Get Ready To Head Back To School With Gym Class Heroes and Staten Island’s PS...
It’s back to school time — and time to take a look at what the kids at our favorite school, PS 22 in Staten Island, have been up to. The inspiring children’s choir at this school have been featured on...
View ArticleCovered: Hanson Does Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”
The boys of pop band Hanson made their way down under this week and offered up a surprise for both Hanson and Taylor Swift fans. While on the Fifi & Jules show in Australia, Taylor, Zac and Isaac...
View Article‘Gangnam Style’ Gets A Capella Cover
It’s been a busy year for Pentatonix, the futuristic a cappella troupe from Arlington, TX. Having won the third season of NBC’s The Sing-Off, touring behind their Sony records debut PTX Vol. 1 –...
View ArticlePunk Goes Pop 5: Rock Covers Of Gotye, Carly Rae Jepsen, Maroon 5, fun.
Hitting stores November 6th could be one of the most interesting cover albums this year. Thanks to Orange County’s Fearless Records, fans of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe,” fun’s “Some Nights,”...
View ArticleFive “Little Things” Covers To Listen To
One Direction took a different approach with their latest single “Little Things.” The Ed Sheeran penned track strips down the production and focuses on each member’s vocals. The fans seem to love the...
View ArticleJustin Bieber Covers Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me A River”
Justin Bieber has been vocal over the years in his dislike of being compared to Justin Timberlake. In fact, earlier this year he hung up on a radio DJ when the DJ compared his voice to Justin...
View ArticleZann’s #FanGirl Moment: Midnight Red Covers Taylor Swift
Look out One Direction and The Wanted….here comes Midnight Red. Maybe you’ve heard of them, maybe not. The group is made up of five guys: Joey, Eric, Anthony, Thomas and Colton. What I know about them:...
View ArticleTop 10 Taylor Swift “I Knew You Were Trouble” Covers
A few months ago it was nearly impossible to go anywhere without hearing Taylor Swift’s ever catchy “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” The first single from her new album Red, the track broke...
View ArticleCapital Cities Explains How They United Pink Floyd & Tupac For ‘Breathe’
Ryan Merchant and Sebu Simonian have scored their first radio hit, as the L.A.-based electro rock band Capital Cities with Safe and Sound. With one tune in rotation, the dancing duo took a moment to...
View ArticleBackstreet’s Back: Charli XCX Covers ‘I Want It That Way’
Charli XCX is not embarrassed to admit she’s obsessed with the Backstreet Boys. In fact, she loves them so much she even tackled BSB’s 1999 monster pop hit, “I Want It That Way,” for the first time at...
View ArticleFlorence Welch Covers Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’
Florence Welch, lead singer of Florence and the Machine, knows her way around a cover song. In 2009, she took on Beyonce’s “Halo” during a performance on the BBC’s Radio 1 Live Lounge. More recently,...
View ArticleThe Weeknd Remixes Lorde’s ‘Royals’– Listen NOW
16 year old singer Lorde, the first woman to top the Alternative Charts in 17 years, gets a silky remix from the Canadian R&B lothario The Weeknd. While the original, chart-topping “Royals” was...
View ArticleThirty Seconds To Mars Cover Rihanna’s ‘Stay’
Click to watch Never shying away from a tough cover song, Thirty Seconds To Mars took Rihanna‘s heart string-pulling “Stay” head on. With brother Shannon on the drums and Tomo Miličević on keys, Jared...
View ArticleDuran Duran Covered By Moby, Juliette Lewis And More For Charity Tribute Album
John Taylor, Simon Le Bon (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) ’80s new wave pioneers Duran Duran are set to receive the tribute treatment with a new compilation featuring covers of DD classics by such acts as...
View ArticleWatch Punk Icon Patti Smith Cover Rihanna’s ‘Stay’
By Scott T. Sterling While Patti Smith’s commercial heyday was in the late ‘70s, her unwavering dedication to art and long-standing status as one of punk’s preeminent poets has allowed her to...
View ArticleRussian Police Choir Perform Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ at Olympics Opening...
By Jay Tilles There may be nothing odder than watching the Russian Police Choir getting funky in front of the Winter Olympics crowd in Sochi, Russia. But what is definitely even weirder is to see these...
View ArticleWatch Bastille Mashup Jackson’s ‘Earth Song’ With Pulp’s ‘Common People’
Bastille surprised BBC Radio 1 listeners yesterday (Feb 10) with a mash-up of Michael Jackson‘s emotional ‘Earth Song’ with Pulp‘s anthem for the ordinary, “Common People,” complete with a four-woman...
View ArticleThe Weeknd Has the Best Cover of Beyonce’s “Drunk In Love” Yet
Beyonce’s “Drunk In Love” featuring her hubby, Jay Z, has clearly established itself as the fan-favorite single of Bey’s latest album thus far. Although, if you ask me, the whole album consists of...
View ArticleKarmin Covers Karmin’s “I Want It All”
Remember how Nick Noonan and Amy Heidemann got their start as Karmin? They used to just be a young couple covering songs like “Look At Me Now,” by Lil Wayne and “Price Tag” by Jessie J on YouTube. But...
View ArticleAriana Grande’s “Love Me Harder” Gets an Acoustic Cover
Nowadays, technology has made it pretty easy for someone to cover a song that’s currently topping the charts, and put it on display for the world to see. But just because you CAN do it, doesn’t always...
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