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A cover band (or covers band) is a band
Band (music)

In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:...
 that plays mostly or exclusively cover songs
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
. Other common terms are wedding band, party band and function band.

Cover bands play songs written and recorded by other artists, usually well-known songs (as compared to "original" bands which play music they themselves have written). There are a wide variety of cover bands - some cover bands play material from particular decades, for example a 1980s cover band.






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A cover band (or covers band) is a band
Band (music)

In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:...
 that plays mostly or exclusively cover songs
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
. Other common terms are wedding band, party band and function band.

Cover bands play songs written and recorded by other artists, usually well-known songs (as compared to "original" bands which play music they themselves have written). There are a wide variety of cover bands - some cover bands play material from particular decades, for example a 1980s cover band. Others focus exclusively on the music of a particular group, usually iconic groups, and are called tribute band
Tribute band

A tribute act is a music group, singer, or musician who specifically plays the music of a well-known music act, often one which has disbanded or ceased touring....
s: it is not uncommon to find Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
 tribute bands, Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
 tribute bands, Aerosmith
Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
 tribute bands, or U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
 tribute bands. Some cover bands will play a variety of song styles, of widely different artists, genres and decades. Another type of cover band is one that covers songs in a different genre
Genre

A genre is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other Art#Art forms or utterance....
 or style than that of the original composition (e.g., jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 versions of what were originally hard rock
Hard rock

Hard rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music....
 songs).

Cover bands are very popular for weddings and corporate events, as well as in bars and clubs because they play many songs guests are familiar with.

Examples

  • Björn Again
    Björn Again

    Bj?rn Again is an ABBA tribute band, taking their name from Bj?rn Ulvaeus, a member of ABBA, and a pun on the phrase "Born again Christianity"....
    , an ABBA
    ABBA

    ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
     tribute band
  • Dirty Deeds, an AC/DC
    AC/DC

    AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
     tribute band
  • Capitol Offense
    Capitol Offense (band)

    Capitol Offense is the rock music of Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas and Mike Huckabee presidential campaign, 2008....
    , a cover band featuring 2008 US Presidential
    President of the United States

    The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
     candidate Mike Huckabee
    Mike Huckabee

    Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee is a Republican Party politician, Former Arkansas Governer and political commentator for Fox News Channel who served as Governor of Arkansas of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007....
     on bass guitar
    Bass guitar

    The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
  • Derrick & the Rockets, an award-winning Journey
    Journey

    Journey may refer to:* Journey , an American rock band** Journey , their 1975 debut album** Journey , an arcade game which featured the band...
     tribute band from Fort Wayne, Indiana and recipient of the "Don't Stop Believin" trophy at the 2008 TBP Winter Holiday Party in Tulsa, Oklahoma
    Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and List of United States cities by population in the United States. With an estimated population of 384,037 in 2007, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 905,755 residents projected to reach one million between 2010 and 2012....
    .
  • London Philharmonic, a Mozart cover band
  • Dark Star Orchestra
    Dark Star Orchestra

    Dark Star Orchestra are a United States tribute band to the Grateful Dead, formed in 1997 and based in Chicago....
    , a Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead

    The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
     tribute band.
  • The Famous Monsters, a Misfits tribute band.
Some cover bands perform covers that are of a different musical genre from the originals. For instance:
  • Black and Gold one of the leading UK function bands for general covers of popular music
    Popular music

    Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
     .
  • Richard Cheese covers rock and rap songs in the style of lounge music
    Lounge music

    Lounge music is a retrospective description of music popular in the 1950s and 1960s encompassing the exotica, easy listening, and space age pop genres....
    .
  • Gregorian
    Gregorian (band)

    Gregorian is a Germany Band , headed by Frank Peterson, performing Gregorian chant-inspired versions of modern pop music and rock music songs. Because it features both vocal harmony and instrumental accompaniment, the music cannot be considered true Gregorian chant....
     covers pop
    Pop music

    Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
     and rock songs in the style of Gregorian chant
    Gregorian chant

    Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainsong, a form of monophony liturgy chant in Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services....
    .
  • Gabba
    Gabba (band)

    Gabba is a London-based British tribute band performing ABBA songs in the stripped down Punk rock style of the Ramones, a style of pop punk they dubbed Dance-punk and claim to have invented....
     covers the pop songs of ABBA in the punk
    Punk rock

    Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
     style of the Ramones
    Ramones

    The Ramones were an American Rock music band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, Queens, New York, in 1974, all of the band members adopted stage names ending with "Ramone", though none of them were actually related....
     (the name is also a reference to the Ramones' song "Gabba Gabba Hey").
  • Nouvelle Vague
    Nouvelle Vague (band)

    Nouvelle Vague is a France musical collective led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name is a play on words referring simultaneously to their "Frenchness" and "artiness" , the source of their songs , and their use of '60s Bossa nova-style arrangements....
     covers new wave
    New Wave music

    New Wave is a genre of rock music which originated from the late 1970s. It emerged from punk rock as a reaction against the popular music of the 1970s....
    -era bands with a bossa nova
    Bossa nova

    Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music popularized by Ant?nio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Jo?o Gilberto. Bossa nova acquired a large following, initially by young musicians and college students....
     twist.
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
    Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

    Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is a punk rock supergroup and cover band that formed in 1995. The Gimmes work exclusively as a cover band. They have covered songs from such artists as Whitney Houston, Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, and John Denver....
     is known for punk covers of other artists, with each album picking a different genre or era (i.e. hits of the 1970's, showtunes
    Showtunes

    Showtunes is the result of collaboration between Stephin Merritt with Chen Shi-zheng on three pieces of musical theatre; Orphan of Zhao , Peach Blossom Fan , and My Life as a Fairy Tale ....
    , etc.)
  • Dread Zeppelin
    Dread Zeppelin

    Dread Zeppelin is an United States band best known for Cover version the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style sung by an Elvis Presley Elvis impersonator named Tortelvis , though their act now encompasses many other songs and other styles of music....
     specialized in reggae
    Reggae

    Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
     versions of Led Zeppelin songs, with an Elvis impersonator
    Elvis impersonator

    An Elvis impersonator is someone who impersonator or copies famed American musician Elvis Presley, either as a hobby, a career in entertainment or occasionally for fun....
     on lead vocals.
  • Hayseed Dixie
    Hayseed Dixie

    Hayseed Dixie is an United States musical band which began in the Fall of 2000 with the release of their first album, A Hillbilly Tribute band to AC/DC....
     started as a "hillbilly tribute to AC/DC
    AC/DC

    AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
    " and has become a bluegrass
    Bluegrass music

    Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has its own roots in Folk music of Ireland, Music of Scotland, Music of Wales and Folk Music of England traditional music....
     tribute band covering many well known rock bands in their own "rockgrass" style.
1990's Noasis an Oasis tribute band.

Other cover bands

  • Jars Full of Jupiter covers mainly alternative rock and indie rock
  • Jimmy and the Soulblazers
    Jimmy and the Soulblazers

    Jimmy and the Soulblazers A soul/funk/rock music cover band from Alliance,Ohio. Since 1966 they have been playing for audiences across the east coast and midwest....
     , covers of '60's and 70's Soul music.
  • The Commonwealth Band ,'60's British Rock cover band" Best in Caucasian Soul".
  • The Blazers Band,'60's Pop Music cover band from Alliance.Ohio.

Fictional cover bands

  • Saving Silverman
    Saving Silverman

    Saving Silverman is a 2001 in film comedy film, film director by Dennis Dugan. It stars Steve Zahn, Jack Black , Jason Biggs , Amanda Peet, Amanda Detmer and R Lee Ermey....
     featured three friends who were diehard Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond

    Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
     fans, and they formed a cover band called "Diamonds in the Rough".
  • In a Simpsons episode, Otto Mann
    Otto Mann

    Otto Mann is a fictional character on the animated TV series The Simpsons, voiced by Harry Shearer. He is the school bus driver for Springfield Elementary School....
     hires a cover bands called "Cyanide", which he says is a tribute to Poison.
  • In the American Dad!
    American Dad!

    American Dad! is a satire United States list of animated television series produced by Underdog Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions for 20th Century Fox Television....
     episode "Finances with Wolves", Klaus the goldfish swaps brains with the lead singer of an Earth, Wind and Fire cover band, who was abducted by the CIA
    Central Intelligence Agency

    The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the Federal government of the United States. It is the successor of the Office of Strategic Services formed during World War II to coordinate espionage activities between the branches of the US military services....
     in retaliation for ripping them off at a summer mixer.