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Feist helping out various charities

In addition to allowing you to hear her amazing music, concert tickets to a Feist show let you make the world a slightly better place. Pitchfork reports that the singer and songwriter is currently on tour, and helping a number of different charities at the same time. As she’s touring through Canada, for example, she’s asking every audience member to bring in a canned good, which will then be donated to the Canadian Association of Food Banks. At each show, one donor will receive a piece of memorabilia made by her as a reward.

Additionally, all merchandise sales will benefit Doctors Without Borders, War Child Canada and Care Canada. So make sure you buy yourself some great Feist stuff while there.

She’s apparently busy off the coast of Greenland right now, on a science research vessel that’s studying global warming. Feist is definitely an artist with a passion for different causes. Of course, her fans are passionate about her music. If you’re one of them, then you’ll be needing the Feist tickets over at Stubhub.com.

Nick Cave publishing new novel

We’ve seen a lot from Nick Cave in the past few years. He’s released new work through his side project, Grinderman, as well as unveiling the raw new sound of The Bad Seeds on Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! He’s collaborated on screenplays like the so-called “outback western” The Proposition, and scored (as well as briefly performed in) the Academy Award-winning The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. He’s also scoring an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

Working in all those mediums, it’s surprising to learn that Cave has found time to sit down and write a new novel—his second, after 1989’s And the Ass Saw The Angel. The new book is titled The Death of Bunny Munro, apparently about a man and his son traveling through southern England after the suicide of the man’s wife.

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Meghan McCain: McCain’s tie to awesome music

Yesterday we noted that Obama seems to have a monopoly on great musical artists declaring their support for him. Up until now, it seemed like McCain supporters who were also well-known musicians were few and far between. But we’ve found McCain’s tie to great bands: His daughter, Meghan.

Meghan McCain has been keeping a regular blog, McCainBlogette.com, and in addition to writing about the campaign trail, frequently posts playlists (what two decades ago would have been called “mixtapes”), all of which are pretty awesome. She has impeccable taste in indie music: A playlist from April 20 includes classic artists like Tom Wait and Nick Drake along with the Gossip, Art Brut and Hot Chip. More importantly, she notes at the top of the post that she’s missing Prince at Coachella for a Washington, D.C. dinner.

This is an individual who has their priorities straight.

Pitchfork notes that her most recent post regarding the government’s bailout plan features a Stereolab song about the dark side of economics—is it a comment on the plan itself? Has she not read the lyrics? Are they reading too much into this?

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2009 Tour for Beyonce

Jay-Z’s leading lady, Beyonce, is slated to tour in 2009 in support of her upcoming yet-to-be-titled third solo album. The former Destiny’s Child singer will play international dates next spring and stateside shows early next summer subsequent to the Nov. 18 release of her impending album, released via Music World, Columbia. Two singles, “If I Were a Boy” and “Single Ladies,” will precede the album’s release on Oct. 14 and music videos for the songs, directed by Jake Nava, will air later on this month.

Beyonce will perform one of her new singles at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool, England Nov. 6. The singer will also release Beyonce AOL Sessions and a deluxe edition of her upcoming album, featuring unannounced bonus tracks on Nov. 18.  On her Web site Beyonce commented on her new album, saying “It is the most time I have spent on any project since my first records as a member of Destiny’s Child when I was 15 years old. I have recorded over 70 songs and have created a sound that reveals all of me.”

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