#pop punk xmas songs

[tomsmusictaste]

Tom’s Top Ten | Alternative Christmas Songs 🎄

Note: This list is excluding any songs that are covers or any songs that aren’t explicitly about christmas/the holidays (RIP December by Neck Deep, you don’t make the cut this time)

10. Ordinary Christmas by State Champs

9. My Christmas List by Simple Plan

8. Happy Holidays, You Bastard by Blink-182

7. This Christmas* by Every Avenue

*Since this song is criminally not on Spotify (or soundcloud, or anywhere really) here’s a YouTube video for it instead 🖤

6. Forgot It Was Christmas by The Downtown Fiction

5. Merry Christmas (Wherever You Are) by Lower Than Atlantis

4. Right Where You Want Me To Be by A Day To Remember

3. This Christmas (I’ll Burn It To The Ground) by Set It Off

2. Xmas Exile by Settle Your Scores

1. This Holiday by Dragged Under

🤘🎄🎅

Also note: This list is based on my own personal preference, and there are some notable songs I haven’t put here BUT you might just find them on my Spoofy Xmas Playlist! 🤘

[nothnksfrthmmrs]

Happy Yule Shoot Your Eye Out season everyone

[rickchung]

♫ The Linda Lindas x “Groovy Xmas” x Jimmy Kimmel Live.

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (17-23 Dec 2023)

shout out to matt rogers for this delightful new entry to the xmas song canon

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes #0) (Travis Baldree, author & narrator) - prequel novel of Viv's much younger days - just as fun and cozy as Legends & Lattes

🥰 Hashtag Soulmates (everwitch) - 44K, RWRB AU - deliberately tropetastic sort-of meta fic where Henry's a fanfic writer & Alex is one of his biggest fans and they work together but don't know it. Hard to explain but fun to read. Good stuff on the nature of fanfic; also hilarious bits where it walks right up to the crackfic line but doesn't go over. I really enjoyed reading something the author so clearly had a blast writing.

😊 In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life (Amy Schneider, author & narrator) - entertaining read

😍 Tommy Cabot Was Here (The Cabots #1) (Cat Sebastian) - reread, novella; just really in a mood to reread in this universe! Hadn't read this since I read Daniel's book, so it was fun to see him guest star as a 12 yr old

😍 Peter Cabot Gets Lost (The Cabots #2) (Cat Sebastian) - reread; I love all the Cabots but this one is my #1 fave by a smidge. The grumpy/sunshine is *chef's kiss*!

😍 Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots (The Cabots #3) (Cat Sebastian) - reread; Alex & Daniel are actually dating but too oblivious (and busy pining in silence) to realize it. I love these dumbasses.

😍 Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue (The Cabots #3.5) (Cat Sebastian) - reread, set in the Cabots 'verse but with no Cabots in sight. Just two baseball boys pulling their heads out of their asses and figuring out what they mean to one another.

💖💖 +102K of shorter fic 💖💖

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Game Changer - s5, e6

Make Some Noise - s2, e15

Dirty Laundry - s3, e8

D20: Fantasy High: Sophmore Year - e16-20

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - s1, e1-6

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

It's Been a Minute - The IBAMmys: The It's Been A Minute 2023 Culture Awards Show

Today, Explained - EU vs. AI

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Songs To Help You Study

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - A Return to Recipe Graves

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Old City Hall Station

⭐ Switched on Pop - "Did I mention that it's Christmas in this club?" (w Matt Rogers)

The Sporkful - New Year’s Food Resolutions 2024

Today, Explained - How Barnes & Noble survived

Big Gay Fiction Podcast - "Time to Shine" with Rachel Reid

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - “They Couldn’t Be Nicer Boys” (w/ Seth Meyers)

NPR's Book of the Day - 'Black AF History' examines American history from the perspective of Black people

Code Switch - Here are our favorite Code Switch episodes from 2023

Ed Zitron's 15 Minutes In Hell - Episode 20: Jamelle Bouie

Ologies with Alie Ward - Lemurology (LEMURS) with Lydia Greene

99% Invisible #564 - Mini-Stories: Volume 17

Today, Explained - The stretched-too-thin blue line

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Sniffing out What’s Special with Saskia Wilson Brown

One Year - 1990: The Angry Death of Kimberly Bergalis

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - "You Can't Trust These Gay Guys"

⭐ Films To Be Buried With - Leslie Jones

Dear Prudence - My Mother-In-Law Doesn’t Wash Her Hands After Using The Bathroom. Help!

