Tag Archives: Bob Dylan

Music Don’t Argue, It’s The 10 Best Cover Songs of All Time

by Rich Thomas
September 13, 2011 - 8:04 am

 

I have a love/hate relationship with most cover songs. Much like I have a love/hate relationship with gin, ice cream and the New York Mets. Very few of them are ever well executed, and some of them induce fits of rage: Dynamite Hack’s “Boyz In The Hood,” (criminal) Jason Mraz’s version of “I Melt With You” (really, dude?), and Korn’s “Another Brick In The Wall” (shoot me now). Others are just too good and/or easy to mention: Guns N Roses’ version of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door,” The Cowboy Junkies’ “Sweet Jane,” and Sonic Youth’s cover of “Superstar.” Then there are the ones on the list before you.

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Fashion Anna Wintour’s Party Mixtape

by Gala Darling
May 13, 2010 - 10:04 am

Anna Wintour’s reputation as the feared editrix of Vogue is not undeserved.  She was, after all, the inspiration for Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada.  Her nickname is the charming epithet ‘Nuclear Wintour’.  Her haircut has been exactly the same since she was in her early twenties.

But here are some things you may not known about The Bobbed One.

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Daily Dots Daily Dots: Liquid Liquid, Peepface, Jalbrak iPad, Sonic Youth, Dylan Denied

by Joshua Glazer
April 5, 2010 - 6:22 pm

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Today’s bloggin best…

- Dance-punk/hip-hop inventors Liquid Liquid made their first ever TV appearance in 30 year career. The Daily Swarm

- Introducing Peepface, the post-Easter drinking game for the kids. Holy Taco

- Sonic youth’s Thurston Moore To Lecture kids (not “the kids”) about avant-noise. Pitchfork

- MGMT coyly announce a coy cover of coy David Bowies’ “TVC15.” LA Weekly

- The jailbreak iPad is coming soon. iHackintosh

- Bob Dylan denied permission to play in China. Guardian UK

- New Big Boi track, “Shutterbugg” is a serious jam. The Fader

- This weeks Beck cover of INXS is much better than last week’s Beck cover of INXS. Rawk Blog

Music Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen

by Barbie Brady and Matt Brady
April 26, 2009 - 9:39 pm

Leonard Cohen

For the past 42 years Leonard Cohen has been making some of the most important, beautiful, passionate songs ever written. His ability to infuse a song with emotion transcends time, only getting better with age and experience.  Actually being able to see the man himself onstage is a little like the second coming. After all, he is the “jew who wrote the bible”.

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