EURYTHMICS' Dave Stewart declares "Christmas is For Lovers". CHUCK PROPHET plays KEXP. BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT's Best reissues, box sets and compilations of 2024. BEN KWELLER shares "Optimystic." SAM AMIDON covers Ornette Coleman’s “Friends…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with ELTON JOHN! Half of a live show captured by the OGWT on Christmas Eve, 1974. Your setlist includes: "Grimsby" (incomplete), "Rocket Man," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Daniel,"…
Read MoreDARLENE LOVE's final "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" for Letterman. BOB BOILEN's Favorite Songs of 2024. JULIEN BAKER & TORRES play a country song called “Sugar In The Tank” on The Tonight Show. JULIA…
Read MorePATSY CLINE & FERLIN HUSKY: "Let It Snow!" LOCAL NATIVES plays a mini-concert at KUTX. THE DARKNESS shares "I Hate Myself." BECK covers George Harrison's "Be Here Now." HORSEGIRL shares "Julie." BILL…
Read MoreBOB GELDOF, by his own admission, is responsible for two of the worst songs in history: "'Do They Know It's Christmas?" and "We Are The World." MJ LENDERMAN plays World Cafe. DROP NINETEENS…
Read MoreSHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS: “Ain’t No Chimneys In The Projects." NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Angel Olsen, Advnce Base, and more. BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Saint Etienne, Seahawks, and…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with A CHRISTMAS SHINDIG! The full episode has gone dark, but still-available clips from 1964 include The Beach Boys' "Dance, Dance, Dance," Bobby Sherman and Donna Loren singing "Keep…
Read MoreTHE RAVEONETTES' 2011 video for 2001's "The Christmas Song." TV ON THE RADIO plays a Tiny Desk Concert. SHARON VAN ETTEN & THE ATTACHMENT THEORY shares “Southern Life (What It Must Be Like).”…
Read MoreTHE RAMONES: "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)." THE SOFTIES play KEXP. LUCINDA WILLIAMS covers The Beatles' “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY shares "London May.' STEREOGUM's 50 Best Songs…
Read MoreGLAM XMAS: Wizzard's awesome "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" and Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody" (1973's UK Xmas No. 1) are your Twofer Tuesday. BETH GIBBONS plays World Cafe. FACS shares "Desire…
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