Cover versions are easy to play but much harder to get right. It’s the rare band or artist who can turn in their own version of a classic song without ruining the original or provoking the ire of fans ...

Let’s start with an obvious pick. According to setlist.fm, Pearl Jam have played this Neil Young classic 333 times across their career, which is 105 more times than Neil Young & Crazy Horse have ...

What’s the difference between a great cover song and a banal cover song that brings little or nothing to the table? One is like tasting a delicious, unexpectedly creative version of your favorite dish ...

We ranked the top 50 cover versions of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah for you! “Hallelujah is a Hebrew word which means, ‘Glory to the Lord,’” the late Leonard Cohen once noted when asked about ...

They say imitation is the best form of flattery. And our list of My Chemical Romance cover versions makes for an iron-clad case. From relative unknowns to AltPress favorites, the scope of the MCR ...

Thievery Corporation is the duo of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, who both function as DJs, producers and musicians. Under the broadly defined heading of electronica, they create music that links dub, ...

Not every one-hit wonder was the original recording artist of the song for which they became the most famous, as proven by these four one-hit wonders from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s. Impressively ...

It can start with a Justin Bieber joke. The Internet may be revenue boondoggle for plenty of worthy musicians, and that sucks, but it does make sharing enthusiasms and discoveries a lot easier. A ...

Recording a cover song is an exercise fraught with risks, specifically that you might not live up to the original—especially if it’s a well-known song. But there are also those times when an artist ...

Pardon us for not losing our minds with excitement over Bob Dylan’s much-praised new recording of Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust,” which was released late last week as a preview of Triplicate, his three ...

What's the difference between a great cover song and a banal cover song that brings little or nothing to the table? One is like tasting a delicious, unexpectedly creative version of your favorite dish ...

For me, the most memorable covers are by gifted artists who find and bring to life facets in a song that eluded — or never even occurred to — the original performer or songwriter. In the process, the ...