The past few days I’ve been getting into the grooves of Christmas, giving into the cold, buying a real tree, altering dog snowsuits, and hosting friends over at our house – but I’ve been lacking a sound track that I can really get into. So, being the relentless mix tape enthusiast that I am, I made my own and had to share it.
My streaming solutions will most likely not work in an RSS reader so hop on over to the site, press play on one of the tracks and play through the mix on the controller that pops up!
Kyla Roma’s Indie Christmas
1. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Bright Eyes
2. I’ll Be Home For Christmas – Matchbook Romance
3. Little Drummer Boy – Mink
4. All I Want For Christmas Is You – My Chemical Romance
5. Forget December – Something Corporate
6. December Is For Cynics – Matches
7. Christmas Is Canceled – The Long Blondes
8. The Christmas Sound – 44.1k
9. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Death Cab For Cutie
10. All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue – Over The Rhine
11. 2000 Miles – Coldplay
12. Hey Parker It’s Christmas – Ryan Adams
13. It’s Christmas Time – Yo La Tengo
14. Light That Menorah – Photo
15. Breaking The Ice – Mojave 3
16. Happy XMas (War Is Over) – The Fray
17. Star Of Wonder – Sufjan Stevens
18. Last Christmas – Jimmy Eat World
Please note that this is for sampling purposes only, if you enjoy these artists support them by purchasing their amazing work & if you’re one of these artists and would like to be removed please e-mail me at kylaroma[at]gmail.com
Elle Bee
Listening now! Hooray!
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Elle Bee
I love the Over the Rhine song, I’m definitely going to have to check out more of their stuff.
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Sara
This is amazing! Thank you so much for introducing me to these versions. Downloading now.
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Lauren
Yay! This is so exciting. I suck at knowing cool music. Now I can be cool at Christmas! I’ll download when I get home tonight. Porter will be stoked!
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notsojenny
fantastic! just fantastic!!
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Emily Jane
Ahhh!!I just finished typing in my email and I got attacked by wonderful festive loud and inappropriate in the workplace streaming audio. LOL. I think we downloaded the same big whackload of indie Christmas covers. One of my favourite bands this year also put out a new Christmas record:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQAmwRM-vXU
I have the mp3 if you like it!
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Emily Jane
Ooh ooh and I love No Use For A Name’s cover of “Fairytale of New York”. We used to cover that song too when I was in my little high school punk band lol:)
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Lyla Lou
Oooooh I didn’t know Death Cab has a Christmas song!!
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Jane
This is so awesome!You have no idea! I had been searching for something like this all morning. Thanks so much for sharing!
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Nora
Love the idea!
You have several artists on your list that I love during the non-holiday season.
Happy Friday!
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sarah marie p
What an awesome mix! You are an indie rock Christmas queen! Thanks for sharing the songs! Love that doll btw. CUTE!
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Kate
Ooh, thanks! I’ve never heard the Bright Eyes song–I’m SO going to check that out!
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Gretchen
Stellar mix! I’m definitely going to check out the work of some of those artists I haven’t heard of.
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jessica maria
Okay, I have a good portion of this mix, but I’m totally downloading it after work for my holiday party tomorrow!YAY!
LOVE December is for Cynics!
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Mermanda
How fun! I can’t wait to download these! (Already have the Sufjan one… how magical!)
I am also curious about that picture. Is that your tree topper? She’s gorgeous! I must know where she came from.
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dmb5_libra
awesome list!!! thanks for that! thats some christmas music i can actually enjoy over the utter crap the radio plays (i’ve been quite the scrooge this year)
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Rachie
OO new music!
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Kelsey
Nice mix. I love it when newer artists get in the spirit.
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Marie
Ooo you might hate me for this, but I can’t say I’m into Christmas music this year. Only because the majority of it is continuously recycled and it’s played everywhere.
But…your play list looks A LOT better than what I keep hearing!
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apricot tea.
Aw, Kyla… this sounds like an amazing mix. :]
There is one song I think you might like, but for the life of me I can’t remember who sings it! It’s an indie band that did a cover of “Christmastime is here” (I wanna say it was Eisley, but I don’t know for sure). Either way, the song is beautiful & very melancholy…
When I can figure it out — I’ll ask my sister, she’s the one who introduced me to the song — I’ll let you know! I think it would be perfect to add to this mix (or another one, if you so choose to make one). :}
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Jessica
Thanks for your comment earlier. I’m all about ultimatums in this situation too, and I’m not going to deal with his crap anymore!
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michelle woo
Very cool! Such a good idea for a post. I love the little album cover too. Yay. Thanks!
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Michelle
An interesting mix! It’s downloading as I’m typing. Thank you!
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brookem
weird, it wont play any of them for me!
and i love all of these artists!
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Lauren
Awesome mix!In high school a friend made me a mixed CD similar to this.All indie music.It’s still my favorite Christmas CD.
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Maxie
ooo very cool! I’m sick of the traditional christmas music already so this will help!
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mandy
Great mix!Thanks for including a zip file.
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tamaroo
thanks for this really awesome just what i was looking for to be “merry”
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Heidi Renée
I just chanced upon your blog today from your comment on another blog. These are great songs–definitely adding them to my a little-too-poppy holiday playlist. Thanks!
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