Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Special: Cool cover versions: Army of Me (Part 3 of 5)

This week you can wake up to some cover versions to get you kickstarted!
A song that has been covered many times particularly by metal bands is Björk’s Army of Me (maybe that is because of the heavy metal umlaut in her name?).
Helmet has done one (see ‘video’ above), Caliban, which I could not find online [...]

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Special: Cool cover versions: Das Model (Part 2 of 5)

This week you can wake up to some cover versions to get you kickstarted!
Das Model by Kraftwerk. see the original here
Covered by the noise rockers of Big Black as can be seen above, and also by shock rockers Rammstein:

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Special: Cool cover versions: Only Shallow (Part 1 of 5)

This week you can wake up to some cover versions to get you kickstarted!
First up:
My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow
The clip above is from their first live show in 16 years, in London.
The reason we post this is because these bloody Valentines are coming to the Effenaar May 25th!
The cover you need to hear is [...]

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Classical played classics

Yeah, Metallica on celli is old news: everybody checked Apocalyptica, and most of us moved on. But here’s something new and fresh: Harptallica!
But beware! They do not only play Metallica covers, Megadeth’s ‘A tout le monde’ can also be spotted on their myspace.

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Sam Taylor Wood

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Visual artist Sam Taylor Wood created this cover version of I’M IN LOVE WITH A GERMAN FILM STAR, produced by Pet Shop Boys.

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

20 record covers in Lego

The people from The Toy Zone recreated 20 record covers in Lego. You can find some Aphex Twin, too much Beatles etc..

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Asilos Magdalena – The Mars Volta piano cover

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Ulver cover Prince

Check their myspace.