Music has a funny way of playing tricks on us. You think you know a song inside and out - its story, its artist, its soul - and then someone drops the bombshell: it was written by someone else ...

From Johnny Cash to Sinead O’Connor, music fans discuss the tracks where the remake outshone the master recording.

There is no platonic definition of a good cover version of a well-loved song. A good cover can be an enthusiastic celebration of the original, a rendition that highlights the very things that stir ...

What are the greatest cover songs? That was the question posed in my Oct. 15 Sunday Arts+Culture article, “Can a cover song be better than the original version? Absolutely! Here are six of the ...

Here are the best cover songs from 11 big pop-punk bands. When it comes to pop-punk bands playing cover songs, things typically go one of two ways. They either stay too true to the original as they ...