YAMR: Cover Songs 5

Now playing on Yet Another Music Radio: Cover Songs 5! Another compilation of over 100 songs by the artists who didn't make them famous!


For nearly seven hours you'll be able to listen to:


Adrienne Young covers Joni Mitchell
Alison Krauss & John Waite cover John Waite
Allison Crowe covers Leonard Cohen
Allison Moorer covers Johnny Cash
American Music Club cover The Mamas and the Papas
Angela Kaset covers Suzy Bogguss
The Be Good Tanyas cover Prince
Bebel Gilberto covers The Eurythmics
Beth Nielsen Chapman covers Billy Jonas
The Bird and The Bee cover The Bee Gees
Blue Man Group & Venus Hum cover Donna Summer
Celtic Fayre cover The Waterboys
Celtic Woman cover Bobby Darin
Daphne Rubin-Vega covers Kermit the Frog
Dar Williams covers Pink Floyd
Deana Carter covers Roy Orbison
Deanna Kirk covers Leonard Cohen
The Derailers cover The Crystals
The Detroit Cobras cover The Flirtations
Diana DeGarmo covers Melissa Manchester
Dolly Parton with Judy Collins & Rhonda Vincent covers Joni Mitchell
The Duhks cover Randy Newman
Dwight Yoakam covers Little Eva
Elizabeth Mitchell covers The Velvet Underground
Elizabeth Mitchell & Lisa Loeb cover Bob Dylan
Emm Gryner covers Ozzy Osbourne
Emmy Rossum covers The Carpenters
Emmylou Harris covers The Everly Brothers
Falco covers Steely Dan
Farmer's Daughter cover Bobbie Gentry
George Strait covers Bruce Robison
Gwyneth Paltrow covers Kim Carnes
Hayley Westenra covers Kate Bush
Hem cover Natalie Wood & Richard Beymer
Il Troubadore cover ABBA
Ivy cover The Carpenters
James Mercer covers The Pixies
Jane Monheit covers Bread
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins cover The Traveling Wilburys
Joan Osborne covers Sara Evans
Joaquin Phoenix & Reese Witherspoon cover Bob Dylan
John Legend & Stephen Colbert cover Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney
John Paul White covers Electric Light Orchestra
Johnny Cash covers Soundgarden
Jonatha Brooke covers The Beach Boys
Jonathan Coulton covers Sir Mix-a-Lot
Joss Stone covers The Drifters
June Tabor & The Oyster Band cover The Velvet Underground
Karrin Allyson covers Joni Mitchell
Kelly Sweet covers Aerosmith
Kris McKay covers The English Beat
Kyrsten covers Bad Company
Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Des'ree cover Bill Withers
Lori McKenna covers Peter Gabriel
Lorie Line covers Cat Stevens
The Lucksmiths cover The Bee Gees
Lucy Kaplansky covers Roxy Music
Luna covers Paula Abdul
Madeleine Peyroux covers Patsy Cline
Maire Brennan & Michael McDonald cover Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
Mandy Barnett & The Jordanaires cover Hank Williams
Mary Chapin Carpenter covers Bruce Springsteen
Mates of State cover David Bowie
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs cover The Who
Michael Carpenter covers Jeff Lynne
The Muppets cover Harry Nilsson
Mutual Admiration Society cover Toad the Wet Sprocket
Natacha Atlas covers Matt Monro
Neko Case covers The Shangri-Las
Nichole Nordeman covers Bob Dylan
Nichole Nordeman covers Cyndi Lauper
Nickel Creek covers Pavement
Nicole Kidman & Hugh Jackman cover Prince & Elvis Presley
Norah Jones & Adam Levy cover Elvis Presley
Ookla the Mok cover James Kochalka Superstar
Patty Griffin covers Bruce Springsteen
Paul Anka covers Survivor
Peter Gabriel covers Magnetic Fields
Pink Martini cover Doris Day
The Puppini Sisters cover Blondie
The Puppini Sisters cover Beyoncé Knowles
The Raveonettes cover The Angels
Red Molly cover Elvis Presley
Reel Big Fish cover The J. Geils Band
Richard Shindell covers Bruce Springsteen
Ricky Scaggs & Bruce Hornsby cover Rick James
Rilo Kiley cover The Velvet Underground
Rogue Wave cover Buddy Holly
Ronan Keating covers Keith Whitley
Sammy Kershaw covers James Taylor
Sarah Blasko covers Crowded House
Sarah Brightman covers Kansas
Seal covers Echo & The Bunnymen
The Section Quartet cover Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Seven Nations cover The Church
The Softies cover Rick Astley
Something For Kate cover Christina Aguilera
Student Rick cover Belinda Carlisle
Suzy Bogguss covers Chicago
Thrice cover Real Life
Tok Tok Tok cover Paul Simon
Tori Amos covers Boomtown Rats
Vitamin String Quartet cover Flyleaf
The Wailin' Jennys cover Neil Young
Willis cover Cameo
Wyclef Jean & Eve cover The Outfield
Yellowcard cover Michelle Branch


