Not content with just one free Christmas single this year, Blues Rocker Joe Bonamassa has just gifted out a second. According to the web page, you're supposed to share it on Facebook or join his mailing list or something. I don't know. Honestly, I just kept clicking on pages until it started downloading. Seemed to work alright. "Santa Claus Is Back In Town" was a song Elvis made famous, though Joe's delivery is much more Stevie Ray Vaughn than Elvis. Anyway, free Blues isn't something to dismiss lightly, so go and get it.
Not content with just one free Christmas single this year, Blues Rocker Joe Bonamassa has just gifted out a second. According to the web page, you're supposed to share it on Facebook or join his mailing list or something. I don't know. Honestly, I just kept clicking on pages until it started downloading. Seemed to work alright. "Santa Claus Is Back In Town" was a song Elvis made famous, though Joe's delivery is much more Stevie Ray Vaughn than Elvis. Anyway, free Blues isn't something to dismiss lightly, so go and get it.
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One of these years, I'm going to get to listen to this before Christmas. But obviously not this year. "Ho Ho Ho Canada" is in it's sixth year, now, and Line of Best Fit continue to show that they are the true masters of putting together a large Christmas compilation. I love The Burning Hell (Did you know they had a Hanukkah song a few years back? They did.) and Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers does a great job with "Last Winter". And I have the Good Lovelies Christmas CD and "Under The Tree" is not on it, so that's cool. And I only just learned that that CD, "Under The Mistletoe" was released on vinyl a couple of weeks ago. You can find it at Six Shooter Records.
You can download "Ho Ho Ho Canada VI" at Soundcloud, but I recommend you get it at the Line Of Best Fit website where you'll find a one-click zip file under the playlist. Austin's Melat (does anybody in that town have a job that's not part of the music industry) is driving towards stardom and made great strides in 2014. She combines Soul with Alt Pop for a distinctive sound. Her Christmas songs are drenched in sincere sentimentality, which is an awkward way of saying they're gorgeous. "I'll Be Home For Christmas" was her 2013 Christmas gift. 2014's "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" was even more beautiful, but "Home For Christmas" is a free download and "Merry Little Christmas" isn't. I hate streams, but, since we do have one download, I'll include Melat's 2014 Christmas song as well. You can find them both on Soundcloud.
So Paste decided to put out a Christmas collection this year after all. Normally, the "Paste Holiday Sampler" comes out the tail end of November. And it's normally got a lot more music on it. But I can't complain. It's free. How can you complain about free?
Let's see. I already bought the excellent Swear and Shake single, "Santa, My First Love". If you didn't, get it here because it's excellent. Over The Rhine has a sampler of their own on Noisetrade (and I'd already bought the CD). You should have read about that one on Lie In The Sound. They also filled you in on The Oh Hellos and James Apollo, as did Christmas A-Go-Go (and we were going to mention Apollo ourselves and likely still will). Mistletunes featured Field Report recently, although, at the time, it was only a stream. And Sinclair's "This Christmas" was part of that mammoth Amazon "All Is Bright" playlist. That leaves four that I haven't seen written about. "Come Thou Long Expected Jesus" is a devout Indie acoustic hymn from Dwayne Shivers. River Whyless pretties up "Jingle Bells" about as much as anyone can. Odessa's "Silent Night" is pretty straight forward Indie Folk/Americana. And Powerkompany's Indie Pop Rock "I'm Sorry About Last Christmas" sounds sincere enough but is full of snarky lyrics. I'm tired, so I'm not really giving this my best effort. But, make no mistake, this is all good stuff. My highlights would be the tracks from Swear and Shake, Sinclair, James Apollo and Powerkompany, if that means anything to you.
This has been the year for "Wonderful Christmastime". A song that a lot of people don't like, even though its McCartney. This is the year people are finally deconstructing the song and putting it back together in ways that make it fresh and funky. This version, clocking in at just 1 minute and 38 seconds, comes from RoadsArt, a Producer/Musician/Engineer from New Jersey. Download at Soundcloud. Give it a few seconds. Wait for it....
This Synth Pop group from Moscow wrote me over a week ago. And I really did like them. Not just this song, either. I watched the videos, listened to the songs on their Soundcloud feed. I really dug the group. But I just never got around to posting "Just Another Year". And, after a day or so, it got picked up and posted by everybody else. So then posting it seemed a little superfluous. But I really did dig it. And I just wanted the members of Bigundi to know that I did. I like their sound. "Just Another Year" is more of a Pop Vocal/New Romantic number than some of their other stuff. But its well worth posting. Even at this late date (I'm gonna call it a New Years song. Yeah, that's the ticket.). And the video is super cool. I do want to know what is it with European bands and animal masks? And what does the Fox say? And whatever happened to Barman's Fault? Just askin'. Hope to hear more from Bigundi in the future. "Just Another Year" is free at Bandcamp or Soundcloud. You know what the world needs? More versions of "Last Christmas". Here's a nice Dream Poppy one from California's Sentinel channeling the Cocteau Twins. Free on Bandcamp. |
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