Coverville: The Cover Music Show (AAC Edition)

Let’s hop into the old Time Machine for a trip back 40 years and see what amazing albums came out in June 1985! (69 minutes)

A tribute to an amazing guitariest and musician, as well as a long-overdue Spandau Ballet Cover Story! All wrapped up into one episode! (61 minutes)

Celebrating 40 years of the Dire Straits album Brothers in Arms, and 75 years of Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh! (62 minutes)

A tribute to Mike Peters, lead vocalist of The Alarm, who we lost over the weekend, and a Captain & Tennille Cover Story for Toni Tennille, who turns 85 today (60 minutes)

For Lou Gramm’s 75th, coming up next month – Foreigner Covers (and one Led Zeppelin cover for good measure)

On what would have been his 70th birthday, let’s celebrate the music of Pete Shelley and his band The Buzzcocks, as we do, with covers! (60 minutes)

For Agnetha’s 75th birthday earlier this month, and long-overdue ABBA Cover Story! (71 minutes)

For Frank Black/Black Francis’ 60th, here’s a great collection of covers of and by the Pixies! (58 minutes)

For Angus Young’s 70th birthday this weekend, let’s go back to a whole lotta AC/DC tracks and find some covers! (74 minutes)

For what would have been Solomon’s 85th birthday, a long-overdue episode showcasing his amazing music! (42 minutes)

With two members of Black Eyed Peas (will.i.am and Fergie) celebrating birthdays this month, and Twisted Sister’s frontman Dee Snyder also celebrating a birthday, it’s time for a double cover story! (64 minutes)

For Dale Bozzio and Eli Brickell’s birthdays, cover stories for there amazing bands they fronted! (59 minutes)

A tribute to the music of Roberta Flack, and a Cover Story for, now 80, Mitch Ryder! (53 minutes)

Birthday cover stories on today’s show – for Howard Jones (70), Walter Becker of Steely Dan (would have been 75), and Smokey Robinson (85)! Enjoy! (63 minutes)

For his 75th birthday, which is today, some artists show how they see Peter Gabriel’s music, in their eyes. (82 minutes)

For what would have been Michael Hutchence’s 65th birthday, a set of INXS covers! (63 minutes)

This week, a salute to Billy Ocean, who turned 75 a couple days ago, and a Patron-submitted set from JD Friedland! (70 minutes)

Every once in a while, I have to do a cover story for the OTHER Elvis! (54 minutes)

The music of R.E.M., for Michael Stipe’s 65th birthday! (72 minutes)

Here is it, the last episode of the year, and the biggest! Counting down the top 20 covers of the year, all the way down to number one! And as always, a special bonus. (84 minutes)

Time to start counting down the 40 best covers of 2024, and this is part one! (88 minutes)

As we do every year, it’s time for a collection of great Christmas songs, featuring requests from you and me! (69 minutes)

Since her birthday usually falls right in the middle of the big Coverville end-of-year shows, we don’t always get a cover story episode for her, but let’s fix that right now! Annie Lennox and Eurythmics covers today on the show! (73 minutes)

It’s time once again for the annual Thanksgiving tradition of presenting an extra-long episode of Coverville, filled with Beatles covers! (79 minutes)

When you turn 70, you get a Coverville episode. That’s just the way it is. (59 minutes)

For his 80th birthday, covers of things he wrote for Disney (Lion King and Aladdin), Broadway (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and Chess), and Bond (James Bond). (58 minutes) I call this episode 1510 at the beginning of the show – but it’s really 1511!

Paying tribute to the incredible songwriter, composer, arranger and producer, who just passed away this last weekend at the age of 91. (49 minutes)

For no reason. (63 minutes)

For Jon Anderson’s 80th birthday – some Yes covers, and some surprises! (65 minutes)

Born Kate Hudson almost 40 years ago, today we’ll celebrate the music of Katy Perry (whose birthday is coming up next week) as told with cover songs! (52 minutes)

Van Halen and (Dixie) Chicks covers for the birthdays of David Lee Roth and Natalie Maines! (60 minutes)

Celebrating 20 years of Coverville with an emerald-green episode! (56 minutes)

For his 75th birthday this weekend, a great collection of covers of the Boss! (67 minutes) And if you’re a Patron, look for something extra in your feed too!

For what would have been the birthdays of guitarists Ed King and Steve Gaines on Saturday (they both would have been 75!), a Lynyrd Skynyrd Cover Story! (55 minutes)

For Pink and Jack Black’s 45th and 55th birthdays! A Black/Pink Cover story! (66 minutes)

A couple 50th birthday sets of music for Nina Persson of The Cardigans and A Camp, and a tribute to Greg Kihn! (55 minutes)

For his 70th birthday, and for my 1500th show, it’s time to do another tribute to one of my favorite artists, Elvis Costello! (65 minutes)

An artist whose music I’ve been wanting to get more familiar with – and what better way than to listen to her originals and the covers she inspired! Plus, she’s turning 30 this week. (52 minutes)

For Adam Duritz’ 60th birthday, a few sets of Counting Crows covers! (59 minutes)

For Rick Davies’ 80th birthday, a collection of Supertramp Covers! (46 minutes) For a free download of the Coverville Supertramp tribute, click here

Responsible for so much of the great music we heard in the 80s, 90s and more recent, Trevor Horn is turning 75, and is so so worthy of another Cover Story. So let’s hear some more covers of and by Trevor Horn! (74 minutes)

65th birthdays for Marc Cohn and Jim Kerr of Simple Minds mean cover stories for both of them! Let’s hear it! (62 minutes)

For Ray Davies’ 80th birthday, a (late) cake filled with amazing Kinks covers!

For the 40th anniversary of the Prince album, I’m doing it again: Covers of every track on the album (and one bonus)! (47 minutes)

Maybe you don’t know the name, but you know the music. A guy who’s been with bands like King Crimson, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, and the terrific Asia, John would have turned 75 this week. Covers of and by John on this week’s show! (56 minutes)

For her 50th birthday, a singer/songwriter who’s given us so many great songs (and a musical to go with them). Let’s listen to some covers of and by Alan’s on today’s show. (62 minutes)

For his 60th birthday, covers of and by Lenny Kravitz! (44 minutes)

Jewel’s turning 50, and Morrissey’s turning 65 – and this is probably the only place you’ll find them together! (64 minutes)

For co-founder Dan Auerbach’s 45th birthday, and the 30th anniversary of Weezer’s debut album (affectionately called ‘The Blue Album”) and Cover Story for the Black Keys, and a track-by-track cover story! (68 minutes)

For his 75th birthday, let’s listen to some renditions of classic and deep-cut Billy Joel songs. (65 minutes)

The National Recording Preservation Board every year adds 25 recordings to the Recording Registry for songs that represent culture of the times. Learn more about the registry here.