She’s influenced other musicians far and wide, acted, and contributed to some amazing humanitarian causes. For her 40th birthday, let’s listen to covers of and by Lady Gaga! (70 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Applause Roomie & Friends 3:30 Roomie & Friends: Covers, Vol. 1 Lady Gaga 3 iTunes Just Dance honeywagon 4:04 Gaga Lady Gaga 8 iTunes Born This Way Jewel 4:06 Queen of Hearts Lady Gaga 4 iTunes Poker Face The Heimatdamisch 3:54 Highway To Oberkrain Lady Gaga 10 Bad Romance (feat. Bilmuri) Lauren Babic 4:58 Bad Romance (feat. Bilmuri) - Single Lady Gaga iTunes Telephone Atelier Bossa Conscious 3:50 Cafe Bossa Best Hits Lady Gaga & Beyonce 3 Amazon Rain On Me Sondre Lerche 3:13 Rain On Me / I Contain Multitudes - Single Lady Gaga/Ariana Grande Amazon Paparazzi / Vivaldi’s Winter Well-Strung 3:19 Under the Covers Lady Gaga/Vivaldi iTunes Die With A Smile (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge) Perrie 4:25 BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Session - Single Lady Gaga/Bruno Mars iTunes Let’s Do It Lady Gaga 3:36 Love For Sale Cole Porter iTunes Shallow First to Eleven 3:32 Covers Vol. 18 Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper 2 iTunes Yoü And I Ben Platt 4:42 BORN THIS WAY THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY Lady Gaga 2 iTunes Amazon The Edge Of Glory Years & Years 3:59 The Edge Of Glory - Single Lady Gaga 5 Amazon Million Reasons (feat. Aly Ryan) Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox 3:19 Jazz Me Outside, Pt. 2 Lady Gaga Amazon Your Song Lady Gaga 4:16 Revamp: The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin Elton John 14 Amazon

On what would have been his 85th birthday, a set of covers of (and a couple covers of covers by) Wilson Pickett! (58 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy The Midnight Hour The Toasters 2:33 Ska, The Third Wave Vol 2, Cover It Up Wilson Pickett 2 Amazon Don’t Fight It Donna Jean Godchaux Band & Jeff Mattson 3:42 Back Around Wilson Pickett 2 iTunes Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do) Edwin McCain 4:17 Nobody's Fault But Mine (Deluxe Version) Wilson Pickett iTunes Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You The Spinners 4:00 Spinners Wilson Pickett iTunes Amazon ダンス天国 (Land of 1000 Dances) Eto Isao & The Black Panthers 2:08 Akasaka Soul Chris Kenner/Wilson Pickett Amazon Love Will Keep Us Together Wilson Pickett 2:24 Chocolate Mountain Neil Sedaka Amazon 634-5789 Jimmy Barnes 3:06 Soul Deeper Wilson Pickett 4 iTunes Amazon I’m In Love (Live) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 3:55 The Live Anthology Wilson Pickett iTunes You Can’t Judge a Book By It’s Cover Wilson Pickett 2:51 Don't Knock My Love Willie Dixon iTunes Amazon Three Time Loser Dave Edmunds 2:44 Twangin... Wilson Pickett iTunes Amazon Mama Told Me Not to Come Wilson Pickett 2:51 Don't Knock My Love Three Dog Night iTunes Amazon Mustang Sally ANDY TAYLOR 4:15 Dangerous Mack Rice/Wilson Pickett 4 Amazon Don’t Knock My Love Ronnie Foster 4:29 Two Headed Freap Wilson Pickett iTunes Amazon Everybody Needs Somebody To Love Wilson Pickett 2:17 Wilson Pickett: A Man And A Half Solomon Burke 3 Amazon

The slate of nominees for the 2026 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have been announced, and while the voting is going on, let’s celebrate the nominees! A cover of each of the artists and bands in the nomination slate in today’s show! (85 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy She Talks to Angels Jodee Seiders 4:57 Uncovered Black Crowes iTunes Lover, You Should Have Come Over Jamie Cullum 4:48 Twentysomething (Deluxe Version) Jeff Buckley 2 iTunes Always Be My Baby Ernie Halter 3:33 Acoustic Throwback - Nineties Rhythm and Blues [Explicit] Mariah Carey Amazon In the Air Tonight Mindy Jones 4:14 Under the Covers - EP Phil Collins 20 Bandcamp Come to My Window Style Project & Ama Lur 3:03 Jazz and '90s - Part Three Melissa Etheridge 3 Amazon Everything is Everything (feat. Jimmy James) West Riviera 3:58 West Riviera Lauryn Hill iTunes Eyes Without a Face Marsheaux 4:46 E-Bay Queen Is Dead Billy Idol 5 iTunes Need You Tonight Mandy Jones 3:53 Vintage Summer Playlist, Vol. 2 INXS 9 Amazon The Trooper Whiskey Shivers 3:50 Smothered & Covered Iron Maiden 6 iTunes Bizarre Love Triangle Charlotte Martin 3:28 Reproductions (Bonus Track Version) New Order 14 iTunes Cool It Now Len 4:27 The Diary Of The Madmen New Edition 2 iTunes Amazon Don’t Look Back in Anger (triple j Like A Version) Yours Truly 4:03 Don't Look Back in Anger (triple j Like A Version) - Single Oasis Amazon Fuckin Perfect Self Deception 3:53 Fuckin Perfect (single) Pink iTunes No Ordinary Love You+Me 4:09 rose ave. Sade 6 iTunes Amazon Hips Don’t Lie The Fray 4:32 BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge Vol. 2 Shakira 2 Amazon If Only for One Night Prince Royce 3:17 ETERNO Luther Vandross iTunes Amazon Gravel Pit Jaymz Bee & The Deep Lounge Coalition 4:02 Sub Urban Wu Tang Clan Amazon

