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Julie Klausner & Ted Leo have a bitter holiday song, appearing at "Depressing Christmas Party"

photo: Julie Klausner @ Bell House, 2012 (more by Erik Erikson)

Local comedian, podcaster, Difficult Person, and generally entertaining individual Julie Klausner is putting on a Christmas show on December 19 at Sid Gold’s Request Room. “Julie Klausner’s Depressing Christmas Party” will feature frequent collaborator Ted Leo, John Early (who was on Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp this summer), Cole Escola (Difficult People), Anthony Atamanuik and more TBA. Expect laughs, songs, and tongue-in-cheek yuletide revelry. Tickets are on sale now.

Ted and Julie also wrote a holiday song together called “Bitter on Christmas” for Julie and Billy Eichner‘s Hulu series Difficult People. You can listen to it via Apple Music.

Meanwhile, Ted Leo is also playing some Christmas shows of his own with Aimee Mann (they did this last year as well) on December 10 at Town Hall and December 12 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets are still available.

And in somewhat related news, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists drummer Chris Wilson’s band HOUND has a new record coming out. SRA Records will release Out of Space on November 27, the same day they play a release show with The Kominas and Dangerbird at Everybody Hits Philadelphia. They released a new song today called “Over the Edge,” which follows the previously-released “Emotional Collapse,” both of which are fun, fuzzed-out ’70s hard-rock rippers. You can stream them below.