Lily Allen - Straight To Hell

Straight To Hell has always been my favorite favourite Clash song, so it's a pretty sure thing that if someone covers it, I'm going to listen. Lily's version is...fine I guess. It's from a charity album put together by an organization called War Child, which is a pretty good name for a group that aims to protect children living in war zones. I can get behind that.

OAR covers The Downeaster 'Alexa'

You know, it's funny. They love him on Long Island (boy, howdy.), but I'm not much of a Billy Joel fan. And I'm not a huge OAR fan, either.

But when free tickets for a show on a beautiful summer night at Jones Beach become available, I can't say no. And when this happened near the end of the show, I was really glad that I was there to witness it.

Sure wish the video caught the whole song. I guess if I ever find one that does, I'll update the post.

New Found Glory up to old tricks

New Found Glory is currently in the studio recording the sequel to their 273,000 copy selling EP from the year 2000, From The Screen To Your Stereo, an album of film score covers best represented by their pretty rad cover of "My Heart Will Go On" (admit it, you liked it too).

Titled From The Screen To Your Stereo Part 2, it's slated for release this September, just in time to cash in on your wistful ruminations about the days that movies were good after trudging through a lineup of disappointing summer blockbusters.

Out September 18th, From The Screen To Your Stereo Part 2 includes covers of "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer from She’s All That, "Stay" by Lisa Loeb from Reality Bites, and "Iris" by The Goo Goo Dolls from City Of Angels. The disc features vocals from special guest musicians with more to be announced, including Lisa Loeb, Adam Lazarra from Taking Back Sunday, Will Pugh from Cartel and Sherri DuPree from Eisley. NEW FOUND GLORY recently visited Pugh on the set of Cartel’s upcoming reality show on MTV "Band In A Bubble" to record vocals.

If you don't care to hear what NFG has to add to "Stay" with Lisa Loeb's implicit blessing, then I just don't know what to say to you anymore.

[myspace.com/newfoundglory]

The Killers - Romeo and Juliet

It's a dicey proposition covering one of the greatest songs ever written (imho). The safe route is to play it pretty similarly and hope that people just like the fresh take of a slightly different production. The dangerous route is to mess around with it.

So The Killers played it safe. But I don't blame them. And I don't hate this. It's just not as good as the original.

(And since that video was so abysmal that I couldn't get through 1 minute of it, here's a kinda neat live version.)