How to Use cover band in a Sentence

cover band

noun

• The Red Clay Strays emerged from the ashes of a cover band in Mobile in 2016.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
• Does that make the latest edition of Lynyrd Skynyrd the keepers of the flame, a cover band, or both?
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2023
• The ’90s country cover band, the Neon Prophets, performed all night.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 26 June 2023
• Naked Karate Girls and the ups and downs of being in Cincinnati's favorite cover band.
  — The Enquirer, 7 July 2023
• The fundraiser has grown and now includes Grossi playing drums with a cover band, 50 Year Storm.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• From a Clapton cover band to a punk rock jam sesh, this Father's Day idea is sure to please the music fan in your life.
  — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 13 May 2023
• Before that could happen, a Top 40 cover band played a function at her high school.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
• What began in 2009 as a cover band to play at weddings and restaurants has greatly evolved.
  — Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2024
• Local cover band Sudo Nano will provide live music, and the 2024 Tastemaker of the Year will be crowned.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 3 June 2024
• Neil then dropped out of high school and started performing with Rock Candy, a Cheap Trick cover band.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2023
• The other cool thing about Austin was everybody had a garage band or music project, but nobody was in a cover band.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2024
• Beside me, a man played video poker while a cover band cranked out country hits to a mostly empty lounge.
  — Sam Lipsyte, Harper's Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
• The band was The Drawers, a cover band that focuses on rock tunes from the past and some original material.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
• That idyll ended abruptly Wednesday when a gunman fired on a crowd that had gathered to listen to a cover band on spaghetti night at the watering hole.
  — Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Fans of the goateed lead prosecutor, Creighton Waters, posted videos of him rocking out in his former life as the lead guitarist of the cover band Sole Purpose.
  — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
• Her parents were—and still are—musicians in a Bay Area Bollywood cover band called Geetanjali.
  — Parizaad Khan Sethi, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2023
• There had been mobs of them at an early Beatles cover band in July, and an altercation between an older man and a younger man that drew police.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• There’s no cover band medley of old hits to win over restless audience members, so the performers have to cast their own incandescent spell when jamming.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• To wit: an introduction by Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds in an 11-minute video chronicling their start as a cover band to global rock act with sales of over 50 million albums.
  — Karen Bliss, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• Before plugging in the aux cord, linking a Bluetooth speaker or inviting a cover band on stage, business owners or event organizers must have a license.
  — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2024
• Those performances, more than 1,800 miles apart, on the last Saturday night of March showcased two extremes: A rock star who's traveled the world playing originals and a weekend warrior plugging away with a cover band in local bars and clubs.
  — IndyStar, 28 Apr. 2023
• Bond superfan Andy Lipnick, the former guitarist in a James Bond cover band who also happens to be my brother-in-law, said he’s always been struck by the film production teams’ attention to blurring the line between fiction and fact.
  — Leslie Katz, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Prior to his performance, Urban recalled singing Milsap hits during his cover band days and then delivered a solo rendition of the song, backing himself up on guitar before Sixwire joined in.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
• Crazy Fingers is a local Grateful Dead cover band with a dedicated following, performing at the bar every Tuesday, according to its website.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024