Peter Gabriel: Live Blood
Peter Gabriel Live Blood Eagle Rock Entertainment It’s funny, Peter Gabriel’s Scratch My Back project is making more sense to me the longer it continues. I found the studio album a tad underwhelming,...
View ArticleMelvins: Everybody Loves Sausages
Melvins Everybody Loves Sausages Ipecac Recordings With this covers album the Melvins are – as they always seem to be – both sincere and totally taking the piss. They’re also celebrating their 30th...
View ArticleOne Man Bannister: Evolver
One Man Bannister Evolver Powertool Records One Man Bannister is Matthew Bannister (he of Sneaky Feelings, The Dribbling Darts of Love and The Changing Same) in one-man-band mode. Evolver is his...
View ArticleOlivier Libaux: Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age
Olivier Libaux Uncovered: Queens of the Stone Age Inertia Records/Border Here the main man from Nouvelle Vague does the decent thing – an act of kindness for humanity – and makes a wee set of silk...
View ArticleMark Lanegan: Imitations
Mark Lanegan Imitations Vagrant Records I’m not sure about this – I mean I love Mark Lanegan’s voice and the idea of him doing covers clearly appeals; I (still) love I’ll Take Care Of You (in fact it’s...
View ArticleXiu Xiu: Nina
Xiu Xiu Nina FKLG/Graveface Jamie Stewart is prolific and uncompromising – both are admirable and dangerous qualities. And at some point the game has to be up, at least momentarily. And here, with a...
View ArticleJoseph Arthur: Lou
Joseph Arthur Lou Vanguard Joseph Arthur has been prolific, particularly of late, three records in three year, his last (a double), still pretty fresh and now an album-length tribute to Lou Reed....
View ArticleNeil Young: A Letter Home
Neil Young A Letter Home Reprise Records Neil Young has a way of smirking that tells you he doesn’t give a fuck if you don’t get – and/or don’t like – the joke. When Neil Young smirks it’s usually...
View ArticleOff The Tracks has Got It Covered: DJ Set
Here’s a bit of fun – well, hopefully…in thinking of a new idea for a regular DJ night I thought that something around the idea of covers would be a bit of a blast – leaves it open for all genres and...
View ArticleThe Vinyl Countdown # 1108
Todd Rundgren, Faithful (1976) I really only knew Todd Rundgren the producer, the guitarist – his was a name I had read, I had heard the music he had been involved with but hadn’t heard any of his own...
View ArticleAndrew Bird: Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of…
Andrew Bird Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of… Virtual Label It makes so much sense to hear this, to have this – Andrew Bird covering songs by The Handsome Family. It makes so much sense that...
View ArticleDJ Setlist: Got It Covered – San Fran, Thursday, June 19, 2014
I enjoyed playing a set of covers up at San Fran – all sorts of cover versions, very much from the sublime to the ridiculous…and then back and forth from there… 1. Jacques Loussier, Bach: Prelude No.1...
View ArticleKeith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: Last Dance
Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden Last Dance ECM Records If you choose to hear this as only polite dinner-jazz, some airport-lounge background music that would be fine – I mean, that’s your loss, and it’s...
View ArticleBrownout: Brown Sabbath
Brownout Brownout presents Brown Sabbath Ubiquity Records/Essex Music International The strange world of the sincere – but playful – pastiche, the cover-album dressed up in novelty, the transporting of...
View ArticleCharlie Hunter & Scott Amendola: EPs – Cars/Williams/Porter/Ellington
Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola Eps: Cars/Williams/Porter/Ellington Charlie Hunter Music Charlie Hunter (8-string guitar) and Scott Amendola (drums/percussion) have been making music together in...
View ArticleDr. John: Ske-Dat-De-Dat – The Spirit of Satch
Dr. John Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch Concord Some reviews will tell you this album, a tribute to “the spirit of” Louis Armstrong is a 5-star classic, so full of life and joy and bursting with...
View ArticleV/A: Hello, Mr Soul – Neil Young Covers (1967-1978)
Various Artists: Hello, Mr. Soul – Neil Young Covers (1967-1978) Aquarium Drunkard If, like me, you like music you probably marvel every now and then about how that triple-LP compilation (and...
View ArticleBill Frisell: Guitar In The Space Age!
Bill Frisell Guitar In The Space Age! Okeh Here we have Bill Frisell going back to the music of the 1950s and 1960s, to the guitar-based music that first inspired him to bond with the instrument, to...
View ArticleAnnie Lennox: Nostalgia
Annie Lennox Nostalgia Blue Note/Universal We tend to use the term nostalgia when describing a fondness, a sentimentality – the word comes from an ache, a pain, the loss of something – there’s a...
View ArticleV/A: Dusty Heard Them Here First
Various Artists: Dusty Heard Them Here First Ace A great series this, I love the Cliff Heard Them Here First volume and now I have Dusty Heard Them Here First rivalling that one. Ace Records does the...
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