Archive for the 'Covers' Category

BJ Smith released his Dedications to the Greats single January 28th on NuNorthern Soul. In addition to this Mos Def cover, he also covers the Pharcyde’s “Runnin’.”

Robin Hannibal posted this on Facebook. I’m new to Charles Jones but his twitter and facebook pages say he’s a “Singer/Keyboardist/Songwriter/Producer” from Los Angeles.

Szjerdene put me onto this dope Jacques Greene track through the “vocal cover” she put out last week. Sorry for the mismatched players – I couldn’t find both songs on the same site.

This Prince cover was originally put out as a promo-only 12″ by Scion AV in 2006. I played it at Dani‘s birthday on Saturday night and one of her friend’s messaged me later to find out who the artist was. After googling it to send her a link, I found that the band posted it as a free download in 2010 so I thought I would share it here. The Rhythm Roots All-Stars are based in Los Angeles.

I came across this interesting minimal cover of King‘s “The Story” by Astronauts, etc. and realized I never posted the original as a Song of the Day so it only seemed right to post both.

I like this take on Darondo’s “Didn’t I” by Tyra Hammond (Auckland, New Zealand) which was included on the Festive Season Music compilation on Jakarta Records (Germany) which came out December 21st.

ERIMAJ (NYC) released their album Conflict of a Man Aug. 21st on Lockhart Dynasty. This cover of J Dilla’s “Nothing Like This” actually made me go back, re-listen, and up my iTunes rating on the original. [via DJ Tara]

The Decoders (Los Angeles) have been releasing covers of classic soul tunes over the last year. This is their 8th which was released yesterday. You can hear the original here.

I was looking for “All In You” from Kylie Auldist‘s newest album Still Life which came out on Tru Thoughts on October 22nd; unfortunately neither she or the label posted that track to soundcloud or bandcamp. I did, however, find her cover of Jeff Buckley’s “Everybody Here Wants You” which is one of my favorite songs of hers. It’s on her 2008 debut album Just Say.

Shecky’s Jazzy Tofu (aka Applejac from Decatur, GA) posted this instrumental cover of Bilal’s (Dilla produced) “Reminisce” back in March.

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After going to the Robert Glasper Experiment show last night, I was inspired to do this when I got home. The RGE absolutely SMASHED this shyt along with Bilal and Musiq Soulchild. Hope ya’ll dig it. RIP Dilla Dawg…