Artist	Song	Buy
Duplomacy	Holiday
Stars	Fairytale of New York
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci	Christmas Eve
Jens Lekman	Run Away With Me
Sufjan Stevens	Get Behind Me, Santa!
Firefox AK & Tiger Lou	Christmas Eve
Blitzen Trapper	Christmas Is Coming Soon
Hello Saferide	iPod Xmas
Scissors for Lefty	Christmas Intentions
The Apples in Stereo	Holiday Mood
Quasi	Merry X-Mas
The Incredible Moses Leroy	Christmas in the Summertime
The Aislers Set	Christmas Song
The Decemberists	Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk (This Christmas
Young and Sexy	Santa Claus Likes Rich Kids Better
Trembling Blue Stars	Christmas & Train Trips & Things
Swearing at Motorists	Inadvertent Christmas Song
Youth Group	Christmas Windows
Laakso	Hang Me in the Christmas Tree
Asobi Seksu	Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)
Nellie McKay	A Christmas Dirge
Jason Anderson	Christmas
The Walkmen	In the New Year

Comment:

In December 2005, I made "A Fairly Merry Indie X-Mix" (http://www.artofthemix.org/FindAMix/getcontents2.aspx?strMixID=98748) as a present for friends and coworkers. Finally, I made a sequel. I'm still avoiding covers of traditional Christmas songs (because almost all of them drive me crazy). Overall, this is more downbeat than you'd expect, given how obnoxiously manic Christmas music usually is. But, it's got a nice mix of fun songs, sad songs and rock songs.

Currently available for download (ZIP file of MP3s, tagged as an album in sequence) here... http://www.sendspace.com/file/dllwcz

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