Weezer’s biggest hit wasn’t theirs; their cover of Toto’s ’80s classic Africa became a surprise phenomenon for a new ...

The best country music cover songs convince fans that they're originals. Darius Rucker did it in 2013 with "Wagon Wheel," and Chris Stapleton did too, in 2015. Miranda Lambert did it a few years ...

Van Halen formed in 1972, and since then, they have blessed rock music with classic rock hits, from original songs to covers. One particular song was their breakthrough, and it was a cover of a ...

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 ...

One person’s success can be another person’s major success. That is the very truth about a good deal of the world’s most famous cover songs. Many artists have created original works without ...

Back in March, during the kickoff to the latest leg of her Radical Optimism tour in Melbourne, Dua Lipa told the crowd she had a crazy idea. “To make my life a little bit harder, I thought, ‘Why don’t ...

Kimi K: If I were to cover a Christmas song, I think it would be “Where Are You, Christmas” from The Grinch. It just reminds ...

It is never easy to cover one of the biggest bands of all time, but some musicians have pulled off phenomenal interpretations of incredible Metallica songs. This is no simple task, especially since ...

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 ...

Country music is full of cover songs. In the 1950s and ’60s, it was common for multiple artists to cut the same song within months of one another. Today, though, artists tend to leave more of a gap ...

Now, I don’t think anyone should be covering PJ Harvey’s music—as a rule of thumb. I’m just not quite sure there’s another musician who could channel Harvey’s haunted masterpiece properly. But, then ...