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Photo by Izzie Austin BBE Music is releasing a Talking Heads tribute album early next year, and have made WITCH's (aka We Intend to Cause Havoc) version of "Once in a Lifetime" available to hear now. The Zamrock pioneers' version is an almost complete reworking of the art rock legends' original. It takes about thirty seconds for the music to truly reflect the original, which is just before the lyrics kick in. Of course, it wouldn't exactly be fitting to have a note-for-note cover of a Talking Heads song based on how revolutionary they were and still are. Plus, who would want a WITCH song that doesn't sound like WITCH? This is taking an art rock/punk classic and filtering it through a psychedelic Zamrock lens, and the results are as amazing as that sounds. You can listen to WITCH's cover of "Once in a Lifetime" below. Naive Melodies is due out January 23 on BBE Music, and is available for pre-order here . For more on WITCH, check out the band...

Photo courtesy Jeff Parker "Soul Love" is kind of a forgotten classic off of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars . Every song on that album is a glam rock space age classic. For their cover of the song, Jeff Parker and The New Breed brought in Ruby Parker and transformed the song into a space age soul/R&B classic. Soul and R&B were huge influences on David Bowie, and this cover really illustrates that fact. I don't think I would have ever noticed how much soul was in "Soul Love" (despite the title, I know, I'm an idiot), but once you hear this song you'll never be able to listen to the original quote the same way. It's a roots based chilled out R&B version that truly accentuates the Bowie classic. You can listen to Jeff Parker and The New Breed's version of "Soul Love" below. It will be included on Modern Love which is BBE Music's forthcoming David Bowie tribute album. You can pre-order/pre-save...

Photo by Kanya Iwana There are a quite a few David Bowie covers out there, for good reason. Bowie's music remains timeless, and his influence will always be felt in music. BBE Music has an upcoming David Bowie tribute album due out in May, but instead of the normal rock and pop oriented artists, this compilation will feature Bowie's connection to R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The first song up is We Are KING's version of "Space Oddity." You've heard covers of Bowie's 1972 hit before, but never quite like this. We Are KING keeps the feel of Bowie's original, and even amplify the space feel of the song. This is a space soul/R&B version of "Space Oddity." It's unusual and unexpected, but everything about the man was, too, so this is a very fitting tribute to the late icon. Amber and Paris Strother of We Are KING explain their choice of "Space Oddity":  “ There were so many amazing Bowie compositions to choose from but ‘Space...