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…

For the past month, Justin Vernon's Eaux Claires festival has been sharing live performances for their For Wisconsin voting initiative. There have been videos from Vernon himself, Arcade Fire, and, just yesterday, Feist. With Election Day finally happening tomorrow (oh god), For Wisconsin is sharing one final performance and it's a doozy. Big&...

Justin Vernon's Eaux Claires festival has been getting musicians to perform as part of their For Wisconsin voting initiative, from Arcade Fire to, naturally, Vernon himself. A new performance from Feist was just shared as part of the campaign and it finds her covering Cat Stevens' classic 1970 track "Trouble." Feist's most recent…

Among other distinctions, 2019 will go down as the year musicians started constantly covering Wilco. Despite the fact that Jeff Tweedy's band just released their best album in years and are sounding better than ever on the road, they seem to have crossed over the threshold into legacy status because suddenly the tributes are pouring…

About halfway through her opening set Tuesday, Leslie Feist requested a "people check" from the Schottenstein Center crowd shrouded in darkness before her. "Let's go full Bon Jovi volume," she instructed, before correcting herself: "Let's go full Bon Iver volume." The irony was thick, especially considering the soft, pretty music she immediately...