Cautionary Tales - When Stalin Killed the Weekend (with The Happiness Lab)

Our Opinions Are Correct - How Doctor Who Stood the Test of Time

Our Opinions Are Correct - BONUS: If You Could Turn Into Any Form of Transportation, What Would You Pick?

It's Been a Minute - Why does flying suck so much?

Off Menu - Ep 217: Ross Noble (Christmas Special)

⭐ Song Exploder - Foo Fighters "The Teacher"

⭐ Overinvested - Ep. 290: The Cutting Edge

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

my christmas playlist

Celtic Christmas

The Beach Boys' Christmas Album [The Beach Boys] {1964}

Merry Axemas & Merry Axemas 2

Orchestral Christmas Pops

Latin Jazz Christmas

Punk Rock Christmas

Lindsey Stirling Christmas

Orchestral Holiday Pops

It's a Holiday Soul Party [Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings] {2015}

my Christmas Divas playlist

Have You Heard of Christmas? [Matt Rogers] {2023}

Simply Christmas [Leslie Odom Jr.] {2016}

The Christmas Album [Leslie Odom Jr.] {2020}

Christmas With You [Laufey & Norah Jones] {2023}

Christmas Island [Jimmy Buffett] {1996}

'Tis The SeaSon [Jimmy Buffett] {2016}

Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection for All the Family [Nick Lowe] {2013}

The Muppet Christmas Carol (Special Anniversary Edition) {2005}

Punk Rock Christmas

Classical Christmas

Rock & Roll Christmas

[merrymegmas]

And the Bells Were Ringing Out on Megmas Day - Holiday 2023

A while ago one of my best friends sent me a text:

I noodled on this for a while, made lists and everything. A few months later I replied with:

(Yes, these are the kinds of conversations you can have with me if you have my contact info).

Anyway, if you're familiar to the Megmas back catalogue, you know that Fairytale of New York has been a long time staple of these mixes, both the original and a ton of great covers. With the passing of Shane MacGowan this year, I couldn't help but pay tribute to one of the best punk songs and one of the best holiday songs of all time––uncomfortable language and all. And so, the title of this year's mix is from the chorus of Fairytale of New York. And the album art is a slight nod to the album cover for the single.

I thought about putting a cover or live version of Fairytale of New York on this mix, but in the end, I decided to just go with the original. And, in a wonderful stroke of luck, one of the other songs on this mix references the song with the line "This is the fairytale of nowhere."

This year's mix is a return to form in a lot of ways: it has more pop-punk than in recent years, more silly songs, and even a Hanukkah song! There were also so many wonderful new Christmas songs that were on my radar this year, I hardly had to dip into my unused archive.

As always I hope you enjoy the mix and share it with people who also like non-traditional holiday songs.

