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
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Listening now! Hooray!
I love the Over the Rhine song, I’m definitely going to have to check out more of their stuff.
This is amazing! Thank you so much for introducing me to these versions. Downloading now.
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!
fantastic! just fantastic!!
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!
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:)
Oooooh I didn’t know Death Cab has a Christmas song!!
This is so awesome!You have no idea! I had been searching for something like this all morning. Thanks so much for sharing!
Love the idea!
You have several artists on your list that I love during the non-holiday season.
Happy Friday!
What an awesome mix! You are an indie rock Christmas queen! Thanks for sharing the songs! Love that doll btw. CUTE!
Ooh, thanks! I’ve never heard the Bright Eyes song–I’m SO going to check that out!
Stellar mix! I’m definitely going to check out the work of some of those artists I haven’t heard of.
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!
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.
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)
OO new music!
Nice mix. I love it when newer artists get in the spirit.
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!
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). :}
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!
Very cool! Such a good idea for a post. I love the little album cover too. Yay. Thanks!
An interesting mix! It’s downloading as I’m typing. Thank you!
weird, it wont play any of them for me!
and i love all of these artists!
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.
ooo very cool! I’m sick of the traditional christmas music already so this will help!
Great mix!Thanks for including a zip file.
thanks for this really awesome just what i was looking for to be “merry”
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!