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Speaking of Alexisonfire, the beloved post-hardcore heroes are back onstage this year, playing at both Riot Fest and Furnace Fest. The updated guitar work lifts the song into a more modern emo sound.

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In their version, the softly picked guitar intro is exchanged for piano and strings, which add a slightly different touch, before they launch into the full punk-ness of the track. Some of the featured artists created the second type of cover, interpreting songs they were covering through their own musical voices.Ĭatholic Guilt (Wiretap Records) tackled “At Your Funeral” by Saves the Day, a song I’ve long been obsessed with. If you’re a fan of The Anniversary, then you should definitely check out Parting. So, if you love The Get Up Kids, chances are you will enjoy Burnt Tape. And they give the listeners direction to discover new artists who also appreciate these classic musicians. The song selections give insight into the way artists are inspired. This is by no means a bad thing because it refocuses light on some incredible music that hasn’t been given much attention lately. Most of the songs presented here are faithful renditions of the artists they are covering. The featured artists on Undercover on the Streets created obvious love letters to the musicians who inspired them. His cover of Nine Inch Nail’s “Hurt” is an emotionally cathartic experience that did justice to and elevated the original. These albums saw the outlaw country hero approaching out of his wheelhouse artists for a product that was something different than the original and what most would expect from Cash. Johnny Cash had an astonishing second career with covers in his American Music series, expertly produced by Rick Rubin. Subsequently, it became Save Ferris’ most well-known hit. The best example of this is Save Ferris’ “Come on Eileen.” Not only did Save Ferris bring the already excellent song to a new generation of listeners, but they breathed new life into it. There are also slews of ska cover songs which add upstroke guitars and horns for fun twists on a classic. The most obvious examples of this are the Fearless Records Punk Goes Pop series, especially the earlier volumes. The result becomes more of an interpretation or paraphrase. In the second kind of cover, the band takes a beloved song and adds their own particular flavor to it. In this type of homage, the cover artist is expressing their love for the original artist by rendering their version as faithful to the original song as possible. The first seeks to play the song exactly (or as close to exact) as the original artist. Generally speaking, there are two kinds of cover songs. The artists covered in this collection have been incredibly important and influential to any band that would be coming up in those genres today. Vagrant Records is a flagship label for all things punk and emo. I think there’s also a sense of discovery with this new generation.Wiretap Records and Friend Club Records, two up-and-coming indie labels, came together to release a tribute album in honor of Vagrant Records, who are celebrating 25 years as a label. He was a Senses Fail fan, and that band was on Vagrant. “The late Juice WRLD was listening to a lot of this music. And now younger artists are doing emo rap,” Gill says. There is music from other generations that make some type of a comeback in its own way. As an industry veteran, Gill believes it was inevitable. The popularity of events like Emo Nite and the When We Were Young Festival underscore emo’s resurgence. And with everything we’ve built with BMG and the Vagrant catalog imprint, there’s a lot to be proud of.” When made personal decisions to sell the label to BMG, it was just a continuation of that evolution. In its heyday, Vagrant was associated more or less with one brand of music. We saw a lot of potential and were moving towards indie rock.

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We started signing artists like Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

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“Yes, indie labels tend to lead a lot of the trends. When Vagrant was acquired in 2014 by BMG, Gill says its ability to adapt in the music industry allowed it to proliferate. Bands like Dashboard Confessional and Saves the Day became MTV/Rolling Stone darlings, which only widened the label’s scope. From sold-out tours to compilation albums (“Another Year on the Streets”), the popularity of Vagrant skyrocketed in the early 2000s.











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