News // Macy Gray with a new record

Macy Gray very known for her hits I Try or Sweet Baby is going to release a new record next March.

Covered is going to include her covers from several bands, including Metallica, Arcade Fire, Radiohead or My Chemical Romance.

Check the tracklist for Covered:
01. Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
02. Wake Up (Arcade Fire)
03. Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)
04. Teenagers (My Chemical Romance)
05. Here Comes the Rain Again (Eurythmics)
06. Creep (Radiohead)
07. Bubbly (Colbie Caillat)
08. Love Lockdown (Kanye West)
09. Two Joints (Sublime)
10. Sleep to Dream (Fiona Apple)
11. Sail (AWOLNATION)


Check Macy Gray's live version of Radiohead's Creep below.

themed week // Coldplay, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Coldplay are considered by many one of the best contemporary bands, as a conclusion of 5 successful albums - Parachutes (2000), A Rush Of Blood To The Head (2002), X&Y (2005), Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends (2008) and Mylo Xyloto (2011).

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas was originally sing by Judy Garland on the 1944 musical Meet Me in St. Louis, written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane.

Several singers covered this song like Ella Fitzgerald or Colbie Caillat. Frank Sinatra was the first artists to record it, in 1948, becoming one of the better known versions and where we can see some changes a few lines of the song.

In 2001, Coldplay recorded this song, to be released on the holiday compilation album, Maybe This Christmas.

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on
Our troubles will be out of sight"