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November 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: November 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… For […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Afternoons, Album Review, Albums, Cover Versions, Covers, EP, It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, Jesse Mulligan, Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In), Lockdown, Music, November 2020, Radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio NZ, Reviews, RNZ, RNZ Reviews, RNZ Reviews: November 2020, Sharon Jones, Sleepless Night, What Have You Done For Me Lately, Yo La Tengo ·

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August 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Black Marble: I Must Be Living Twice (ep)

Black Marble I Must Be Living Twice (ep) Sacred Bones Records From the Sacred Bones stable comes Black Marble, the band-name/project-moniker for indie synth-pop musician Chris Stewart. He’s an American enthralled by the sound of the 1980s UK scenes – not just synth-pop, also R’n’B, goth, post-punk. And on this brilliantly titled EP of cover […]
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August 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Ben Lee: Quarter Century Classix

Ben Lee Quarter Century Classix New West Records I’ve always wanted to like Ben Lee more than I think I actually do. And I’ll always give an album of cover-versions an extra chance. So I’m an all-day sucker right here when Ben Lee decides to release a collection of his favourite indie-pop songs that are […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 25 Years, Album Review, Alt, Ben Lee, Ben Lee: Quarter Century Classix, Cover Versions, Covers, Indie, Pop, Quarter Century Classix, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Rickie Lee Jones: Kicks

Rickie Lee Jones Kicks THE OTHER SIDE OF DESIRE I love Rickie Lee Jones so much – and yet I always play catch-up, let a few years slide by and have an album or two (or three) to catch up with. I’ve just got to this – her fourth album of covers. Anyone else and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Cover Versions, Covers, It's Like This, Kicks, Rickie Lee Jones, Rickie Lee Jones: Kicks, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Weezer: Weezer (The Teal Album)

Weezer Weezer (The Teal Album) Crush Music/Atlantic That Weezer has survived to make a dozen albums simply means they’ve recorded nine or ten albums more than necessary. Any of you getting raged and ready to defend Maladroit or Make Believe or to say any of the other self-titled/colour albums should be saved due to a single song like Pork and Beans or whatever, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Africa, Album Review, Cover Versions, Covers, The Teal Album, Toto, Weezer, Weezer: Weezer (The Teal Album), You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 11 – Five Favourite Cover Versions

Many years back – a decade ago at least, I reckon, the editor of the then-Real Groove magazine asked me to compile a list of five favourite cover versions; he never ended up using it but wrote back to tell me he thought my list was weird but cool. I liked that. You hardly ever […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged #11, Alone Again Or, Back In The High Life, Calexico, Cover, Cover Versions, Damon Albarn, Five Favourite Cover Versions, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: # 11, Five Songs For Friday: # 11 – Five Favourite Cover Versions, FM, Gin & Juice, Joe Cocker, John Darnielle, Love, Nathan Haines, novelty cover, Snoop Dogg, Steely Dan, Steve Winwood, The Beatles, The Gourds, The Mountain Goats, Warren Zevon, With A Little Help From My Friends ·

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June 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Off The Tracks has Got It Covered: DJ Set

Here’s a bit of fun – well, hopefully…in thinking of a new idea for a regular DJ night I thought that something around the idea of covers would be a bit of  a blast – leaves it open for all genres and labels; something for all tastes. It means favourites can be repeated – via […]
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