It's all free, so tune in now!

Friday Night Fights: Superman vs. Earth-Man

Earth-Man probably spits into the wind too.

(From Action Comics #862. Story by Geoff Johns. Art by Gary Frank & Jon Sibal.)

Round Nine? Darn Skippy!

Must Be the Last Week of the Month

Point of interest to probably no one but me: Every week as I catalog the new comics I've purchased I stack them in three piles: 'DC,' 'Marvel,' and 'everything else.' This week the 'everything else' pile was just as tall as the 'DC' pile, which included the massive Showcase Presents: Superman Family vol. 2!

I seem to recall that Diamond considers a comic late and therefore returnable if it arrives more than a month later than it was solicited for. Thus this was the last week for anything that was solicited for shipping in January 2008 to not be 'late.' Thus my shipment this week included the January 2008 issues of Rex Libris, Ninja High School, Nexus, Misericordia, The Engineer, and Doctor Who...

This is a Concept?

I visited the much-heralded Borders Concept Store on Monday, and I wasn't terribly impressed. Overall the feeling was of something cheap; more like a Media Play than a regular book store. A lot of half-height shelves but no clear organization or clear walking paths.

The highly-touted graphic novel island was just a set of half-height shelves near the science fiction & fantasy section. There's a funky display hanging overhead that isn't labeled antyhing (unlike the Cooking island) but does have giant cubes with manga characters (and Spider-Man). It was clearly dominated by manga, with the amime dvds shelved adjacent. It wasn't any larger than the manga & graphic novels section at Borders #1 in downtown Ann Arbor, which is much more impressive as a gigantimus tower of manga & GNs that lies at the entrance to the youth & genre fiction (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, mysteries) sections.

No doubt I'll return to the new Borders store, as it is much more conveniently located than the other two Ann Arbor locations. But I wouldn't exactly call it a huge success from a promotional or marketing perspective. Still, it's good that Borders has a store with which they plan on experimenting; maybe they'll hit the right formula one of these days...

New Library Comics: Week of February 17, 2008

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection last week:


Irwin, Jane. Vögelein vol. 2 : old ghosts / Ann Arbor, Mich : Fiery Studios, 2003-

McNeil, Carla Speed. Finder book 1 : sin-eater / Annapolis Junction, MD : Lightspeed Press, c2007-

Obrist, Hans-Ulrich. Robert Crumb / Köln : König, 2006.

Reumann, Helge. Elvis Road. Oakland, Calif. : Buenaventura Press, c2007.


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This Just Might Be the Greatest Marvel Comic Ever

Newsarama has the story that Paul Tobin will be writing a new comic in the Marvel Adventures line, Marvel Adventures Super-Heroes. One of the issues will feature art by his wife and Banana Sunday collaborator Colleen Coover (her again!), and it will feature Spider-Man, and Hellcat, and Mary Jane, and She-Hulk, and Clea, and the Enchantress, and Marvel Girl, and the Scarlet Witch. Also: Millie the Model.

BTW, Tobin is also starting a four-issue run on Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four with YACB fave and ex-Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane artist David Hahn on three of those issues. It starts this week with MAFF #34, so be sure to look for it tomorrow at your friendly local comic shop!

Phoebe Gloeckner Vid

Randomly caught this on the Michigan Channel while channel surfing late at night. I went to all the trouble of transferring from the TiVo and converting to a usable format, then discovered it was already on YouTube: