6 months to Christmas! 🎄🎁🎅 We're back November 21st!

R.I.P. Juul Haalmeyer. SCTV’s legendary costume designer, and the best non-dancer ever to lead a dance troupe.

Wrapping up Santapalooza 2024 with our picks for the best new Christmas songs of the year! It was a banger of a year, and we can't wait to hear what's in store for Christmas 2025! We'll be back here - and only here - on November 21, 2025. Stay strong in 2025 and, as always, #FuckTrump #FuckElon.

OH NO!!! "It's Not Christmas Anymore" sez @willmoustache.bsky.social on @fikarecordings.com fine Christmas 2015 EP at @Bandcamp.com!

NO's Nutcracker Records returns with a new mini-comp just under the wire, THE GANG SAVES CHRISTMAS 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO, benefiting NC's MannaFoodBank, a really good cause for those who need it.

Another Christmas release from Belgium's Vreemde Opties Records, which may not legal but there's a lot of stuff that's hard to find otherwise and is a well curated comp. Also may not be available for long. It's your call. This and more at @Bandcamp.com!

🎄🎁🎅 IT'S ON!!! Tune in NOW on @cjlo.com! https://buff.ly/4gQv3ZR

Not everyone's having a Merry Christmas. Ollie Braeburn is having a "Bitter Grey Holiday" on his new single benefiting @BuddyHelpOrg, and there's no better day to support than today. Plus, it's a damned good song. Name Your Price at @Bandcamp.com!

The Portland Songwriters Guild return with HOLIDAY HITS 2024 LIVE AT MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS, one of the few lives albums this year and a great companion to their earlier 2024 release, HOLIDAY HITS VOLUME 1. Both LPs available now at @Bandcamp.com!

Happy Holidays from SCTV…

Yo La Tengo’s 2024 Hanukkah run starts tonight (on Christmas) — who’s opening? www.brooklynvegan.com/yo-la-tengos...

MERRY #CHRISTMAS  TO ALL!!! 🎅🎄☃️❄️🎅🎄☃️❄️🎅🎄☃️❄️🎅🎄☃️❄️

BC's SHACK 25 KEEPS RUINING CHRISTMAS gets in under to ruin Christmas with their fun new EP, which is Name Your Price at @Bandcamp.com (which doesn't ruin anything).

Just in time for the big day, The Vargo Family "Can't Believe It's Christmas" on their new single, and neither can we! But we *can* believe this single's another Vargo Family hit! Name Your Price at @Bandcamp.com!

Always one of our holiday season music highlights. We’ll be listening and you should, too!

We've been informed that @cjlo.com is currently running classic BVST Santapalooza episodes from now till 8am EST, then another show from 4 to 6pm and then we get the new 2025 show at 7pm EST. Tune in! www.cjlo.com/player.html

Santa has made it into Canada and is making his way to Quebec! With 5.9 billion gifts delivered! 🎅🎄🎁

The annual Knifeplay Christmas song is here, added to FOR THE HOLIDAYS with all the previous releases just in time for Christmas 2024. And like those others, it's damned good stuff! Name Your Price at @Bandcamp!

Santa’s coming tonight!

The @super8uk.bsky.social GOES XMAS! release checks off al lot of boxes for us: All originals? ✔️ Features Lisa Mychols? ✔️ Name Your Price at @Bandcamp.com? ✔️ That's all you need, but it's also really good, so get it now!

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan theonion.com/cat-clinging...

This is Gracie. She went for the most magical car ride last night. The whole world twinkled like it was excited to see her. 13/10

Count down to Christmas with the Indiepop Hall of Fame Advent Calendar 🪟 22 🧑‍🎄 Corvair ☃️ Under The Tree Second appearance for Heather Larimer this year (see 🪟15 Eux Autres). Such a beautiful Christmas song. Has anyone seen Heather/Corvair on BlueSky? ▶️ Bandcamp corvair.bandcamp.com/track/under-...

