On Christmas Eve, my sister Janessa (who is also into making music) and I decided to do a cover of a classic Simon & Garfunkel song, Sound of Silence. I remember exactly where I was when I got into this song. I was sitting on the couch of my dorm at BYU (when I was actually there) playing music on my computer while my roommate Dean did something nearby. He was a real stickler for 80’s hair rock like Styx, so it was kind of hard for us to find …

This is a cover I made of The Strokes – Someday, a band I’ve been listening to quite a bit lately. When I made it, I decided to dedicate it to my brother’s birthday since the first line gives me some nostalgia (in many ways / they’ll miss the good old days / someday, someday) but the rest of the song doesn’t fit, honestly. STILL, I enjoyed making this type of laid back song.

Hey, The Beatles are a good band. So because of this, I helped a bunch of other musicians cover the entire Beatles album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The original album is one of the best of all-time, and there is some pretty sweet stuff on here (its hard to mess up what they had.