Root Down in the Shadow

Cover Song of the Week, albeit not as weekly as I'd like has been one of my favorite posts to do.  There's so many variations to consider.  Awesome cover band or awesome original?  Same style vs new style.  Or in general sometimes it's just sharing something cool that others should see. In this case, this week's edition is a reminder that the Onion.com AV Club is kicking off their 3rd installment of the AV Undercover, a series of cover songs on a pre-set list being completed one by one by bands stopping in the AV Club studio until all the songs are gone.  The bands are a secret until, they've been released one by one throughout the Spring & Summer. I've featured a few before including my first discovery of the AV Club with Iron & Wine and the Low Anthem on a double feature and They Might Be Giants doing Chumbawamba As mentioned above, the Onion has kicked things off for 2012.  There's a cool cover of Sharon Van Etten and Shearwater cover...

Back in April, I stared following The Onion's A.V.Club back in April after finding Iron & Wine covering George Michael .  I check back from time to time to find out what other covers have been completed.  Occasionally I get rewarded with a gem.  In fact, I was coming back to the site to prepare for a different post, when I was overwhelmed by the most recent post.  They Might Be Giants cover of Chumbawamba' s 'Tubthumping' was just so much fun. According the site blurb "Flansburgh also had the brilliant idea of recruiting backup singers from our office to sing/shout the chorus. He asked me to determine how many people we could fit in that room—it was 16, plus two camera men, plus the band—and on Memorial Day, TMBG made a special stop in Chicago to perform the song" They Might Be Giants covering 'Tubthumping' They Might Be Giants covers Chumbawamba The track starts of quietly like some TMBG songs, such as 'Boss of Me (Malcom In the Mid...

In honor of the current tour with Headliner Iron & Wine and opener the Low Anthem cruising through the East Coast, I thought it was a perfect time to introduce my readers to The Onion - A.V. Club .  The satirists at the Onion took a break from their off the wall articles to bring an awesome twist to the cover song.  According to the intro on the videos (after the Starbucks commercial - sorry) It goes like this.  "With some help from our readers, the a.v. club made another list of 25 song and we’re inviting bands into our office to cover them.   Once a band has played a song, it gets crossed off the list.  So the later a band comes in the fewer songs they will have to choose from." We start off with the inaugural song of this season's list Iron & Wine covering George Michael 'One More Try' Iron And Wine covers George Michael It's a rare look at Sam Beam & Co doing outside songs. Of course there is the larger than life 'Such Great H...