{"id":21276,"date":"2014-05-09T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=21276"},"modified":"2014-05-09T09:03:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T17:03:46","slug":"watch-courtney-barnett-kurt-vile-and-amanda-palmer-kill-cover-songs-on-rockwiz-aussie-tvs-music-trivia-game-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-05\/watch-courtney-barnett-kurt-vile-and-amanda-palmer-kill-cover-songs-on-rockwiz-aussie-tvs-music-trivia-game-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile and Amanda Palmer Kill Cover Songs on &#8220;RocKwiz&#8221;&#8211;Aussie TV&#8217;s Music Trivia Game Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10289934_10152349693829235_2404144916869573720_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10289934_10152349693829235_2404144916869573720_n-650x434.jpg\" alt=\"10289934_10152349693829235_2404144916869573720_n\" width=\"635\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10289934_10152349693829235_2404144916869573720_n-650x434.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10289934_10152349693829235_2404144916869573720_n-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10289934_10152349693829235_2404144916869573720_n-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10289934_10152349693829235_2404144916869573720_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new discovery. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/rockwiz\/\"><strong>RocKwiz<\/strong><\/a> is an Australian game show based around music trivia.\u00a0 Each program features two musical celebrities (a great mix of knowns and unknowns) and four contestants who play off for nothing more than the honor of winning.\u00a0 Each musical guest performs a song with the show&#8217;s band before joining together to close the show with a duet.\u00a0 The cover songs performed on the show are a great mix of all-time greats and obscurities (yes, the two can often be the same&#8211;see the <em><strong>Everybody Moves<\/strong><\/em> performance below).\u00a0 The performers also perform their own songs.\u00a0 Now that&#8217;s a show we need in America!<\/p>\n<p>The show seems to be gaining more traction as the likes of <strong>Kurt Vile<\/strong> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2014\/05\/watch-kurt-vile-covers-neil-youngs-albuquerque\/\"><strong>Consequence of Sound<\/strong><\/a>), C<strong>ourtney Barnett, Judy Collins, Kimbra, Jens Lekman, Amanda Palmer, Adrian Belew, Martha Wainwright<\/strong>, and <strong>Chet Faker<\/strong>, amongst a cast of thousands, have appeared on the show.\u00a0 The three most compelling performances we quickly found from the show are <strong>Courtney Barnett and Dave Faulkner&#8217;s<\/strong> incredible cover of <strong>Died Pretty&#8217;s <em>Everybody Moves<\/em><\/strong> (one of Australia&#8217;s lost nuggets), <strong>Kurt Vile&#8217;s<\/strong> cover of <strong>Neil Young&#8217;s <em>Albuquerque<\/em><\/strong> and <strong>Amanda Palmer&#8217;s<\/strong> cover of <strong>The Motels&#8217; <em>Total Control<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Check &#8217;em out below in that order, and wander over <a href=\"http:\/\/rockwizteam.blogspot.com.au\/p\/rockwiz-duets-finder.html\"><strong>HERE<\/strong> <\/a>for more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-MC0flw5lk4\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YJuMgdp2sYg\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/ondemand\/video\/single\/2278128951\/rockwiz-s10-ep129-hugo-race-amanda-palmer-duet\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new discovery. RocKwiz is an Australian game show based around music trivia.\u00a0 Each program features two musical celebrities (a great mix of knowns and unknowns) and four contestants who play off for nothing more than the honor of winning.\u00a0 Each musical guest performs a song with the show&#8217;s band before joining together to close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}