You, you, you oughta snow. Since 2020, Alanis Morisette has made a habit of popping up during the holiday season to cover a classic Christmas song. Now the Canadian singer has gathered those renditions, plus a bunch more covers and two original songs into Good Weather for Immaculate Conception—a title only she could have come up with. Out November 6 via Virgin’s Epiphany imprint, the album boasts a wide-ranging guestlist that somehow includes Steve Martin and Martin Short alongside the likes of Amythyst Kiah and Joy Oladokun. Scroll down to hear Morissette’s new cover of “Beautiful Star of Bethlehem,” featuring both Martin and Brandi Carlile.
Morissette shared her last studio LP, Such Pretty Forks in the Road, in 2020. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the very start of the year, and recently made a surprise appearance at Olivia Rodrigo’s inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival, joining Rodrigo onstage during her set to duet on “Ironic.” Carlile made noise with her cover of Morissette’s “Uninvited” at the 2026 Newport Folk Festival in July; the two artists even got to sing it together at Red Rocks last month.
Read about Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” at No. 33 in The 250 Best Songs of the 1990s.
Good Weather for Immaculate Conception:
01 O Holy Night
02 To an Empath at Christmas Time
03 What Child is This?
04 Happy Xmas (War is Over)
05 Little Drummer Boy
06 Beautiful Star of Bethlehem [ft. Brandi Carlile and Steve Martin]
07 Ave Maria
08 Christmas on the Dancefloor
09 River
10 Momma Mary [ft. Amethyst Kiah]
11 O Tannenbaum [ft. Trans Voices]
12 Last Christmas
13 Silent Night [ft. Joy Oladokun]
14 Merry Christmas [ft. Martin Short]
