Stereogum — Earlier this year, Tegan And Sara announced that they would be releasing a The Con covers album in honor of its 10th anniversary. Today, they've released the list of who is covering what and it's pretty wild! Ryan Adams, Haley Williams, CHVRCHES, Ble... more info

MSN Music — The internet was in shock this week over a reminder that Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” is a cover, but the 1997 smash is far from the only popular recording that eclipsed its original. Sure, you might already know that “I Will Always Love You”... more info

Dlisted — My apologies to those of you who butt-birthed out a sparkly rainbow of excitement after looking at that headline and picture and thinking that Cyndi Lauper and Cher are going to star in a Broadway musical adaptation of a gay classic together. You k... more info

Stereogum — Cyndi Lauper, who picked up a best original score Tony Award in 2013 for her first foray into Broadway musicals, Kinky Boots, has locked down her next project in the field. The pop veteran will write music and lyrics for a Broadway-bound stage mu... more info

New York Times — Ms. Lauper, who wrote the score for “Kinky Boots” and contributed to “SpongeBob” for Broadway, will take on the adaptation of the 1988 film. more info

New York Times — The musical, which features songs by a long roster including David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper and John Legend, will open this fall at the Palace Theater. more info

Popdose — The ascending Pittsburgh quartet Soda Club treated a hometown crowd to its lazy Sunday brand of guitar-driven indie-pop on a Saturday this month, peppering a highly danceable, hour-long set of originals with covers of 80s classics by The Violent Femm... more info

MSN Music — Rod Stewart is in hot water after his wife Penny Lancaster posted a video that seemingly showed the musician carrying out a mock-ISIS-style “execution” in the Abu Dhabi desert before a show in the Arab Emirates. In the now-deleted Instagram clip ... more info

The Mirror — "Anger is not better than clarity and humanity," The Girls Just Wanna Have Fun singer told Andy Cohen more info

Idolator — They didn’t “serve our purpose.” more info