THE RAVEONETTES' 2011 video for 2001's "The Christmas Song." BOB DYLAN, Live at Jones Beach, New York, on 30 June 1988. U2 covers "A Rainy Night in Soho" in tribute to Shane MacGowan. …

THE RAMONES: "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)." THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH plays KEXP. CAT POWER & IGGY POP cover Marianne Faithfull's "Working Cass Hero." ADRIENNE LENKER shares "Ruined." BLUR…

GLAM 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. OLIVIA RODRIGO visits World Cafe. BELLE & SEBASTIAN…

U2 cover "Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Come Home)." NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you Guided by Voices, Peter Gabriel, and more. BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Harp, Trevor Horn, and more. LANA DEL REY…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: SHANE MacGOWAN, the brilliant but chaotic songwriter who as frontman for the Pogues reinvigorated interest in Irish music in the 1980s by harnessing it to the propulsive power…

THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS cover "Six Days on the Road." DIZZY visits World Cafe. EELS shares "Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This?" FUTURE ISLANDS shares "The Fight." THE JESUS &…

FLEETWOOD MAC: "Go Your Own Way," live circa 1979. Sounded great, fellas, but I coulda used a little More Cowbell. JULIE BYRNE: A Takeaway Show. JERRY GARCIA & MERL SAUNDERS at the Record…

JASON and the SCORCHERS cover "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and play "Harvest Moon" for Twofer Tuesday. CACTUS LEE covers Christine McVie, the Butthole Surfers, and the Grateful Dead for a Lagniappe Session. PETER GABRIEL…

THE WHO: "I'm A Boy." RHIANNON GIDDENS visits World Cafe. THE NATIONAL played The Late Show at David Letterman's request. SUNNY WAR and LOGAN LEDGER play Americanafest. DARYL HALL obtained a restraining order…

THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE… …with FAVES 2022!  I occasionally hear from folks who want to know what music — from among all of the posts I do here — I recommend.  To some…