1 Afraid of Heights // Tom Fletcher 2 Christmas (I Won't Be Home) // The Lottery Winners 3 Festivus! // Mountain Songs 4 We Won't Come Home at Christmas Time // The Reds, Pinks and Purples 5 Might Ruin Christmas // New Rules 6 Is This Christmas? // The Wombats 7 Christmas at 22 // The Wonder Years 8 It's Christmas Time // Vista Blue 9 I Wear My Leather Jacket at Christmas // Department of Creative Affairs 10 All I Want For Christmas is a Rock Show (feat. Kyle Gass) // Grizfolk 11 Xmas Blue // Safe Ferris 12 Merry, Merry Christmas // El Gato Roboto 13 Christmas Dirtbag // Wheatus 14 Snoopy's Christmas // Smash Mouth 15 Saul: The Hanukkah Narwhal // The Zach and The Jess 16 Merry Spidey Christmas // Patrick Stump 17 Pass The Good Stuff Around // Make Like Monkeys 18 I Never Cared for Christmas // Old Mountain Station 19 Merry Christmas Everyone // Punk Rock Factory 20 Xmas Time of the Year // Green Day 21 Missing You This Christmas // Theory of a Deadman 22 All Hang The Lights On Christmas // Nick Phoenix 23 Angels We Have Heard On High // Bayside 24 I'll Be Home For Christmas (If I Can Be There) // The Oh Hellos 25 Christmas Magic // The National Parks 26 No Christmas Bells // There Will Be Fireworks 27 Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) // The Pogues 28 All I Want For Christmas Is New Years Day // Hurts

Listen to And the Bells Were Ringing Out on Megmas Day on Spotify

[noloveforned]

we wrap up no love for ned's 2023 run on wlur tonight as we do every year- with our annual best of twenty years ago show! tune in from 8pm-midnight for four hours of non-hits from 2003. it's pretty much a time capsule back to the early days of no love for ned online!

last week's 2023 holiday show is up on mixcloud. putting it together also taught me that there's a 4,096 character limit to a paragraph block on tumblr (thus the split half-way through).

no love for ned on wlur – december 22nd, 2023 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label jackson 5 // up on the house top // christmas album // motown the sweaterettes // ugly sweater time // ugly sweater time 7" // (self-released) pre nup // war, on christmas // kingfisher blues christmas 2018 7" compilation // kingfisher bluez jen turrell and stewart anderson featuring myffy // hey! it's christmas! // hey it's christmas compilation // emotional response problem patterns // christmas number one // a very cherry christmas volume seventeen compilation // cherry gurr featuring eddie argos // christmas holiday // christmas business ep // duchess box billiam and busted head racket // i'm existential // genetic southern hemisphere christmas ep // (self-released) bubble and squeak // the christmas stick // jangle bells- a rough trade shops christmas compilation // rough trade erie choir // xmas in nyc // xmas in nyc digital single // potluck foundation jodie marie // (i don't wanna be) alone this christmas // (i don't wanna be) alone this christmas digital single // carmel peaness // kiss me sweet pea // kiss me sweet pea 7" // totally snick the popguns // the twelve days of christmas // 24 compilation // where it's at is where you are the hannah barberas // oh santa claus! (2019 version) // christmas bandwagon vol. 2 ep // (self-released) anselmus // santa's got a lot of sarah records 7" in his bag // a very chaotic christmas digital split single // chaotic pop the del vetts // i want a boy for christmas // meet mrs. santa claus compilation // koko mojo nat brower // coal // merry christmas ep // (self-released) the linda lindas // groovy xmas // jangle bells- a rough trade shops christmas compilation // rough trade comet gain // christmas records! // (i hate) christmas records! ep // (self-released) the bug club // christmas lullaby // green dream in f# // we are busy bodies neil brogan // christmas (with a small c) // christmas ep // brogan the photocopies // under christmas lights (new mix) // stragglers ep // (self-released) be afraid // never gay at christmastime // kingfisher bluez christmas single 2023 7" compilation // kingfisher bluez aaron roche // a central florida christmas // a familyre christmas, volume 5 compilation // sounds familyre the crystal furs // christmas is better with you // (bandcamp mp3) // (self-released) and gone // i'll be home for xmas // (bandcamp mp3) // (self-released) when nalda became punk // xmas with you // (bandcamp mp3) // (self-released) silver biplanes // silver bells // a shambotic xmas mini ep compilation // shambotic elysium // christmas // dewdrops primer 1996 7" compilation // dewdrops kadhja bonet // california holiday // california holiday ep // ninja tune the memories featuring pynkie // christmas time // christmas time digital single // gnar tapes sinkane // christmas wrapping // jangle bells- a rough trade shops christmas compilation // rough trade lola kirke // cross you off my list // little drummer girl digital single // bmg grade school // christmas everyday // kingfisher bluez christmas single 2021 7" compilation // kingfisher bluez wednesday week // christmas here // a midnight christmas mess compilation // midnight deerheart // the sweetest season // have yourself a merry indie christmas volume i compilation // (kevin mcgrath) swansea sound // santa bail me out // santa bail me out ep // skep wax thee mightees // christmas song // delicious christmas vol. 3- return of the christmas ep (split 8" w/ five leaf nettles) // delicious clam sunturns // the sun turns // christmas // fika

