Christmas music
Judas Priest's Rob Halford preps new Christmas album (stream 2 tracks)
It’s October 4 and maybe you’re not quite ready for holiday music yet, but maybe you’re ready for a Rob Halford of Judas Priest holiday album?
stream "Silent Night" off David Bazan's Christmas album
“Every Christmas the makers and cheerers of war gather with their precious families to celebrate the Baby Jesus’ birth. When they lift their voices together to croon this peaceful benediction, from memory, in haunting unison, is there, anywhere among them, the faintest flicker of understanding?”
Kacey Musgraves, Loretta Lynn, She & Him, Neil Diamond releasing Xmas LPs
The Kacey album features Willie Nelson and Leon Bridges. The She & Him album features Jenny Lewis and Steve Shelley.
Lauryn Hill shared a new song on Christmas Day, playing Brooklyn Bowl this week ++ other dates
Radiohead and LCD Soundsystem were not the only artists to offer up Christmas presents this year. Lauryn Hill dropped an unfinished version of a new song titled “A Cradle in Bethlehem” which she wanted to share in time for the holidays…
LCD Soundsystem release new song "Christmas Will Break Your Heart" (listen)
LCD Soundsystem just posted a new holiday song (their first since breaking up) called “Christmas Will Break Your Heart.” They writeso, there’s been this depressing christmas song i’d been singing to myself for the past 8 years, and every year i wouldn’t remember that i wanted to make it until december, which is just too late to actually record and release a christmas s…
Future Islands cover "Last Christmas" (listen)
Wham!’s “Last Christmas” has been covered a zillion times, and today that becomes a zillion and one. Future Islands offer up their take on the song, and it suits them w…
Rogue Wave share "Christmas for the Jews" (listen)
Oakland indie popsters Rogue Wave already released the song “Christmastime” this year for the Indie for the Holidays comp, and now they put out “Christmas for the Jews…
listen to The Hold Steady's cover of Billy Squier's "Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You
The Hold Steady recorded a cover of Billy Squier’s “Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You” a few years ago at the RAGS EP sessions, but in honor of the holiday season, they’ve put it up for streaming and free download on bandc…
Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis releases "Krampus (In Love)"
Speedy Ortiz singer Sadie Dupuis has released a solo demo of a new Christmas song called “Krampus (In Love).” She promises, “all of ur family will luv my xmas song it is adequately depr…
Arcade Fire's Will Butler shares Christmas song "City on a Hill"
Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, who played a holiday show in Brooklyn last week, shared a “hot new Christmas jam” today called “City on a H…
