Ever since reforming back in the mid-'00s, Dinosaur Jr. have provided one of the great counter-examples to an all-too-common rock history truth. Reunions, generally speaking, are all about diminishing returns. The youthful fire's gone, they're in it for the money, it's a brief retread of the classics before another inevitably dissolution, it onl...

We know that Miley Cyrus has an ear for the classics: she’s covered the Smiths in concert, is apparently readying a Leonard Cohen cover, and has been working with Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips on their Sgt. Pepper’s tribute album. Last night, she uploaded a cover of “Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You,&#8221...

If you were going to cover a Blondie song, you’d probably pick one of the classics, right? Something off Parallel Lines, or maybe “Atomic”? Well, that’s why you are not Swedish pop iconoclast ceo. The man born Eric Burglund (along with some help from fellow Swedes jj) has instead given the world his floaty...

Fantasy Records continues its massive Creedence Clearwater Revival reissue program with the May 26, 2009 release of Creedence Covers the Classics plus a fully remastered version of The Concert, the band's 1970 live album

For a band that makes such (relatively) sober music, Yo La Tengo sure like to kid around. From the Hanukkah shows to the radio covers bonanzas (and resulting Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics disc) to an album called I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass to the "Fun" section of their website, the Jersey vets know well that a little...