{"id":134688,"date":"2025-09-10T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134688\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:39:08","slug":"matt-berninger-unveils-new-cover-of-new-orders-blue-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134688\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Berninger Unveils New Cover of New Order&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Monday&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/the-national\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The National<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/matt-berninger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Matt Berninger<\/a> regularly performed a cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/new-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New Order<\/a>\u2019s 1983 classic, \u201cBlue Monday,\u201d throughout his solo tour of the UK and Europe. Now, the song is officially on streaming as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tryamazonmusic.com\/aOVxmN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Amazon Music Unlimited<\/a> exclusive. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<p>While Berninger\u2019s rendition of \u201cBlue Monday\u201d leans less on synths and more on electric guitar than the original, it\u2019s nevertheless a surprisingly dynamic and enthralling cover. This studio version was recorded at Los Angeles\u2019 Knobworld with production from Sean O\u2019Brien, who also helmed the boards on Berninger\u2019s most recent album, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/03\/the-nationals-matt-berninger-announces-new-album-get-sunk-2025-tour-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Get Sunk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several other personnel who contributed to\u00a0Get Sunk played on the \u201cBlue Monday\u201d cover, including O\u2019Brien (electric guitars), Garret Lang (bass), Julia Laws (synthesizer, background vocals), and Sterling Laws (drums, drum programming, percussion).<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Get Sunk, the follow-up to 2020\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2020\/09\/album-review-matt-berninger-serpentine-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Serpentine Prison<\/a>, dropped this past May via Book\/Concord Records. Grab your physical copy <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/41KLCkZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Matt Berninger, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/video\/the-national-war-on-drugs-tour-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">revisit his 2024 chat<\/a> with The War on Drugs\u2019 Adam Granduciel about their co-headlining tour.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This summer, The National\u2019s\u00a0Matt Berninger regularly performed a cover of New Order\u2019s 1983 classic, \u201cBlue Monday,\u201d throughout his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-134688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}