Cover, Featured | Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right (Easy Does It MCA Tribute)
Posted by GMONEY on May 14, 2012
The recent passing of Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys is a great loss for the music industry. MCA was a musical innovator who transcended the East Coast/West Coast rivalry with an infectious brand of sabotage that will never be matched. Easy Does It holds a special place for the Beastie Boys in their hearts, and credits them as a huge inspiration for their work. As such, they have put together this tribute to MCA, and according to Easy Does It:
“Fight For Your Right” by the Beastie Boys “was the first cover song we ever learned as a band, wayyy back in the day. So it was only right that we paid proper homage & respect. These guys shaped our lives, straight up…we’re just some kids that wanna rap to guitars too. In true Beastie Boys spirit, we dressed up as characters from their iconic music videos and had a bunch of fun on camera. If his legacy can be perpetuated just .00001 % more – by people watching our video, then we did our job.
I’d say Easy Does It definitely did their job, check the video and see for yourself.
Download: Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right (Easy Does It MCA Tribute)
Cover | Collin McLoughlin – Video Games (Cover)
Posted by GMONEY on March 12, 2012
Collin Mcloughlin’s latest cover of Lana Del Rey’s Video Games is nothing short of a masterpiece. His raw composition skills really show through with the unique construction of the drum loop, in which he compressed sounds made from back of his guitar. ONce again Collin delivers an unforgettable performance, and this time he has a special purposed for releasing his video:
I am putting this cover out is to help promote my selection for a chance to play at the Billboard Music Awards. I was chosen as one of 18 finalists for the slot, and I need to get more votes than the other two people in my bracket to be able to perform in Vegas amongst some of the biggest stars in music.
Collin works tirelessly to put out amazing videos and free music for you to enjoy. Help him out by voting here, and here, and one more time for good measure (you can vote as many time as you want).
Cover, Videos | Collin McLoughlin – Someone Like You
Posted by GMONEY on January 10, 2012
Collin McLoughlin is back at it, melting hearts left and right. His latest release is an acoustic mashup of Adele’s Someone Like You, including portions of Katy Perry’s The One That Got Away and Rihanna’s We Found Love.
Cover | Timeflies – I’m On One
Posted by BIGLIFE on November 1, 2011
Timeflies flipped the script a little bit this week with their Timeflies Tuesday installment by doing an absolutely FILTHY cover of a personal fav, “I’m On One”. Do yourself a favor and tune into this… We will be dropping the Mp3 this week so hold off on throwing a low quality rip in your iTunes library.
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Cover, Hip-Hop | Aria ft. Caliph – No Church In The Wild
Posted by GMONEY on September 9, 2011
Aria just dropped a this super clean cover of Jay-z & Kanye’s No Church In the Wild Off of Watch the Throne. Everything about this video is on point: from the vocals, to the production, to the pure artistic vision. I’m definitely looking forward to following Aria to see what she drops next.
Download: Aria ft. Caliph – No Church In The Wild
Cover | Chris Brown – She Aint You vs Human Nature (Billy Van Remix ft. Quincy Kwalae and Zach Majors)
Posted by BIGLIFE on August 31, 2011
Here’s what the trio had to say about this dope RnB/Hip-Hop track that’s laced with a little dubstep, I’m feeling it! “This is a crazy collab with co-producer Billy Van and crazy vocalist Zach Majors. We put some lyrics of both Chris Brown’s “She Aint You” and the MJ song it samples “Human Nature” over an original beat that has some serious electro/dub influence.”
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DOWNLOAD: Chris Brown – She Aint You vs Human Nature (Billy Van Remix ft. Quincy Kwalae and Zach Majors)
Cover | Timeflies – Hurricane
Posted by BIGLIFE on August 30, 2011
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FNT’s favorite weekly installment duo hits us with yet another incredible track matched only by its visuals. This time around Timeflies playfully flips Bob Dylans hit song, “Hurricane”. Admittedly, I’ve been ignoring most of the Hurricane-themed corny songs, but after giving this one a listen, I now see some potential in this style of music… Stay tuned for the mp3!