This weekend, the Boss from New Jersey opened his concert in Brooklyn with his rendition of the biggest hit by the late purple genius from Minnesota. It’s already all over the internet, but it’s to relevant to all my interests not to have it on my blog, too. For more Prince-Old White Dudes crossover, check …

No Future, No Problem

Match made in wordy rock’n’roll heaven: The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and Titus Andronicus’ Patrick Stickles cover each other’s No Future song on this bandcamp single.  https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3073943266/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/transparent=true/

http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/size=medium/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/notracklist=true/transparent=true/track=3302312478/ Just when I thought “this day needs something beautiful or fuck it” a link to Allison Weiss’ Remember When ep appeared. This version of Robyn’s hit Call Your Girlfriend is stunning. Get the ep with 4 other awesome songs at No Sleep Records’ bandcamp.

https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js Nirvana is one of those bands that are almost impossible to cover. Not only are they iconic, but they are perfect within the conventions of their genre, heck, they established the rules and then tore them down themselves. So to make a cover work, you need to go in a different but equally intense …