rocking around

rocking around
the christmas trees

Friday, December 25, 2009

Winter Weezerland



Winter Weezerland can be found right here.

Brand New - the Holiday EP



Brand New's Holiday Ep can be found right here.
Merry Christmas, kids.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

30 Rock Christmas Special



Season 3's Christmas Special

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Monday, December 14, 2009

Bright Eyes Christmas Album


In highschool people told me I practically was Connor Oberst, and I wasn't sure whether or not to take it as an insult or a compliment. I'm not a huge fan of his earlier work, but Bright Eyes' 2002 Christmas Album is pretty good.

Bright Eyes - A Christmas Album

Saturday, December 12, 2009

MU330 - Winter Wonderland



MU330 (M - U - Three Thirty) is a late 80s/early 90s Ska/Punk band from St. Louis. Winter Wonderland is their killer Christmas Album which includes some classic covers and some original season-themed material.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Dear Santa Claus, Go Fuck Yourself (Trailer Park Boys Christmas Special)



Dear Santa Claus, Go Fuck Yourself is the Trailer Park Boys' 2004 Christmas special. It's actually a prequel to the show and reveals the origin of the damage done to Ricky/Julian's car, how Randy and Lehey meet, as well as the start of Jamie "J-ROC"s rap career (and many other interesting/hysterical things). It's seriously the greatest Christmas special I have ever seen, and it's actually capable of putting me (a Christmas-hater) in the spirit of the season. 
Enjoy, and remember "Christmas is about getting drunk and stoned with your family."

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

David Bazan/Pedro the Lion Christmas Collection

I have collected and compiled all of David Bazan's (Pedro the Lion) Christmas 7inches for you folks right here.

2002 I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel  




2003 The First Noel - Long Way Around the Sea (Low Cover)



2005 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Silent Night



2006 Away in a Manger - O Little Town of Bethlehem



2009 Happy Xmas (War is Over) - Say It Isn't Greensleeves (A Change at Christmas)

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Norma Jean (33))) *the Countdown to Christmas Crisis begins here!*

Now, I hate Christmas as much as the next guy, but not because of any held or un-held beliefs, but rather because it represents one of the nonsensically disgusting triumphs of capitalism: the fusing of pagan and christian rituals and traditions into a month long marketing feast that not only obliges both intelligent and mindless consumers alike to partake of time consuming and monotonous rituals (often against our own wishes), but also because it obliges us to participate in the upholding and bolstering of the department/electronics/toy store chains that endlessly berate us (and our wallets) with images and sounds of children in old navy attire playing with transformer toys while listening to miley cirus. 

Is anyone else completely sick of Christmas music already?

If you are, you can block out the sounds of Salvation Army Santas ringing bells while they ask for money by pumping Norma Jean's only good album: Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child slowed down to 33.3 rpms. It's some next level heaviness. 

Enjoy, and remember (especially during this joyous season) that "Christ is not a fashion."

Monday, December 7, 2009

Thou


Tyrant the first album from Baton Rouge's drone/dtempo/doom metal outfit Thou.  This band rules pretty hard and they bring the dissonant drone darkness in a very southern-hardcore fashion. They kinda remind me of what gray ghost would sound like if they decided to take their sound in the southernlord doom/drone direction instead of the typical modern hardcore road that they've found themselves on.
here is tyrant slowed down to 33rpms.