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Cover of Alice in Chains’ album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, out May 14.

Tracklist:
1. Voices
2. Low Ceiling
3. Stone
4. The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
5. Hollow
6. Lab Monkey
7. Hung on a Hook
8. Pretty Done
9. Breath on a Window
10. Choke
11. Phantom Limb

The Melvins will release a covers album, Everybody Loves Sausages, via Ipecac April 30. Guests include Mudhoney’s Mark Arm. Tracklist:

01) Warhead (Venom; Guest: Scott Kelly of Neurosis)
02) Best Friend (Queen; Guest: Caleb Benjamin of Tweak Bird)
03) Black Betty (Original artist unknown)
04) Set It On Fire (The Scientists; Guest: Mark Arm)
05) Station To Station (David Bowie; Guest: JG Thirlwell)
06) Attitude (The Kinks: Guest: Clem Burke of Blondie)
07) Female Trouble (Divine a.k.a. John Waters)
08) Carpe Diem (The Fugs)
09) Timothy Leary Lives (Pop-O-Pies)
10) In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Roxy Music; Guests: Jello Biafra and Kevin Rutmanis)
11) Romance (Tales of Terror)
12) Art School (The Jam; Guest: Tom Hazelmeyer)
13) Heathen Earth (Throbbing Gristle)

(Source: AbsolutePunk.net)

ESPN The Magazine has behind-the-scenes video of Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte’s Nevermind tribute shoot.

More from ESPN The Magazine’s music issue: Olympic gold medal swimmer Ryan Lochte recreates the cover of Nevermind.

The [cover artist] cites an email he received from Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O yesterday in response to the cover ruckus: “We don’t have fans because we do what they want us to do, we have fans because we do whatever we want and that’s really what they want the most.”

Click here to read the rest of my new RollingStone.com story, “Inside the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Controversial New Album Cover.”

How is it that the Goo Mashups Tumblr is only now coming to my attention?

Nevermind cover test shot, 1991

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Original test print for Mudhoney’s classic Superfuzz Bigmuff.

Original design by Lisa Orth, type by Ed Fotheringham, photo by Charles Peterson

Cover of Soundgarden’s new single, “Been Away Too Long,” out this Thursday.

Cover of Soundgarden’s King Animal, out November 13. Trailer here. Excerpts from the press release:

Seattle’s Soundgarden will release King Animal,  the band’s first new studio album in over 15 years via Tom Whalley’s new record label, a partnership between his Seven Four Entertainment and  Republic Records,  on November 13^th, 2012. The album’s first single, “Been Away Too Long” will be available via digital retailers on September 27^th. The band co-produced their sixth studio album with longtime Soundgarden friend and producer Adam Kasper (Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Pearl Jam) and recorded at Studio X in Seattle. King Animal was mixed by Joe Barresi (The Melvins, Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer) in Pasadena, California….

The writing and recording of the album was a true collaborative effort. Riotous album opener and first single “Been Away Too Long” finds Soundgarden back at it with a double-edged blast of homecoming celebration and urban angst. King Animal can be explosive, as in “Blood On The Valley Floor,” nightmarish (“Worse Dreams”) or wistful (“Halfway There”), leading us through changing sonic landscapes that can embrace both the jazz inflections of “Black Saturday” and the feral rocker “Attrition,” with compelling lyrics by bassist Ben Shepherd. The subject matter is broad - Kim Thayil’s lyrics for “Non-State Actor” are a sharp and cynical take on the powers behind political thrones, while Cornell’s bruised and introspective “Bones of Birds” explores the terrors and vulnerabilities of parenthood.

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Spin.com: Lil Wayne Photoshops Himself Onto Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ Cover

The cover of Dinosaur Jr.’s new album, I Bet on Sky, due September 18. (Full story here.)