For what would have been Solomon’s 85th birthday, a long-overdue episode showcasing his amazing music! (42 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Cry to Me Nikka Costa 2:40 Nikka & Strings: Underneath and in Between Solomon Burke 2 iTunes I Got the Blues Solomon Burke 4:11 Make Do Wi…

With two members of Black Eyed Peas (will.i.am and Fergie) celebrating birthdays this month, and Twisted Sister’s frontman Dee Snyder also celebrating a birthday, it’s time for a double cover story! (64 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy I Gotta Feeling Jay Sean 2:18 BBC Radio 1'…

For Dale Bozzio and Eli Brickell’s birthdays, cover stories for there amazing bands they fronted! (59 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Words The Echoing Green 3:52 Hope Springs Eternal Missing Persons iTunes I Would Die 4 U (Keoki Remix) Missing Persons 3:37 Party O' The Times …

A tribute to the music of Roberta Flack, and a Cover Story for, now 80, Mitch Ryder! (53 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Killing Me Softly The Congress 5:25 The Loft Tapes Roberta Flack 3 iTunes Amazon Feel Like Makin’ Love the Indigo 3:34 My Fair Melodies Roberta Flack 3 Amaz…

Birthday cover stories on today’s show – for Howard Jones (70), Walter Becker of Steely Dan (would have been 75), and Smokey Robinson (85)! Enjoy! (63 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy No One Is to Blame Emile Millar 3:59 Stay Here Howard Jones 4 iTunes Things Can Only Get Bette…

For his 75th birthday, which is today, some artists show how they see Peter Gabriel’s music, in their eyes. (82 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy In Your Eyes Flaw 5:00 Revival Peter Gabriel 67 iTunes Amazon Sledgehammer Gavin Castleton 5:49 Covers Peter Gabriel 12 iTunes Don’t …

For what would have been Michael Hutchence’s 65th birthday, a set of INXS covers! (63 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Don’t Change The Polyphonic Spree 4:24 Afflatus INXS 9 iTunes Need You Tonight Gilli Moon 4:15 Woman INXS 8 iTunes Amazon Mediate IfIHalvedAHiFi 3:07 May 2019:…

This week, a salute to Billy Ocean, who turned 75 a couple days ago, and a Patron-submitted set from JD Friedland! (70 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Caribbean Queen a&r 3:13 SoundCloud Billy Ocean 3 Soundcloud Red Light Spells Danger Top Cats 3:37 Heartache Billy Ocean iTune…

Every once in a while, I have to do a cover story for the OTHER Elvis! (54 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Don’t Be Cruel Holmes 2:26 Covers Elvis Presley 6 Amazon Can’t Help Falling in Love (feat. Brooke) [DARK] Tommee Profitt 2:49 Covers, Vol. 1 Elvis Presley iTunes (You’re …

The music of R.E.M., for Michael Stipe’s 65th birthday! (72 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Losing My Religion The Rescues 4:18 Losing My Religion - Single R.E.M. 14 iTunes Driver 8 Love Canon 6:37 Cover Story R.E.M. 3 iTunes Amazon Fall On Me Bain Mattox 5:06 Finest Worksongs…

Here is it, the last episode of the year, and the biggest! Counting down the top 20 covers of the year, all the way down to number one! And as always, a special bonus. (84 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Dancing Queen (Cyberpunk) Melodicka Bros 3:18 Dancing Queen (Cyberpunk) -…

Time to start counting down the 40 best covers of 2024, and this is part one! (88 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Good Luck, Babe! senses 3:30 Good Luck, Babe! - Single Chappell Roan iTunes …Baby One More Time (from Kung Fu Panda 4) Tenacious D 3:12 Kung Fu Panda 4 (Original M…

As we do every year, it’s time for a collection of great Christmas songs, featuring requests from you and me! (69 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy The First Noel Annie Lennox 4:40 A Christmas Cornucopia Christmas 5 iTunes Amazon I Believe in You Sinéad O'Connor 5:38 A Very Spec…

Since her birthday usually falls right in the middle of the big Coverville end-of-year shows, we don’t always get a cover story episode for her, but let’s fix that right now! Annie Lennox and Eurythmics covers today on the show! (73 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Sweet Dreams…

It’s time once again for the annual Thanksgiving tradition of presenting an extra-long episode of Coverville, filled with Beatles covers! (79 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy No Reply The Gold Needles 2:15 Jem Records Celebrates John Lennon Beatles 6 I’m a Loser Vince Guaraldi …

When you turn 70, you get a Coverville episode. That’s just the way it is. (59 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy The Way It Is Love Canon 3:38 Greatest Hits Vol. 3 Bruce Hornsby 4 iTunes Bandcamp I’m Alive Bruce Hornsby 4:05 Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne Jackson …

For his 80th birthday, covers of things he wrote for Disney (Lion King and Aladdin), Broadway (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and Chess), and Bond (James Bond). (58 minutes) I call this episode 1510 at the beginning of the show – but it’s really 1511! Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Ha…

Paying tribute to the incredible songwriter, composer, arranger and producer, who just passed away this last weekend at the age of 91. (49 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy P.Y.T. The Holophonics 2:51 Maskarades. Vol. 15 Michael Jackson iTunes I Got You (I Feel Good) Quincy Jone…

For no reason. (63 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy I CAN’T GO FOR THAT (NO CAN DO) Hiroshi Takano 4:04 CLASS of the 80's ORANGE Hall & Oates 11 Amazon Maneater (feat. Jules Galli) Taran 3:30 Yacht Rock Hall & Oates Amazon Rich Girl (feat. London Thor) Stories 3:06 Vol. 14 Hall…

For Jon Anderson’s 80th birthday – some Yes covers, and some surprises! (65 minutes) Download Episode (AAC) Featuring Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Owner of a Lonely Heart Trevor Horn Feat. The Sarm Orchestra 5:48 Reimagines The Eighties Yes 11 Amazon Leave It Mosaic Whispers 2:50 Watercolors Yes 3 iTunes Amazon Rou…

An Irish solo artist, Andrew Hozier Byrne had been a little known singer before his song ‘Take me to Church’ started getting airtime on Irish and British Radio stations. Before too long, his song made it across the pond and the US listeners showed their love by pushing it to #2 on the Billboard top charts. Lyrics Undercover 300: “Take Me To Church”…

There’s no denying that some songs offer enjoyment on a multitude of levels. Combining elements of frat-house party anthem, Middle-Eastern influenced musical scales, social commentary, and bruising Punk energy, Come Out and Play by The Offspring is just such a song, and it’s the subject of this week’s Lyrics Undercover. Lyrics Undercover 283: “Come…