Sentence examples for band rips from inspiring English sources

On a makeshift stage among cherry trees, the band rips through passable covers of jazz and rock classics.

It's all right to chuckle when the band rips through the double-time indie-soul song "We Are the Sleepyheads".

I showed my musically-challenged trainer a YouTube clip of the 66-year-old rock legend, currently in the midst of The River tour, crowd surfing through a sea of fans as the E Street band rips through Hungry Heart.

Some will say the band rips off other song titles, but having a same song title actually happens all the time.

"Heard this last year in Prague," he said as the Czech band ripped into a rag tune that would make King Oliver smile.

Pre-match we'd been treated to the unedifying sight of the Australian Army band ripping off The Hives' iconic rap hit Tick Tick Boom.

The corking take on "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" makes the Okeh version seem positively weak-kneed, with Armstrong's big band ripping through the breaks.

As the band rip through song after song, a relentless wave of bodies crashes on to the stage to be hurled back into the swell of the crowd.

Yet Je t'Aime is barely missed when the band rip through such glories as Harley Davidson, Bonnie and Clyde and the climactic Initials BB, so dramatic it sounds like something Ennio Morricone would compose for a spaghetti western.

There have been bands before operating in one area who have made a career out of doing versions of songs by artists in another musical hemisphere – unless we were hallucinating at the time, we'd swear there was a group who once did Anarchy in the UK in a country style, and the idea of, say, a loud band ripping a soft tune out of its original context and reframing it (or vice versa) is old.

Sting's band ripped through Police classics "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" and "Roxanne".