Linkage — June 17, 2014 at 7:00 am

Linkage: Hear new covers of The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen, Duran Duran classics

Echo & The Bunnymen

A collection of some interesting links we recently stumbled across:

Cloud Boat – “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”: The production duo Cloud Boat, who will release a new album called Model of You this summer, today shared their atmospheric cover of the classic Smiths track. [Stereogum.com]

Lydia Loveless covers Echo & The Bunnymen: The AV Club’s “Undercover” series — which invites artists to pick a song off a list to cover at the site’s HQ — continues this week with Lydia Loveless tackling the beloved Echo & The Bunnymen single “The Killing Moon.” [AVClub.com]

Warpaint Cover Duran Duran’s “The Chauffeur”: Featured on the forthcoming Making Patterns Rhyme: A Tribute to Duran Duran, Warpaint this week debuted its makeover of the Rio favorite “The Chauffeur.” The tribute album is out July 15 on Modern Records. [Pitchfork.com]

 

 

6 Comments

  1. I will add those to my spotify playlist Neverending Covers… Any fans of covers, have a listen (I’m still using the freebie subscription)

    spotify:user:125262132:playlist:5RYqDTZopn5r6u6QGFzjnz

  2. That Warpaint cover is absolutely beautiful. Thanks for the heads up!

  3. Scott Stalcup

    Key is too high on “The Killing Moon.”

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