Cover Songs

Who wants to watch Marco Benevento do a little Fearless > Bennie and the Jets > Fearless?  Settle down kids, of course you do. Backed by Dave Dreiwitz on bass, who plays in a little band named Ween, as well as Andrew Barr on drums, Marco and company don the cover hat during a recent visit to the Moboogie Loft. You can check out the video below, if you're in to that sort of thing.

Fresh off a couple of runs with some of his other bands, Garage A Trois and Suprise Me Mr Davis, Marco next has the year's only scheduled Duo performance with current Furthur drummer Joe Russo on August 27th at the Highline Ballroom. The keyboard/organ wizard will also appear on the upcoming We Were So Turned On: A Tribute To David Bowie with a cover of "Art Decade". Never one with a case of the lazies, Marco has another tour with the Garage A Trois folks scheduled for the fall. Dates are available after the jump.

• September 3 - Doug Fir - Portland, OR
• September 4 - Tractor Tavern - Seattle, WA
• September 5 - John's Alley - Moscow, ID
• September 7 - Knotty Pine - Victor, ID
• September 9 - The Llama - Telluride, CO
• September 10 - The Aggie Theatre - Fort Collins, CO
• September 11 - Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom - Denver, CO
• September 13 - The Bottleneck - Lawerence, KS
• September 14 - Old Rock House St. - St. Louis., MO
• September 15 - Canopy Club - Urbana, IL
• September 16 - Double Door - Chicago, IL

Pearl Jam are currently in the midst of their May tour, which found them in Hartford, CT last night. Somehow this prompted  the band to debut a new cover dedicated to the UCONN womens basketball team. Eddie and I have never seen eye to eye on dedications. Either way we get the band doing their own take on some early Van Halen, which of course epitomizes Super Hella Awesome. Enjoy as McCready does his best EVH impersonation while Eddie Vedder filters David Lee Roth as the band rips through Ain't Talking Bout Love off of Van Halen's self titled 1978 debut. Rock.   [via all thats sacred]

Piano man extraordinaire Ben Folds recently stopped by The Onion offices in Chicago to take part in their Undercover series. Instead of going the comic route Folds chose to cover Say Yes by the late great Elliott Smith. Folds and Smith have a history together as Folds even wrote a tribute song of sorts to Smith called Late off of Songs For Silverman in which he points out that Smith was a dirty basketball player.  Who knew?   [via avclub]

To be fair I haven't watched much of George Lopez's show mostly because I don't think he is funny or interesting. According to my sources there are some people out there that are in the same boat. Fortunately the internet is there to alert us to the awesome stuff that comes from unusual places.  Look no further than William Shatner's recent appearance on Lopez Tonight that sees the amazing crooner share the stage with that asian dude that did Whitney better than Whitney.

The bowl cut's name is Lin Yu Chun and he really pours his little heart into their take on Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.  Shatner does his standard beatnik drunken sailor spoken word bit which is as awesome as usual, if not moreso paired with Chun's energy. It seems pretty clear that whenever science figures out how to clone humans we should make about two million Shatners.   [via warming glow]