Watch Snail Mail cover Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Tonight, Tonight’
nme.comSnail Mail (aka Lindsey Jordan) treated fans to a riveting cover of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 gem ‘Tonight, Tonight’.Flanked by her four-piece backing band, Jordan kicked off a 28-date tour of North America – which comes in support of last year’s ‘Valentine’ album – at this year’s edition of the Treefort Music Fest in Boise, Idaho.
She and her band played the first night of the five-day festival, debuting a handful of tracks from ‘Valentine’ alongside choice cuts from 2018’s ‘Lush’.Jordan is no stranger to throwing a cover into her Snail Mail sets; on her last run of shows in late 2019, she closed sets out with her take on the Goo Goo Dolls’ ‘Iris’.
It’s unclear whether ‘Tonight, Tonight’ will become a similar staple of the Snail Mail set, but for now, at least, you can watch some fan-shot footage of her playing it in Boise below:A post shared by Blake Teuscher (@run_d0wn)‘Valentine’ was released November via Matador.
In a five-star review, NME’s El Hunt wrote: “As a songwriter, Jordan continues to cut straight through to the messy, conflicted, hopelessly infatuated guts of life.
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