When artists cover a song, sometimes they don't just change the arrangement - they completely transform the lyrics! Join us ...

Another song list! This one is a personal favorite of mine, because it means I get to spend a lot of time with artists I like covering other artist’s songs. Last December, Paste crowned Merce Lemon’s ...

Back in March, during the kickoff to the latest leg of her Radical Optimism tour in Melbourne, Dua Lipa told the crowd she had a crazy idea. “To make my life a little bit harder, I thought, ‘Why don’t ...

Recently Metallica announced they would be contributing to the new Ronnie James Dio tribute album, This is Your Life, and the results, “Ronnie Rising,” are now streaming online. Given most people’s ...

Making a good cover song isn’t easy, and most bands are lucky if they can simply do justice to the original. However, there's a short list of bands and musicians that have outdone the original song ...

Who doesn’t love a good cover song? Even if a cover song falls short of the original’s quality, it is still quite the treat when you see it performed live or hear it through your headphones. Although ...

We often see The Beatles in the same light as Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Some kind of superior form of human who composed music that almost feels like it’s of or even beyond the natural world. Like ...

From KCRW DJ Dan Wilcox: Arguably the greatest cover song ever done was Aretha Franklin’s version of “Respect”. She took Otis Redding’s lover’s quarrel and transformed it into a women’s movement ...