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HIGHLY REC’D – THE MONTHLY MIXTAPE
Because good music is a right, not a privilege.
By: Jon Wolf
Highly Rec’d – Don’t Hog The Covers ’10!
1. Marie La Foret – Paint It Black (Rolling Stones)
2. The Hot Rats –
I Can’t Stand It (Velvet Underground)
3. Her Space Holiday – Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly)
4. Stretch Arm Strong – Angels Of The Silences (Counting Crows)
5. The Donnas – Safety Dance (Men Without Hats)
6. Town Bike – Radio Nowhere (Bruce Springsteen)
7. Vampire Weekend – Ruby Soho (Rancid)
8. Whiskeytown – Nervous Breakdown (Black Flag)
9. Justin Townes Earle – Can’t Hardly Wait (The Replacements)
10. Glen Phillips – I Want A New Drug (Huey Lewis and the News)
11. West Indian Girl – Eight Days A Week (The Beatles)
12. Vespers – All I Want Is You (Barry Louis Polisar)
13. Ellie Goulding & Starsmith – Sleepyhead (Passion Pit)
14. Florence + The Machine – Addicted to Love (Robert Palmer)
15. Keb’ Mo’ – Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
16. Sharam feat. Kid Cudi – She Came Along (Patsy Cline sample)
17. Carolina Chocolate Drops – Hit ‘Em Up Style (Blu Cantrell)
18. Jamie Cullum – Don’t Stop The Music (Rihanna)
19. Madeline Ava – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel) (She covered the whole album!)
20. She & Him – Lotta Love (Neil Young)
21. Cowboy Junkies – In My Time Of Need (Ryan Adams)
22. Richard Shindell – Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel)
Special thanks to kickarse covers sites: Cover Me, Cover Freak, Cover Lay Down, Berkeley Place, and many other blogs saving the world on a daily basis.
