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Christmas 2014

High rotation tracks van het moment bij Kicking the Habit

Christmassing the Habit

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

“A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.”
― Mitch Hedberg

“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
― George Carlin

RATED XXXMAS: Holiday Music That Doesn't Suck

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Holiday-inspired Fat Santa is a classic throwback track reminiscent of the time when the Meters and Labelle reigned; lead vocalist Baskerville Jones calls up her southern church roots to tell the story of a girl concerned that Santa has let himself go. This song earned #2 position on the Indie Urban/R&B Holiday songs for 2013. 

Fat Santa

Card from a Multipack by The Just Joans, from Christmas EP, 'The Just Joans' Seasonal Greet'.  

Released on Weepop Records.

Card From A Multipack

Taken from the Cleopatra Records release PSYCH-OUT CHRISTMAS
cleorecs.com
elephantstonemusic.com

Elephant Stone - Christmas Time (Is Here Again)

Short Skirts with Ida Horpestad from Blomst on vocals, and Andreas Barlien from Juicer on drums. 

Short Skirts - Christmas Depends on You

One Christmas Catalogue (Captain Sensible)

Brother Sister - Beta Radio

Apollo 8: Merry Christmas

Taken from the forthcoming album "Wild Winter", released 8th December 2014. 
Available to pre-order from Rough Trade: http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/88447

Available digitally from Full Time Hobby: http://bit.ly/1sr07zo

Smoke Fairies - Christmas Without A Kiss

2013's Christmas song. A nod to all the other (well known) Xmas tunes. 

Christmas Number One

Listen to 'When Christmas Comes', the lead track from Los Campesinos!' forthcoming Festive EP 'A Los Campesinos! Christmas'.

Effervescent malcontents Los Campesinos! temporarily remove themselves from the fireside to release this limited edition slice of hot seasonal wax. ‘A Los Campesinos! Christmas’ features 5 LC! carols, plus a cover of Mud’s Christmas #1 hit ‘Lonely This Christmas’. 

Produced by Tom Campesinos! and mixed by long-time collaborator John Goodmanson, ‘A Los Campesinos! Christmas’ is an instant classic ready-made to enter the limited canon of great seasonal releases.

Lead track ‘When Christmas Comes’, the first new Los Campesinos! material since last year’s critically acclaimed career highlight ‘NO BLUES’, is available to stream and embed right now.

1. When Christmas Comes
2. A Doe To A Deer
3. The Holly & The Ivy
4. Kindle A Flame In Her Heart
5. The Trains Don’t Run (It’s Christmas Day)
6. Lonely This Christmas

‘A Los Campesinos! Christmas’ will be in select record shops from 8th December via Turnstile/Heart Swells, or available to pre-order direct from the band at po.st/BUYLCXMAS from 7pm, Monday 17th November. All pre-orders from LC!’s site will come with an especially designed Los Campesinos! Christmas Card, hand-signed by the band.

Los Camp! have a handful of UK gigs scheduled.

23rd Nov - The Flapper, Birmingham (SOLD OUT)
4th Dec - Sound Control, Manchester*
5th Dec - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds* (SOLD OUT)
6th Dec - Arts Centre, Norwich*
7th Dec - Village Underground, London* (SOLD OUT)

*with support from Trust Fund
Tickets are available from: http://loscampesinos.com/live

When Christmas Comes
When I go home I will walk via tinseltown, 
down LED avenues, jingle bells all around
Where they pluck all the stars from out the sky, 
and they hang them from rafters up on high 

I wished away the last year, it was the worst of times, 
audition for ass end of horse in village pantomime.
Just to hear your voice calling from the back
“it’s behind you!” oh yeh thank God for that

Christmas Eve, torrential rain
One single snowflake on this plain
I held you in gloved hands
and I’m not letting go 

New Year to November
It’s looming near, it lingers close
Into December,
when Christmas comes, what’s lurking goes

Saved hard all Winter to ensure your stocking’s full,
joined the choir, took myself door to door
making small change with all the carollers
every mention of His name changed to yours

A dream of you stood naked as Christmas tree, 
left unattended ’til second week of February.
In the morning, you’re lying next to me
Covered in gold, stole from nativity

Can you hear it?
Let the bells chime!
Lift your glasses high 
for the Boy Child!


When Christmas Comes

Two songs by Brighton's Bent Cousin - 'Spice Girls' and 'Fuck You, It's Christmas'

Fuck - You - Its - Chrismas Bent Cousin

A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Sketch for Winter I: New Christmas Classics

Purchase here: geographic-north.com/cassette/a-sunny-day-in-glasgow/
Catalog #: GN24
Black Liquorice cassette, limited to 300

When it comes down to it, there’s no one else we’d rather settle down with for Christmas festivities than A Sunny Day in Glasgow. The Philadelphia six-piece has always had a knack for unexpected arrangements, meticulous layering and editing, and downright addicting wordplay and melodies, all delivered with the band’s dark sense of humor. Now kicking off the first in our four-part ‘Sketch for Winter’ cassette series is A Sunny Day in Glasgow’s aptly titled New Christmas Classics.