Tomorrow will be David Gilmour’s 80th birthday, and because I like any excuse to play amazing Pink Floyd covers, that’s just what we’re doing today! (74 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Shine On You Crazy Diamond Steve Lukather 6:49 Rock Of Ages Pink Floyd 4 Amazon Breathe In The Air Pickin' On Series 4:01 Pickin' On Pink Floyd: A Bluegrass Tribute Pink Floyd Amazon Us and Them Joseph William Morgan 2:49 The Rekreation Pink Floyd 9 Amazon The Great Gig In The Sky London Philharmonic Orchestra 5:11 Us And Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd Pink Floyd 5 Amazon Qaisimalaurittuq (feat. The Westerlies) Elisapie 4:42 Inuktitut Pink Floyd iTunes Amazon On the Turning Away Fleesh 5:28 Versions I Pink Floyd 2 iTunes Comfortably Numb Mary Fahl 4:30 Can't Get It Out of My Head Pink Floyd 17 iTunes Amazon What Do You Want From Me Scala & Kolacny Brothers 4:15 Dusk Pink Floyd Amazon Mother (feat. Dan Stevens & Stephanie Corneliussen) Jeff Russo 6:11 Legion: Finalmente (Music from Season 3/Original Television Series Soundtrack) Pink Floyd iTunes Any Colour You Like Aynsley Dunbar (Journey) 4:11 Pink Box: Songs Of Pink Floyd Pink Floyd 6 Amazon Fearless The Polka Floyd Show 4:51 Live!!! At The Ohio Theatre! Pink Floyd 7 Amazon Echoes Banco De Gaia 8:43 Backspin: A Six Degrees 10 Year Anniversary Project Pink Floyd 2 Amazon

Birthdays for Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, J. Geils and Peter Wolf all have birthdays this month and next, and since I’ve never done a cover story for TLC or The J. Geils Band, it seemed like the right time! (58 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Waterfalls Death Cab for Cutie 4:24 The Georgia EP TLC 8 iTunes No Scrubs Weezer 3:10 Weezer (Teal Album) TLC 3 iTunes Amazon Unpretty Alex Ellis & the Bluegrass Boys 3:18 Throwback Hollers. TLC 3 iTunes Creep Murder By Death 4:29 As We Wish TLC 2 iTunes Centerfold Love Canon 5:04 Greatest Hits Vol. 2 J. Geils Band 4 iTunes Nothing but the Wheel Peter Wolf 4:34 Sleepless Patty Loveless iTunes Love Stinks Joan Jett 3:31 The Hit List J. Geils Band Amazon Where Did Our Love Go (Live) The J. Geils Band 4:00 Live: Blow Your Face Out Diana Ross & The Supremes 2 iTunes Must of Got Lost (Live) Young@Heart Chorus 2:45 Now J. Geils Band iTunes Freeze Frame Less Than Jake 2:32 Goodbye Blue & White J. Geils Band iTunes Amazon Whammer Jammer The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue 2:31 Command Performance J. Geils Band iTunes You’re Breakin’ My Heart (Explicit) Peter Wolf and the Houseparty 5 1:53 For The Love Of Harry - Everybody Sings Nilsson Harry Nilsson 2 Amazon

You might not know his name, but you definitely know his music – Otis Blackwell, who wrote or co-wrote so many of the songs you know and love from the 50s and 60s, would have turned 95 this month. And I’ve never done a cover story for MGMT, so let’s do those together! (66 minutes)

