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Your straight up-and-down indie version of a song is about as standard as it gets, but it’s still perfectly acceptable as long as it’s done well.

For good examples of this, see Youth Group’s version of Forever Young, The Concretes’ Back for Good and Devendra Banhart’s cover of Don’t Look Back in Anger.

I is also for... Influences: What better way to tip your hat to those who’ve come before you than by recording one of their tracks?

Gallows’ cover of Nervous Breakdown does nothing that Black Flag's original didn’t, but remains a fitting doff of the baseball cap from the band to their heroes nonetheless.