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The 12 Plays of Alt-Indie Christmas Songs - Mix Nine

Almost there! The 12 playlists of alternative-indie Christmas songs are riding through the snow on the way to gramma's house. (She better have lots of egg nog!)

Here is Mix Nine. Mix Ten will be delivered soon, and later tonight - when I actually have a few minutes away from festivities - Mix Eleven will be posted.

9 Flowers in December - Mazzy Star

All I Want For Christmas is You – The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra

Alone This Holiday – The Used

Black Christmas – The International Karate Plus

Carol of the Bells – The Bird and The Bee

Carol of the Season – Parenthetical Girls

Christmas At Home – Crawling With Kings

Christmas Party – The Walkmen

De Ushuaia Ala Quiaca – Gustavo Santaolalla

Ghost of Christmas – Manic Street Preachers

I Won't Be Home For Christmas – Blink 182

Amazing Grace – Jeff Buckley

Joy to the World – Sufjan Stevens

Here Without You Baby – Nickelback

Silver Bells – The Pines

Sleigh Ride to Christmas – Flowman

Song About Christmas – The Snowballs

Space Christmas – Shonen Knife

The Mods of Christmastown – Zumpano

Xmas Song – Fireflies

Labels: Alternative Christmas Songs, Alternative Holiday Music, Alternative Xmas Songs, Best Christmas Songs

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2009 Bands To Watch

Current and upcoming releases (US dates)

10/6/09 Built To Spill - There is No Enemy
10/06/09 The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
10/6/09 Mission of Burma - The Sound The Speed Of Light
10/6/09 The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
10/6/09 Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring
10/6/09 Port O'Brien - Threadbare
10/12/09 Editors - In This Light And On This Evening
10/17/09 Horse Feathers - Cascades 7"
10/20/09 Atlas Sound - Logos
10/20/09 F**k Buttons - Tarot Sport
10/20/09 Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
10/20/09 El Perro Del Mar - s/t debut
10/20/09 White Demin - Bits
11/3/09 The Mary Onettes - Islands
11/10/09 The Bravery - unknown
1/14/10 Vampire Weekend - Contra
1/26/10 Basia Bulat - Heart Of My Own

Best 2009 Indie Releases

Favorite 2009 indie albums in no particular order; strongly recommend these for your music collection.

Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
Roman Candle - Oh Tall Tree In The Ear
Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy
Fanfarlo - Reservior
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
Foreign Born - Person To Person
Why? - Eskimo Snow
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Sin Fang Bous - Clangour
Passion Pit - Manners
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Chet - Chelsea Silver, Please Come
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day
The Clientele - Bonfires of Heath
Iron & Wine - Around The Well
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
It Hugs Back - Inside Your Guitar
Conor Oberst & The Mustic Valley Band - Outer South
Paper Route - Absence
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Throw Me The Statue - Creaturesque
The Dodos - Time To Die
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
M. Ward - Hold Time
Deastro - Moondagger
The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
Sonic Youth - The Eternal Youth
Matt & Kim - Grand
The Antlers - Hospice
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
The Brakes - Touchdown
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
Frightened Rabbit - Quietly Now
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Generationals - Con Law
White Denim - Exposion
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware
Bishop Allen - Grrr
Cage The Elephant - Cage The Elephant
Birds of Avalon - Uncanny Valley
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
Ben Kweller - Changing Horses
The Acorn - Heron Act
The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
AC Newman - Get Guilty
Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
Beirut - March of the Zapotec & Realpeople: Holland
The Most Serene Republic - And The Ever Expanding Universe
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
Woodpigeon - Treasury Library Canada
Wye Oak - The Knot
Vica Voce - Rose City
Pomegranates - Everyone, Come Outside!
Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Akron/Family - Set Em Wild, Set Em Free
Lemon Sun - Run With the Faithless
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band
Mellow Down Easy - Cosmisutra
The Mary Onettes - Dare EP
Odawas - The Blue Depths
The Veils - Sun Gangs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
White Rabbits - It's Frightening
Loney Dear - Dear John
The Lonely Forest - We Sing The Body Electric
The Uglysuit - self-titled debut
Handsome Furs - Face Control
Vampire Hands - Me & You Cherry Red/Cuz It's a Beach Funeral

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