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Seven Brilliant, Terrible and Brilliantly Terrible Metal Covers of Pop Songs

Your average metal band usually has wildly different musical sensibilities from top 40 radio pop (and that goes double for said average metal band's fans). But is there really any good reason for that other than genre segregation that forbids metal fans from rubbing their leather-clad elbows with bubblegum popsters? That question may remain unanswered for now, but some metal acts are bridging the divide with covers of pop tracks that range from excellent to execrable. Let's take a look, and see how they stack up against the originals....  read more

Crosby, Stills, Nash to record covers album with Rick Rubin

Like a lesson in permutation, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young relates to a dizzying number of recording acts: CPR (Crosby, Pever & Raymond), Manassas, Stephen Stills, The Stills-Young Band, Crosby & Nash, Graham Nash, Neil Young....  read more

Peter Gabriel to cover Vampire Weekend

And it feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel too. Forget the Summer Olympics, the real passing of the torch will be taking place in the recording studio. With Big Blue Ball finally released after cooking on the shelves of Gabriel's Wiltshire recording studio for nearly two decades, the former Genesis frontman will be dropping the sledgehammer on the heir apparent to his afropop superstardom: Vampire Weekend. As Stereogum reports, Gabriel plans to cover VW's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa", which cheekily namechecks him....  read more