Category: Tributes

Listen:  Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck cover Kevn Kinney’s “MacDougal Blues”

Listen: Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck cover Kevn Kinney’s “MacDougal Blues”

Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck seemingly have been joined at the musical hip since McCaughey started his tenure as a R.E.M. sideman in the mid-’90s.

Dave Gahan covers The Gun Club’s “Mother of Earth” for Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute

Dave Gahan covers The Gun Club’s “Mother of Earth” for Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute

Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan has contributed a cover of The Gun Club’s “Mother of Earth” for the fourth installment of The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project.

Watch: Little Steven, The Kinks’ Dave Davies and more honor The Smithereens’ Pat DiNizio

Watch: Little Steven, The Kinks’ Dave Davies and more honor The Smithereens’ Pat DiNizio

The surviving members of The Smithereens took to the stage in Red Bank, N.J., last night to pay tribute to their fallen bandleader, Pat DiNizio — performing a marathon set that found the band’s members joined by special guests Steven Van Zandt, Dave Davies of The Kinks, Marshal Crenshaw, Ted Leo, and more.

Little Steven-led tribute to The Smithereens’ Pat DiNizio to be streamed live tonight

Little Steven-led tribute to The Smithereens’ Pat DiNizio to be streamed live tonight

Little Steven Van Zandt is hosting a concert tonight in New Jersey to pay tribute to the late Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens, a show that will be streamed live online and will feature DiNizio’s surviving bandmates fronted by Van Zandt, as well as Patty Smyth and Scandal. Full details on tonight’s show right here.

Listen: ‘Everybody Wants Somewhere,’ a 21-track tribute to Fugazi by California indie acts

Listen: ‘Everybody Wants Somewhere,’ a 21-track tribute to Fugazi by California indie acts

The Oakland, Calif.-based label Sell the Heart Records has just released a two-part, 21-song collection of Fugazi covers by California indie acts including No Knife, Warsaw, Great Apes, theSTART, Long Knifes, Identical Homes, My Last Line and more. Stream the whole thing here.

Watch: The Church’s Steve Kilbey covers The Cure classics ‘Pictures of You,’ ‘Love Song’

Watch: The Church’s Steve Kilbey covers The Cure classics ‘Pictures of You,’ ‘Love Song’

The Factory Theatre in suburban Sydney, Australia, on Saturday hosted a 25th anniversary tribute to The Cure’s ninth album Wish that was headlined by Steve Kilbey of The Church, and featured a number of Sydney-area musicians performing songs off that record and Robert Smith and Co.’s back catalog.

Free download: ‘Under What Flag,’ a 17-track tribute to Fad Gadget ‘by fans, for fans’

Free download: ‘Under What Flag,’ a 17-track tribute to Fad Gadget ‘by fans, for fans’

More than a dozen musical acts contributed to a new tribute to post-punk electronic-music pioneer Fad Gadget “made by fans, for fans” that’s available as a free download in tribute to “an underappreciated yet profound trailblazing musical legacy.” Stream the album here or download it for free.

Listen: The Mountain Goats wrote a song about Andrew Eldritch of The Sisters of Mercy

Listen: The Mountain Goats wrote a song about Andrew Eldritch of The Sisters of Mercy

The John Darnielle-led Mountain Goats this week announced their 16th studio album, a guitar-less record called Goths that, as its title suggests, celebrates the dark musical genre: “the friends whose bands never made it out of Fender’s Ballroom, the Gene Loves Jezebels of the world.”

Watch: The Cure covers The Beatles’ ‘Hello Goodbye’ for Paul McCartney tribute

Watch: The Cure covers The Beatles’ ‘Hello Goodbye’ for Paul McCartney tribute

A long-in-the-works Paul McCartney tribute album finally arrives this November, and the first track to debut from The Art of McCartney is a rather faithful cover of The Beatles’ “Hello Goodbye” performed by The Cure with Sir Paul’s son James McCartney assisting on keyboards.

Video: Mike Mills and Drivin’ N Cryin’ play R.E.M. classics at Buren Fowler tribute

Video: Mike Mills and Drivin’ N Cryin’ play R.E.M. classics at Buren Fowler tribute

Last night at the venerable 40 Watt Club in Athens, Ga., Drivin’ N Cryin’ paid tribute to late guitarist Buren Fowler, who played with that band from 1988 to 1993 after working as Peter Buck’s guitar tech and an occasional second guitarist on two R.E.M. tours.

Black Francis, Kristin Hersh, Juliana Hatfield on board for Wes Anderson tribute ‘I Saved Latin!’

Black Francis, Kristin Hersh, Juliana Hatfield on board for Wes Anderson tribute ‘I Saved Latin!’

American Laundromat Records next spring will release a double-CD tribute to quirky director Wes Anderson titled I Saved Latin!, a collection that will feature indie artists such as Black Francis, Kristin Hersh, Juliana Hatfield, Mike Watt and more covering songs featured in films.

Hunters & Collectors tribute to feature Neil Finn, Eddie Vedder, The Avalanches and more

Hunters & Collectors tribute to feature Neil Finn, Eddie Vedder, The Avalanches and more

Hunters & Collectors — best-known to American fans for late-’80s modern-rock hits “Back on the Breadline” and “When the River Runs Dry” — will be the subject of a new tribute album next month featuring interpretations of the band’s music by Eddie Vedder and Neil Finn, Paul Kelly, The Living End, The Avalanches and more.

A.C. Newman, Ted Leo and more to perform at tribute to Game Theory’s Scott Miller

A.C. Newman, Ted Leo and more to perform at tribute to Game Theory’s Scott Miller

New Pornographers’ A.C. Newman, Ted Leo, Will Sheff of Okkervil River, Doug Gillard of Guided By Voices and Nada Surf, The Wrens’ Charles Bissell and more are slated to perform in New York City later this month as part of a tribute to Scott Miller of ’80s college-rock act Game Theory and later, who died in April.