Amazing Cover Bands

Covers that Kill! Ten Cover Songs that are Better the Second (or third) Time Around

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Do you love a good remake or does the thought of a copycat make you cringe? Cover songs have been either angering or pleasuring our ears for decades.  Most popular artists produce cover songs as a form of artistic expression, a tribute to the original artist, or as perhaps a way of saying, “whatever you [...]

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Amazing Cover Bands: Wu Tang Vs The Beatles

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Wu Tang Clan and the Beatles: do either demographic of listeners even crossover? I suppose they do, it’s hard for any type of person to not be in some way affected by the Beatles’ staggering catalog of music that they pieced together in a few short years. In Tom Caruna, the Brighton, England producer who put together this mashup at the tender age of 28 believes there’s a lot of crossover. “Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers” is his 27-song mashup that features such titles as “Save Me Dear” or “Forget Me Not”. Each song features several samples from bands that either covered Beatles songs or demos from the band themselves. The instrumentals and the album are available at his website http://teasearecords.net/ since early January.

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Amazing Cover Bands: Flaming Lips Cover Dark Side of the Moon

Friday, December 18th, 2009

We admit, we may be getting a little ahead of ourselves here since the album will not reach our ears until the 22nd. And no, Flaming Lips are not technically a cover band. But when we heard about Flaming Lips covering Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon we knew instantly that it would be [...]

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Amazing Cover Bands: Portsmouth Sinfonia

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

We love cool and interesting covers here at VSQ Blog, for obvious reasons, and this one is a doozy. Portsmouth Sinfonia was an experimental British orchestra that elevated amateur playing to an artform.

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