CHIRP Playlist: Friday, January 20, 2012
9:53 PM Retribution Gospel Choir Poor Man’s Daughter from 2 (Sub Pop) 9:49 PM The Black Keys Little Black Submarines from El Camino (Nonesuch) 9:45 PM La Oreja de Van Gogh Cometas Por El Cielo from Cometas Por El Cielo (Sony) 9:41 PM The xx Crystalised from xx (Young Turks) 9:37 PM Chris Connelly Classically […]
Hooray for Covers! 2Cellos, “Welcome to the Jungle”
Back at the beginning of the year, I posted a video from two young Croatian cellists doing a very impressive cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal”. Well, the video went viral and these guys suddenly blew up. Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser are back with a real band name — 2Cellos — a new cover […]
Hooray for Covers! Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic, “Smooth Criminal”
Some of my favorite covers are ones that change up the instrumentation. Â It’s much easier, I imagine, to do a straight-forward cover of a rock song with a rock band, but probably less easy to take a pop song and turn it into a rock cello duet. Â These guys did it, though, and it is […]