More Free Christmas music

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I know it's late, but here are a few more legal freebies for streaming or downloading:

• A free compilation from Sounds Familyre with the following tracklist:
  1: ‘Christmas Eve Nite’ - Danielson
  2: ‘For There Is Born A Child’ - Lenny Smith
  3: ‘Plant A Little Fir Tree’ - Half-handed Cloud
  4: ‘Dayspring From On High’ - Soul-Junk
  5: ‘Pat-A-Pan’ - Leopulde
  6: ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ - Dan Zimmerman
  7: ‘Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming’ - The Singing Mechanic
  8: ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas’ - Sufjan Stevens (new 11/2007 recording with other Sounds Familyre artists)
  9: ‘What Child Is This’ - Rachel
  10: ‘I Wonder As I Wander’ - Woven Hand
  11. ‘Christmas Is A Holiday’ - Ben + Vesper
  12. ‘Immanuel’ - Joshua Stamper
  13. ‘O Holy Night’ - Elin
• Over the Rhine's special St. Elizabeth's show has surfaced on the Internet Archive. The setlist features a few classic tunes ("Poughkeepsie", "Jack's Valentine"), one Christmas song ("White Horse"), their famous Gillian Welch cover ("Orphan Girl"), a highlight from The Trumpet Child ("Don't Wait For Tom"), Drunkard's Prayer's "I Want You To Be My Love", and one new song ("Angel Band") - they made a point to focus on material that they did not play at the Taft show. There's also a generous amount of dialogue between the band and the crowd.

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Free Christmas Album from Nettwerk!

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I just found out about a free Christmas album that Netwerk has available ONLY THROUGH THE END OF TODAY. Many of these songs are highlights from the artists' respective Christmas albums. You can download it at http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/seriously_westcoast/index.html . Here's the tracklisting:

• 01 - Barenaked Ladies - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
• 02 - The Weepies - All That I Want
• 03 - Sarah McLachlan - Silent Night
• 04 - Matt Wertz What Child Is This
• 05 - Liily Frost - Skating On The River
• 06 - Oh Susanna - Go Tell It On The Mountain
• 07 - Medieval Baebes - The Holly & The Ivy
• 08 - The Be Good Tanyas - Rudy
• 09 - Barenaked Ladies - Elf's Lament
• 10 - Melissa McClelland O - Holy Night-MST
• 11 - Jars Of Clay - Hibernation Day
• 12 - Jenny Owens Young - Things We Don't Need Anymore
• 13 - Martha Wainwright - Merry Christmas And Happy New Year
• 14 - Kyle Andrews - Under The Misteltoe
• 15 - Leigh Nash - The First Noel
• 16 - Sarah McLachlan - The First Noel_Mary Mary (DJ Shah Remix)

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Belated Jenny Lewis Downloads

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Because we are terrible, terrible people here, we didn't post about Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins last year. Most of the album can be legally and freely downloaded from her record label at http://www.team-love.com/headphones/releases/tl08/ . Be warned though, they use an annoying Flash thing to serve up the mp3s. It's a fairly good album - nothing truly amazing or innovative, but a catchy set of songs sung with Jenny's intoxicating voice and some subtle harmonies from the Watson Twins. The music is a soft mix of folk and country, with acoustic guitars in various tunings, slide guitars, some keys, bass, and drums. The most unusual thing about it is that the album's lyrics are almost entirely about Jenny's musings on religion. Not that we're complaining. Jenny, of course, is the lead singer of critically-acclaimed indie rock darlings Rilo Kiley.

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Switchfoot fansite, Arcade Fire interpretation

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Lately, I've been enjoying a fairly new Switchfoot blog called Switchfeed. Thanks to their exceptional coverage and the prevalence of RSS readers today, there's no excuse for missing Switchfoot news again. For those of us who had a hard time keeping up with all those message boards, this is great news. Additionally, this blog has become semi-official and has been given permission to show exclusive rarities, downloads, videos, etc.

That blog has a regular feature called "MP3 Of The Week" (or MOTW). So far it's been a good assortment of music. This week's track is "Intervention" by The Arcade Fire. They've posted a decent interpretation of the lyrics as well.

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Incidentally, the blasphemous bible thumpers over at Plugged In decided that they agree, at least in theory, with the Neon Bible. I suppose you can only discuss religion so much on your trendy indie rock album before you start to attract the worst of the "Christian music" crowd.

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Steven Delopoulos - Work to Be Done EP

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For those of you who haven't gotten the Steven Delopoulos bug yet, and for those of you who are patiently awaiting his second solo album, there is good news. An EP entitled Work to Be Done and available free online has 6 tracks: two all new tracks, two highlights from the critically-acclaimed solo debut Me Died Blue, and two live performances from his old band, Burlap to Cashmere. It's a decent overview for those just getting into him, and it might help to tide us fans over while we wait for his next release.

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