Opened up the feed reader today and I saw this video posted over on Switchblade Comb. I had to share it here because it reeks of the Musicgoat spirit: a folk (or Americana or Alt-Country) songwriter – and obvious Musicgoat – stripping down a metal song. Musicgoat heaven!

Anyway, cover songs are best when an artist takes the song and makes it their own. Good or bad, that it what Ryan Adams does with this Iron Maiden classic (He definitely makes it more melancholy).

Here’s a taste of both. Read the rest of this entry

This is about as indie as it gets. Here is a very cool cover of Princes “Purple Rain.”

The interesting thing here is, Prince HATES people covering his music. So much so that he wants to outlaw (yes outlaw) cover songs (wtf ?). I can’t even imagine a world without cover songs. Hell think of a artists that have benefited from their songs being covered and I know there are songs out there that were actually better when they were covered. Read the rest of this entry

Here’s a cover song that I bet you wouldn’t know is a cover song until someone told you (at least i didn’t).

This song was originally performed in 1960, by The Godfather of Motown Barrett Strong.

It has been updated thanks to Eliza Neals and it is sounding pretty damn good if I say so myself.

See what you think.

BEFORE YOU GO…Listen to more Eliza’s sultry, bluesy, rocknSoul and get a free download on her Reverbnation page.

Yep you read that right, the hard rock band Seether has covered the Wham! tune “Careless Whisper” (you can hear it on Seethers homepage and you can check out Wham! here).

I heard it on Sirius Octane this morning and I – like the DJ who introduced the song – have been struggling with it since (just a little bit). On one hand, from a creative freedom standpoint,  it is cool that Seether has the balls to cover a tune by a band that – to put it mildly – doesn’t quite fit the their image.  

On the other hand, from a shoot-yourself-in-the-foot standpoint, you have to wonder what their fans think about it. I can’t imagine that the typical hard rock fan is pumped to sing along with “I’m never gonna dance again…”. And speaking from a long history as a metalhead, this sort of thing would be punishable by death back in the day (lol).

Now I don’t mind Seether and the 80′s teenager that still hangs out inside of me has a soft spot for “Careless Whisper”. But, I am just not so sure they belong together. What do you think?

Did you ever think you would hear Nine Inch Nails, Buckcherry, Bob Mould and Ice T on the same radio show podcast? Me neither but the pieces fit.

See how the pieces all fit together by pressing play now.

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Here are the songs heard on this podcast and links to each artists website;
Last November – “Sunday After Noon”(get it free on eMusic)
Nine Inch Nails – Discipline (Download Free at NIN.com)
The Crash Moderns – “Where’d All the Scene Girls Go”(get it free on eMusic)
Buckcherry – “Sorry”
Bob Mould – “The Silence Between Us”
Hot Rod Circuit - “Gin and Juice”
Black Ice (featuring Ice T and Black Silver) – “So Fly”
Three Miles Out – “Knock Me Down”

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