Covers by The Kickstand Band, Chris Richards and the Subtractions, Bertling Noise Laboratories, The Legal Matters, Static Daydream, My Expansive Awareness, The Radiation Flowers, Joe Giddings

We've come across a bunch of enjoyable, downloadable cover versions of songs we like or love and thought you might like to have a listen-hear. You will find in the widgets other covers of other bands, dozens of them, in fact. We've posted our favorites, but your kilometrage might vary.

The Kickstand Band cover The Sunrays (1965)


Chris Richards and the Subtractions cover Cheap Trick (twice) & The Who






Bertling Noise Laboratories cover Todd Rundgren, The Romantics, & Elvis Costello






The Legal Matters cover The Beatles


Static Daydream cover Guided by Voices


My Expansive Awareness cover The Castaways


The Radiation Flowers cover The Stooges


Joe Giddings covers KISS (and a whole lot more)

The Kickstand Band Cut One

We love stone, Gothic arches, and TKB.

Yes, yes, we do love this Detroit duo, as previously indicated. The first song in the widgie is our fave from Cut 'Em Loose, but you can get all three on the EP below.

Furthermore, we can't resist posting our all-time favorite by TKB and also post the video so as to give you a touch of their whimsical charm.

Download the entire Puppy Love LP for name-your-price at Bandcamp.

Just in Time: The Kickstand Band

Yep, just 13 days short of

Not too long ago (okay, early last year) we enjoyed posting an excellent song by Detroit's The Kickstand Band (klicky klicky). Had we been better attuned, we would have noticed that about a year ago they put out an excellent little EP, appropriately called Summer Means Fun. Our two faves are "Promenade" and the title cut. You can probably figure out how to get the rest.



And here's that first one we posted. (The other's still available at our previous post.) We still get a kick from that doggone pic.

Gettin' Our Kicks(tand Band)

The Kickstand Band - I Don't Care mp3

We recently pointed you toward a most satisfying number by this Detroit outfit, went and bought six songs from their recently released Puppy Love LP at eMusic, and yesterday found one of the songs we bought available for free download at last.fm. (Maybe you've already listened to it above. It would be difficult, though not impossible, for us to know for sure.)

To top it off, just moments ago we found "Still Thinking Of You Tonight" available for name-your-price download at Bandcamp, in case you, you know, missed it before. (Play/download below or here.) And since the name of one of these songs reminds us of one of our favorite songs from the recently departed year of 2012, we are reposting it as well. In so doing we are probably violating some kind of blogging protocol, but let the identical song titles and Entry #17 in this Cracked Photoplasty thingy convey our regrets.