Whitney have released a new 7″ single. One side is “F.T.A.,” an alternate version of the title track from this year’s terrific Forever Turned Around, with a cover of Wilco’s “Far, Far Away” on the flip.
Category Archives: Best Covers
Best Covers: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes ‘Nothing Breaks Like A Heart’
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes have just shared a pretty brilliant cover of Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus’ 2018 hit Nothing Breaks Like A Heart, adapting the country-disco tones of the original and giving it a more punk rock feel.
Best Covers: Bombay Bicycle Club ‘F For You’
Bombay Bicycle Club have covered Disclosure‘s ‘F For You’ – click above to listen.
The London-based band were joined by singer Liz Lawrence for their stripped-down take on the dance track, which they recorded during an appearance on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge yesterday (February 27). The song originally appeared on Disclosure’s debut album ‘Settle’
Best Covers: Lucy Dacus ‘Last Christmas’
Lucy Dacus shared her cover of Wham’s “Last Christmas.” The track appears on the singer-songwriter’s new covers EP, 2019. The EP collects a series of holiday-inspired covers Dacus released throughout the year.
Best Covers: PJ Harvey ‘Red Right Hand’
Music from the first five seasons of BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders will be collected in a new double album due out on November 15th.
Notably, the set marks the first-ever commercial release for PJ Harvey’s cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand”. The Bad Seeds’ original version has long served as the series’ theme, but in 2014 Harvey was commissioned to cover the song in an effort to make the series seem “less American.”
Best Covers: Dan Mangan “Losing My Religion”
Dan Mangan released his latest record More or Less last year, and now the Vancouver singer-songwriter has delivered some new material in the form of a cover.
He’s revamped R.E.M. classic “Losing My Religion,” and the new version appears in the trailer for the CBC/AMC TV series Unspeakable, which he also scored.
Best Covers: Fiona Apple “The Whole Of The Moon”
Fiona Apple covered The Waterboys’ “The Whole Of The Moon” for the end credits of the series finale of The Affair. Apple also made the theme song for the Showtime show, which debuted back in 2014.