Featuring

Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Fever A Fine Frenzy 3:27 Dan In Real Life (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Little Willie John/Peggy Lee 14 Amazon All Shook Up Artichoke 2:23 All Shook Up - Single Elvis Presley 4 iTunes Don’t Be Cruel Bryan Ferry 2:00 Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 Elvis Presley 8 iTunes Great Balls Of Fire teitur 3:58 Stay Under The Stars Jerry Lee Lewis 6 iTunes Amazon Breathless Jimmy Page 2:39 Whole Lotta Love: Jimmy Page and Friends Jerry Lee Lewis 2 Amazon Daddy Rolling Stone The Upsetters 2:02 Return of the Tokoloshe Men, Vol. 1 Derek Martin/The Who iTunes Handyman Frank Black 2:39 Brace Yourself! - A Tribute To Otis Blackwell Jimmy Jones Amazon Hey Little Girl Showaddywaddy 2:25 Living Legends Dee Clark iTunes Return To Sender The Residents 2:58 The King And Eye Elvis Presley 2 iTunes Time To Pretend Patience Hodgson & Broderick Smith 3:45 The Beat Goes On — RocKwiz Duets Volume III MGMT 2 Amazon Electric Feel Tash Sultana 8:34 Triple J: Like A Version 13 MGMT 4 Amazon Kids Rheanna Downey 4:46 Covered In Folk Rock MGMT 7 Amazon Future Games MGMT 9:01 Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac Amazon

He’s turning 35 next week, so it’s about time! (75 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Shape of You Jamie Cullum 4:01 The Song Society Playlist Ed Sheeran iTunes Afterglow Susanna Hoffs 4:04 The Deep End Ed Sheeran iTunes The A Team Daniela Andrade 4:33 Covers, Vol. 1 Ed Sheeran 3 iTunes I See Fire Jasmine Thompson 3:32 Another Bundle of Tantrums (US Version) Ed Sheeran Amazon Take Me To Church Ed Sheeran 3:11 BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge 2015 Hozier 2 Amazon Medley: Happier / Happier (Acoustic) Cimorelli 4:15 Medley: Happier / Happier (Acoustic) - Single Ed Sheeran/Marshmello/Bastille Amazon Castle on the Hill The Holophonics 3:48 Maskarades, Vol. 13: Yeah, But Also Check Out Our Original Music Ed Sheeran iTunes Lego House Loick Essien 4:03 BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge 2012 Ed Sheeran 2 Amazon Candle In The Wind (2018 Version) Ed Sheeran 3:18 Revamp: The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin Elton John Amazon Perfect / Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Well-Strung 4:14 Under the Covers Ed Sheeran iTunes Thinking Out Loud Rudimental 5:03 Dermot O'Leary Presents The Saturday Sessions 2016 Ed Sheeran Amazon Photograph Foxes 3:58 BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge 2015 Ed Sheeran Amazon Bad Habits (ft. Sara Niemietz) Scary Pockets 4:01 Jeff Ed Sheeran iTunes Wish You Were Here Ed Sheeran, Richard Jones, Nick Mason, Mike Rutherford & David Arnold 3:31 A Symphony of British Music: Music for the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games Pink Floyd 19 Amazon Make It Rain (From Sons of Anarchy) Ed Sheeran 6:42 Songs of Anarchy, Vol. 4 (Music from Sons of Anarchy) Foy Vance 2 Amazon

A tribute to lead vocalist and co-founder of Three Dog Night, Chuck Negron, who passed away earlier this week. (48 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Joy To the World (Part 1) Gary U.S. Bonds & Strawberry 3:19 Joy To the World - Single Three Dog Night iTunes Old Fashioned Love Song The Holophonics 2:41 Maskarades. Vol. 15 Three Dog Night iTunes Mama Told Me Not To Come The Silos 3:52 Star Power! Eric Burdon & The Animals Amazon One Pizzicato One 2:37 One and Ten Very Sad Songs Harry Nilsson 4 iTunes Amazon Your Song Three Dog Night 4:01 It Ain't Easy Elton John 14 iTunes Amazon Black and White Pete Seeger 3:11 Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection Unknown Artist 2 iTunes Amazon Liar Blackfoot & Rick Medlocke 4:39 Rick Medlocke & Blackfoot Argent Amazon Never Been to Spain Suzie Vinnick 4:35 Me 'n Mabel Hoyt Axton 2 iTunes Shambala (feat. Peter Frampton) Rob Arthur 4:11 New Way Home B.W. Stevenson iTunes Amazon The Show Must Go On Husking Bee 1:54 Grip Leo Sayer iTunes Amazon

