Madi Diaz Releases Blink-182 Cover Album for Immigrant Aid

Singer-songwriter Madi Diaz released a full track-by-track cover of Blink-182's 1999 album Enema of the State on November 10, reimagining the pop-punk classic as Enema of the Garden State to benefit immigrant legal aid efforts amid heightened U.S. immigration enforcement.

The Nashville-based artist, a 39-year-old Grammy nominee known for her folk-leaning work, recorded the covers during sessions for her seventh studio album, Fatal Optimist, which came out on October 10 to positive reviews. Diaz described the project as an unplanned diversion that began as a nostalgic warm-up exercise in a New Jersey studio, where she was tracking her own material. "These recordings started out as a fun light exercise fueled by an eternal love and fandom I have for Blink-182 and the record Enema of the State," she wrote in an Instagram post announcing the release. Each morning, producer Andrew Maury would set up microphones on a four-track setup, allowing Diaz to perform acoustic versions of the songs spontaneously. "I wanted to see if I could run these songs and let the nostalgia drive my memory for the lyrics and tear through a punky acoustic arrangement," she added. "No planning, no...