I promised to limit myself to one cover of The Cure during ‘Cover Song Month’.
AFI is a talented band full of great guys. Not to name drop or anything, but I’ve met them on a few occasions. The best one was when I was trying to interview Simple Plan and the guys from AFI was in the same room poking fun at them for their height.
What makes AFI’s cover of The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” great is that they did it in front of Robert Smith. They must have been crazy nervous before their performance.
We’re big fans of San Cisco here on AmericasWhiteBoy.com. Their track “Awkward” appeared on our of our “Sweetbob’s HIpster Music Playlist” posts earlier this year.
Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” is the song of the summer and I’m sure San Cisco won’t be the last band to cover it, but it will definitely be one of the best when it’s all said and done.
(We dig the lady drummer.)
This is not the first time Bad Rabbits appeared during “Cover Song Month”. They covered The Smashing Pumpkins track “1979” and we included it in last year’s feature.
This year, we’re featuring their cover of “Sextape” by Deftones. It’s one our favorite covers in recent memory.
August is ‘Cover Song Month’ on AmericasWhiteBoy.com.
We did this last year and we had a blast sharing some of our favorite cover songs.
Banquise is a French band, which makes their cover of a Ratt song (“Round And Round”) much more impressive. Who knew an iconic 80’s hair-metal song can be made into an indie track that sounds fresh.
The Utah Blaze is a team in the Arena Football League (oh, that AFL still exists?). Utah’s LaVaughn Macon runs a kickoff return for a touchdown in a 48-46 win over the Cleveland Gladiators, then something amazing happens…a teammate knocks him down and proceeds to do the “People’s Elbow” move made popular by WWE superstar The Rock.
This is fantastic.It’s proof that even diehard New York Mets fans who follow the baseball cannot even recognize their favorite baseball player without his hat. Matt Harvey has thrown less than 20 starts in Major League Baseball, but you would think this would be a slam dunk, right?
I’m guilty of this. It wasn’t in person, but when I saw Wade Boggs without his hat, I didn’t recognize him. Granted, it was on a commercial in which he used a product to regrow his hair. I don’t think it matters, baseball players just look weird without a baseball hat.
‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ has really cranked it up since Fallon was named future host of ‘The Tonight Show’. I hope the show doesn’t change and make the mistake Conan did when he took over the reins. The decision to move ‘The Tonight Show’ back to New York City will help bring new life to the program. NBC will miss having the guests Los Angeles can provide, but they’ll make do with having both its late-night shows based in NYC (I didn’t really count Carson Daly’s show, because only two or three people watch it).
By the way, Matt Harvey will be starting pitcher for the National League team in this week’s MLB All-Star Game.