New Artists, Holiday Songs: Seasonal favorites from the newly-discovered
Dec 15, 2009, 10:55pm
Cover Lay Down
Cover Lay Down
I have mixed feelings about Christmas. Having grown up Jewish, I always felt a little besieged by what I long considered other peoples' holiday. These days, as a professional culture vulture and cohost to a humanistic Jewnitarian household, the commercialism grates on me, though the threat of otherness has faded. I've even learned to live with the constant name-check of someone else's savior which permeates even the most innocuous of shopping mall soundtracks. But I have always loved the trappings of the holidays: the garish colorful world of [...]
- Betty Steeles - What A Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong cover)
- Caravan of Thieves - The Grinch
- Desert Noises - Go Tell It On The Mountain
- Jessie Torrisi - Christmas Don't Be Late (Alvin and the Chipmunks cover)
- Jim Hanft & Samantha Yonack - Baby It's Cold Outside
- John Dissed - cwtd.mp3
- Joshua James - Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel
- Merry Ellen Kirk - Do You Hear What I Hear
- Neil Nathan - scoming.mp3
- The Rocketboys - Up on a Housetop
Fiona Apple - Werewolf
Iggy Pop & Ginger Baker – “Lonely Boy” (Black Keys cover)
Jaill - Traps (album stream)
