Monthly Mix Tape: Cover Up!
By Lindzrox & Jrox
This month we uncover some of the best renditions of your favourite tracks. While some artists tend to do a karoke-copy of the original, these artists keep the integrity and essence of the original song and sprinkle their own flavour for a tasty musical experience. In the golden era of music, artists made successful careers out of presenting revivals or reworkings of once popular tunes or contemporary “cover versions” of current hits. Musicians now play covers as a tribute to the original performer or group. These songs will feel as familiar as your favourite sweater, but will sound like you are hearing them for the first time.
1. Close to me – The Get Up Kids (original artist The Cure)
2. Straight to Hell – Lily Allen (original artist The Clash)
3. Johnny & Mary – Placebo (original artist Robert Palmer)
4. Blue Monday – Orgy (original artist New Order)
5. Do ya think I’m sexy? – Revolting Cocks (original artist Rod Stewart)
6. Against All Odds – The Postal Service (original artist Phil Collins)
7. Always on my mind – Pet Shop Boys (original artist Brenda Lee)
8. Hanging on the Telephone – Blondie (original artist The Nerves)
9. The man who sold the world - Nirvana (original artist David Bowie)
10. Be thankful – Yo La Tengo (original artist William DeVaughn)
11. Hurt – Johnny Cash (original artist Nine Inch Nails)
12. Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley (original artist Leonard Cohen)
Author: 
Publisher-Creator Mikhail Saavedra began life down by the deepest tip of southern Latin America. He started life with a deep curiosity for all things, with music and books being at the forefront, a curious child by all accounts. As he grew and opened his eyes to the world, he developed a sense of justice and dignity in part as a reaction to growing up in a military dictatorship. Alas, this did not fill him with fear or cynicism but a more rebellious spirit, which led him to being incredibly popular at the principal’s office and the local riot police department….
Then came Canada and it was here that he was able to formulate his deep desire to learn about the world, with Toronto being the kind of multicultural soup that could engage his need to know and embrace. It started with writing, then moved on to what became Toronto’s first Latin Alternative radio show, followed by an all-English show in the same vein. It was this desire to find the true “crossover” among people, which led him to the concept of “Alternavox”
He is a lover of wine, good food, Neruda, Eduardo Galeano, rebel music, revolutionaries, dancing, family and beautiful people. Believes that kindness in this much too cynical world is revolutionary, that you are a better person when able to give a little without asking for the change and that on the same token you should laugh at yourself and the madness surrounding you as often as possible as you set out to change the world bit by bit. 
I’ve got two personal favourites:
Folsom Prison Blues by Everlast (originally by Johnny Cash) - Hearing House of Pain’s Jump Around and Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Membrane sampled to cover Johnny Cash is like a snail slithering across a razor blade; both my dream and my nightmare.
Soul Man by the Blues Brothers - Those guys could really rock, and their cover of Soul Man from an early episode of Saturday Night Live is fantastic.
Thank you for this. Was a good listen