Capsule reviews of Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown's "A Supreme Blue," plus the latest Piranha Rama album, "Phony Frontier.

Bands like Minor Threat and 7 Seconds started the trend in the early '80s. It continues today with burgeoning hardcore acts ...

Dolly Parton’s immortal “Jolene” — a song that has long served as one of America’s great rock-era standards — was inspired by ...

The song has been covered so many times, and yet these bands found a way to turn it into something entirely new.

Some of the most iconic tracks in music history have a secret — they weren’t written by the artists who made them famous. From Whitney Houston’s spine-tingling ballad to Jimi Hendrix’s electrifying ...

If you agree with the old proverb that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then cover songs serve as tributes to their original artists. Sometimes, a cover version vastly outshines its ...

Phoebe Bridgers just beautifully covered Nirvana’s iconic tune “Lithium,” and it’s one of the most transformative cover songs I’ve ever heard. The singer-songwriter laid down an acoustic version of ...

Rob Zombie taps this highly controversial rock star for a cover of 'Helter Skelter' by The Beatles at a recent tour stop.

The devastated great-grandma of missing Sophia Cover has issued a desperate plea for the teenager to return home. “Sophia! This is grandma,” she said in a video posted to Facebook by the missing ...

Sometimes a cover song is so good, so singular that it completely eclipses the original version. Think Sinéad O'Connor doing The Family's “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Jimmy Hendrix lighting up Bob Dylan’s ...