Cover versions are easy to play but much harder to get right. It’s the rare band or artist who can turn in their own version of a classic song without ruining the original or provoking the ire of fans ...

While some artists prefer to stick faithfully to the source material when singing a cover, others like to make it their own. Whether for personal morals, creative choice, or commercial success, the ...

What’s the difference between a great cover song and a banal cover song that brings little or nothing to the table? One is like tasting a delicious, unexpectedly creative version of your favorite dish ...

No matter the genre, music is full of cover songs. Some artists record covers as an homage to those who inspired them. Others just like the song and want a version in their catalog. Sometimes, fans ...

Perhaps the least authentic line in the film A Complete Unknown is when Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan explains that his first album was mostly "covers". The real Dylan would not have said that. The ...

READ MORE: Duh! The best covers and memes of Billie Eilish’s ‘bad guy’ Eilish herself has become something of a regular practitioner of the cover version over the past few years, with her most recent ...

No singer can combine seemingly vapid lyrics with a bubblegum beat and transform it into an iconic anthem quite like Madonna. After all, that’s exactly why she is known as the Queen of Pop, and that’s ...

Led Zeppelin's fourth album turns forty-two years old today, and one of the easiest ways to measure the impact the record has had is to look at the long list of artists who have covered its songs over ...

Maybe only Adele’s ‘Hello’ will end up being more covered than Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’ by the end of 2015. The track was originally released in July, but went supernova when the Canadian debuted the ...