Category: Holiday Music

Ho Ho Holiday Singles!

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Jana Peri “I Hate The Holidays (But I Love Spending Them With You)”
Jana came out with his catchy single last year, but it’s worth posting again. Jana also has a new song “Gallery Whore” which was inspired by her love of art galley openings around NYC, where schmoozing, free wine and cheese are part of the thrill. Fans of Blondie will really love this new single, along with the holiday one.
MySpace | CD Baby

The Attack “Father Christmas”
The Attack are a Florida-based group that intentionally straddles the line between classic hardcore and old school melodic street punk. You won’t get stockings hung with care or sugar plum faries, it’s more like machine guns, unemployment, and youth mobs run amuck through this dark Christmas classic by The Kinks.

Deer Tick “Holy Shit, It’s Christmas!”
It’s a Holiday surprise from Deer Tick! The indie favorites just released this holiday EP, featuring the song “Christmas All Summer Long,” sung by John McCauley and the Tony Clifton-esque “Holy Shit, It¹s Christmas!” sung by Ian O’Neil. It’s got a rough garage rock feel, not too far removed from those old Mojo Nixon chestnuts from the 90’s. 
The Brigadier “6 Christmas Tales” EP
Have a Brigadier holiday with this collection of sentimental and nostalgic pop songs about the many facets of Christmas. Perfect for those chestnut roasting nights full of jingling bells and jangling guitars. After listening to The Attack and Deer Tick, you may want to take a shower and then listen to this.

The Davenports FREE single 
“Whore for The Holidays”
This is an awesome Christmas song. Helmed by Scott Klass the band features Tommy Borscheid, Angela Webster and Karyn LeSuer. Building on the popcraft of their two previous critically acclaimed records—Speaking of The Davenports and Hi-tech Lowlife—”Whore” is a prelude to The Davenports’ new record, Why the Great Gallop coming in January. Review on that coming soon!
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Elves of Heaven (ft Martin Clancy) "This Christmas"

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It’s time for holiday music again. We get started with The Elves of Heaven (featuring Martin Clancy) as they have a Christmas EP now available on Amazon. “This Christmas” starts with seasonal bells that are quickly replaced by electric guitars and icy lyrics.

My Space | www.elvesofheaven.com

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A huge pile of FREE holiday songs for you!

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Zach Curd strikes again! Suburban Sprawl Music put together a holiday compilation available for free download full of weird and wonderful holiday classics. In fact, there are holiday compilations dating back to 2002! That a massive amount of tracks, some good – some painful to listen to. To listen/download everything visit Suburban Sprawl Xmas Music page.

Here are a few more holiday gifts for you. Dave Milligan from Penguin Party has released a Christmas song “It’s Only Christmas – It’ll Soon Be Over” as a free download. Another free goodie comes from The Sexy Accident. They have released a new version of “A Merry Christmas To You.” Remixed by Steve Fisk and features lead vocals by Michelle Plaitis, and featuring clips from It’s a Wonderful Life. And finally, Swedish powerpop band The Genuine Fakes have a free download of their
version of Mariah Carey’s hit “All I Want for Christmas”. Ho, ho, ho!

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Giving thanks this holiday season

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While you are passing out leftover turkey over the next couple of days, there are quite a bit of NEW holiday releases out there to help cure the post-Thanksgiving blues. So let loose those holiday songs!

Greg Pope “Christmas Snow”

When the king of power pop plays we listen, even if it’s one song. Being from the South, Greg rarely gets any snow on Christmas, so when it comes its extra special. Based on a poem that he used to recite to his four year old, I’m glad he made it into a song we all can enjoy.
MySpace | Amazon

Jana Peri “I Hate The Holidays”

After a hearing her single on the IPO compilation, this was the next logical step. Peri is a true talent, and for those with a bit of Scrooge in your step, check out the single on My Space – soon to appear on CD Baby.
MySpace | CD Baby

Andy Goldberg “Jingle Jangle Pop” EP

It wouldn’t really be the holidays without Andy Goldberg and his tune “Chanukah Guy” about a jew who loves Christmas, featuring Rich Pagano from The Fab Faux on drums. The EP also contains new songs from Andy’s other pop group The Sun Kings – shine a light this season with an excellent holiday EP only at iTunes. Get any of The Goldbergs other CDs on CD Baby.
MySpace | CD Baby | Itunes

Andrew Ripp “Blue Sky Christmas” EP

Criminally underrated, Andrew Ripp has a tremendous vocal, and here it provides with a neat little holiday EP for FREE when you spread the word with Noise Trade. In all a total of three songs, it’s a perfect addition to your holiday music mix.
MySpace | NoiseTrade

David Dewese “Next Christmas”

Forget some meager little holiday single or EP. David Dewese has full blown Christmas album here, listen to the entire thing streaming from his website. A mix of traditional songs (“Silent Night”) and a few originals (“Still, Still, Still”). Done with catchy guitar and piano it’s so far my favorite holiday album.
David’s Website | MySpace | Itunes
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