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Brighton's Fear of Men embark on a massive European tour next week, and to celebrate the occasion, they've released this lovely, gently lilting cover of Ty Segall's psychedelic lullaby "Sleeper". Check all of Fear of Men's tour dates here...

Washington D.C.'s GEMS follow up their gorgeous recent singles "Medusa" + "Ephemera" with a floating shadow-pop take on a '90s MTV staple, complete with some faithfully re-created cover art. Regardless of how you feel about the original in 2014, I think you'll find that GEMS' dramatic, dreamily atmospheric version makes perfect sense...

new @JeromeLOL makin me :'( and :') https://t.co/vpdLkKGDVj — RL Grime (@RLGRIME) October 14, 2013 mp3:

"The wonderful Jessie Ware joined us onstage at Night+Day in Berlin. We did a version of Modjo ‘Lady’ + Stardust ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ over Jamie’s edit of Sunset. It was such a joy to share the stage with her, she has an incredible voice...

Normally I'd consider Andre 3000 untouchable as far as covers like this go, but I'm posting this for a couple of reasons: first, Tame Impala kind of holds their own with their spacey, straightforward/reverential take on the song, and also I'd forgotten that there was a video for the original, it's amazing, and it somehow has less than 2000 views despite being on the official Outkast channel:

I am a huge fan of this Prince written Martika song, so I covered it x soundcloud.com/jessieware/lov… — Jessie Ware (@Jessie_Ware) April 24, 2013 Jessie Ware covers Martika's Prince-produced/co-written 1991 single "Love Thy Will Be Done":

Our second Record Store Day-related Nicolas Jaar post of the weekend: Jaar + Sasha Spielberg's collaborative covers project Just Friends quietly dropped a RSD-exclusive, possibly Germany-only 12" for one of our favorite songs of 2012 -- their ghostly cover of Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche" -- backed with remixes by Julia Holter and Shlohmo...