{"id":304136,"date":"2026-10-11T02:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T02:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304136\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T02:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T02:45:13","slug":"alanis-morissette-announces-new-christmas-album-feat-brandi-carlile-steve-martin-martin-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304136\/","title":{"rendered":"Alanis Morissette Announces New Christmas Album Feat. Brandi Carlile, Steve Martin, &#038; Martin Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alanis Morissette is here to remind you of the Christ-mess that you left when you went away. Look, you try to come up with a better pun. Go ahead. I&#8217;ll wait. No? You can&#8217;t? You thought of Jingled Little Pill and realized it was hopeless? Yeah, that&#8217;s what I thought. My friend, this is what I do. I am a professional. Alanis Morissette announces her first-ever holiday album, and I give you &#8220;the Christ-mess that you left when you went away.&#8221; That&#8217;s not just great music blogging. That&#8217;s a Christmas miracle.<\/p>\n<p>Next month, Alanis Morissette will bless the world with her new yuletide collection Good Weather For Immaculate Conception. Is that title&#8230; ironic? I actually don&#8217;t know the answer to that question. I think so? Fuck. Anyway. The record includes two newly written songs, which have the very funny titles &#8220;Christmas On The Dance Floor&#8221; and &#8220;To An Empath At Christmas Time.&#8221; It&#8217;s also got Morissette reinterpreting a bunch of holiday classics, sometimes with special guests. <\/p>\n<p>Today, Morissette shares the album&#8217;s lead single, her take on &#8220;Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem,&#8221; a gospel hymn most famously recorded by the Judds. Her take on it features Brandi Carlile and comedy legend\/bluegrass musician Steve Martin. Morissette and Carlile recently <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2511377\/alanis-morissette-joins-brandi-carlile-at-red-rocks\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">performed together at Red Rocks<\/a>, and Martin just took part in <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2513990\/steve-martin-alison-brown-del-mccoury-dan-tyminski-cover-lil-nas-xs-old-town-road\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">an all-star roots-music cover<\/a> of Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8220;Old Town Road.&#8221; Martin&#8217;s longtime collaborator and Only Murders In The Building co-star Martin Short also appears on Morissette&#8217;s LP, but on a completely different song. The album also has appearances from Joy Oladokun, Amythyst Kiah, and the British trans choir known as Trans Voices. Below, you&#8217;ll find Morissette&#8217;s take on &#8220;Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem&#8221; and the Good Weather For Immaculate Conception tracklist.<\/p>\n<p>TRACKLIST:<br \/>01 &#8220;O Holy Night&#8221;<br \/>02 &#8220;To An Empath At Christmas Time&#8221;<br \/>03 &#8220;What Child Is This?&#8221;<br \/>04 &#8220;Happy Xmas (War Is Over)&#8221;<br \/>05 &#8220;Little Drummer Boy&#8221;<br \/>06 &#8220;Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem&#8221; (feat. Brandi Carlile &amp; Steve Martin)<br \/>07 &#8220;Ave Maria&#8221;<br \/>08 &#8220;Christmas On The Dancefloor&#8221;<br \/>09 &#8220;River&#8221;<br \/>10  &#8220;Momma Mary&#8221; (feat. Amythyst Kiah)<br \/>11 &#8220;O Tannenbaum&#8221; (feat. Trans Voices)<br \/>12 &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221;<br \/>13  &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; (feat. Joy Oladokun)<br \/>14  &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; (feat. Martin Short)<\/p>\n<p>Good Weather For Immaculate Conception is out 11\/6 on Epiphany Music\/Virgin Music. Pre-order it <a href=\"https:\/\/vmg.lnk.to\/gwfic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>. Look at this, she&#8217;s wearing Christmas tree ornaments as earrings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2514140\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Alanis.jpeg\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/>Jasper Graham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alanis Morissette is here to remind you of the Christ-mess that you left when you went away. 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