Because Macy Gray covering Stevie Wonder was *such* a good idea.
I *Can* Go for That: The Bird & The Bee Sips on the H2O
Inevitably, what was once uncool becomes cool at some point in time, at least from a musical standpoint. I remember in the mid Nineties, all the alternative rock kids (who had come of age in the Seventies) began worshipping Karen Carpenter as some sort of goddess although she played the type of music that would have gotten her laughed off the stage at Lollapalooza. Not to say that Hall & Oates was the 80s equivalent of the Carpenters, but there […]
The Bird & the Bee's Tribute to the Masters of Blue-Eyed Soul
I generally turn my nose at covers albums. I can’t even remember the last one that I actually liked. The new project from the Bird & the Bee, though, is interesting enough that I’m willing to temporarily lift my ban on entire albums of remakes. The dream-pop duo from Los Angeles is releasing “Interpreting the Masters; A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates” today. Yes, you read that correctly. Not too many years after H2O’s own somewhat ill-advised covers […]