The Juxe: AV Undercover Favorites
/The Onion’s AV Club has had a youtube series for years now where artists come in and cover well-known songs. For some reason they deleted a lot of the older entries in this series from their official youtube channel. But here are some of my favorites that remain, or that I could track down on random youtube channels.
The Regrettes cover Fox On The Run (The Sweet)
While the official kickoff of A.V. Undercover's eighth season is still a week away, we thought we'd whet our readers' proverbial appetites with a special bon...
Punch Brothers cover Reptilia (The Strokes)
AV Club took this video (and all of their old videos) down for some reason. This is Punch Brothers' cover of The Strokes' Reptilia
They Might Be Giants cover Bills, Bills, Bills (Destiny’s Child)
This is the A.V. Onion version minus the intro and brief comments by band before beginning. I don't own anything here or anywhere else ever.
The Big Moon covers Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler) —(and a little bit of the Pixies’ Where Is My Mind)
It's hard to escape the influence of Bonnie Tyler's 1983 melancholic power ballad "Total Eclipse Of The Heart." Even before the recent surge in popularity, i...
Lake Street Dive covers Take On Me (A-ha)
There are few songs more quintessentially '80s than Norwegian band A-ha's "Take On Me." It's a synth-heavy power ballad accompanied by a high-concept music v...