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Amazing Cover Bands: Band of Horses Cover The Replacements' "Can't Hardly Wait"

Check out this awesome cover of The Replacements' "Can't Hardly Wait" live from the CD101 Big Room:

Amazing Cover Bands: David Garett Performs Metallica's "Master of Puppets"

Check out this video interview and performance with violinist David Garrett that Rolling Stone recently posted. He discusses his methods for transforming songs like Metallica's "Master of Puppets...

Under Cover Series: The Swell Season, Cursive, Ben Folds and more

25 Bands, 25 Cover Songs. 1 Small Round Room. A new music-video series over at avclub.com which featuring awesome bands playing awesome covers. The website has everything from The Swell Season pe...

Amazing Cover Bands: David Bowie Tribute Album To Be Released

Indie label Manimal has announced the preorder for the upcoming David Bowie tribute album, titled Repitition. The double CD package is available for preorder at the label’s site.  The tribute was...

Amazing Cover Bands: Levi’s Pioneer Sessions

For the past few months, Levi’s has sponsored a series of sessions that find modern artists doing covers of bands who influenced their sound. These tracks are available as free downloads each mon...

Covers that Kill! Ten Cover Songs that are Better the Second (or third) Time Around

Do you love a good remake or does the thought of a copycat make you cringe? Cover songs have been either angering or pleasuring our ears for decades.  Most popular artists produce cover songs as ...

Amazing Cover Bands: Wu Tang Vs The Beatles

Wu Tang Clan and the Beatles: do either demographic of listeners even crossover? I suppose they do, it’s hard for any type of person to not be in some way affected by the Beatles’ staggering catalo...

Amazing Cover Bands: Flaming Lips Cover Dark Side of the Moon

We admit, we may be getting a little ahead of ourselves here since the album will not reach our ears until the 22nd. And no, Flaming Lips are not technically a cover band. But when we heard about...

Amazing Cover Bands: Portsmouth Sinfonia

We love cool and interesting covers here at VSQ Blog, for obvious reasons, and this one is a doozy. Portsmouth Sinfonia was an experimental British orchestra that elevated amateur playing to an art...