Featuring a videogame commercial song, a Janet Jackson interpolation, one beloved indie-rock guy covering another, and a ...

When an artist covers a song that's already popular, they always run the risk of facing criticism. But in these 10 cases, country artists were able to take successful songs from other genres and make ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is the ultimate form of compliment from one artist to another when they record their own cover version of the original artist's work. Artists covering other artists have long been an integral part ...

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 ...

Trivium's Matt Heafy has shown himself quite adept at covers through his social media channels over the last five or six years and now he and his band are seeking input from fans on which song they ...

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 ...

Cover songs, at some point, became part of nu-metal culture. To be more specific, these were mostly covers of pop songs. Sure, some did it before Limp Bizkit unleashed their take on George Michael's ...

Ben Platt’s recent cover of Addison Rae’s “Diet Pepsi” has gone viral on social media. The appeal was the song choice and change in performance style – an unexpected crossover between Platt’s musical ...

Play your biggest song(s); Yell the name of the festival (or host town/city) early and often; and Play a cover song. Not even the full-time nationally touring musicians and the seasoned concert-goers ...

Cover versions have had a rough time of it over the past several years. First, The X Factor unleashed a wave of pub singers on Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”. Next came the scourge of the John Lewis ...