Covers

UK singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who sings ‘The A Team,’ a song we still haven’t managed to get out of our pretty little heads, was in New York recently to promote his new album. Oh, and he was also in town to perform a sold-out show at Bowery Ballroom. No biggie.

If you haven’t already picked up Maroon 5‘s newest album ‘Overexposed,’ then you should probably march yourself over to the nearest corner and sit for a time out. We’re basically a walking advertisement for the album for two reasons: 1) We’re hoping Adam Levine will somehow notice us; and 2) The bonus tracks on the album are pretty sick.

Usher showed the rock side of his personality with a new cover of Foster the People‘s ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ on which he played bass guitar.

When is a cover of a cover worthy of attention? When it involves two young sisters harmonizing and providing their percussion on Robyn‘s ‘Call Your Girlfriend.’

To honor the 78th birthday of Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, Google changed their homepage to an interactive Moog Google Doodle. Thankfully, it took one musician only .03 seconds to figure out how to play the Mario Brothers theme. After that, other musicians caught on pretty quickly.

An 18-year old with glasses named Noah from South Carolina is the latest to have a viral video set to LMFAO‘s ‘Sexy and I Know It,’ but he may also be the best one yet. The Dave Matthews Band fan has a number of pop covers on his YouTube account, but this one is by far the most creative and least expected. It’s completely different from anything Redfoo and Sky Blu have come up with yet.

Justin Bieber fans have a whole new reason to be screaming crazily behind barricades. His song ‘Boyfriend’ was just remixed by hip-hop phenomena The Ying Yang Twins, a couple of guys who know a thing or two about the genre of hip-hop, rap and all around good music… and the remix isn’t too bad, at all!