Covers
COVERED: ROBYN DOES BJORK’S “HYPERBALLAD”
check it! the year’s fiercest pop star, swedish god-send robyn, does a gorgeous rendition of bjrok’s 1995 song “hyperballad” @ this year’s polar music prize, of which bjork was a recipient. it’s a beautiful electro-rehash of the original, & it’s just beautiful! catch it below! imagine what my body will sound like.
COVERED: GOLDEN AGES – “AFRICA (TOTO COVER)”
check it! bedroom-pop project from phili golden ages released a totally awesome lo-fi cover of toto’s 80′s classic “africa” & it’s pretty awesome stuff — w some vampire weekend-inspired percussion, radio dept.-esque vocals, & waves of fuzz-induced nostalgia, we’re totally feeling it. (the best take on toto’s “africa” since this pop masterpiece, in our humbe [...]
LUCY: KATE RYAN – “LIBERTINE”
this song is amazing!! check out belgian singer kate ryan’s 2002 hit “libertine,” an unreal, twittering feel-good eurodance jam that we can’t get out of our heads!!! it’s actually a cover of a 1986 song by french singer mylene farmer. catch the eurotrash vid here, & grab the song below! Libertine- Kate Ryan je suis [...]
COVERED: SHAKIRA DOES THE XX’S “ISLANDS”
check it! @ glastonberry this weekend colombian goddess shakira did a v sexy cover of the xx’s awesome “islands” — catch the performance below! shakira looks & sounds fantastic!! see what i’ve done?
covered: robyn does alicia keys’ “try sleeping w a broken heart”
check it! robyn stopped by BBC radio 1 the other day, performed an absolutely lovely rendition of her soon-to-be summer smash “dancing on my own,” in addition to a pretty fantastic cover of alicia key’s heart-wrenching & brooding r&b ballad “try sleeping w a broken heart.” catch robyn’s wonderful, v sparse rendition below! Try Sleeping [...]
covered: the radio dept. – “all about our love (sade cover)”
check it! one of our favorite bands of the year, swedish trio the radio dept. did a pretty nice cover of sade’s absolutely fab song all about our love off 2000′s “lovers rock,” as a b-side to their massive singe heaven’s on fire, the second off their new & utterly fantastic album “clinging to a [...]
covered: jj covers “birthday sex”
check it! the not-so-enigmatic-any-longer swedish duo jj just dropped this absolutely delightful rendition of jeremiah’s ’09 summer jam birthday sex, & we absolutely love it – its a soft, almost haunting, acoustic piano take on the r&b sing-along. it’s also an inauguration song of sorts for labelmate ceo, a new project for one half of [...]
covered: theophilus london does tweet’s “oops (oh my)”
check out theophilus london’s take on tweet’s v sexy 90′s hit oops (oh my). he definitely doesn’t do the original justice, tweet just hits it harder & you’ll be hard pressed to rival timbo’s early production, but it’s a kinda hot darkish, electro take on the r&b classic – check it out below! theophilus london’s [...]
covered: pomplamoose does lady gaga’s “telephone”
check it out – pop duo pomplamoose just dropped this absolutely awesome cover of lady gaga & beyonce’s telephone – it’s a rollicking electro-twee take on the heavy-hitting original & it’s fantastic! w/ absolutely lovely lead vocalist nataly dawn (v. reminiscent of the bird & the bee’s inara george), the song, jazzy & glittering, soars [...]
covered: new the bird & the bee – “rich girl (hall & oates cover)”
check it! phenomenal electro-pop duo the bird & the bee have a new album dropping at the end of the month, a cover album of hits from 70′s pop-masters hall & oates (the album also features one original, heard it on the radio.) inara george is sounding as divinely-inspired as ever, & greg kurstin, surely [...]
