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Bon Iver/The National’s Eaux Claires Fest announce lineup

Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the National’s Aaron Dessner have announced the lineup for their third Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival, which is to take place June 16-17th in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, as Stereogum reports. Chance the Rapper, Wilco, along with Jeff Tweedy’s side project Tweedy, Feist, Paul Simon with yMusic, Danny Brown, Perfume Genius, and more are set to play. Additional performances listed include “Bon Iver Presents John Prine and the American Songbook,” and “Big Red Machine,” a collaborative performance from Vernon and Desnner with guests, based on their song of the same name from the compilation Dark Was the Night.

Even though the lineup has not yet been officially announced, booklets featuring the lineup were mailed to people who had ordered tickets already. Check out an image/tweet below.

Mikal Cronin’s video for “Say” is a shot for shot remake of Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al”

Mikal Cronin has teamed up with Funny or Die to create the video for “Say”, one of the tracks from his third album, MCIII. With the help of director Jonah Ray, Cronin creates a recreation of Paul Simon’s famous video for “You Can Call Me Al”, the one where Chevy Chase and Simon are in a pink room and Chase keeps ruining the musician’s lines. Lorne Michaels, beloved creator and producer for Saturday Night Live, helped create the concept.

Everything in Cronin’s new video is perfect, the room, the outfits, the dance moves, and the most subtle of things like the random moving of a conga drum in the back. However, it gets complicated when comedians, including Kurt Braunohler, Nelson Franklin, and Nick Thune can not decide who is playing Chevy’s part. It gets crowded and the tensions rise and then things take a dark and unexpected turn. Watch it below.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/7e1796b04c/mikal-cronin-say