Later this year, the Elliott Smith tribute album Say Yes! will be released. It’ll feature covers from Waxahatchee, Jesu/Sun Kil Moon, J. Mascis, Lou Barlow, Yuck, Amanda Palmer, Belly/the Breeders’ Tanya Donnelly, Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin, and Juliana Hatfield. Another contributor is best new band and creator of one of the best albums of last year Julien Baker. She took on Smith’s Either/Or track “Ballad Of Big Nothing,
I think this is the best interpretation and live version of Leonard Cohen´s classic song.
Performed by Jeff Buckley, one of the guitarists and vocalists I admire most.
This song was recorded on May 13th, 1995, at Cabaret Metro, during the Mistery White Boy tour.
In a tragic case of what could’ve been, Jeff Buckley left the world with only one album to his name. Despite the posthumous release of his incomplete second album and countless reissues of Buckley’s tiny discography, the ten songs that make up Grace is better than what most artists do in an entire career.
Grace is an audacious debut album, filled with sweeping choruses, bombastic arrangements, searching lyrics, and above all, the richly textured voice of Jeff Buckley himself, which resembled a cross between Robert Plant, Van Morrison, and his father Tim. And that’s a fair starting point for his music: Grace sounds like a Led Zeppelin album written by an ambitious folkie with a fondness for lounge jazz. At his best — the soaring title track, “Last Goodbye,” and the mournful “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” — Buckley’s grasp met his reach with startling result.
Katie Monks and Liz Ball first moved to Toronto in search of “restless punks and somewhere to go and fuck shit up.” What they found, however, was a crushing disappointment.
“There was this weird indie folk thing going on and it was really boring,” lead singer Monks says of the Canadian scene of 2010. “Our music was way louder – and there were no hand claps or tambourines.”
Having grown up listening to Radiohead and The Libertines (“They were like fuck everything and let’s carve out a place in this world where we can truly be ourselves. There was something very punk about that”), Katie and guitarist Liz eventually found the paradise they craved. “We had to find people who shared the same amount of aggression as we did. That’s when we found Jimmy [Tony, bass] and Ben [Reinhartz, drums]. That was huge.”
Operating under the mantra of “Simplicity is powerful”, Dilly Dally’s music is aggressive and immediate in a way Pixies and Sonic Youth fans will adore. Monks’ voice sets them apart from being mere revivalists, though. Ragged and pained, she howls her way through the songs on debut album ‘Sore’ and writes lyrics like an unfiltered live journal.
“I’m always exploring my voice,” she says. “A lot of women sing very soft and sweet and it feels hard to relate to. Expressing your anger is positive. My influences are male singers: Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen, Wolf Parade, Frank Black, Sonic Youth. I like music where I just think, ‘Fuck, this is me’.”
check out ‘Know Yourself’ – Their cover of the Drake hit is monumental, taking it somewhere completely new. It’s a feedback-flecked, punk-rock roller coaster.
Well, this is something that’s bound to appeal even to the hardest Bauhaus fans, in a similar way that Tatu’s cover of The Smith’s “How Soon is Now?” took off . I totally commend the band on their rendition of the classic Bauhaus track here – totally unexpected and refreshing, and not depressing at all. Of course it was recorded for the original soundtrack of the Vampire Academy motion picture, so you can guarantee they made a killing on this, even without taking iTunes sales into account. As much as I love them, I actually like this on par and even better than the majority of their own material. Would totally love to hear what Peter Murphy has to say about this, though I suspect he’d dig it maybe.
On the opening night of The River Tour 2016. Bruce performs “Rebel Rebel” as a tribute to David Bowie.
Bruce Springsteen opened his “The River 2016” tour at Pittsburgh’s Consol Energy Center on Saturday. After playing 1980’s The River in full, Springsteen launched into an array of favorites, including “Badlands” and “Thunder Road.”
At one point, he stepped up to the mic and took some time for David Bowie, the rock legend who passed away on Monday, January 8th 2016.
“Not very many people know this but he supported our music way, way in the very, very beginning. 1973. He rang me up and I visited him in Philly while he was making the Young Americans record*. He covered my music, ‘Hard to be a Saint in the City’ … I took the Greyhound bus to Philadelphia, that’s how early it was,” Springsteen said.
He then launched into “Rebel Rebel” from Bowie’s 1974’s Diamond Dogs album.
In addition to “Hard to be a Saint in the City,” Bowie also recorded “Growing Up,” which was released on a 1990 re-release of Pin Ups.
Then WMMR DJ Ed Sciaky, an early Springsteen supporter, made the meeting between the two happen. Springsteen didn’t have a place to stay so he slept on Sciaky’s couch. During the time Bowie was recording Young Americans (late ’74, early ’75), Springsteen was just coming off the one-two punch of Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ and The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle. Born to Run, Springsteen’s break out, was released in August of 1975.
Bowie wrote, “Springsteen came down to hear what we were doing with his stuff. He was very shy. I remember sitting in the corridor with him, talking about his lifestyle, which was a very Dylanesque – you know, moving from town to town with a guitar on his back, all that kind of thing. Anyway, he didn’t like what we were doing, I remember that. At least, he didn’t express much enthusiasm. I guess he must have thought it was all kind of odd. I was in another universe at the time. I’ve got this extraordinarily strange photograph of us all – I look like I’m made out of wax.”
