Awesome Covers

Aussie pianist Josh Cohen is back with another beautiful cover version – this time expanding on Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash’s Hurt with a moving and engrossing 11-minute arrangement of Trent Reznor’s dark and disturbing track.

Leo Moracchioli pays tribute to the late, great Tom Petty with a fantastic cover version of his 1989 classic Free Fallin‘. It starts out as a smooth take on the original, then gets bathed in Leo’s crispy, crunchy metal coating.

The coversongs subreddit dug up this rare gem from a few years back – “Weird Al” Yankovic performing a cover version of The Postal Service’s morbid 2003 ballad, We Will Become Silhouettes, played in his trademark thrash-polka style.

Musician Vladimir Peña presents a wonderfully different, and highly captivating cover version of Radiohead’s 1997 classic track Karma Police, performed in four part harmony on his trombone. For a minute there, we lost ourselves… we lost ourselves.

(PG-13 Lyrics) Guess who’s got the party jumping, travel the dark and all the pumping… There’s something about Die Antwoord’s banger of a track that lends itself perfectly to a heavy metal interpretation, especially under the masterful guidance of Leo Moracchioli.

Puddles Pity Party bumped into Cáit O’Riordan of famed punk-folk band The Pogues and convinced her to join him in a duet of I’m A Man You Don’t Meet Every Day, a traditional Irish folk song the Pogues’ famously performed on Rum Sodomy & the Lash.

Getting strong now! Russian musician Logachev Andrey turns in a memeworthy performance of Bill Conti’s Gonna Fly Now from Rocky, playing all parts of the triumphant track on his trumpet, flute, and accordion. If you don’t feel like a champ after watching this, you’re dead inside.

Brass Against the Machine teamed up with vocalist Sophia Urista to create an amazing and energetic mashup, which combines the intensity of Rage Against the Machine’s Freedom with Beyonce’s Freedom. Download the track here.

Musician and tap dancer Aaron DeWayne turns in a fun and lively four-mallet marimba cover of the classic Super Mario Bros. theme song with performance flair to spare. We want this version as a ringtone now.

We can say with 100% certainty that when you click “play” that you’re going to be subjected to Rick Astley’s way overplayed Never Gonna Give You Up. But Samurai Guitarist has breathed new life into the track by revamping it in the style of old spaghetti western soundtracks.

Musician Lamont Landers turns in yet another amazing cover, this time taking on the Amy Winehouse hit You Know I’m No Good. Seriously, this guy should be on top of the charts already with a voice like that.

My Morning Jacket’s frontman Jim James’ fantastic cover of The Beach Boys’ I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times sounds more like an alternate recording, only with the psych vibe amped up. It’s from James’ upcoming album of covers Tribute To 2.

What happens when you take Smash Mouth’s memetastic hit All-Star and set it to the tune of Leonard Cohen’s classic ballad Hallelujah? In the hands of musician Josh Jackson and his mighty beard, you get Internet magic.

Just in time for trick-or-treating, our church-bound pal Gud Nuse presents a fantastically dark and spine-chilling cover version of Danny Elfman’s classic This Is Halloween from Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s stop-motion masterpiece The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Musician Luna Lee’s latest gayageum arrangement transforms The Doors 1970 classic Riders on the Storm into a wonderfully nuanced, mystical experience which suits the nature of the original track beautifully.

Musician Isaac May celebrates his excitement for season two of Stranger Things with a cool acoustic cover version of Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein’s enveloping, synthwave theme song, performed on the kinds of instruments typically played in bluegrass music.

Musician Cooper Carter shreds like a boss as he replicates the rich orchestral sounds of John Williams’ Imperial March by playing all 28 of its instrumental parts on various electric guitars and basses. He previously used the same technique with Star Wars’ main theme.

Leo Moracchioli applies his his trademark blend of angry guitar and hoarse-voiced scream-singing to Rihanna’s 2007 megahit Umbrella. We like to think that Leo’s umbrella has a razor-sharpened steel tip.

Puddles Pity Party is back with another flawless cover, this time taking on one of our favorite songs of all time, the Pixies’ 1988 classic Where Is My Mind?, in a fantastic arrangement by Storm Large and The Balls.

The Floppotron plays a song which feels like it was tailor-made to be performed on old floppy and hard disk drives – Eurythmics’ 1981 classic Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). The synth sounds just work perfectly on the computer hardware, and who are we to disagree?

What did I see? Could I believe… that what I saw that night was real and not just fantasy? Musician and remixer Andy Rehfeldt presents an brilliant and easygoing version of Iron Maiden’s devilish track set to a smooth bossa nova beat.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross recorded a fantastic tribute to John Carpenter’s theme from Halloween, adding their own haunting style, while preserving the synth sound that made it a classic. From the upcoming John Carpenter’s ‘Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998.

PMJ’s Scott Bradlee and Chloe Feoranzo perform a wonderful cover version of Foo Fighters 1997 classic My Hero. For every 1,000 plays through 10/14/17, they’ll donate $10 to the UMC Foundation, who provided Level 1 trauma care during the recent tragedy in Las Vegas.