The Covers Album
This Bird Has Flown - A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul is out on Razor & Tie 10/25. Here's the tracklist (via Pitchfork):
01 The Donnas - "Drive My Car"Speaking of classic LPs, check out the Uncut/ATP "Don't Look Back" series coming to London this fall. Bands will be revisiting their biggest albums live in concert:
02 The Fiery Furnaces - "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
03 Dar Williams - "You Won't See Me"
04 Low - "Nowhere Man"
05 Yonder Mountain String Band - "Think for Yourself"
06 Mindy Smith - "The Word"
07 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - "Michelle"
08 Sufjan Stevens - "What Goes On"
09 Rhett Miller - "Girl"
10 Ted Leo - "I'm Looking Through You"
11 Ben Lee - "In My Life"
12 Ben Kweller - "Wait"
13 Nellie McKay - "If I Needed Someone"
14 Cowboy Junkies - "Run For Your Life"
8/30: The Stooges play Fun House at Hammersmith Apollo
8/31: Dinosaur Jr play You're Living All Over Me at Koko
9/14: The Lemonheads play It's A Shame About Ray at Shepherd's Bush Empire
9/15: The Lemonheads play It's A Shame About Ray at Shepherd's Bush Empire
9/16: Mudhoney play Superfuzz Bigmuff plus early singles at Koko
9/17: Mudhoney play Superfuzz Bigmuff plus early singles at Koko
9/18: Múm and Cat Power play Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK and The Covers Album at The Barbican
9/21: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion play Orange at Koko
9/24: Gang Of Four play Entertainment! at The Barbican
9/25: Belle And Sebastian play If You're Feeling Sinister at The Barbican
10/4: The Melvins play Houdini at Koko
10/5: Dirty Three and Sophia play Ocean Songs and The Infinite Circle at The Barbican
Posted at 1:44 PM
Tags: The Lemonheads
I saw REM play Green and Murmur straight through in 1989.
For what it's worth.
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I think I just came in my pants. But not in a creepy way.
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exactly how is that not creepy?
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think this'll have sam champion covering "it's only love" as a b-side... Could yo ufind that?
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uncut mag is a ridiculous publication. just ridiculous.
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mars volta played de-loused straight through when i saw them in philly two summers ago
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"01 The Donnas - "Drive My Car"
aww. that's too bad.
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I'll wait till next year's Revolver tribute. Imagine the New Pornographers covering "She Said She Said."
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I have to somehow get my passport ready for those 8/30 and 8/31 shows. Dang!
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Why isn't the Dirty Three performing "Horse Stories"? And why do I somehow care?
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Surely they could've gotten some more impressive talent for this? It is the Beatles, after all.
Ted Leo, Rhett Miller, Fiery Furnaces - cool. But this is a seriously under-powered line-up.
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oh, i so want to go see belle & sebastian, but the show's been sold out forever and ever...come do this series stateside kids, pretty please!
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is it just me or has the focus good music completely shifted to Europe over the past year?
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How is Cat Power's "biggest" album the Covers Record?
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Cowboy Junkies singing an [i]up-tempo[/i] cover? That's unheard of.
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Hmm, so much for trying to italicize.
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That Belle & Sebastian show sounds great.
But how about we get the following shows:
R.E.M. does Automatic for the People (with Bill "Bert" Berry!)
The Church does Starfish
The Smiths do Strangeways, Here We Come
and so on.
What else am I forgetting?
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Perhaps they've done this already (I have no clue) but I would love to see the Drive-By Truckers play the whole Southern Rock Opera.
Green Day playing all of Dookie (come on, you all own it...)
The Hold Steady playing ...Almost Killed Me in order
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múm playing YESTERDAY WAS DRAMATIC - TODAY IS OK!?! i know i won't see it happen, but is anyone else as intrigued as i am, just by the thought of this? big whoa.
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David Bowie - Hunky Dory
what has he been doing?
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God, only in England would the wretched Lemonheads rate a two-night stand.
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I'm sorry, but JSBX doing Orange all the way through brings a tear to my eye. Oh the memories!wish they were doing it at CBGB's or Bowery...why Europe?
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oxspo juurbsai
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