Director Cameron Crowe reminisced about a similar time period while speaking about Bowie at the Television Critics Association. “He was always obsessed with music and art and never the business. It was always a young artist had moved him. He would reach out to that artist. Bruce Springsteen was somebody that caught his attention on the first album. He was talking about Bruce Springsteen in … early stages of Bruce Springsteen’s career.”
People around the world are paying tributes to the Goblin Prince in all manner of forms, and Aussie lads Gang of Youths are here in honouring David Bowie by releasing a magical rendition of Heroes. The cover replaces Bowies 70s sound with a Gang of Youths signature Kansas-esque strings backing and a marching kick drum, as well as dreamy synth and guitar hooks. Front man David Le’aupepe possesses one of the most intensely honest voices you are likely to hear, This uniquely authentic vocal soars over the whole track, something I’m sure Mr. Bowie would have been very pleased to hear.
Le’aupepe writes on the bands Facebook page, “At the risk of being trite, Heroes changed my life. The melody accompanying “I, I will be king/and you/you will be queen” is to me, not only the finest melody the Thin White Duke ever wrote but among the finest ever written period.”
i wish i had some ornate or choice words to express how sad i am at the moment but i don’t, so i figured the best way for me to remember David Bowie was to cover the first song of his that i ever heard.
at the risk of being trite, “Heroes” changed my life. the melody accompanying “i, i will be king/and you/you will be queen” is to me, not only the finest melody the thin white duke ever wrote but among the finest ever written period.
and if you listen to the synth line in the end chorus of our track “radioface” very, very closely you can hear a small nod to “Heroes”.
Gang of Youths bring us the longest cover in Like A Version history, a triumphant version of LCD Soundsystem’s classic ‘All My Friends’. Like A Version is a segment on Australian radio station triple j. Every Friday morning a musician or band comes into the studio to play one of their own songs and a cover of a song they love.
Popular Sydney outfit Gang Of Youths swung by the triple j studios this morning to lend their name to the Like A Version hall of fame with a paradigm-busting seven-and-a-bit-minute full cover of lengthy mid-2000s indie anthem All My Friends, by LCD Soundsystem.
Batting away breakfast co-host Alex Dyson‘s inquiry as to whether the lads would be taking the “radio edit” route given the original’s more-than-seven-minute run time, Gang Of Youths bring a distinctly rockier vibe to the track, doing away with its iconic, persistent piano line in favour of some sparkly guitar strumming, but otherwise they do an honestly pretty tremendous job at evoking the slow-build vibe of melancholic reflection that so indelibly defined LCD Soundsystem’s original — and, to their credit, the ultimate payoff, around the six-minute mark, is fittingly ethereal, infectiously ebullient, and impossible to deny.
Get amongst what we are led to believe is officially the longest Like A Version cover in history — certainly, it ranks among the most polished, at any rate
This video is so beautiful. These voices are so beautiful together. this song is among my favourites.
Its so cold today to go anywhere so here I am listening this cover of Girl From the North Country by Noah Gundersen and David Ramirez repeatedly. I have to share it out as well because their voices, the lighting, the arrangement are all minimalist and that allows the beauty of this song to stay at the forefront the whole time. I’ll listen to it some more .
She once was a true love of mine.
Many, many thanks to Pete and Adam for sharing it. Additional thanks to Ryan Booth for filming the amazing artists Noah Gundersen and David Ramirez.
Noah Gundersen and David Ramirez perform Girl from the North Country live and in one-take for an upcoming release of SerialBoxTV.
Filmed at the Fremont Abbey in Seattle, Washington
Directed / Shot / Graded by: Ryan Booth
Audio tracked by: Sam Stewart
1st AC: Jordy Wax
Edited by: Lucas Harger
Mixed by: Steve Horne
Performed by: Noah Gundersen x David Ramirez
Music by: Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
R.E.M. covering the track “Munich” originally by the Editors in the BBC Radio 1 live lounge, REM in the live lounge, the band also played new single ‘Supernatural Superserious’, plus this cover of ‘Munich’ by Editors.
The band talked about their Royal Albert Hall gig on Easter Monday, and about the Q magazine cover photo where Michael was entirely covered in gold makeup.
They described how Coldplay’s Chris Martin named their new single, and how they also bounce ideas off the guys from U2. Jo asked the band what they take on the road, and Michael revealed his love of YouTube. theband performed Wednesday 26th Mar 2008 The Live Lounge BBC Yalding House
Before Ty Segall can issue Emotional Mugger, his latest (in a string of many) collections of grimy garage rock, he has to look back before he moves forward. Way back. The California-based songwriter’s affinity for the sparkly songwriting of T. Rex’s Marc Bolan has been no secret, but next week he’s underscoring that with the release of Ty-Rex, a compilation of covers on Goner Records. Most of these renditions have already seen release on a pair of 7-inches that he released in 2011 and 2013, but Goner’s collecting them in one package for the first time, alongside a previously unreleased cover of “20th Century Boy.”
Sidled up against one another its clear just what a glam-rock glitter bomb Segall’s built up over the years under this banner. It’s due out in full on November 27, Record Store Day Black Friday, so it should be a perfect burst of color for one of the bleaker days of the year.
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