On their most recent tour, Arcade Fire have been covering some locally significant song in just about every city they visit; it’s how they ended up covering Huey Lewis & The News’ “Back In Time” earlier this week. Last night, the band treated the crowd in the Canadian city of Alberta to two such c...

Earlier today, we heard the Arcade Fire’s rendition of “Games Without Frontiers” by Peter Gabriel, from a forthcoming tribute album, And I’ll Scratch Yours. Feist has also recorded a cover for the compilation. Below, stream her rendition of “Don’t Give Up” featuring Timber Tim...

A while after we’d given up any hope of hearing it, Peter Gabriel is getting ready to release And I’ll Scratch Yours, the album of artists like Arcade Fire and Bon Iver covering his songs. (It follows Scratch My Back, the 2010 album on which Gabriel covered many of those very same artists’ songs.) We’ve [...]

Ryan Adams can be a little feisty on Twitter — we’ve seen it ourselves — and yesterday he @’d Fox News correspondent Sean Hannity, “Your entire soul is controlled by fear and by hate. Evolve little chicken man. See reality.” It was in response, although I doubt related, to a tweet Hanni...

About three years ago, Peter Gabriel released his Scratch My Back album, on which he covered songs by people like Arcade Fire, Radiohead, David Bowie, and Bon Iver. At the time, the idea was that all the people Gabriel had covered would repay the favor and cover his older songs on another album. But time [...]