General Advertising Survey

The Association for Downloadable Media (of which Coverville is a member) is conducting a survey for the next two weeks to measure audiences’ thoughts on advertising within their favorite podcasts. Your responses are completely anonymous, and no personal...

The Cover Computer

From ScienceBlog comes this story about a system that identifies similar patterns in two different songs, giving it the ability to recognize cover songs. Read the article here. I’d like to see what it comes up with if you give it Stealer’s Wheel’s...

Jonathan Coulton fills my heart with glee.

Just got alerted to this: someone posted a video of Jonathan Coulton telling his audience about Coverville from his concert in Denver last January. This was a really minor thing for Jonathan to do, but it really touched me in a major way. Jonathan is flanked by...

KEXP’s list of Cover Songs

Seattle radio station KEXP has put up their own list of Best Cover Songs, and this one certainly contains more of my favorites than some of the other lists I’ve posted. And it’s good to see some recognition for Elvis Costello’s cover of...

New Lyrics Undercover episode posted to the Free feed

Since there have been a few new visitors to the site lately, I’ll take moment to tell you about another show I do. Lyrics Undercover is an (almost) weekly show where we take a single popular song, and uncover as much of the inspiration behind it as possible. The...