Indie Christmas Music – INDIE ROCK CAFE

Best Indie & Alternative Rock Christmas Songs, Mix VII: Bright Eyes, Green Day, Manic Street Preachers, Yo La Tengo

Posted on 12/22/200701/09/2020 by Max Hammer

Today’s alternative and indie rock Christmas playlist mix includes songs from artists such as Bright Eyes, The Weepies, Vince Guaraldi, Green Day, Manic Street Preachers, Thick Pigeon, Monster Bobby, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Rilo Kiley and dozens of others.

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O Little Town of Bethlehem – Bright Eyes

A Very White Christmas – Le Man Avec Les Lunettes

All That I Want – The Weepies

Christmas Time is Here – Vince Guaraldi

Christmas Cake – Rilo Kiley

Holiday – Green Day

Ghost of Christmas – Manic Street Preachers

I Feel Like Going Home – Yo La Tengo

Jingle Bell Rock – Thick Pigeon

Last Christmas – Le Sport, Montt Mardie and Mr. Suitcase

Not Christmas At Home – Crawling With Kings

Not Giving In – Rediscover

Silent Night – Monster Bobby

So This is Christmas – Acceptance

Santa Claus is Smoking Reefer – Squirrel Nut Zippers

The Christmas Sound – 44.1K

X12 Days of XMas – From First to Last

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

Posted on 12/21/200712/18/2019 by Max Hammer

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 Christmas – The Hooves

I Love Christmas – Parenthetical Girls

All I Want For Christmas – Dave Melilo

Asleep On The Snow – Comet Gain

Christmas on the Coast – A Change of Pace

Deep Frieze – Chris Letcher

Here Come Christmas – Remington Super 60

It’s Christmas Time – Yo La Tengo

Light The Menorah – Phofo

My First Christmas as a Woman – The Vandals

Santa Claus – Belle and Sebastian

Sleigh Bells and Wine – Jason Gleason

Snowfall – The Halo Brothers

Song For The Angeles – Great Lake Swimmers

The First Song – Band of Horses

Winter Wonderland – Phantom Planet

You Are My Joy – The Reindeer Section

Best Indie & Alternative Rock Christmas Songs, Mix V: Belle & Sebastian, Sufjan Stevens, Love & Rockets, The Used, Reliant K

Posted on 12/20/200712/18/2019 by Max Hammer

This Christmas playlist features a great mix of indie and alt Christmas songs from Reliant K, The Fine Lines, The National Splits, Milton DeLugg & The Little Eskimos and The Used. There are also xmas tunes from Alien Sex Friend, Sandry Mooy, Gatsby’s America, Arcade Fire, Kirsty MacColl and The Pogues.

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O Little Town of Bethlehem – Belle & Sebastian

Get Behind Me, Santa – Sufjan Stevens

Holiday on the Moon – Love and Rockets

Alone This Holiday – The Used

Angels We Have Heard on High – Reliant K

Christmas Time – Gatsby’s America

Hooray for Santy Claus – Milton DeLugg & The Little Eskimos

Star of Wonder – Sufjan Stevens

Let’s Wrap Each Other – The National Splits

Holy Night – Sandra Mooy

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Best Indie and Alternative Rock Christmas Songs, Mix IV: The Kinks, Andrew Dost, The Format, The Matches, Dandy Warhols

Posted on 12/18/200712/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Do you have egg nog-tummy, Christmas-time fatigue, coffee-infused insomnia or instant vertigo every time you hear Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas”? We’ve got an antidote: Our collection of the Best Indie Alternative Rock Christmas Songs – the largest, longest-running, regularly updated collection of indie/alt rock Christmas songs on the web since 2007.

This the original Mix IV from 2007. All MP3s work. You can click the little player below and it will stream all of the tracks in the playlist uninterrupted and with no commercials!!!

This Christmas playlist kicks off with the first-ever original and popular true punk rock (now more commonly referred to as alternative) Christmas song by who else but The Kinks.

Simply titled “Father Christmas” (1977), the song lashes out at the commercialism of Christmas and yet ironically encourages disenfranchised youth to beat up Santa Claus if he doesn’t give them “some money,” and declares: “give all the toys to the little rich boys.”

On a lighter note, Beulah, Michigan indie pop musician Andrew Dost delivers an original and cynical view of the season in “Yeah, I Know, It’s Christmas Time.” The Matches serve up their own brand of bitter cynicism about Christmas, “December is For Cynics”.

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Father Christmas – The Kinks*

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year – In Memory

The Chestnut Times – Ex-Otago

Christmas Reindeer – The Knife

Yeah, I Know, It’s Christmas Time – Andrew Dost

Happy Xmas (War is Over) – The Fray

Noel Song – Animaniacs

It’s Christmas Time – A Band Called Quinn

Saving Up Her Wishes (For Another Christmas) – Celestial

Holly Jolly Christmas – The Format

Santa, Bring My Baby Back To Me – Belle and Sebastian

It’s Christmas, Let’s Be Glad – Sufjan Stevens

I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Matchbook Romance

Come On Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance – Sufjan Stevens

Bonus Tracks

Every Day Should Be a Holiday – Dandy Warhols

Jonathan David – Belle and Sebastian

December Is For Cynics – The Matches

In the UK, Europe and Australia Santa Claus is commonly referred to as “Father Christmas.”

