These days cover artists don’t carry the same stigma like they once did as gaudy entertainers. Artists like Alien Ant Farm and Limp Bizkit were first introduced to us via covers – springboards that catapulted them into the public eye that are now haunting them like a tailgating fiend. To simply say covers are launching pads to the indie artist, or that covers are the ingenuity of lazy musicians, is very unfair. When the issue of covers and samples get fettered around idle table talk, emotions rise and the conversation immediately gets heated.