[fall0utb0y]

EMO/POP PUNK CHRISTMAS SONGS

All I Want for Christmas Is You - My Chemical Romance

Every Snowflake Is Different (Just Like You) - My Chemical Romance

Yule Shoot Your Eye Out - Fall Out Boy

What’s This? - Fall Out Boy

Happy Holidays, You Bastard - blink-182

I Won’t Be Home For Christmas - blink-182

Boxing Day - blink-182

Not Another Christmas Song - blink-182

Xmas Time of Year - Green Day

Merry Christmas, Kiss My Ass - All Time Low

Fools Holiday - All Time low

Alone This Holiday - The Used

I’m With You - Mayday Parade

Last Christmas - Jimmy Eat World

December - Neck Deep

Right Where You Want Me To Be - A Day To Remember

We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Weezer

Christmas Saves The Year - Twenty One Pilots

[redsoapbox]

Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas Volume III Set for December 1st Release

Having tweeted out plans to release deluxe versions of Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas volumes I & II for 2023, I have had a bit of a re-think and decided to abandon that idea and instead press ahead with a third volume.

It just seemed easier to market a separate volume and that makes it easier to raise money for Crisis, which is the point after all. This will be a smaller scale affair, though, with maybe 20-25 tracks rather than 54 this time around. That is going to be reflected in the reduced price of £5.00. The reason for the reduced number of tracks is that it took me a whole year to hone down the hundreds of Xmas songs that I tracked down into the 108 tracks that comprised volumes I & II. This somewhat last-minute decision won't result in a compromise in the quality of the material for a number of reasons though - I received some excellent songs after the deadline for submissions last year which I can now revisit, plus the contacts that I made through 2022 have enabled me to gather in some great new songs in double-quick time. Having had sensational reviews for the first two volumes (see archives), I won't be diluting the standard I have set myself now. It will be the same eclectic blend of Indie, perhaps slanted slightly more in the direction of garage rock/post-punk, with the quality control set to stratospheric. I will start revealing the line-up, one act a day, in November.

The album is set for release on the first bandcamp Friday in December (the 1st) with all monies again going to Crisis at Christmas. I'll be blogging/tweeting about the contributing artists through November.

A reminder that you can still purchase volumes I & II here

Music | Various Artists (bandcamp.com)

#indie #christmas #Xmas #compilations #alternative #pop

[alychampignon]

Somehow I got stuck listening to "Re" by Café Tacvba.

This was the first cd I ever heard from them and I fell in love with them. It's a very experimental album. Every song is like a different genre.

My mom had this cd in her collection. She's not really one to listen to rock music. My parents feel for some scam where you pay money and they send you random spanish music cds back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. So they got a lot of cds they would not have bought on their own. My parents like more banda, cumbia, norteña, merengue, and salsa. Not really rock en español. But they got this cd from café tacvba and 2 or 3 Maná cds.

In I think 5th or 6th grade I got a boombox for Xmas. I really wanted it to play cds. I soon got bored because I had "Celebrity" by N*sync and those promo cds from McDonald's and Burger King. The Backstreet boys one, the N*sync with britney spears, and the Yu-Gi-Oh music to duel by.

So I just looked at all their cds and looked at the cool art. "Re" and the Maná albums got my attention and well my parents never played them. So I gave them a try and liked them.

