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Listen to R.E.M. Cover ABBA

It seems like since R.E.M. called it quits back in September, rare bootlegs and other previously unheard tracks—whether they’re offered up by the band or not—have been consistently cropping up on the Internet. The latest is a 1984 recording of the group covering ABBA’s “Does Your Mother Know?”. Give it a listen below. (Thanks to Consequence of Sound for the tip.)...  read more

The 20 Best Cover Songs of 2011

The beautiful thing about writing a song is the life it takes on once it leaves you. These 20 songs found new life this year, interpreted by some of our favorite artists. Here are the 20 best cover songs of 2011.  read more

Listen to She & Him Cover Buddy Holly

Keeping up with the quality of the other Buddy Holly covers on the upcoming tribute album Rave On Buddy Holly, She & Him give us a preview of their take on Holly’s “Oh Boy.”...  read more

Prince Wants to Make Covering His Songs Illegal

Via The A.V. Club: Recently, Prince performed on George Lopez’s Lopez Tonight, during which he announced that thinks covering songs should be illegal. Or at least covers of his songs....  read more

Duncan Sheik to Release Album of '80s Cover Songs

Duncan Sheik, singer-songwriter and Broadway composer, will release an album called Covers 80s that features reworkings of tracks like Depeche Mode’s “Stripped,” New Order’s “Love Vigilantes” and The Cure’s “Kyoto Song.”...  read more

The 20 Best R.E.M. Covers of All Time

Two years ago, we looked at the Best R.E.M. songs of all time, but today we look how some of those great songs have been interpreted by others....  read more

The 20 Best Cover Songs of 2010

The artists who made our list transformed the songs they chose, playing to their own strengths while keeping the core elements that made the song great in the first place.  read more

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