, Crenshaw’s developed a subscription project that will turn out a series of six three-song 10” vinyl EPs, each featuring a new song, a cover and a remake from the singer-songwriter’s rich catalog. The EPs also include a code with which the analog-deprived can download digital versions of the recordings. The first EP was delivered earlier [...]
For the past two weekends the Crescent City has played host to the annual New Orlean's Jazz & Heritage Festival . During their first-weekend set, Calexico paid tribute to one of New Orleans' native sons - the severely under-appreciated Bobby Charles. The late singer-songwriter, who likely best known to HT readers for his appearance on The Last Waltz soundtrack, began writing and recording songs at the age of 17. While he never quite achieved success as a solo artist, Charles' songs have been recorded by an impressive list of musicians including Ray Charles, [...]
I’ve noticed in our remodeling that there is a void in my inbox where some tracks don’t quite fit the Shorthanded Goals mold, yet they don’t quite require or elicit a full feature. Basically, they are great tracks – I just can’t find the words or time to praise and describe. I’ve thought about this and I figured why not post up a little segment where I can quickly run through the tracks that caught my ear but didn’t quite catch my tongue…Red Lights to make you slow and stop what you’re doing to [...]
A Place To Bury Strangers' exclusive Record Store Day release "Strange Moon," is a tribute to Portland punk veterans Dead Moon on 123 colored vinyl (for those vinyl fetishists out there). In conjunction with the record, the band released this statement: "I first saw Dead Moon perform around 1992. Dead Moon was my friends favorite band and soon to become one [...] The post A Place to Bury Strangers does Dead Moon, and the Question of Covers appeared first on Your Music Is Awful.com .
We've been big fans of Bob Weir's fantastic Weir Here since it debuted last year. The semi-regular web variety show, which is broadcast live from Weir's TRI Studios, has featured members of the Grateful Dead and its extended family swapping stories and performing a mix of tunes. During a recent episode, the former Bobby & The Midnights lead singer revealed that he will take the show on the road this fall, where he will be joined by Dave Schools (Widespread Panic), Jonathan Wilson, Jay Lane (Primus), Jason Crosby and Jeff Chimenti (Furthur, RatDog), as [...]
This past weekend music festival season went into high gear as thousands descended upon Indio for the 12th installment of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival . Earlier this month fest organizers Goldenvoice and the town of Indio reached a long-term deal that would keep the event, along with its country music cousin Stagecoach, there through 2030. According to the LA Times , in addition to the 17-year deal for the April event, Goldenvoice would also be allowed to host two additional concerts each fall starting in 2014, with capacities of 75,000 and 99,000 people respectively. While there [...]
It has been a long, long time since I've featured some new music from our old favorites The Dead Ships. Once upon a time I interviewed them and premiered their wonderful Amaze/Friends By Default 73 , and then they dropped their first full length in Electric Ahab . They've earned a permanent pass to the front of the queue from myself and my blog based on their music alone. I'm sitting at the table and I've just finished feeding my youngest son his dinner. He's [...]
Three years after sending music fans all over the globe into a serious tizzy over lo-fi electro-soul wisp "BTSTU" , enigmatic singer-songwriter/ producer Jai Paul has become a top trending topic on-line yet again, this time over a eighteen-track full-length that was quietly uploaded to the Bandcamp yesterday, a release that has brought forth many questions of whether or not it actually is Paul's official debut album . Whatever the oddball set's true purpose, with its outpouring of more woozily experimental doses of Prince/ D'Angelo-inspired soul/ funk/ pop/ electronic blends, it definitely [...]
This year marks the 25th anniversary of venerable indie-label Sub Pop . The Seattle-based record label helped defined the sound of the Pacific Northwest in the late '80s/early '90s putting our records from the likes Mudhoney, Soundgarden, TAD and Nirvana. Over the last decade, the label that was once known almost exclusively as the home to grunge, has reinvented itself bringing us critically acclaimed albums from the likes of Fleet Foxes, The Shins, Band of Horses, Iron & Wine, The Head & The Heart and Flight Of The Conchords. [...]
Clearly we weren't the only ones that had American Psycho in mind when it came to the announcement that Huey Lewis & The News would be celebrating the 30th anniversary of their breakthrough album Sports with a special expanded re-release and summer tour that will see the Bay Area-based band play it in its entirety each night. Yesterday the folks over at Funny Or Die decided to reinterpret that pivotal scene by recasting it with Huey himself and Weird Al Yanokvic - [...]
Considering the fact that we've heard Frank Ocean's "Thinkin' Bout You" covered and reinterpreted somewhere close to a bajillion different ways in the past couple years, having to sit through yet another artist's swipe at the Grammy nominated nu-standard really did not seem like a good way to spend five minutes of our life. However, after finding out that singer-songwriter ZZ Ward had opted to tackle the track for on-line pop culture haven AV Club 's live cover series A.V. Undercover , curiosity got the best of us and [...]
"You Only Live Once" may not have managed to make much of a radio impression when it was released as the official third single from The Strokes ' junior set First Impressions of Earth (it peaked at #35 on Billboard's then-named Modern Rock singles chart), but damn if the record doesn't still stand up as one of the band's finest servings of their signature garage-pop cool and expert song-craft abilities all these years later, from its casual swagger forward in construct-following up one great musical or lyrical great hook with an even [...]
Back in 2011, Portland-based remix/ production giants RAC offered a "thank you" for fans helping them cross over the 10,000 Facebook friend mark with a pretty nifty cover of The Smashing Pumpkins' timeless "19793 . In celebration of that number now exceeding 30,000, RAC have gifted their followers with yet another cover song freebie pulled from the '902s hit singles vault, this time taking on The Cardigans' "Lovefool" . Now, as most us who've spent a large chunk of the past seventeen years endlessly spinning the original without any guilt know, "Lovefool" is one [...]
We're pretty sure that at some point MNEK is probably going to want us to focus on his original material, but if the teen-aged singer-songwriter-producer opted on releasing a couple more EP's (or, hell, LP's) worth of his amazing R&B diva "re-fixes" until that time, we wouldn't mad at all. After offering up his own slant on cuts from Kelis , Sade and AlunaGeorge , among others, for this latest cover, MNEK turns his focus to the one and only Janet Jackson's Grammy-winning '93 jam "That's The Way Love Goes" , [...]
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