Country and rock and roll is kind of like peanut butter and jelly. They can live without the other, sure, but the whole core ...

Cover songs are a natural part of life in the music industry. It’s how a lot of artists start out nowadays, or pay homage to their heroes. There are many covers in rock music, but five of the most ...

There is no exact recipe when it comes to the best thrash metal cover songs. But then you also have Sodom, who just sound like they're having fun while covering a surf rock classic from the 1960s. The ...

Cover bands typically stick to the top layer of rock songs. If they dig too deep, they run the risk of losing their crowd, who have come to hear the hits redone by someone else. As a result, the same ...

Rock music has always thrived on reinvention. Many of the early rock tunes were covers of blues and R&B songs. Rock guitarists were notorious for borrowing licks from blues songs and powering them ...

Making a good cover song isn’t easy, and most bands are lucky if they can simply do justice to the original. However, there's a short list of bands and musicians that have outdone the original song ...

Another song list! This one is a personal favorite of mine, because it means I get to spend a lot of time with artists I like covering other artist’s songs. Last December, Paste crowned Merce Lemon’s ...