Tag: The A.V. Club

Video: Ceremony covers Violent Femmes’ ‘Kiss Off’ for The A.V. Club

Video: Ceremony covers Violent Femmes’ ‘Kiss Off’ for The A.V. Club

This week’s installment of The AV Club’s Undercover 2012 series — in which bands that show up at the site’s Chicago offices pick a song off a pre-chosen list to cover — finds Bay Area punk act Ceremony taking a stab at the Violent Femmes’ “Kiss Off,” off that band’s classic self-titled debut.

Video: The Decemberists cover Sugar’s ‘If I Can’t Change Your Mind’ for The A.V. Club

Video: The Decemberists cover Sugar’s ‘If I Can’t Change Your Mind’ for The A.V. Club

Last week, Bob Mould ‘covered’ Sugar’s ‘If I Can’t Change Your Mind’ for The A.V. Club’s Undercover series. But before the song was crossed off the list, The Decemberists asked to do it, too. Watch that performance here.

Video: Bob Mould ‘covers’ Sugar’s ‘If I Can’t Change Your Mind’ for The A.V. Club

Video: Bob Mould ‘covers’ Sugar’s ‘If I Can’t Change Your Mind’ for The A.V. Club

When Bob Mould stopped by The AV Club for its Undercover web series, the producers asked him to perform Sugar’s “If I Can’t Change Your Mind,” one of the few songs left on the current list.

Video: R.E.M.’s ‘Driver 8’ covered by The Walkmen for the A.V. Club’s ‘Undercover’

Video: R.E.M.’s ‘Driver 8’ covered by The Walkmen for the A.V. Club’s ‘Undercover’

The A.V. Club wraps up its summer-long web series ‘Undercover: 25 Bands, 25 Cover Songs, 1 Small Room’ with this final installment: Shambling indie rockers The Walkman take on R.E.M.’s 1985 single ‘Driver 8,’ from the just-reissued ‘Fables of the Reconstruction.’

Video: Replacements’ ‘I Will Dare’ covered by Mates of State for A.V. Club’s ‘Undercover’

Video: Replacements’ ‘I Will Dare’ covered by Mates of State for A.V. Club’s ‘Undercover’

The A.V. Club’s web series ‘Undercover: 25 Bands, 25 Cover Songs, 1 Small Room’ follows up last week’s installment — Superchunk tearing through The Cure’s ‘Inbetween Days’ — with another iconic ’80s college-rock tune: The Replacements’ ‘I Will Dare,’ as reimagined by Mates of State.