Pianist and pop music scholar Chilly Gonzales has announced a new Christmas album out next week. A Very Chilly Christmas features covers of David Berman's "Snow Is Falling In Manhattan," Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You," and a whole bunch of holiday standards along with one original song, "The Banister Bough." Feist…

Hot Chip are on a roll. The album they released last year, A Bath Full Of Ecstasy, was one of their best. This year, they followed that up by putting together a Late Night Tales mix that featured their cover of the Velvet Underground's "Candy Says" alongside a couple new songs. But Hot Chip are,…

Jarvis Cocker's new-ish band JARV IS... -- who released their debut album Beyond The Pale back in July -- covered the Velvet Underground and the Fall in a new performance filmed for an exhibition about Scottish avant-garde choreographer Michael Clark at the Barbican in London. The performance is "a musical response" to the…

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