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I Call Fives are returning after a seven-year hiatus. The band revealed the news in style today, dropping a brand new cover of Saves The Day’s classic song “At Your Funeral.” In a Feb. 5 Twitter post, the New Jersey pop-punk favorites dropped hints about an upcoming I Call Fives release. Now, the reimagi...

Picturing our favorite bands in their fledgling stages is no easy task. But imagining them devoid of any original music and instead performing cover songs? That's straight-up impossible. Remarkably, it's not all that rare for now-iconic artists to reveal that they'd formerly performed as a tribute act...

Dave Hause is a staple of the modern punk community. The former frontman of the highly revered defunct punk outfit the Loved Ones. He also had a short-lived stint as a guitarist in the legendary hardcore punk act Paint It Black. And we would be remiss if we didn’t mention his tenure in punk supergroup, the Falcon.  ...

Black Veil Brides are taking a break from working on their new album to show their support for Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd protests. On June 13, the band released a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "American Skin (41 Shots)." The song was written by Springsteen following a New York police shooting in 1999...

Megadeth bassist David Ellefson is releasing his debut solo album later this year but today we're getting a sneak peek with a cover of a Post Malone track. Ellefson is giving a heavy reworking of Post Malone's "Over Now" while revealing he and his solo bandmates are all fans of the rapper. Read Mo...

If you've been a fan of Billie Joe Armstrong's No Fun Mondays covers, we have a treat for you. Seemingly out of boredom, the Green Day singer/guitarist just put out a cover for No Fun Hump Day.  Armstrong worked up the courage to try singing in Italian as he covered "Amico," originally by Don Backy.  R...

Remember when Twitter's #WeezerCoverAfrica fan campaign actually got Weezer to cover "Africa" by Toto? Yes, it happened, and the longtime Los Angeles rockers recaptured listeners' attention with the contemporary twist on the '80s hit. But, of course, Weezer being Weezer, they've taken that idea and ran with it...

Video game theme song covers tend to lend themselves to imaginative heavy metal renditions. (Hey, remember Nintendocore?) To wit, metalcore mainstays August Burns Red are turning The Legend Of Zelda's classic theme into a dynamic, guitar-fueled anthem you'd think could resurrect the entire Kingdom of Hyrule...

Gore-obsessed entertainers and veteran metal icons Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson have been putting their own unique twist on the Beatles' classic "Helter Skelter" throughout the towns of North America during their massive Twins of Evil: The Second Coming Tour...

Taylor Hawkins' 11-year-old son Oliver spread some holiday cheer over the weekend when he sat in with his father and Dave Grohl for a song during the Foo Fighters drummer’s classic-rock set with his merry cover act, Chevy Metal. And Oliver ...

Looks like members of All Time Low joined Palaye Royale for a rockin' cover of the My Chemical Romance classic "Teenagers" at an after-party following the acts' recent performances at Good Things Festival. Watch below! None other than All Time Low's very own frontman Alex Gaskarth hopped up onstage to join Palaye's Remington Leith, Sebastian Danzig and Emerson Barrett on the wistful but

English indie-poppers Pale Waves ring in the holidays with a seasonal Spotify single sporting a cover of classic Yuletide tearjerker "Last Christmas" from George Michael's '80s Wham! outfit. Hear the band's twist on the tune, below. Read more: James Corden says we're all pronouncing blink-182's name wrong, but are we... Read More ...

Linkin Park member and solo musician Mike Shinoda recently joined British rockers Don Broco onstage for a deep dive into the classic alternative band's early catalog with a cover version of Hybrid Theory's "A Place For My Head." Read more: More support added to Bring Me The Horizon tour The Warped Tour cowboy-repping, Rob Damiani-fronted quartet just wrapped a substantial live run suppo

The Maine honor Tom Petty and his influence on their post-Can't Stop Won't Stop material by sharing a previously released cover of the late rocker's iconic "Wildflowers." Hear the tune and see what the band have to say, below. Read more: Foo Fighters would totally play the Super Bowl Posting frontman John O'Callaghan's version of the Tom Petty classic recorded for the Arizona emo group m

Their name is All Time Low. And you don't need to dream about them covering Wheatus' classic "Teenage Dirtbag," they've already done it. Watch as the boys ring your bell with the spry early aughties cover song, after gym class, below. Read more: Eminem responds to MGK's diss track on "Killshot" Do you give a damn about Wheatus...

Looks like the Used have taken to playing Linkin Park's "Shadow Of The Day" at recent live shows, and now there's video to prove it. Below, see some fan-captured footage of vocalist Bert McCracken and co. covering the 2007 LP cut. Read more: Coldplay do "Crawling" and 9 more LP covers It's not the first time the Utah-born band have reeled off their rendition of the Minutes To

Mid-'90s hitmakers Third Eye Blind just released a covers EP called Thanks For Everything, as noted by Billboard, and it features the Stephan Jenkins-fronted act doin’ their thing on Queens Of The Stone Age’s “In The Fade." Hear it below. Read...

Foo Fighters donned coyly covert garage-band monikers to play some covers and rarities at a pre-Cal Jam pop-up show over the weekend, including covering a Queen tune with the classic group's own drummer, Roger Taylor. Watch below! Read more: Slayer extend final world tour into 2019 Utilizing the fake bands names Chevy Metal and the Holy Shits, Dave Grohl and co. performe...

Bad Wolves welcomed a special guest onstage this weekend during a performance of their hit Cranberries cover, "Zombie." Below, watch vocalist Tommy Vext bring his mom aboard for the band's tribute to late Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan...

If a Slipknot-loving youngster ever dramatically swings his foot atop a chair during the opening grunt of the masked metal band's "The Devil In I," you'll know it's on. Don't believe us? Just watch a nine-year-old belt the tune below! Read more: Corey Taylor on his best (and worst) 'knot masks The budding heavy-music-lover apparently covered the aggressive ...