Cover versions are easy to play but much harder to get right. It’s the rare band or artist who can turn in their own version of a classic song without ruining the original or provoking the ire of fans ...

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 ...

It is the ultimate form of compliment from one artist to another when they record their own cover version of the original artist's work. Artists covering other artists have long been an integral part ...

Not every one-hit wonder was the original recording artist of the song for which they became the most famous, as proven by these four one-hit wonders from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s. Impressively ...

No singer can combine seemingly vapid lyrics with a bubblegum beat and transform it into an iconic anthem quite like Madonna. After all, that’s exactly why she is known as the Queen of Pop, and that’s ...

Pardon us for not losing our minds with excitement over Bob Dylan’s much-praised new recording of Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust,” which was released late last week as a preview of Triplicate, his three ...

If the backing track on Beyoncé’s new recording of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” sounds especially familiar, there’s good reason for that. It turns out that the cover version she recorded for her “Cowboy ...

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 ...