Best Indie Rock Christmas Songs, Mix VI: Yo La Tengo, Comet Gain, Chris Letcher, Great Lake Swimmers, Belle & Sebastian

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Here is Mix Six in the 12 Plays series. This playlist includes a diverse collection of Christmas and wintry songs, just in case you are somewhere in the world where it is not going to be a white Christmas. Indie giants like Yo La Tengo, Comet Gain, Chris Letcher and Belle and Sebastian, plus relatively new bands like Band of Horses, Great Lake Swimmers and Phantom Planet contribute to this newest Christmas songs playlist.

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(Above: The note Santa is reading in the cartoon reads: “Dear Santa, If you leave a new bike under the tree, I will give you the antidote to the poison I put in the milk – Tommy.”)

A Change of Pace offers up the introspective “Christmas on the Coast” and the Parenthetical Girls present indie cheer with “I Love Christmas”, plus holiday season songs by Dave Melilo, The Halo Brothers, The Reindeer Section, Phofo and Jason Gleason.

A Hooves ChristmasThe Hooves

I Love ChristmasParenthetical Girls

All I Want For ChristmasDave Melilo

Asleep On The SnowComet Gain

Christmas on the CoastA Change of Pace

Deep FriezeChris Letcher

Here Come ChristmasRemington Super 60

It’s Christmas TimeYo La Tengo

Light The MenorahPhofo

My First Christmas as a WomanThe Vandals

Santa ClausBelle and Sebastian

Sleigh Bells and WineJason Gleason

SnowfallThe Halo Brothers

Song For The AngelesGreat Lake Swimmers

The First SongBand of Horses

Winter WonderlandPhantom Planet

You Are My JoyThe Reindeer Section