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December 6, 2005

More holiday rock, streams, mash-ups, mixes, radio, other and reviews

Feel free to add your own recommendations in the comments at the end of this item.

5:57 p.m. Tuesday
I'm Dreaming of a White Trash Christmas.... Flash cartoon fun.

3:59 p.m.
Christmasreviews.com reviews music (and can lead you to new sounds). No tunes here, but with links to Amazon, CD Baby and the artist's site, you can usually hear what the music sounds like.

The range is wide and wildly inclusive. (Laura Powers' Code of the Goddess -- "Inspired by the story of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown" -- leads the Celtic section.)

Mistletunes is similar, but with fewer links, shorter reviews, and a whole section on reggae Christmas albums (lots of other genres and vintages are profiled here). Enjoy Caribbean Christmas Music is a festive page of reggae Christmas CD covers, linked to Amazon, if you want links and listens.

Christmas Music Radio Stations on the Web: Some are online only, others are over-the-air, too. These are .asf files that should stream in Windows Media Player.

An Aquarium Drunkard: Drunkard's Holiday Radio :: Christmas Jams

Vintage Christmas Recordings at The Antique Christmas Lights Site.

Strictly for novelty value:
The Star Wars Christmas Album (stream)

Yule Shoot Your Eye Out!

12:22 a.m. The list keeps growing.

The 2005 Jefitoblog Holiday Mix

Santastic: Holiday Boots 4 Your Stockings (try this mirror site if that server is slow) continues the slightly bent holiday vein with 18 Christmas mash-ups and remixes from Boston's dj BC.

Black Christmas

All Songs Considered: Holiday Music 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000
Jazz Piano Christmas 2002: An Encore (link fixed)
A Winter's Night' with Ensemble Galilei. All at NPR.

Updated 8 p.m.: I've reenabled comments, after a pause to think about how to tweak the comments config. You won't be able to use html in comments, though, nor will URLs be links. We'll see how it goes.

4:36 p.m.
Reader Bill Marsland emails,

Here is another site with free holiday mp3 downloads.

http://www.randysrodeo.com/christmas/mp3/index.php
This is the third year the site has offered music.

This is an eclectic group if I ever saw one. Albert Brooks, Cheap Trick, Leon Russell.

And since we've all been so good, he has included links to the last two year's music as well. 2004 has Shelby Lynn and The White Stripes and 2003 features Weezer and an amazing version of "Run Rudolph Run" from 1978 by none other than Keith Richards.

Hope your holidays are terrific. Thanks for another terrific year of linking, reading, thinking, music and laughing. I especially appreciate the laughs.

Thank you, Bill, and thanks for these fine tunes (and Brooks's comedy).

And here are two more (well, perhaps not quite so fine). The first is via BoingBoing:

Xmas in Frisko, SomaFM's annual "eclectic and irreverent" holiday radio stream, is here once again. The playlist includes "Tweety's Twistmas Twoubles," wecowded by Mel Blanc; Tiny Tim's falsetto "White Christmas;" "Night Before Christmas" with Doggs Snoop and Nate; and Louis Armstrong's "Zat You Santa Claus."

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