Having already tackled the work of IN FLAMES earlier this year, East coast metal duo THE NEOLOGIST have decided to release a full-album of SOILWORK covers. The cover art for WORKING THE SOIL - a collage of images from previous SOILWORK albums - can be viewed below. Additionally, you can check out a video for their cover of Shadowchild, which features drumes by Samus (ex-MUTINY WITHIN, ex-ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, DECREPIT BIRTH).
JONAH MATRANGA, best-known as the vocalist/guitarist of the band FAR, has just released VOICES+DEDICATION, a 16-track collection of acoustic cover songs. Featuring reworkings of songs made famous by THE MONKEES, ALKALINE TRIO, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, BOB DYLAN, MAZZY STAR, HUM, PEARL JAM, DEFTONES, THE BEATLES, TORI AMOS, and more, the album can be streamed in full below, or purchased in a variety of configurations via this link.
Because not enough bands cover ADELE (or LADY GAGA, NICKI MINAJ, or KANYE WEST for that matter), here's an acoustic cover of Turning Tables by ADELE as performed by Jose Villanueva of DIVIDED BY FRIDAY. Seriously - all bands need to stop covering these artists for awhile - at least until they have new music to pay tribute to butcher.
Jamie Scott of GRAFFITI6 has posted an acoustic cover version of Last Christmas, the song made famous by George Michael and WHAM! in 1984. The video can be seen below the break, right here on Kik Axe Music™. In other Graffiti6 news, the band also recently shot a video for their new single Free, a making-of for which can also be seen below.
After making his vocal debut with the recent DAVI SINGS SINATRA - ON THE ROAD TO ROMANCE, actor ROBERT DAVI has released his first Christmas single, appropriately a take on Mistletoe and Holly - the signature tune from 1957's A JOLLY CHRISTMAS FROM FRANK SINATRA. 100% of the proceeds of the single’s sales will be donated to The Salvation Army’s 120th annual Red Kettle Campaign. You can get the song on iTunes and Amazon as of today.
Part cover, part mashup, UK-based THE REAL TUESDAY WELD have become the 453,698th band to put a reworking of LADY GAGA's Poker Face onto the internet. Poker Face (Polka Phaze) -not to be confused with Weird Al Yankovic's similarly-titled Polka Face- can be experienced below, with a companion video that the band released a few days ago.
The third installment of FOOLKLEGS is out, ''orchestrated'' by KrazyBen and Funky Belek to bring pop music and global folk music together as one. Curious what WILL SMITH or LADY GAGA would sound like when mashed together with Indian or German folk? How about N.E.R.D. fused with Ukranian Polka? Check out the full tracklisting and stream below.
You want to start your Monday off right? Use your employer's bandwidth to snag a new gem from Klayton - the man you know as CELLDWELLER - and crank this up as you destroy the corporate machine from the inside out. It's a ''Klash-Up'' of BLACK SABBATH and METALLICA entitled Disposable War Pigs, and it can be streamed or downloaded via the player below. The track comes in advance of Klayton's first-ever DJ set, which will take place November 15th at Peabody's in Cleveland, Ohio. It's a little rock - a little dubstep - a little dance - fully enjoyable.
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE performed on Halloween night at Ace of Spades in Sacramento, California as SLIPKNOT. They've just posted a video of themselves playing (SIC), and had this to say about it: ''Never even practiced this as a full band, but who doesn't know Slipknot by heart? I mean really... if you don't like slipknot then you're a fucking terrorist.'' Check out the video below and share your thoughts in the comments section.
Los-Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist and producer HOLMES (aka Roy Shakked) has a new record out today called HOLMES: COVERS. Indeed, as the title indicates - it's a full album of cover tunes reworked in ways you haven't heard them before. Released on his own Groove Gravy Records (click here to grab it on iTunes), HOLMES takes on 13 songs from ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, DEPECHE MODE, INXS, and the one we're gonna stream for you right now... ICE CUBE. Yes, ''It Was a Good Day.''