From Johnny Cash to Sinead O’Connor, music fans discuss the tracks where the remake outshone the master recording.

Tampa Bay’s live music weekend is here, rolling one up and smoking it to a Willie Nelson record. The Highwayman plays a Clearwater show this weekend, but he’s not the only cowboy onstage. Bay area ...

In the vibrant, horn-heavy heart of New Orleans, an enigmatic new squad is bubbling up from the underground club scene. A self-described psychedelic-rock outfit, Atom Cat is carving out a space in the ...

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Even great musicians with the best intentions can serve up a bad cover of a cherished song. In some cases they might try too hard to be faithful to the original, leading to an interpretation that’s ...

Remember your first time — the heightened anticipation, that initial awkwardness of finding yourself uncertain of how to feel, the initial acceptance that this was truly something special and finding ...

Cover versions are a huge part of pop and though many regard the original version of a song as the definitive, there are plenty of people who reckon it takes a cover version to really make a song ...

Even if the worlds of rock, metal and hardcore rarely intersect with the pop ecosystem, we owe Top 40 hits quite a lot when you stop to think about it. Who else could we rage against on the charts if ...

The Bracero program refers to agreements between the US and Mexican governments that allowed Mexican workers to fill seasonal jobs on US farms. Both the 1917-21 and the 1942-64 Bracero programs that ...

Here's a Michael Jackson remix and cover roundup for your listening pleasure. By Lyndsey Havens The King of Pop is behind such a lengthy string of hits that still deliver the same impassioned energy ...

As we predicted years ago, the Nu-Metal Revival Apocalypse is in full swing! Limp Bizkit are selling out large clubs (and people are no longer ashamed to say they went to the show… and enjoyed it).

The week’s most popular albums as compiled by Luminate, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). click to see ...