My mom made fun of me because I was gonna be a rocker. I was already listening to pop punk on radio disney. OMFGGZZZ DOES THAT RADIO STATION STILL EXIST??

Anyway "Re" and "Sueños Liquidos" were the ones I played the most. I never returned these 3 cds to my parents. I still have them on my cd collection.

Anyway when I graduated from UC Berkeley, the Chicano/chicana graduation committee asked us to submit songs. I send them "24 horas" from "Re" by Café TACVBA. It was surreal hearing that song be blasted at the Greek Theater.

So now that rock archivo de la @rockarchivola on Instagram announced that their latest episode of their podcast "The discursive power of rock en español and the desire for democracy " was going to have an episode on it..

I just needed to listen to "Re". But so far I just played a few random songs from it. Now I'm trying to listen to the whole album a few times before I listen to the podcast.

Also I'm behind on the podcast :(

I'm on episode 5. But I'll eventually get there.

[corsaka]

an objectively bad band that i love

so i was doing the thing where i discuss music with idiot children on discord when they brought up orbitron, and someone mistook them for the font this made us wonder if anyone ever named a band “wingdings”, and yes, someone absolutely did do that, and they made it the biggest shitpost ever i cannot quite explain how terrible this music purposefully is. the audio is always clipping horribly. it is recorded on one 20 pound microphone several metres away from any of the instruments and is functionally a series of noises in order. half of the songs are covers of songs you know very well but played quite awfully, and the band members actively laugh at themselves while playing if you have time to spare. give the “I Burnt My Mouth on a Chicken Kiev for Wingdings” album a listen, featuring such deep and thought-provoking titles as “we are number one but everytime we do anything it sounds awful“ and “WITE XMAS“ i can’t quite understate how fucking funny it is to start listening to a song with no warning, hear the recording physically start during a conversation and a quite-good pop punk riff (played 3 metres away from the microphone, of course) before your ears are blasted by a suddenly Very Loud guitar. and then a cover of smash mouth starts. i just. it’s wonderful.

they’re not even a band that threatens to become good. they just suck on purpose and it’s hilarious and i love them and they haven’t posted anything since december 2016. please come back my beloveds i miss you

[tomsmusictaste]

All pop-punk christmas songs are either like, I fucking HATE Christmas, or, I am absolutely heartbroken rn and also it happens to be christmas-time too, that’s also happening

[appletonwisconsin]

for XMAS I was gifted the new MUFFS DEMOS on vinyl ...

WOW so much fun to hear the unfiltered Kim Shattuck inventing her music, each song dripping in pop-punk hooks and joy galore

Kim was also a stellar photographer and you can still visit her Flickr site to see what she saw; selfies, Dodger stadium, L.A. architectural & neon bric-a-brac, pets and etc. (and, yes, that is her in an Amy Winehouse Halloween costume)

[betterwatchout]

OK Boomer Xmas

The Counterculture dug in its dirty, bare heels in 1967 and disrupted music into the 1990s. Christmas got less sweet and sentimental, less inclined to postwar tunnel-vision complacency, and Kaliyuga tightened its grip. From Billboard December 1973:

Before finding Jesus, garage-rock daddy Sean Bonniwell did a stint as a New Age guru. Part of that legacy is this psych-gospel, multi-tempo Christmas song from 1970 recommended especially for the hardcore Alt.Xmas fan.

The Bahamian guitarist/singer Joseph Spence even put a curmudgeonly spin on our old favorite in 1980.

Meanwhile, R&B was breaking through on mainstream charts. Stevie Wonder, the Jacksons, Sly Stone, Temptations, and many others got radio play and made Top 40 more dynamic in the 1970-80s than it had ever been (or has been since #OKBoomer).

The clubs and bars I went to in the 70s played funk and disco, but Christmas was usually just more pretty lights. Kalyan made this underserved "disco reggae" jam in 1974.

The B-side to Greg Lake's 1975 art-rock carol "I Believe in Father Christmas" is nearly instrumental, and holds up well. Play it at your next Christmas party, and watch the tipsy eyebrows scrunch together.