Between his work with Genesis and his solo releases, Phil Collins has given us a ton of songs, and inspired a lot of artists to cover them – let listen to some! (72 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy In the Air Tonight Magaziine ft. India Carney 2:58 In the Air Tonight Phil Collins 20 Amazon Sussudio Skeb 4:16 Sussudio - Single Phil Collins 6 iTunes Easy Lover (feat. N a T V E S & Emma Rowley) Neon Arcadia 4:45 Easy Lover (feat. N a T V E S & Emma Rowley) - Single Phil Collins & Philip Bailey iTunes One More Night Changing Faces 4:36 Urban Renewal Phil Collins Amazon Against All Odds Photo Ops 3:33 Opening Up To Strangers Phil Collins 8 iTunes Follow You Follow Me (Acoustic Lounge Mix) Chill Phil 4:12 Chill Lounge del Mar 2016 (Ibiza Beach Chilled Out Sessions, Vol. 4) Genesis Amazon Land of Confusion Dan Avidan & Super Guitar Bros 4:44 Dan Avidan & Super Guitar Bros Genesis 7 iTunes Don’t Lose My Number Ninja Sex Party 4:42 Under the Covers, Vol. II Phil Collins iTunes Amazon Papa Was A Rolling Stone Phil Collins 6:43 Going Back Undisputed Truth/Temptations 3 iTunes Amazon Jesus He Knows Me Ghost 4:05 Phantomime - EP Genesis 2 iTunes Separate Lives (With Stephen Bishop) Rumer 3:49 B Sides and Rarities Phil Collins/Marilyn Martin iTunes Amazon Take Me Home (feat. Sugarland) Little Big Town 5:08 Take Me Home (feat. Sugarland) - Single Phil Collins iTunes Another Day in Paradise Grayson Matthews 3:10 Covers, Vol. 1 Phil Collins 5 iTunes You’ll Be in My Heart BOYS LIKE GIRLS & Disney 3:54 A Whole New Sound Disney/Tarzan/Phil Collins Amazon

For Bob Weir, co-founder of The Grateful Dead, who passed away last week. (81 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Uncle John’s Band Lucius 4:27 Day of the Dead Grateful Dead 6 Amazon China Doll Grateful Dead Tribute 4:06 The Electronic Tribute To The Grateful Dead Grateful Dead 2 Amazon Casey Jones (feat. Tim Keegan) Kid Loco 3:56 Born in the 60's Grateful Dead 2 iTunes Sugaree Roots of Creation 6:06 Grateful Dub: A Reggae Infused Tribute to the Grateful Dead Grateful Dead 3 iTunes Touch of Grey Skincell 4:31 Touch of Grey - Single Grateful Dead 3 Amazon To Lay Me Down Cowboy Junkies 5:18 Deadicated Grateful Dead 2 Amazon Truckin’ matt rae 4:13 Twangin' the Dead Grateful Dead 3 iTunes Sugar Magnolia Eric Krasno & Otis McDonald 3:44 Sugar Magnolia - Single Grateful Dead 3 iTunes Mountains of the Moon Keller & The Keels 3:55 thief Grateful Dead Amazon Blue Bayou (feat. Bob Weir) Leslie Mendelson 3:28 Love & Murder Roy Orbison iTunes Shakedown Street Mystic Bowie's Talking Dreads 4:35 Mystic Bowie's Talking Dreads (Deluxe) Grateful Dead 2 Amazon Ripple The California Honeydrops 5:24 Covers from the Cave Grateful Dead 6 iTunes Friend Of The Devil Cory Morrow 3:31 Outside the Lines Grateful Dead 8 iTunes Amazon Pasta on the Mountain Leftover Salmon 5:32 Stolen Roses - Songs of the Grateful Dead Grateful Dead 3 Amazon Blackbird (Live) Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman 2:46 Fall 1989: The Long Island Sound (Live) Beatles 3 iTunes

For Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, who just turned 65 and has those cool Dr. Strange gray spots on his temples! (50 minutes)

Featuring

Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Do You Realize? Denmark + Winter 3:11 The Holiday Collection Flaming Lips iTunes Amazon She Don’t Use Jelly (Electric Version) Drugstore 2:36 Drugstore Flaming Lips iTunes Amazon If I Only Had a Brain The Flaming Lips 2:16 Stubbs the Zombie (The Soundtrack) Wizard of OZ 2 Amazon Turn It On Sugar Plant 4:12 Cage of the Sun + Early Singles Flaming Lips iTunes Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (feat. Kingdom Jasmine, Valley Lopez, Stu Garney & Sam Dorrance) Joshua Lee Turner 5:38 Among Friends: A Musical Travelogue Flaming Lips iTunes Waitin’ For a Superman The Real Sea 4:21 Waitin' For a Superman - Single Flaming Lips 2 iTunes Feeling Yourself Disintegrate Kathleen Edwards 4:52 Covers Flaming Lips iTunes Fight Test Coffee Zombie Collective 3:20 Streetlight People Flaming Lips iTunes Amazon A Spoonful Weighs a Ton Mastodon 3:27 Record Store Day 2012: Side by Side Flaming Lips 2 Race For The Prize James Eric 3:38 The Pleasure Is Mine Flaming Lips 2 Can’t Get You Out Of My Head The Flaming Lips 4:08 Fight Test EP Kylie Minogue 9 iTunes