New Cover Videos From Tarnished And Mikey & His Uke!!

Another month is upon us, so let's kick June off with our 77th straight daily post at the SMS! We have some new videos to touch on from a daily series of note, but let's lead off with the latest live-stream from a prominent band on the other side of the border, as well as their new lineup announcement!

Sault Michigan hard rock band Tarnished held their 15th live-streamed concert (and first in a week) on their Facebook page on Saturday night! The guys had announced that they'd only have one at-home show last week due to "planning and setting up for the summer, which will be full of our one of a kind complete band setup." Hopefully their optimism means good things re: formal public concerts of some kind later in 2020! As for the "complete band setup" line, that appears to be true once again, as Tarnished have quietly added former Half A Man bassist Gary Croad as their new drummer, replacing the already departed Tommy Korcal, as per the band's About page on Facebook. I'm not familiar with Gary as a drummer, but hopefully he's the right fit when Tarnished can finally play true live concerts again! Don't look for him or Nathan in the live-streams in the near term due to social distancing, alas.

As for Tarnished's newest live-stream, the guys returned to a 2 hour-long model (give or take 7 minutes) after the previous week's two temperature-shortened concerts. Unfortunately, the ongoing audio issues for some users (myself included) are still very much in effect, including the usual pops, halts, and loud static, so crank your volume and/or have Audacity open to manipulate the ripped audio track. The first 8 songs played on Saturday are all solo performances by frontman Alex Traynor, as bandmate Josh Fair "(wasn't) quite here yet", and they included covers of Matchbox Twenty's "Push", Days of the New's "Push, Peel, and Stand", Panic! At The Disco's "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies", Warrant's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive", The Hollies' "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress", Matchbox Twenty's "Unwell", and Ed Sheeran's "Don't". Josh finally joins the concert in-progress afterwards for covers of The Romantics' "What I Like About You",  ...

...and Incubus' "Drive", before Josh trades his chair for a higher stool. The guys next tackle Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love", Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' "Mary Jane's Last Dance", Three Doors Down's "Kryptonite", Bob Seger's "Turn The Page", Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl", Sublime's "What I Got", and Anthrax's "Madhouse". After pausing for a couple minutes while Josh steps out, half of Tarnished finish up with covers of The Animals' "House of the Rising Sun", Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69", Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary", Alice In Chains' "Rooster", Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5", and Metallica's "Fade To Black". Nice return to activity for Alex & Josh, and if you can get past the poor audio quality, they handle these covers well all around! That said, "What I Like About You" & "Mambo No. 5" were just played in their last live-stream before this one, and they didn't break out any originals on Saturday. Check everything out below!



We'll close today back in Ontario for the three latest "Mikey & His Uke" quarantune videos from local punk musician Mikey Hawdon's YouTube channel over the last three days! All featuring special guests, these covers include Johnny Thunders' "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory", and Johnny & June Carter Cash's "Jackson" (alongside his frequent Toronto bandmate Amy Zucchetto), but embedded below is Saturday's cover of Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros' "Coma Girl" featuring Mikey's Surfers/ex-Tide bandmate Dustin Jones on vocals. This is a brief but fun and melodic cover with a nice punk spirit, so give it a look below, and hear much more above!

That's all for today, but stay tuned for this month's "Where Are The New Albums?" post on the site tomorrow! Thanks everyone!