Feel that thrill of hope, weary world? Christmas time is here and Barack Obama takes office in less than a month! I'm taking quick break from my usual posts to help you find relief from Johnny Mathis overload.
1. Xmas in Frisko. One of San Francisco's finest exports, SomaFM has come up with the all-time best, most wackiest Christmas music anywhere.
2. Bluegrass Christmas. Home spun and hickory smoked Christmas music from bands with names like "Clarke Family and the Pine Street Musicians" and "Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers."
3. Scrooge Tunes Yes Virginia, there really is an Internet radio station of punk rock Christmas music. I just experienced "Little Drummer Bitch" and "I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus" there, so I can attest. (Scroll down to the bottom of the Yahoo page to find it)
4. Motown Christmas. The maximum number of "shoo-be-do-wops" are folded into your Christmas favorites like so much cocoa to your schnapps, and there are lots of high powered gospel numbers too. The righteous indignation on some of these tracks makes for some interesting moments, like just now when the vocalist was angrily insisting over and over that "it ain't about Santa Claus."
5. Dysfunctional Christmas. The folks at Slacker.com may have made baby Jesus cry with this one, but they made us do the opposite of cry.
6. Lagniappe Christmas. Highly eclectic holiday music from the Big Easy, where they spike their carols with Bourbon Street style and serve up the occasional cheeseball of rock too, such as AC/DC's, "I Want a Mistress for Christmas."
7. Holiday Hip Hop. This is a shared station on Pandora where you'll hear "Santa Baby" like you've never heard it before, including a wish list that has "jobs in the ghetto" as one of its top requests.
8. 181 FM's Christmas Swing. Skip right over "Christmas Power" and the other schlock and head straight for "Christmas Swing," a holly jolly line-up of vintage tracks from the 20's, 30's and 40's. Lots of stuff you've never heard before.
9. The Holiday Sub-Channels at Accuradio. The Holiday Jazz channel here goes down smooth as hot buttered rum and the "Non-Standard Christmas" channel is good too, although jeez, the folks at this site could sure use some help with naming their stuff.
10. Christmas Remixed. A sleekly cosmopolitan little cocktail of downtempo electronic Christmas music. Really helps when you feel Bing-Crosbied-to-death.
Happy Holidays from Boombox Serenade!
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