Life Before Rock Band: The 9 Greatest Beatles Covers Ever

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We should all know that 9/9/09 means one thing…the release of The Beatles: Rock Band and the remastered release of their catalog!

Now that we all get to do our own “covers” of Beatles classics, I thought we would look back at some of the other acts that have covered the Fab Four over the years.

Now there have been A TON of Beatles covers, after all, it’s only a prerequisite to cover them if you’re in a band. There’s covers from legends (Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, and Johnny Cash) to “glam” rock (Bowie, Motley Crue) to jam bands (DMB, Phish, Black Crowes) to comedic renditions (Jim Carey, Tenacious D) to sampling (The Roots, Danger Mouse’s Jay-Z/Beatles mash up The Grey Album).

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Weekly Wrap-Up: Aero Zeppelin, The Beatles, Guns N’ Roses, The Killers, Gavin Rosedale, Wilco

Here’s a quick look at some of the headlines that caught my attention this past week.

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Back In The Saddle Again

What a rollercoaster ride it’s been over the last week or so! If you didn’t notice (and shame on you), Evolvor.com was down for oh about 3 and a half days! WTF happened?

Well, I addressed some issues I was having while updating Wordpress and a new theme at the same time. I spent quite a bit of time putting the new theme to work (Wp-Remix is a lot tougher than I thought it was going to be, thank god I have experience reading and hacking Wordpress!), but Monday morning at 7:00 am (yes I was up all night putting on the finishing touches), the new design went live.

AT 7:05, my site went down. 403. Forbidden.

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