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News: Cash & Carter release stunning version of Cure song, Just Like Heaven

October 19, 2023

Now, there are certain unwritten rules in life. Don’t mess with your best mate’s wife/GF/partner (delete as applicable), don’t eat the yellow snow and never cover tracks by iconic bands…

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See: Nell & The Flaming Lips drop their take on the Nick Cave classic, ‘Red Right Hand’

IT’S the latest brilliantly wonky full-covers project from Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd and the boys, whose new heady fwend is budding Canada-via-Yorkshire songsmith Nell, in the company of whom they’ve…

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News: Nell Smith and The Flaming Lips will release an album of Nick Cave covers, ‘When The Viaduct Looms’, tomorrow; see ‘The Ship Song’

WELL that came pretty much out of nowhere, with only a two-week lead-in; Wayne Coyne and his merrie band of Oklahoman astral explorers The Flaming Lips, are releasing an album…

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Track: Le Ren and Buck Meek cover Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Early Morning Rain’ with sweet delicacy

MONTREAL chanteuse Le Ren has gotten together with Big Thief’s solo guitarist Buck Meek for a tender, delicate rerub of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “Early Morning Rain”, which featured on…

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SEE: M. Ward drops a video for ‘Violets And Furs’ from his Billie Holiday covers set

PORTLAND’S muchly the finest, M. Ward, has just released a video for the bloody beautiful “Violets For Your Furs”, his whisper-swoonsome take on a Billie Holiday song from his recent full album…

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TRACK: Tindersticks cover the Television Personalities’ ‘You’ll Have To Scream Louder’ – new album next year

NOTTINGHAM’S finest, Tindersticks, are all set to release a new album in 2021 on City Slang, their home for most of the past decade; and they’ve dropped their first single,…

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SEE: Jon Hopkins covers Thom Yorke’s ‘Dawn Chorus’

AS THIS most hellishly viral year’s eyelids droop and it prepares to exit stage left, the masterful Jon Hopkins has brought some beautiful piano catharsis and grace for our troubled…

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SEE: David Lewis Gedge – ‘All The Time In The World’ – Weddoes-related Bond covers album!

WEDDING PRESENT frontman David Gedge has dropped a video for his cover of “We Have All The Time In The World”, which crowns the album the Not From Where I’m…

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SEE: Drive-By Truckers share visuals for their cover of Ramones’ ‘The KKK Took My Baby Away’

ATHENS, Georgia’s next most famous musical sons, Drive-By Truckers, have shared a lo-fi video for their cover of Ramones’ classic “The KKK Took My Baby Away”. Have a watch below. The…

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NEWS: The Lathums’ one-only 7″ ‘The Snake’ raises £4,000 for the Latics

BACK in September we reported on Wigan’s indie chosen few, The Lathums, and the equal parts excellent and fun fundraising idea they’d got going in order to raise funds for…

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