I doubt you’ve heard of them, but apparently there’s this new band called “the Beatles” that Steve Jobs just discovered and is pimping like crazy all over his flash-in-the-pan website iTunes. Me? I don’t really get it, what with all that moppy hair and the funny accents and that vulgar sound. Can’t imagine they’ll have much of a future. Besides, this rock and roll thing is just a fad. Gimme some Mitch Miller any day. Now there’s music.

Anyway, apparently the kids dig it. For example, kids like Rubblebucket, whose cover of “Michelle” was just named one of the 50 best Beatles covers of all time by Paste magazine. Check it out …

 

Michelle

 

 

Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to see rock shows for a living. He became assistant arts editor in 2017 and culture coeditor in 2021. Bolles has received numerous local and national awards for his writing on Vermont arts, sports and the occasional celebrity canine murder mystery. He loves...

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