The Australian musician and 21 year old Sydney indie-folk singer songwriter known as Gordi recently covered her Jagjaguwar labelmate Bon Iver’s “00000 Million.”
On the decision to do an acapella cover, the musician says, “I think words can be best understood when they are all you can hear.” Listen to Gordi’s beautiful and haunting cover
Gordi will support Bon Iver at his upcoming Hammerstein Ballroom show in New York on December. 10th. Leading up to that show, she will support The Tallest Man on Earth for a string of Australian dates.
There’s quite the comfort in this cover from Melbourne’s Parading, It feels justifiably lazy. Lazy within the confines of a slightly drawn out pop song, but lazy nonetheless. Compared to the original from Paul Kelly, ‘BigHeart’ – taken from the band’s second full length “Jungle Songs” proves an obvious, distinctive take. This shows the versatility in song writing on Paul Kelly’s behalf of course – a song that that some 29 years later, feels to have stood the test of time. But positioned within a vastly different musical vibe, the melodic dirge that is shoegaze, Parading give this song a new prolonged life, thanks to the grand vision of this Melbourne four piece.
Braid’s cover of “Next of Kin” by Alvvays appears on the Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl compilation – a 20-track covers album featuring Polyvinyl artists covering songs from other Polyvinyl artists, out November 25th, 2016.
Ty Segall can seemingly transform his music from Glam Rock God to Grunge Rocker at will, but the prolific rocker can do just about anything well, and that includes intimate stripped down acoustic sets . In the Summer, Segall went on a short tour of solo acoustic shows in various New York City venues accompanied by Wand’s Cory Hanson, and it was a very different concert experience from the usual Segall stomp-fest, but it sounded just as good. It’s no secret that Segall is a huge Neil Young fan . He even has a tattoo of Young’s name on his right arm on the Wednesday night at Baby’s All Right, he trotted out a cover of Neil Young’s “For The Turnstiles.” At the Mercury Lounge on the Friday night, he played an entirely new song live, hilariously introducing it as a song “about a tree growing inside of an airplane” before admitting after playing it that “I lied, it’s a love song.” It’s not clear if it was written as an acoustic song or just adapted with the rest of his stuff for the show, but it sounds great either way. Also at the Mercury Lounge he played the Cars’ “My Best Friend’s Girl.”
The prolific Segall released an EP and two live records—one with the Ty Segall Band and another that was a split with King Tuff . Earlier this year, In the Red revealed plans to release albums by Segall’s bands Fuzz and The Traditional Fools .
Ty Segall did an impromptu rendition of Neil Young’s song “Down By the River” during the encore of his Teragram Ballroom show in Los Angeles over the weekend. He was joined by Mikal Cronin for the cover; watch it below. The concert was a benefit fundraiser for The Smell, the vital D.I.Y. venue in L.A. that received a demolition notice earlier this year. This isn’t the first time Ty Segall has done one of Neil Young’s songs live; he played “For The Turnstiles” during an acoustic set.
Ty Segall performing a cover of Neil Young’s 1969 ‘Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere’ single “Down By The River” at The Teragram Ballroom in Downtown Los Angeles, CA for Penniback Records to benefit The Smell
Fairport Convention remain a footnote in the careers of Richard Thompson, who was already growing into one of the most remarkable guitarists in British folk and rock , The band also included Ian Matthews and Ric Grech among others. Heralded as one of the truly great folk rock British bands of the late ’60s. Initially inspired by American rock and folk ( the band started out as the U.K.’s response to Jefferson Airplane as you can certainly hear in this song ) , they were immersed in songs by such artists as Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, the Everly Brothers and Leonard Cohen. Though their take on “Suzanne” which failed to end up on their debut LP, a version was finally released on “Heyday”, a 1987 collection of BBC recordings. first released in 1987. As its title suggests, it consists of live versions of songs recorded for John Peels’s Top Gear radio programmes. They electrify the song and give it an edge only hinted at in the LeonardCohen original with the gorgeous vocal of Sandy Denny’s.
As we prepare for our West Coast tour, we decided to record a very appropriate cover: Led Zeppelin’s “Going toCalifornia.” You can watch the video right Here. We recorded it in Chicago at the venue where we played our first show five years ago, Schubas Tavern.
In other news, we’ve partnered with the NFL to bring you some limited edition Fort Frances-Indianapolis Colts shirts!. They will look good on you whether you’re kicking field goals or sitting on the couch.
The West Coast tour starts next weekend in Seattle.
Fort Frances covers Led Zeppelin’s “Going To California”
I Take What I Want — Rory’s cover of the Sam & Dave classic from his appearance on the Don Kirshner RockConcert in 1975.
In between glam and punk, there was only one person who was anti-mansion, anti-roadies, anti 30 guitars on stage, and possibilly the best live act you could go and see, that was Rory Gallagher. In 1975 at the height of progressive exploration and extended soloing, he was saying three to four minutes was plenty for a song, even with a solo. The tempo is up, he keeps it rockin’, but he’s also got a soul aesthetic and his Sam And Dave cover sounds like something you’d have heard in a club in 1966. It was very different to what everyone else was doing, he was also one of the few musicians who could be a rock star on the cover of the Melody Maker, but could totally hold his own with the pub rockers.
Marissa Nadler has always had a way of haunting everything she touches. Her voice is rich with its own ghostly wisp whilst her melodies swirl and swirl until time stands still like a frozen waterfall. She’s one of the most consistently brilliant musicians in the world and we’re lucky to have her. Those of a fragile disposition should investigate her
Great cover of one of the greatest bands ever! by THE CULT OF DOM KELLER from the album: Dazed andConfused A Stoned-Out salute to Led Zeppelin (2.015)
The Cult of Dom Keller have been out in the wild ever since 2007, converting worshippers to their gargantuan mind expanding sound. Over the course of three albums to date, these so-called #FreakRockGothPsychAlchemists have woven together a spiralling wall of music, full of drones, harmonies and guitar crunch.
Their latest LP, “Goodbye to the Light”, was picked up by esteemed London imprint Fuzz Club Records (A Place To Bury Strangers, Dead Skeletons) and released to glittering reviews back in July. It’s an enticing mix of melody and black arts, all coated in a thick aural film.
Speaking of first single Broken Arm Of God, the band said ‘we wanted it to sound like a volcano giving birth to an atomic bomb’ which is a good indication of where their collective head is currently at. The band go out on tour this week to hammer their recent success home.
The Cult Of Dom Keller are,
Ryan (vocals/guitars/keys), Neil (vocals/keys), Jason (bass/synthesiser), Al (drums/percussion), an eight limbed psychedelic music making machine
The Fat Angel Sings 