Editorial
(Un)Covered: Billie Jean
Breathe Carolina and Cobra Starship take on the King of Pop in this week’s (Un)Covered.
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Breathe Carolina and Cobra Starship take on the King of Pop in this week’s (Un)Covered.
It’s a quarter after one, and I need you to listen to Sparks the Rescue cover Lady Antebellum.
In honor of The 1975’s latest album, we’re bringing you a special edition of (Un)Covered.
Those of us born before the year 2000 will remember, with varying degrees of fondness, the boy bands of the nineties, including the beloved Backstreet Boys.
When you’re trapped in the hellish nightmare of a busy mall in December, it’s not unusual for the tinny sound of Christmas music to make you wish you would get trampled to death by a thousand frantic shoppers just to put an end to your suffering. Thankfully, hearing your favorite bands cover the same songs has the opposite effect.
Mayday Parade give a tasteful, pop-rock flair to Gotye’s unexpected indie-pop hit “Somebody That I Used to Know.”
Even if you’re convinced that a band changing their sound is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you, it’s perfectly natural for someone’s music to develop and shift from album to album. But every once in a while, those shifts are so dramatic that the early work ends up sounding like it was released by an entirely different band than the more recent material.
Autumn is just around the corner, and that means one thing: it’s almost time to throw on your comfiest sweater and trade in the upbeat sunny anthems you’ve been singing the past four months for something a little more chilled out. It’s always fun to return to your usual favorites, but it’s even more exciting to add something unexpected to the playlist — which is why for this week’s Tuesday Ten, we asked our writers about ten songs they didn’t like until they heard them acoustic.
“All Along the Watchtower†is stripped to the bare bones of a song and a story, but it’s still enough to make it a timeless classic and inspire an incredible cover by the one and only Jimi Hendrix, and later, Envy on the Coast.
Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn†is a staple 90s pop song that dominated charts worldwide when it was released in 1997. But did you know that the song is actually a cover?
