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‘Tis the Season: Free from Texas and Seattle
[Updated] For those who prefer their Christmas music as nostalgia-free as is manageable, Austin’s Krayolas and the West Seattle music community are here to help. You can download the rock-oriented […]
‘Tis the Season: Julian Koster and the Saw’s Song
One of the great recent additions to the library of Christmas music is Julian Koster‘s The Singing Saw at Christmastime. It’s hard to imagine that it’s the first album of […]
‘Tis the Season: Erin McKeown Gives Christmas the Finger
Shake a Christmas tree and a Christmas carol falls out. You’ve got to work a little harder, but there are also anti-Christmas songs as well. Indie folk artist Erin McKeown […]
‘Tis the Season: John Waters, Spotify and More
Listen to “An OffBeat Christmas 2011” playlist on Spotify In 2004, filmmaker/artist/writer John Waters extended his exploration of taste to Christmas music when he released A John Waters Christmas. Unfortunately, […]
‘Tis the Season: Polyphonic Spree and Human
After Voodoo 2004, I started interviewing the Polyphonic Spree‘s Tim DeLaughter about one thing and ended up talking about Christmas music with him for an hour. The band plays a […]
The Road to Christmas
Some quickies: – Monday night while I was DJ’ing a Christmas party at the Saint, someone came up and told me to “pump the bass” on “Christmas Time is Here” […]
Too Soon?
This time every year, someone writes a blog post similar to this: But I was a bit shocked to hear Christmas music over the store intercom. A Christmas tune by […]
Finally, No Coal
Last week I documented the grim results of trying to download free Christmas music from Amazon.com’s 25 Days of Free promotion. I just checked and things haven’t improved much, but […]
Get What You Pay For?
Amazon.com has its 25 Days of Free promotion, making available a new song each day for download. Here’s the scorecard so far: Dec. 1: “Joy to the World” by Casting […]
Bob on Bob
In the new issue, I reviewed Bob Dylan’s Christmas in the Heart, which I think has received a lot of cheap negative reviews based on the simple premise that it’s […]