Dutch singer-songwriter-thereminist Fay Lovsky made a couple of fun records just before the turn of the century, but long before that, she had a hometown Christmas hit with this 1981 ode to Xmas in the 60s. Luckily, MTV was just taking off, so there's cringe-worthy film.

The Brits had plenty of hits in this period, but Wham!'s was one of the few we Yanks heard much about (it got covered ad nauseam).

Captain Sensible briefly left goth-punk heroes The Damned in 1984 and recorded this synth-infused holiday banger.

Throughout the 80s, 4AD was keeping coolness on a slow burn for the rest of us with their essential roster of misfits and visionaries. On the approach to the Alt.90s, there were signs of what was to come.

Sorry, fellow Boomers, our heyday was the 70s and the 80s, and we kinda blew it for the holidays. Here's the evidence:

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (18-24 Dec 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰👂‍ Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman (Lucy Worsley, author & narrator) - an excellent biography

😍 All That You Are to Me series (2bestfriends) - 87K, shrunkyclunks - holiday reread, 'the lumberjack steve/twink bucky fic of our hearts' - main fic 67K, sequel fic 20K

😍 It's the Best Time of the Year (chicklette) - 40K, shrunkyclunks, holiday time fic - reread of a fave with baker!Bucky & Cap!Steve - perfect blend of angst, fluff and action

😍 (if only in my dreams) (jehans) - 45K, stucky no powers AU - reread of holiday season friends2lovers/2nd chance with some QUALITY pining

💖💖 +323K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

SHOCKING! Spiderman's Alien Baby: Friendly Neighborhood Hero and His Hanukkah Blessing (AggressiveWhenStartled) - MCU: Peter Parker v the Geriatric Supersoldier Husbands, 4.8K - no one writes the adventures of a hapless Peter tangled up with the Geriatric Supersolider Husbands like AggressiveWhenStartled - pure hilarity throughout (and ZERO alien babies despite the title)

One Does Not Simply Walk Into JoAnn Fabrics (And other millennial lessons from The Winter Soldier) (attackofthezee (noxlunate)) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 11.9K - forever fave; holiday reread of a recovering WS who gets a job working at JoAnn's and falls hard for a customer

Bucky Barnes Has His Shit Together (and Other Lies He Tells Himself) (betts) - MCU: stucky no-powers AU, 14K - holiday reread of recovering vet Bucky & single dad baker Steve

Here Comes Santa Claus (AidaRonan) - MCU: stucky, 6.7K - holiday reread - hilarious and hot - Bucky meets Santa!Steve and this santa definitely fucks

then a small thing happened (BeaArthurPendragon) - MCU: stucky no-powers AU, 35K - new holiday fave about recovering photojournalist Bucky and astronaut Steve - LOVED LOVED LOVED

rockin' around (wearing_tearing) - Stranger Things: Steddie/Ronance/Fruity Four, 13K - an absolutely DELIGHTFUL advent collection of ficlets - every day was a pop of pure joy to read

Knit One, Purl Two (mollus) - MCU: stucky, 32K - holiday reread, forever fave - recovering WS/Cap with healing via crafting with a delightful knitting group

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Taskmaster - s14, e1-10

Glass Onion

Single All The Way

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Decoder Ring Plus - Encore: ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Got It Wrong

Switched on Pop - Anitta & Rosalía on the borders of Latin pop

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tumbleweed Christmas Tree

99% Invisible #519 - Balikbayan Boxes

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Priscilla’s Homecoming

It's Been a Minute - (Almost) 20 years of 'Love Actually'

Off Menu - Ep 41: Joe Lycett (Christmas Special)

Into It - Matt Rogers Has Heard of Christmas, But 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'

Off Menu - Ep 175: Alex Horne (Christmas Special)

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Simply Christmas (Deluxe Edition) [Leslie Odom Jr]

Merry Christmas…Have A Nice Life [Cyndi Lauper]

