28 January 2016 - FKA Twigs - Elastic Heart

Let's just address the 500 pound gorilla in the room right now: after being gone AGAIN for so long, why choose such a fringe artist doing such a populist song?

Because it's amazing, and so is she. FKA Twigs needs to get more attention for her music and less for dating Cedric Diggory (because we refuse to mention that glittery vampire), and we hope our little blog can help with that.

Plus, we missed you.  So there's that.

 

3 June 2015 - Bastille - Blue Jeans

I don't often post for my kids.

But Juliana, my 14-year-old daughter, requested that I post some Bastille.  So here it is.  Here is Bastille, covering Lana Del Rey.  And really, although I am generally not a big fan of Bastille, I have to admit, this is a really good cover.

21 April 2015 - Body Count - Institutionalized

It's not a faithful cover, lyrically.   But Ice-T does a great job capturing the spirit of Suicidal Tendencies, translating it into adulthood.   It might even be JUST A LITTLE ANGRIER than the original......

30 March 2015 - Tyler Ward & Lindsey Stirling - Thrift Shop

I admit it.

I've been looking for an excuse to post the very talented violinist Lindsey Stirling for weeks.  I really had no reason to include Tyler Ward, who does hold up the swagger of Macklemore very well.... I mean, he's really talented, and does have his own album out.

....but I'm all about the hip hop violin here.  That's what steals the show.  And I chose this song because it's not a song where you would expect violin to work well....... and yet it does.

25 March 2015 - Lennon and Maisy - Boom Clap

As many of you are aware (if you read my other blog), I am a little bit of a Charli XCX fan.  But not everything she does is gold, even if I write a post about it.

So, when I stumble upon a cover that makes me like the original more, I am going to pay attention.  The best parts of Nashville, the Stella sisters have taken an EDM-heavy song and made it into a beautiful masterpiece of harmony.  They've done it before.   I'm glad they still do.

And, to answer your question, Charli sent them heart-shaped suckers, so I think she's a fan.

16 February 2015 - Eve's Plum - If I Can't Have You

Did you know this song was written by the Bee Gees?  Made famous in the 70's by Yvonne Elliman, but she didn't write it either.

I always liked Eve's Plum's version. As far as I can tell, it's the last thing they did together before the current VP of Music at Nickelodeon, Colleen Fitzpatrick, left to be a pop star as Vitamin C. 

(That whole VP thing is true, by the way)

9 February 2015 - Five Seconds of Summer - What I Like About You

I have to admit, I was a little surprised by this cover.  I didn't expect these guys to understand 80's music so well.  Were any of them born in the 80s? 

And yet this cover is spot-on.  Far more energy than the Romantics original..... and, in a bit of an ironic twist, a bigger US hit.