Duckdown, home of Boot Camp Clik, is generously offering a free album download for Xmas! A live performance by Black Moon, one of the most underrated rap duos around. Unauthorized Biography of Black Moon

An Xcellent quality Xmas set from a most Xcellent lady. That makes for a triple-X show for your hollyday! Enjoy. A few tastes, then a zip. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Christmas Time Little Bombs Whatever Happened To Christmas? Calling On Mary Clean Up For Christmas Way Back When I’ll Be Home For Christmas UNZIP [...]

I’ve Got My Love To keep Me Warm-Kay Starr [Stuhr Remix] (Highly recommended!) Mambo Santa Claus-Big John Greer The Pipettes – In The Bleak Midwinter The Real Slim Santa-Eminem Do They Know It’s Christmas-Far Do They Know It’s Christmas-Pete Yorn Do They Know It’s Christmas-Richard Cheese Christmas is Interesting-Jonathan Coulton (Highly recommended!)

The great and frustrating thing about music is, no matter how much you hear you can never hear it all. Here’s 5 albums I found about by reading other peoples’ lists (most of which I found on Largehearted Boy’s master online list). 1. Andrew Bird-Armchair Apocrypha. How the hell did this album get by me? [...]

Actually, it’s one reason and five supporting arguments: Because you get to cultivate relationships with talented artists and labels who share music with you that you otherwise wouldn’t hear! 1. Finian McKean. I interviewed Finian McKean on my old site, before the RIAA threatened to separate me from my family for posting a song from [...]

The Specimen – Wish It Would Snow Courtesy of the band! Biggie’s Last Christmas-Cheekyboy What Can You Get a Wookie For Christmas-Star Wars Father Christmas-Elastica I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (remix) – DJ Olive Little Drummer Boy-The Hoodoo Gurus The Knife – Christmas Reindeer Courtesty of Big O. Be Bop Christmas-Babs Gonzalez The First [...]

Originally, I decided to boycott Christmas songs this year because really they’re lame. But I gave in. Three days of tunes for your Xmas. You’re Not the Kind of Ho (That Santa Had in Mind)-Dr. BLT DJ BC’s Xmas Mash Up Mix (follow link) There’s a Star Above The Manger Tonight-Califone Podsafe Christmas Song-Jonathan Coulton [...]

I can’t say more than the dozens of bloggers I’ve seen put this album in their top 10 or 20, except that more of them should have put it at number 1. Fun, choppy, funky, and bouncy, it’s an album that never stops giving. Here’s some stuff they released this year, including bonus cuts off [...]

In no particular order. These albums aren’t necessarily bad, but they should have been much better. 50 Cent’s “Curtis” isn’t here because, frankly, I didn’t have high expectations for it in the first place. 1. Common, “Finding Forever.” Lots of folks swear by Common, but to me he’s rarely been more exciting than a bath, [...]

It’s almost time to go back to business as usual here, reviewing indie rock and rap.  Tomorrow I’ll post the #1 album, we’ll have a few Xmas posts, and we’ll be doing our old thang.  I hope posting all these things that I’ve already posted throughout the year wasn’t a big waste of time for [...]