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Kenny G: Wishes: A Holiday Album The album draws primarily from the most traditional corners of holiday music, and gorgeous versions of "Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring," "Joy To The World" and the lush melody of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/O Come All Ye Faithful" are sure to put the Christmas spirit into even the heart of The Grinch. Kids get served a jaunty medley of "Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer/Frosty The Snowman" and nobody ends up going home with coal in their stockings.
Fireside Songs For The Soul: Guy Forsyth and Carolyn Wonderland Fill your stocking full of blues, folk, rock, country and big band sounds brought to you by Austin, TX favorites Guy Forsyth and Carolyn Wonderland. Fireside Songs for the Soul features Guy and Carolyn's wonderful reinterpretations of holiday classics like Baby It's Cold Outside and Merry Xmas (War Is Over), along with highlights from the live show, including Run Run Rudolph, Walking In A Winter Wonderland and You're Not Gonna Get What You Want For Christmas. 11 songs in total!
- Sara Hickman - download This Christmas Wish featuring Silent Night and Frosty the Snowman
- Karl Blau - The Coconutcracker Suite (Kelp #2) - Reggae version of the Nutcracker Suite and one of our personal favorites! (download only)
- Rosie Flores - get into the spirit with Run Rudolph Run and Christmasville
- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - have a Swingin' Holiday with Everything You Want For Christmas Plus BBVD Holiday Tees
- Christine Albert - lots of traditionals, including Jingle Bells, White Christmas, and Frosty The Snowman
- Albert and Gage - features Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Dave Pettigrew - Christmas EP feat. Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Sarah Pierce - contains Oh Holy Night and Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Kimmy and Klasse - sing along with Little Drummer Boy and We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- El Gato - The Christmas Single
- Tish Hinojosa - add a Spanish flair to your Christmas with Arbolito y La Baca Mariposa, a traditional Christmas song from Ecuador
- Kemper Crabb - 2 Christmas releases available
- Art Greenhaw - Ann-Margret sings I'll Be Home For Christmas and O Come All Ye Faithful
- Art Greenhaw - Nokie Edwards presents a Surf 'N' Swing Christmas featuring It Came Upon A Midnight Clear and Deck The Halls
- Art Greenhaw - with Nokie Edwards: Christmas in Guitarland, a country and gospel influenced holiday CD
- Mossburg Music - The Notables present A Notable Christmas
- The Wyatts - Merry Christmas Darlin' single
Also available to help you get into the holiday spirit: McGuffey Lane Christmas cards and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Christmas tshirts and hats!
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Richard Thompson - Strict Tempo! Reissue
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original release, Richard Thompson's CD Strict Tempo! is being reissued. Strict Tempo! will be available in a specially designed CD reissue package with updated notes by Richard (while supplies last). The recording, an all-instrumental collection of British and Celtic jigs and reels (plus a Duke Ellington composition, and one Thompson original), features Richard on an array of acoustic and electric stringed instruments, ably abetted by Dave Mattacks on drums and percussion.
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Tara-Leigh Cobble: Orange Jumpsuit
Tara-Leigh on her latest book: "New York City moved at the pace of my heart. Everything fit. Then came a familiar, unmistakable nudge - God was calling me to leave the sparkle and comfort of Manhattan to put down roots in small-town South Carolina.
Leaving behind the city I adored for a town that surprised me first with love, and then with heartache, it felt like God was stripping me of everything. It felt like wrath. I began to wonder if I had heard Him right. Had I ever heard Him? Did I even know Him at all?
This is a story of letting go, of choosing. Through the crushing blows of sanctification, the loss of my 'home,' the end of relationships, and the betrayal of friends, I was forced to look at the darkness of my own heart. Will I walk away from Him? Or will I learn instead to walk in freedom from the fears that imprison me? This is a love story. But its no fairytale.
Or maybe, it is."
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Ray Bailey: Cruisin' for a Bluesin'
"Cruisin' For A Bluesin' is the first studio release from Los Angeles based blues virtuoso Ray Bailey since his much ballyhooed debut Satan's Horn 15 years ago. This exciting new release displays a mature artist and superb composer in control of his medium. The recording features 11 tracks, 10 of which are original non-derivative compositions by Mr. Bailey." -Amazon.com
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Bella Morte: Before the Flood
"It's been three years since Charlottesville, VA-based gothic rockers Bella Morte rolled out their last album Beautiful Death, and since then they've been all over the media map: frontman Andy Deane started
a side project called The Rain Within, and he's also turned horror author, with a couple of published novels under his belt; the band has made guest appearances in everything from comics to video games, and
last year they teamed up with Troma's Lloyd Kaufman and the Toxic Avenger for a slime-and-gore-drenched music video. But they've also been hard at work doing what they do best, which is rocking your ass off."
-Fearnet.com Read here for a mini-review of their latest studio album Before the Flood, then stop by the store and get the new CD as
well as Andy Deane's latest novel, All The Darkness In The World.
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Patrice Pike: Live and Then Some
The CD "Live and Then Some: Brushwood Lounge Volume 2", released this summer, and the follow-up five song EP "Live at the Brushwood Lounge, Volume 2.5" offer evidence of Austin singer/songwriter Patrice Pike's movement in the direction of R&B. In this six song video, her soulful performance ranges from smoldering to combustible. An excellent introduction to one of the finest live performers on the scene today.
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If you watch Sons of Anarchy, you may have heard a Scott Biram song or two. Check out "Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue" right here.
Singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright and filmmaker Mark Wexler of How to Live Forever were at the recent TEDMED conference, which seeks to create an unbiased, all-inclusive understanding of Health and Medicine's most challenging issues.
Iliza Shlesinger stopped by Maxim's offices and gave them this interview.
On December 12th, check out Jesse Sykes on Morning Becomes Eclectic, the popular radio show out of Los Angeles. Her latest release, Marble Son, is earning rave reviews, including this one from the Huffington Post!
The award-winning documentary, Pelada, is now on sale through the end of the year! Tshirts and posters are discounted, too. Makes a great gift for any sports fan!
sonaBLAST! Records artists Nerves Junior and Cheyenne Mize were recently featured in NYLON magazine, who was doing a feature on the Louisville music scene.
Check out Matt Braunger on a recent episode of Conan! Matt will also be taping a Comedy Central special in NYC on Dec. 2nd, if you are in the area, click here for free tickets!
Tickets are still available for the annual Rock for Kids Rock-n-Roll Auction on Dec. 2nd in Chicago. If you can't make it, shop their online store and help get music education to kids in need!
THOUGHT YOU KNEW PINUPS? Think again. Ahhhh...the lovely image of a pinup riding a bicycle! Skirts tend to fly as the pedals spin faster, an experience some of us are all too familiar with. But most pinups are only posing as cyclists. As a new chapter in bicycle pinup history, photographer Kim Capriotti and illustrator Jana Kinsman have taken real female cyclists from Chicago and transformed them into pinup fantasies.
Thought You Knew/Bicycle Pinups: Jana/Ms. October
Spending time in Oregon, IL at my grandparents house on the Rock River. Nature!
2. If you could be the opposite sex for a day what would you do?
Pee in alleys with my new penis
3. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Sweet Cream. This ice cream shop from my hometown made it. It's technically just "plain" ice cream, but for me, as with most stuff, the simpler the better.
4. If you could be any fictional character, whom would you be?
The Warden from Superjail
5. What's the one thing you own that you know you should get rid of but never will?
Most of my clothing... Especially the jeans I am wearing with two giant holes near the crotch.
6. What book are you currently reading (or the last one you read)?
The last book I read was The Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich. He's an amazing naturalist, biologist, and ultra-marathoner. The book is about wild ravens as well as his tame ravens, studying their remarkable behavior in Vermont and Maine. Totally fascinating.
7. What is your favorite word, phrase, quote or lyric?
Been saying "so it goes" a lot lately.
8. What is the most inspiring concert or performance you have ever seen?
The night sky in Cazenovia, WI.
9. Name something you love that no one else seems to like. (Or name something that everyone seems to love except you.)
I very much do not like Bjork.
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