The 2024 Merkel & the Merkelettes holiday release offers "Reindeer Game", but not the 2000 action-packed Frankenheimer fave. Can't have everything. Name Your Price at @Bandcamp.com!

It’s #Christmas  Eve! Santa comes tonight! 🎅

NYC's The Sugar Plums return with the 2024 holiday release, GETTIN' LUCKY WITH ST. NICK, but the lucky one is really you! (Because it's so good.) Name Your Price at @Bandcamp.com!

MERRY XMAS -- IT'S TIME FOR KYOTO FRIED CHRISTMAS ON @wfmu.bsky.social! I'll be guest hosting Hard Stuff tonight @ 6, and then the extra crispy festivities begin @ 8. Spend your xmas eve with WFMU!

Do you believe in Santa? First up at 2:10pm we have MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET in which that question is put to the test. Then at 4:30pm Frank Capra's masterpiece IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE lights up our screen as George Bailey realizes what life is truly all about. www.kigginstheatre.com/now-playing

Have Yourself Merry Indie Christmas (4 volumes, 208 tracks of original Christmas songs) has so far raised over £11,000 for Crisis at Christmas. It's been widely acclaimed as the greatest indie Xmas comp of all time. Download and donate - every penny to Crisis. v4velindre.bandcamp.com

The Day and night has now come upon us all, the most important night of all. Merry Christmas Eve to all the boys and girls and of course family's. I will now say farewell everyone as I get ready for the big day. Look on the page through the day for live every minute updates on my location! 🎅🎄👀🎁

The holidays go Dutch (literally) with the new holiday single from The Mieters LA-LA-LA-KERST, which we don't understand but love anyway. And that's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown! Name Your Price at @Bandcamp.com!

🎄🎁 DECEMBER 25 (that's tomorrow!) @ 7pm with @angeli.ca on @cjlo.com! 🎄🎁

One of our all time favorites, Jess Morgan's "Christmas Eve" deserves to be listened to tonight and every Christmas Eve.

The SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT snow globe is amazing. Sound on!

Santa Confirms Everyone Getting Bag Of Glitter Labeled ‘Fairy Dust’ His Sister-In-Law Sells On Etsy theonion.com/santa-confir...

Tired of Wham! and Mariah Carey? Jim Goodwin of the Christmas Underground blog returns with 2024’s indie rock Christmas mix, this year titled "Late Deliveries." It features mainly obscure indie rock holiday songs. www.undertheradarmag.com/news/listen_...

Hey everyone, @aureliovoltaire.bsky.social has some news for you. I'm gonna let them break the news to you.

Arbor Christmas compilations never disappoint, even when it's already the 25th! christmasagogo.blogspot.com/2024/12/arbo...

BC's DRLCTS return with SEASON'S MEATINGS VOLUME 4, quality lo-fi hip hop that's lean, juicy and delicious. Name Your Price at @Bandcamp.com!

🎄🎁 DECEMBER 25 @ 7pm with @angeli.ca on @cjlo.com! 🎄🎁

There are only 2 days left until #Christmas ! #ChristmasCountdown

Holiday Mashups? @mixmstrstel.bsky.social knows what we want for Christmas! WINTER WONDERLAND 2024 offers a wonderland of mashups from the 2000s that are Name Your Price at @Bandcamp.com!

🎄❄️ Jangle Bells! 🔔🎁 Count down to Christmas with the Indiepop Hall of Fame Advent Calendar. Spotify calendar playlist so far 🪟1-22: open.spotify.com/playlist/34z...

THE JOLLY CRITTERS WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS and really, you had us at "Jolly Critters". Fun holiday synth now at @Bandcamp.com!

It's the Christmas week edition of Bargain Night which means that tonight's showing of MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (at 5:10pm) and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (at 7:30pm) are just $6 per movie! Get into the swing of the season with one of these classics tonight! www.kigginstheatre.com/now-playing

A holiday tradition going back to 2011, the A VERY DIY CHRISTMAS comps bring some of the best indie sounds of the season and this year's edition continues the tradition. Previous volumes available and all are Name Your Price at @Bandcamp.com!