Victoria Bergsman just released one of the most beautiful albums of 2009 so it’s no surprise that this cover of Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Sweet Child Of Mine’ is equally as stunning. She released the song last year on 7″ vinyl. Bergsman is no stranger to recording covers, her previous band The Concretes recorded excellent covers of The Rolling Stones’ ‘Miss You’ and Take That’s ‘Back For Good’, but nothing quite compares to this one.
Taken By Trees- Sweet Child Of Mine: MP3
From Brooklyn, New York, Pet Ghost Project has made a tactful take on Pavement’s ‘Box Elder’ and they’ve keep it pretty true to the original, adding just a slight touch of acoustic twee. In Pavement news: the band has announced they are reforming for a show in New York in September, 2010. No other dates or album details have been announced.
Pet Ghost Project- Box Elder: MP3
Earlier this year a whole bunch of musicians/bands, including Metronomy, The Mystery Jets, Dinosaur Jr and The Big Pink contributed covers to an album paying tribute to The Cure. Art Brut was also included, doing a cover of ‘Catch’ which originally appeared on The Cure’s 1987 double album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.
Randy Randall and Dean Spunt took a totally different approach to this song when they recorded it back in 2008. Bjork’s original version of ‘It’s Oh So Quite’ was backed by a full orchestra, but the LA duo took an axe to that idea, instead smashing it to pieces with their minimal guitar and drums set-up. No Age’s version appeared on a Stereogum compilation paying tribute to the Icelandic queen. The original version was responsible for breaking Bjork into the American pop market, largely thanks to the Spike Jonze-directed video that accompanied it. Strangely the song itself is actually a cover, Bjork renamed Betty Hutton’s ‘Blow A Fuse’ from 1946(?).
An eclectic line-up including Chris Difford of Squeeze, Suggs, Mystery Jets' Blaine and Kathryn Williams singing ditties dedicated to London.
May event takes place at venues in Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester
The Courteeners, Mystery Jets and The King Blues are among the acts who have been added to the line-ups for this year's Teenage Cancer Trust gigs. The annual charity conc...
Plan B, These New Puritans also to play alongside Noel Gallagher and The Who
Plan B and The Courteeners will join Noel Gallagher at his Teenage Cancer Trust gigs in London later this month.The Courteeners will support the former Oasis star on Marc...
"You only get to appreciate what you do when you're not doing it," says bassist Rob Canning, slurping on a tea. "and now we're back, we're buzzing to go."
PART ONE: WELCOME TO 2008
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Legendary rock photographer Steve Gullick has a retrospective at Manchester’s KRAAK Gallery running from March 12th til March 27th, featuring shots taken for NME and Melody Maker as well as his...
To accompany the review of Tune-yards’ Monday gig at Cargo, a few tasty shots of Think about Life, Trash Kit and New England native Merrill Garbus aka tUnE-yArDs.
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We have collected some truly heinous examples of recent album covers, from Empire Of The Sun’s Star Wars travesty to the banal evil that is Razorlight’s Slipway Fire. Discretionary...
Album art in this gallery was selected based on several simple traits: strong concept, fine graphics including creative typography and general lushness. The first three of ‘The Best Record...
Placebo pictures: just in - some photos of Placebo and Brian Molko from last week’s gig at the Glasgow SECC.
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