Category: christmas
Branches – Silent Night
Last year UNESCO declared the traditional carol ‘Silent Night’ an ‘intangible cultural heritage’. Coming as it did a year after L.A. band Branches decided to cover the classic one could easily put two and two together. In truth that’s probably […]
A Great Big Christmas Post
It’s really happening now, the feeling that Christmas is finally here. This blog will soon be powering off but for the next couple of days we promise to turn this page into a giant snowball full of Christmas songs. Not […]
Emmy The Great and Tim Wheeler – Home For The Holidays
This already has the feel of a sleeper classic, the way those Waitresses and St. Etienne/Tim Burgess songs have appeared from nowhere to become perennials on Best-Of Christmas comps. The song was the standout from last year’s impressive collaboration, called […]
The Shins – Wonderful Christmastime
In what could have been a serious case of eggnog all over their collective faces the Shins have gone and taken on the endlessly cheery ‘Wonderful Christmastime’ by Paul McCartney. Thankfully they’ve decided to spice things up by styling it […]
Liam Trimble, Jessica Jalbert, Sugarglider – O’ To Feel Your Warmth Tonight
Pretty sure we’d love this at any time of the year but given that it’s written about Christmas and we’re midway through December it seems particularly fetching. It comes from a label after our own heart called Old Ugly, based […]
12 Indie Songs For Christmas ~ Volume One
You’ll know by now that we’re partial to the festive soundtrack and while the perennial crooners never grow stale it is always interesting to hear what is going on around the fringes. So here is the first of several volumes […]
Sufjan Stevens – Lumberjack Christmas/No One Can Save You From Christmases Past
His album for every State in the United States project may have ground to a halt but that doesn’t mean Sufjan Stevens is resting on his laurels. Or resting on his mistletoe for that matter because Stevens has followed up […]
Cerys Matthews – Ding Dong Merrily On High
Cerys Matthews is a likeable sort and a talented one at that. Not content with just releasing a slew of great records with her ex-band Catatonia she also hosts one of the best shows on radio. Her Sunday morning slot […]
Tracey Thorn – Taking Down The Tree
Both Tracey Thorn and Cerys Matthews (Catatonia) have released Christmas albums this year and in many ways it is a quite luxury to have such respected lady’s devote themselves to a much maligned genre. The good news is that both […]
Streamadelica
When it comes to listening to digital music iTunes remains the dominant player, not because it offers a particularly brilliant service (it offers a particularly poor one in my book) but because the proprietary obsessed Apple are behind it and […]