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Born of necessity, a musical counterculture: Podsafe Musicians Join Together To Record Christmas Anthem:

...The 2005 Christmas season includes one of the more interesting new musical efforts in recent years, an original Christmas tune recorded "We Are The World" style by 32 independent musicians from nine countries.... The Christmas season is a tough period for musical podcasters (they make indy radio shows and spread the mp3s via RSS feeds), since they are prevented from legally playing any of the traditional holiday favorites.

Podcaster Adam Curry has worked to solve that issue by helping tco spearhead an effort to create the first podsafe Christmas anthem. He played a tune on his "--Daily Source Code" podcast entitled "If Every Day Were Christmas," a song co-written by the New York-based musician Slau and Orlando Pagan, a member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Curry expressed his hope that there might be a way for other podcast favorites to come together and record a special version of the song, with all of the proceeds going to charity.

The resulting collaboration includes 32 musicians, with many of the tracks collected their via emails and downloads. Slau weaved the perfourmances together into one group effort, called "Podsafe For Peace."

The tunes can be heard and purchased by visiting the group's website at http://www.podsafeforpeace.org. All proceeds from sales of this recording will go to UNICEF.

You don't need an iPod to listen to podcasts: A free program such ss Juice -- for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux -- will snag them to your computer.

How to podcast.

Maybe you're broke, and your only hope for gifts is to burn a personal holiday CD for your friends.

Record the audio off the radio, Web radio, mp3 blogs, podcasts: Xmas tracks and here and here and here. They don't stay up long. (Earlier links)

Maybe you don't care. The classic Bummed Out Christmas by Rhino Records may be your soundtrack. Click if you have the energy. Clips at Amazon.

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