As Norah might know, I have been going through a little girl group phase. As Mike and Kevin probably know, I am easily coerced into liking a cover if it is done by a woman with a fantastic voice: examples including Whatever You Like by Anya Marina, Florence and the Machine doing Addicted to Love, Kate Nash doing Flourescent Adolescent, KT Tunstall doing I Want You Back or Amy Winehouse doing Monkey Man, Cupid, or That Thing.
The point of this (besides bumping Human Centipede out of the way) is to point out an awesome cover of Bad Romance by an artist named Lissie. At the bottom of the page that I linked to you can hear other songs that she has done.

Not feeling it?  How about some Undertones?  A newly working/designed Dr. Mooney’s has a post about the great Belfast band.

Whether you are getting ready for drive home for the weekend, enjoying the awesome day outside, or preparing to dj a grade school dance, here are some awesome jams:
Kings Go Forth – High On Your Love

Florence and the Machine – Dog Days are Over:

If the new hotness isn’t enough for you, click for more:
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Its Friday, so I am going to make this quick and dirty, the way Austin likes it:
You ever listen get excited about the alleged new pop hit of the year until your listening to your ipod and you realize the reason you find it catchy is because it is a cover/sample of a song you already have on your ipod? I am not against using samples, but I do get angry when you really don’t add anything new to the song. It wasn’t till recently found out that Crazytown’s Butterfly was a sample from a Red Hot Chili Peppers Song. I didn’t know I could think less of Shifty Shellshock.
Anyways, Mike was wondering what the best cover song ever was the other day. I am still trying to best his answer of “Twist and Shout.” Easy answers would be Elvis’ “Hound Dog” or Jimi’s “All Along the Watchtower,” but is there anything better?
If you want to hear some good covers and other covers that make you appreciate the originals so much more, check out Cover Me or Cover Lay Down.

Brandon Flowers, of Killers fame, is pulling a Julian and coming out with a solo record separate from the band he does most of writing for anyway. You can hear what I guess is a teaser here.