Trans Siberian Orchestra playlist

Classical Christmas

A Sunny Brazilian Christmas

A Merry Little Christmas [Linda Ronstadt]

A Legendary Christmas [John Legend]

Jingle Bell Swing

It's a Holiday Soul Party [Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings]

Twelve Songs Of Christmas [Etta James]

Home for Christmas [Daryl Hall & John Oates]

A Very Too Many Zooz Xmas [Too Many Zooz]

A Heavy Metal Christmas [Christopher Lee]

A Heavy Metal Christmas Too [Christopher Lee]

Merry Flippin' Christmas Vol. 1 and 2 [Bowling For Soup]

Punk Rock Christmas

Classic Soul Christmas

my rockabilly christmas playlist

my xmas playlist

[kitchenlegrecords]

RomaTrial presents: BERLIN POST PUNK! a Feminist Band*s Happening! The green t-shirt with the slogan “Girls invented punk, not England” worn by Kim Gordon is for sure one of the most memorable outfits of music history. And that slogan is true: the revolutionary and disruptive force of punk should rightfully called feminist too. No music scene has so many FLINTA people involved in, and the whole new wave scene that scattered from it has an impressive numbers of FLINTA artists and bands that took their music in any disparate direction, sometimes incredibly far away from any rock clichee.

PIEUVRE, VORSICHT KINDER & JEJEJE (bands associated with the label K i t c h e n L e g R e c o r d s) are going to show perfectly an uncompromising originality in their music being the playfullness infused of the alcolpop-neue deutsche welle of Vorsicht Kinder, the math max rhythms with minimalist approach and beautiful melodies of Jejeje or the abrasive, yet very pop no-wave punk funk of Peiuvre”

Pieuvre is a sensation from the bubbly Berlin underground, started magically by coincidences, missing connections and a bit of luck. Once Pia, Lina and Fege met, they fused their influences patching together raw-no wavey guitars, a punk-funk like rhythm session and well crafted vocal melodies in three languages. Playful, dance-able, very feminist and mostly quite impertinent. They released their debut “Hyperstretch” with Kitchenleg Records in 2023 and a music video for their single “Wardrobe” in May 2024. ByteFM praised Pieuvre’s debut as “grungy lo-fi post-punk, for fans of fuzzed-out guitar sounds”.

Vorsicht Kinder

Well, do you still remember the delicious alcopops – those sweet, sticky alcoholic mixed drinks from your youth that gave you many an excessive high? That’s what the music of VORSICHT KINDER sounds like and from it they claim their own music genre: alcopop – nice and cheap and banging. VORSICHT KINDER are four friends from Berlin who have been playing concerts regularly since 2019 and released their first album ‘Verschluck dich nicht’ on the Berlin label Kitchen Leg Records in 2023. Their style is described as a mixture of post-punk, no-wave and Neue Deutsche Welle that playfully breaks down genre boundaries and song structures. They regularly swap instruments on stage and in Dadaist-feminist lyrics – which sometimes lead somewhere and sometimes into the void – they process states of lust, anger, intoxication and senselessness: Fuck the Banana!

Jejeje is a Spanish onomatopoeia which stands for a skeptical mocking laughing and/or for an apologetic laugh. Jejeje is also a Berlin-based trio that combines post pop, post punk and math max rhythms with a minimalist approach. Band members are Jordi (Parmesano, Nunofyrbeeswax, El Gos Binari), Itacate (Roto) and Zutoia (Muerte y Destrucción, Come ‘n Wait). They got together thanks to the existence of Ojalá Esté Mi Bici, a DIY music collective from Barcelona, and to a house concert of Geoff Farina (Karate) and mOck in Berlin in 2018. Until now, they have self-released a split tape together with their friends Nunofyrbeeswax. Additionally, in December 2022 they appeared in a Xmas punk cover compilation released by Discos Pinya (Barcelona). All three members are looking forward to the release of their first album in 2024, co-release with Repetidor.

[navii-blaze]

I thoroughly believe that the best Xmas songs are the 90s punk/pop punk band covers