When Houndmouth rolled through Lexington a couple weeks ago they did this amazing John Prine/Jerry Jeff Walker one-two cover combo. I happened to remember it today and was lucky enough to find a great recording of it on youtube. This makes me look forward to both the next time I can see them live and [...]

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I saw Houndmouth put on a great show this weekend at Cosmic. While on stage, they mentioned that they released a video for “On the Road” the day prior. Well, I forgot about that offhand comment until I saw that they covered Wilco & Billy Bragg for the AV Club. So get your Houndmouth on [...]

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A kind reader sent in this Kevin Barnes cover that I missed for my Of Montreal covers archive. I haven’t ripped the MP3 and thrown the audio in there yet, but you can stream it below until I do. They’ve previously covered the Stones’ “Sway,” “Rocks Off” and “Happy,” but this is a great solo [...]

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My Morning Jacket is among the artists paying tribute to John Denver on the new cover album Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver. The record comes out April 2, but we just got our first listen today in the form of MMJ doing one of Denver’s most famous tracks. You can listen below [...]

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BOAT’s got a new LP coming out called Pretend to Be Brave. But in advance of that new material, they’re releasing Pretend to be BOAT, covers from the new album done by their friends. Here’s Throw Me The Statue with a good take on “Sharpshooters” — what the original song sounds like, I don’t yet [...]

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Stereogum just shared this great video of Divine Fits covering Frank Ocean’s “Lost” at last night’s concert. They do such a great job on this one that I hope they spend a day or two hammering out a studio version. I’d definitely buy a Frank Ocean / Divine Fits split 7″ Maybe Frank could tackle [...]

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Roger Waters took the stage with My Morning Jacket last night at the Love for Levon tribute concert. They collaborated on a cover of The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” Catch the encore performance with all contributing musicians over at CoS

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Just yesterday I was thinking about how we were supposed to get a “Rock the Casbah” cover with guest appearance from Dr Dog at My Morning Jacket’s Forecastle set this summer. Upon that thought I quickly rushed to youtube to discover that not only have they performed it a few times on their recent tour, [...]

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MGMT debuted this new cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Angie” at the Osheaga Music Festival in Montreal. It’s a pretty faithful cover, but does have MGMT’s unique fingerprints all over it. Here’s hoping we aren’t too far away from getting LP3 from them.

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