Best Indie and Alternative Rock Christmas Songs, Mix II: Bright Eyes, The Eels, DCFC, Fuel, The Raveonettes, MXPX, Snow Patrol

Posted on 12/13/200701/09/2020 by Max Hammer

Have you heard enough of the old Christmas songs that make you want to pull your hair out yet? Well, hopefully the playlist below will help alleviate the stress. We hope to alleviate some of that by offering you the best and largest collection (in more than a dozen Christmas playlists) of indie and alternative rock Christmas tunes available anywhere on the Internet.

Blue Christmas – Bright Eyes

Christmas is Going to The Dogs – The Eels

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Death Cab For Cutie

We Three Kings – Fuel

Christmas Night of Zombies – MXPX

This Time of Year – Mighty Mighty Bosstones

When I Get Home For Christmas – Snow Patrol

Put the Lights On the Tree – Sufjan Stevens

Santa Claus is Coming to Town – Sugarcult

The Christmas Song – The Raveonettes

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Best Indie & Alternative Rock Christmas Songs, Mix I: Polyphonic Spree, Jimmy Eat World, Ryan Adams, Sufjan Stevens and More

Posted on 12/09/200701/09/2020 by Max Hammer

Over the years, our listeners have made it as clear as fresh fallen snow – they want a complete collection of alternative Christmas and holiday songs. This is Mix One of 12 Xmas playlists featuring many of the best original and cover-version alternative Christmas and holiday songs available anywhere.

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“Happy Christmas (War is Over)” – The Polyphonic Spree (John Lennon Cover)

“25th December” – Everything But The Girl

“Last Christmas” – Jimmy Eat World

“First Noel” – My American Heart (pictured on the right)

“Hey Parker, Its Christmas” – Ryan Adams

“Miracle Of Christmas” – Funeral For A Friend

“Just Like Christmas” – Low

“Born on Christmas Day/Annunciation Day” Ted Leo and Pharmacists

“Christmas Wrapping” – The Waitresses

“Did I Make You Cry on Christmas Day” – Sufjan Stevens

The Other Xmas Playlists:

Mix Two – Featuring Sugarcult, MXPX, DCFC, Fuel, Bright Eyes, Snow Patrol, The Raveonettes and Sufjan Stevens.

Mix Three – Ron Sexsmith, Daphne Loves Derby, Low, My Chemical Romance, Jens Lekman, Sciflyer, Slade, Balasana and Ten Thousand Dollar Tattoo.

Mix Four – The Kinks, The Fray, In Memory, Belle and Sebastian, Celestial, Ex-Otago, The Knife, A Band Called Quinn, The Format and Matchbook Romance.

Mix Five – Reliant K, The Fine Lines, The National Splits, Milton DeLugg & The Little Eskimos and The Used, Alien Sex Friend, Sandry Mooy, Gatsby’s America, Arcade Fire, Kirsty MacColl and The Pogues.

Mix Six – Band of Horses, Great Lake Swimmers, Phantom Planet, Yo La Tengo, Comet Gain, The Reindeer Section, Phofo, Jason Gleason, Chris Letcher and Belle and Sebastian.

Mix Seven – The Weepies, Yo La Tengo, Manic Street Preachers, Green Day, Le Man Avec Les Lunettes, Monster Bobby, Bright Eyes, Ladybug Transistor, The Flaming Lips, From First To Last, Acceptance, Crawling with Kings, Thick Pigeon and Rilo Kiley.

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Modest Mouse, Spoon and Jimmy Eat World Headline "Not So Silent Night" Concert in San Francisco Friday Night

Posted on 12/06/200703/09/2021 by Max Hammer

SAN FRANCISCO – Indie rockers in the Christmas and holiday spirit will get a special treat tomorrow night (Fri. Dec 7/07) as the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium presents the “Not So Silent Night” music festival.

The all-night festive concert is exclusively designed for fans of indie and alternative rock with headliners Modest Mouse and Spoon, followed by Jimmy Eat World and stocking stuffers Angels & Airwaves and Paramore, a popular SF Bay Area indie band.

The festival is almost guaranteed to be a great time. Tickets are still available and you can also check out Craigslist, eBay or whatever ticketing service you may use to see if you can grab some stubs for this once-in-a-lifetime special Christmas festival.

But don’t worry, if miss it, stayed tuned to IRC for full post-festival coverage with MP3s, official websites, YouTube videos from the fest, fan photos, blog reviews and more.

The event was coordinated by San Francisco radio station Live 105.
See you there.

Bloggers: Send IRC your vids, show reviews, blog posts and photos of the NSSN Festival and see them published here on IRC!

Readers: Check back on this page regularly for posted MP3s, updated news and videos throughout the next few days and weeks.

Starting Saturday December 8: A Very Indie Christmas playlist series all this month on IRC. Subscribe now to get the playlists as they are published throughout the month.

Many hours of work have gone in to putting together this special indie and alternative Christmas music series, so it’s definitely something you don’t want to miss.