Cursive covers Starship
We were fairly certain that Starship's 1985 smash hit "We Built This City" would be one of the final songs picked for the debut season of A.V. Undercover, but Cursive proved us wrong. Nebraska's favorite sons attacked the song, making it their own. (In an alternate take, singer Tim Kasher sang "balls-deep in the hoopla" rather than the original's "knee-deep.") Associate editor Kyle Ryan can be seen in the video running the strobe light, an effect Cursive insisted on. The band's latest album is the excellent Mama, I'm Swollen.
Total Episodes: 27
- Introduction to A.V. Undercover
- Ted Leo And The Pharmacists cover Tears For Fears
- Fruit Bats cover Hall & Oates
- Alkaline Trio covers Archers Of Loaf
- Cursive covers Starship
- Justin Townes Earle covers Bruce Springsteen
- Retribution Gospel Choir covers The Beach Boys
- Maritime covers Depeche Mode
- The Clientele covers M.I.A.
- Ben Folds covers Elliott Smith
- Wye Oak covers The Kinks
- Motion City Soundtrack covers Pavement
- The Wedding Present covers The Rolling Stones
- Owen Pallett covers Guided By Voices
- The Antlers cover Pink Floyd
- Rise Against covers Nirvana
- Frightened Rabbit covers The Lemonheads
- Clem Snide covers Journey
- Coheed And Cambria covers The Smiths
- Patrick Stump covers The Wedding Present
- Superchunk covers The Cure
- Mates Of State cover The Replacements
- The Swell Season covers Neutral Milk Hotel
- Cymbals Eat Guitars cover Superchunk
- Tokyo Police Club covers Billy Squier
- Vote and watch the re-cap
- The Walkmen cover R.E.M.