The album is the best invention of the past century, hands down — but the music isn’t the whole story. The album cover has been a cultural obsession as long as albums have. Ever since 12-inch vinyl ...

Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails is one of the definitive country music covers of non-country songs. Cash’s cover is haunting, heartbreaking, and existential in a way that the source ...

Our first pick is not necessarily a cover, but a reworking of Miley Cyrus’ “Midnight Sky” to include the chorus and second verse of Stevie Nicks’ 1981 hit, “Edge of Seventeen.” What is undeniable is ...

Santa Barbara’s favorite quipsters, Hale Milgrim (former President/CEO of Capitol Records) and Richard Salzberg (a k a Music Maniac), are back with a new Go to Hale show, Covered in Music, which ...

The covers of the most famous music albums are iconic in their own right. The images are often very powerful and game changing, and become associated with the artist, the music, and the era itself, ...

Me listening to the Paradise soundtrack while writing this. Photo: Brian Roedel/Disney Using these covers is both a misguided choice and one of the things I appreciate most about Paradise. A drama ...

Already making her mark on the zeitgeist in 2023 with Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey had one more thing to say earlier this month with her take on John Denver’s ...

Cover songs accomplish a good deal of things. If successful, they make some cash for both artists involved and breathe new life into an already storied classic. Now, for the most part, artists ...