Given that her beautiful new album comes out tomorrow, I thought this would be a great time to put together a collection of all the covers St Vincent has done over the years. Must’ve been a popular idea, since CoS beat me to it by compiling some youtube streams of her greatest covers. I’ve got [...]

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Since the Features put out a new album last week (MP3 + info) I figured this would be a great time to post all the covers I have by the Features! The Features cover archive MP3: The Features – The Beehive State (Randy Newman) MP3: The Features – I Heard it Through the Grapevine (Gaye) [...]

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With the Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues on the horizon, I figured now would be an excellent time to put this into the world. Here are all the Fleet Foxes covers I could in my first sweep through the internet. Some of these are Robin solo, some are from his solo project White Antelope, but I [...]

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Now that it’s official that the Arcade Fire will be making their return to the stage, I figured it’d be fun to add them to the long list of covers archives I’ve put together. So sure, everyone knows the Arcade Fire used to do a mean cover of the Talking Heads, but did you know [...]

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Ted Leo’s new album the Brutalist Bricks is out tomorrow and to celebrate I put together a collection of his covers. Now, normally it takes me quite a long time of bugging people, poking around message boards and going through old hard drives to come up with these lists. But this time I’ve got to [...]

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So it turns out that I really enjoy putting together these covers archives. It gives me a chance to rediscover the depth of influences of some of my favorite bands and — in cases like this — rediscover how great the band is. I used to be a HUGE Decemberists junkie. I’m still a fan, [...]

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Though I was first introduced to them in 2003, it took a long time for me to be bitten by the My Morning Jacket bug. It wasn’t until I saw them at 2008′s Bonnaroo Music Festival that I really understood what all the madness was about. But now that I’m solidly one of the converted, [...]

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Just a few days ago I shared three Spoon covers and said to let me know if you guys had any more. Well, I didn’t quite expect you to point me to almost a dozen other covers, but I’m sure glad you did. Some of you left links to MP3s and someone left a link [...]

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After hitting up the fine people at the E6 Townhall, I’ve assembled every recorded copy of Of Montreal’s covers that I could get my hands on. It’s no secret that I think Of Montreal is one of the greatest contemporary bands; so consider this one way of celebrating that. Here are 83 covers 89 covers [...]

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