Covers by The Kickstand Band, Chris Richards and the Subtractions, Bertling Noise Laboratories, The Legal Matters, Static Daydream, My Expansive Awareness, The Radiation Flowers, Joe Giddings

We've come across a bunch of enjoyable, downloadable cover versions of songs we like or love and thought you might like to have a listen-hear. You will find in the widgets other covers of other bands, dozens of them, in fact. We've posted our favorites, but your kilometrage might vary.

The Kickstand Band cover The Sunrays (1965)


Chris Richards and the Subtractions cover Cheap Trick (twice) & The Who






Bertling Noise Laboratories cover Todd Rundgren, The Romantics, & Elvis Costello






The Legal Matters cover The Beatles


Static Daydream cover Guided by Voices


My Expansive Awareness cover The Castaways


The Radiation Flowers cover The Stooges


Joe Giddings covers KISS (and a whole lot more)

From Pugrock Comps: S T A Y, Standup '69, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Static Daydream, Goth Babe, John Canoe

Sometimes you just gotta go low to get high. The Psychedelic Underground Generation embraces this truism, digs it, man. That's why they periodically put out superb compilations of psych tuneage, seemingly monthly. Here are our favorites from the two latest comps. Hurry, please, on that first one (#32), for we know not how long it will be dlable. Thank you. And thank you, TPUG.

From #32:

Go here for free download. And hurry. 

Go here for free download. And hurry. 

#32's also got Shadow Folk's excellent "Dexter," which we already posted. It's also got a lot more great psych, so go there.

From #33: (Update, 28jan16: Click here to go to the place of the free download.)

Yeah, these are only our favorites. There's great variety on these compilations, from psychpop to heavierdutystuff. Go low and seehearsmelltouchtaste yourself.

From The Jesus and Mary Chain Tribute: The Tamborines, 93 Million Miles From The Sun, Static Daydream, A Marc Train Home

More cause for celebration reerupts with Psychocandy Revisited, the The Jesus and Mary Chain tribute just issued by São Paulo's The Blog That Celebrates Itself. We're posting our favorites below in separate widgies, but all 16 covers can be found in each one. Not to get too anatomicophiloshical about it, but is the bandname's "chain" the holy umbilical cord? That's what we always pictured, and it's probably obvious, but maybe you have an insight?

Static Daydream's cover of "Wear This Dress" is one of our favesongs of the year. It's in the TBTCI Skywave tribute here.

You might want to check out our previous post on this D.C. band.

Are we disappointed our two favorite songs by "The. . .Chain" were omitted from the comp? 

Not necessarily.

Faves from the Skywave Tribute: Static Daydream & We Miss The Earth + Ceremony

Widgeted below are two of our favorites from Got That Feeling, the excellent tribute to Fredericksburg, VA shoegazers Skywave. The nineteen-song compilation is available for name-your-price download, courtesy of The Blog That Celebrates Itself. Former members have gone on to form other bands we love, including Ceremony, A Place To Bury Strangers, and Static Daydream, two of which are featured on the tribute. Several excellent reviews can be accessed at The Planet Of Sound.





We should have posted "Stars Fall" long ago, our all-time favorite by Ceremony. (It's actually the top-ranked track at our Last.fm page.) If you like it on the vid, click  the link below for the free download, courtesy of Last.fm. Approximate lyrics here.

Ceremony - Stars Fall mp3 

From New Planting Seeds Comp: Mark Crozer, Static Daydream, Lovetones, Young Sinclairs, Seeers, Super Vacations

We would have told you about this sooner but only just now got word of it ourownself. The most excellent Planting Seeds Records have released a 14-song compilation  of freebies by a number of our favebands or members thereof. (The postitle enumerates the names of our very favorites, with songs posted below.) Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, & Infinitely Vol 2 will be available for free download until November 17 (of this year), so you have a pleasant cushion of time available for checking them out and deciding what, if anything, to do next. Many thanks to PSR for the, you know, implant.
Update: PSR removed the widgets, as promised/threatened. We still say, though, "Many thanks." Time to go buy-buy.