Hot off the heels of Sea When Absent, the band’s fascinating fourth LP released earlier this year on Lefse, New Christmas Classics both heightens the band’s sense of detail and concept while simultaneously stripping it all down to an intimate affair. Featuring heartfelt covers and artful, shoegaze pop, Sketch for Winter I’s five songs play like a holiday mixtape to anyone willing to listen.

“Shut Your Mouth, It’s Christmas” sets the scene with unabashed flair and enthusiasm for the season, immediately inserting itself into your psyche with an earworm’s hook and instilling aural space with faux snow and genuine sentiment. “Saturn Pulls Me Apart (Death of the Unconquerable Night)” continues the bizarro festivities with super-saturated passages of frigid, amped-up shoegaze that snugly soundtracks our collective, snow-bound melancholy.

“Fantasia on Xmas (From Vaughan Williams)” mines the trusted songbook of yore, providing more than an ounce of trusted chamber pop and showing A Sunny Day in Glasgow in their most intimate, acoustic form, warmly accompanying the figurative yule log. “The Strange Presents of Idols (Merry Christmas!)” speaks to the band’s vocal pop expertise, playing up the alluring seduction of a lost Stereolab B-side produced by Phil Spector, leaving only New Christmas Classics’ closing tune, which will surely be recognized by anyone lucky enough to catch a holiday-time set by the band. Bundle up and come along!

A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Shut Your Mouth, It's Christmas

Download the track on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/TextMeMerryChristmas 

Under the Influence

Text Me Merry Christmas (feat. Kristen Bell)

The Smoking Trees 'Round Christmas Time' - Ample Play Records

Afterpartees - Oh Santa

download on iTunes: smarturl.it/stoned4xmas

written by Dent May
produced and engineered by Cole Furlow at Easy Travels in
Oxford, MS
mixed with additional production by Clay Jones

vocals, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer - Dent May 
bass guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar,
synthesizer, percussion - Cole Furlow
drum kit, percussion - Ian Kirkpatrick

I'll Be Stoned For Christmas

oh lonely night

Hello friends of Horses!

How are you? Here is some news! We’re excited to tell you that we are in the studio working on a new album that we hope to release later in the coming year. We are working with the incredible Jason Lytle as producer. You may recognize his name as the head scientist of the band Grandaddy. We can’t wait to finish this thing up and get it out to y’all!

In more good news, we have also teamed up with Mr. Lytle for a Christmas kind of song to bring you some seasonal good tidings or something. Stream it here and download it from iTunes at http://smarturl.it/hanganornament!

Happiest Holidays to you all.

With Love,
Band of Horses

Grandaddy and Band Of Horses - Hang An Ornament

WE THREE KINGS by SEAN SMITH

WOODS- Christmas Time is Here

http://asthmatickitty.com/silver-and-gold 
http://asthmatickitty.com/sufjan-stevens 
http://sufjan.com

A Capella & Chime Version:
http://sufjan.com/post/33340161065

From Silver & Gold, Songs for Christmas Vol. 7: I Am Santa's Helper. 

Available November 14th on 5xCD boxset and digital, and later in LP boxset. 
Preorder here: 
http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/album/silver-gold

Ding-a-ling-a-ling Ding-a-ling-a-ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling
Baby Jesus is the king
Jesus is the king-a-king-a-ling-a-ling
Lift your voice and sing
Lift your voice and sing-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling ‘Cause we wear the diamond ring
we wear the diamond ring-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling

Jesus is the king---
Baby Jesus is the king--

Even though he’s the baby Jesus

He’s the King-a-ling-a-ling King-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling King-a-ling-a-ling etc

Ring-a-ling-a-ling Ring-a-ling-a-ding-a-ling-a-ding-a-ling etc. [repeat ad nauseum]

Preorder

Sufjan Stevens, "Ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling"

Available for purchase here: http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/kishi-bashi-holiday-flexi.html

Limited to just 1000 hand-numbered copies on white, single-sided Flexi Discs which are die-cut into the shape of a snowflake!

WTF is a Flexi Disc? Essentially it's a paper thin vinyl record. And though it's a pretty unusual format, they will play on any standard turntable (purchase includes an instant MP3 download as well).

All proceeds benefit Ear Candy Music Charity, who uses the funds to supply underfunded music education programs with refurbished musical instruments.  Donate however much you feel compelled to give.  Happy Holidays!

Kishi Bashi "It's Christmas But It's Not White Here In Our Town"

We Hunt Buffalo - Mr. Grinch

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The Smoking Trees 'Round Christmas Time' - Ample Play Records

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