Fleet Foxes covering Whitney’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”. Update: turns out that’s not them singing after all. (via Fleet Foxes Sing)
Sufjan Stevens covers Tim Buckley’s “She Is”.
Matt Jordan has compiled an archive of 51 covers performed by The Decemberists and frontman Colin Meloy. The artists covered include Morrissey, The Smiths, Sam Cooke, Björk, Pink Floyd, Robyn Hitchcock, The Velvet Underground and more.
Arcade Fire covers The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps”. (via Copycats)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy covers Chris Knox’s “My Only Friend” for the tribute album Stroke, recorded by several musicians to help raise funds for Chris’s recovery from a stroke in June of this year. If you like the track, the gig is here in full, and you can read more about the album on Chris’s new site and buy it from Amplifier.
“Gatekeeper” covered by Kings of Convenience, originally by Feist from her 2004 album Let It Die. (via Copy Cats)
Vitamin String Quartet cover MGMT’s “Kids”. (via Copy Cats)
Mates of State cover “These Days”, originally penned by Jackson Browne. Nico covered it in 1967 on Chelsea Girl and Browne didn’t remember licensing it to Wes Anderson until he was sitting in the theatre watching The Royal Tenenbaums. (via A Common Collective)
“Come Monday Night” from the forthcoming eponymous album God Help The Girl, a new girl-group side project imagined by Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch and fronted by vocalist Catherine Ireton. Some background from Murdoch is on his Guardian blog. The album, which includes a couple of Belle and Sebastian covers, is out June 22. From the PR site:
The result is a breathtaking record from one of pop’s most singular voices, combining the strengths and feel of the early Belle and Sebastian records in a broader musical palette, which draws equally on musicals, sixties’ girl groups, eighties’ indie and, most of all, classic pop records.
Joe Lambert reimagines Erik Larsen and Randy Emberlin’s The Amazing Spider-Man cover. (via Spaceships)
