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UnderCover
UnderCover features Chicago artists stepping outside their genres to perform covers of popular songs.
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UnderCover: A Modern Marching Band Takes on Motown  
Chicago marching band Mucca Pazza has their interpretation of Stevie Wonder's “All Day Sucker” in the final installment of this year's UnderCover series.
UnderCover: An Instrumental Take on Stevie Wonder  
Juan Dies of Sones de Mexico offers his take on Stevie Wonder's classic “Isn't She Lovely” for the latest installment for the UnderCover series.
UnderCover: Alla  
Local Latino rockers Alla give their take on Stevie Wonder's “I Was Made to Love Her” for our UnderCover series.
UnderCover: Stevie Wonder Meets Poland  
Polish-born jazz chanteuse Grazyna Auguscik puts her own spin on Stevie Wonder's "They Won't Go Where I Go" for our UnderCover series.
UnderCover: A Folky Take on Stevie Wonder  
Rachel Ries performs her version of Stevie Wonder's “Golden Lady.” 
UnderCover: Songs of Stevie Wonder  
Our UnderCover series returns for a third season with post-jazz group Information Superhighway, and their take on Stevie Wonder.
UnderCover: Hicham Chami and The Mosaic Ensemble  
Musician Hicham Chami and his Mosaic Ensemble wrap up this season of our series UnderCover with an international take on the American folk classic “This Land Is Your Land.”
Undercover: Andrew Bird Goes Electric with Bob Dylan  
Andrew Bird drops by to lend his take on Bob Dylan's song, “Oh, Sister.” Bird opens for Bright Eyes at the Chicago Theatre on Friday, October 19.
Undercover: M13  
As part of our series UnderCover, a contemporary big band group covers Icelandic wonder Bjork.
UnderCover: Hard Art Groop  
Chicago musician and music director John Elmquist brings together a large ensemble to lend his unique brand of arrangement to Queen’s “Bicycle Race.”
Web Extra- UnderCover: Hard Art Groop  
This is an extended interview with Chicago musician and music director John Elmquist from our ongoing series UnderCover.
Web Extra- UnderCover: Hard Art Groop  
This is an extended interview with Chicago musician Andy Distel from our ongoing series UnderCover.
Web Extra- UnderCover: Hard Art Groop  
Chicago musician and music director John Elmquist's arrangement of Queen’s “Bicycle Race.”
UnderCover: Jimmy Burns  
As part of our UnderCover series, bluesman Jimmy Burns covers a classic rock tune.
UnderCover: Treologic  
Chicago hip-hop artists Treologic cover Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner."
UnderCover: Typhanie Monique and Neal Alger  
Colby Beserra returns for season two of our series UnderCover, where local musicians cover music outside their usual genre. This week, jazz duo Typhanie Monique and Neal Alger take on Led Zeppelin.
UnderCover: Web Extra  
An extended discussion with Colby Beserra and Typhanie Monique and Neal Alger.
UnderCover: Eastern Blok Break into a "Heart-Shaped Box"  
As we wrap up the first wave of our UnderCover series, we're taken out by the band, Eastern Blok. They offer up a Balkan-jazz take on Nirvana's “Heart-Shaped Box.”
UnderCover: Hoyle Brothers  
Longtime stalwarts of dank (and, dare we say, punk) country music, the Hoyle Brothers drive boot-first into the middle-of-the-road soul pop of 70's artist Arthur Alexander.
UnderCover: Puerto Muerto Covers Nina Simone  
Chicago wife-husband duo Puerto Muerto take on Nina Simone's "Be My Husband."
UnderCover: Las Guitarras de Espana  
For this installment of our UnderCover series, Las Guitarras de Espana offers up a flamenco-tinged version of the pop standard “Killing Me Softly with His Song.”
UnderCover: The Zincs  
Colby Beserra brings us the next installment of our UnderCover series, featuring the Zincs and their take on Echo and the Bunnymen’s song “Silver.”
UnderCover: The Detholz take on Eddy Grant  
In the third installment of our UnderCover music series, we're joined by Chicago rock band The Detholz.
UnderCover: Don Stiernberg takes on James Taylor  
In the second installment of our UnderCover Music Series, we're joined by acclaimed mandolin player, Don Stiernberg. 
 
He strokes his strings to the sounds of James Taylor's “Something in the Way She Moves.”
UnderCover: Occidental Brothers Dance Band International  
We present the first in a new segment of exclusive performances by local bands who perform covers of popular songs outside their regular genre. Today, the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International perform's New Order’s 1980's dance hit “Bizarre Love Triangle.” 
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