 | 1. Get Married - Christmas (Have A Wonderful Life) * 2. The Stragglers - Oi To The World 3. Avenues - This Christmas * 4. Margate - Snow Day 5. The Dollyrots - All I Want for Christmas Is You 6. The Record Collection - Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) 7. Spanish Love Songs - Santa Cant Stay (Dwight Yoakam Cover) * 8. My Double, My Brother - The Days to Be Home 9. Brenna Red (From The Last Gang) - Punk Rock Christmas 10. The Lucky Eejits - Santa On 98th 11. Sons of Strangers - Blue Christmas 12. Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms - Jesus Christ (Big Star Cover) * 13. Brendan Scholz (from Mercy Music) - The Christmas Song (Weezer Cover) |
L.A. Punk label, Wiretap Records, has put together a nice holiday comp. In addition to a couple we've mentioned before, including Brenna Red's "Punk Rock Christmas" (but it wasn't free before), there are several tracks from Wiretap's stable recorded especially for this free compilation. And, while there's plenty of energy, here, if (like me) you find yourself in need, there's also a good deal of variety. Spanish Love Songs do a nice Electro Punk Country cover of Dwight Yoakam's "Santa Can't Stay". My Double My Brother cleverly borrow a riff from the ancient Folk tune "Christmas Day In The Morning" to come up with something that's both fresh and familiar. I was kinda hoping the Avenues track was somebody finally doing something different with the Donny Hathaway song (please, somebody, do something different with that song, or don't bother recording it), but, no, "This Christmas" is an original. I dig "Santa On 98th" from the Lucky Eejits. Hated "Blue Christmas" (of course). And the record closes with a Lo-Fi Weezer cover from Brendan Scholz. But the best track, to me, was the opener from Get Married, "Christmas (Have A Wonderful Life)." That's probably music to the ears of Wiretap as their most recent release is Get Married's EP "Into The Cosmos". You can check the tunes from the Get Married EP on Bandcamp, but its also available in limited edition grenadine red or alien skin green 7" vinyl from the label.
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