6 October 2025 - Pia Mia - The Book of Love

Pia Mia was 14 when she recorded this Magnetic Fields cover.  

And because we're doing a thing on the other blog, we're featuring this lo-fi acapella cover here.  

Because that's what we do.  

Also, this is pretty good. 

1 July 2025 - Alessia Cara - Hand In My Pocket

We want to take a moment and wish every Canadian a very Happy Canada Day.

This is why we have Alessia Cara - a Canadian - covering Alanis Morissette's huge hit on the occasion of her 2022 induction into the Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame.  This song was written by Morissette and Glen Ballard.

 

Yes, Alessia Cara even plays the harmonica. This cover is spectacular.

19 June 2025 - Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson

Lest anyone wonder what Brian Wilson thought of the Barenaked Ladies' tribute to him....

7 May 2025 - School of Rock KC House - Heartbreaker

A LOT of people like to cover Led Zeppeliln.  

These KIDS pull off Jimmy Page's guitar solo.  

It's incredible to watch.  Right up there with the Cleveland School of Rock house band, honestly.  

21 March 2025 - Great Big Sea - Run Runaway

Newfoundland and Labrador folk group Great Big Sea covered a Slade classic as their debut single, and it ended up being a pretty big hit.  

It was a Scottish-tinged rock anthem, and while Great Big Sea make it a little folkier, it still retains the Scottish feel.  

Now hear them do it live.   They make folk.... rock.   For what they essentially make into a sea shanty, this song really kicks ass. 

20 March 2025 - The Beaches - Maneater

The Beaches covering fellow Canadian icon Nelly Furtado, and not Hall and Oates, is straight fire.    The Beaches truly understand synth rock, and in fact embrace it.  

We really should post about them on Wicked Guilty Pleasures sometime. 

5 March 2025 - Sophie Powers – Heart Shaped Box

It takes a GIANT cast iron set to cover Nirvana.

It takes talent to add to the song artistically, which Canadian artist Sophie Powers absolutely does.  

And yes, I say that she, at a young age, understands Kurt Cobain's original delivery and matches it.  

And I don't think she's singing about Courtney Love's vagina. 

Some artists do covers in a studio and leave it at that. 

Some pour it out live. 

Get you a girl who can do both.