What’s the difference between a great cover song and a banal cover song that brings little or nothing to the table? One is like tasting a delicious, unexpectedly creative version of your favorite dish ...

What are the greatest cover songs? That was the question posed in my Oct. 15 Sunday Arts+Culture article, “Can a cover song be better than the original version? Absolutely! Here are six of the ...

Another song list! This one is a personal favorite of mine, because it means I get to spend a lot of time with artists I like covering other artist’s songs. Last December, Paste crowned Merce Lemon’s ...

Making a good cover song isn’t easy, and most bands are lucky if they can simply do justice to the original. However, there's a short list of bands and musicians that have outdone the original song ...

There is no platonic definition of a good cover version of a well-loved song. A good cover can be an enthusiastic celebration of the original, a rendition that highlights the very things that stir ...

Benson Boone isn’t the first famous mustachioed dude to cover “Cover Me Up.” But the guy who wrote the song, Alabama-born tunesmith Jason Isbell, is more stoked about this one. A former Mormon turned ...

When he put together a demo of the song with the E Street Band, manager/producer Jon Landau immediately sensed hit single potential. If you’re looking for how Landau contributed to Springsteen’s ...

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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester Eva Petersen has previously received Arts Council funding for her research in 2019. She currently works for Liverpool ...