Free Christmas Music download (podcast, newer music)
 

All Songs Considered has a Christmas special this week on their podcast, about 45 minutes of new Christmas songs. There's a brief introduction by Bob Boilen (formerly from All Things Considered), then the remainder is music. The bitrate is 128 kbps which is very good for a podcast.

Here is a link to the site, talking about this week's show:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=17173498

And here's a link to the podcast, good through Thursday afternoon (December 20th):
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podca...siteId=4819413

And here’s the playlist:

Amiina
Album: Hilli (at the top of the world) Single
Song: "Hilli"

The Knife
Album: Christmas Reindeer
Song: "Christmas Reindeer"

Sally Shapiro
Album: Disco Romance
Song: "Anorak Christmas"

The New Pornographers
Album: Challengers
Song: "The Spirit of Giving"

The Minus 5
Album: Oh Santa
Song: "Your Christmas Whiskey"

Daddy Bone
Album: Zombies Eating My Brain
Song: "Zombies Eating My Brain"

Umbrella Men
Song: "Jingle Bells" (We have no purchase information for this CD)

Frank Lee Sprague
Album: Merry Christmas
Song: "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" (We have no purchase information for this song.)

Bob Atcher and the Dinning Sisters
Album: The Best of Christmas Cocktails
Song: "Christmas Island"

African Guitar Summit
Album: Think Global: World Christmas
Song: "Afe Hyia Pa"

Magnetic Fields
Album: Distortion
Song: "Mr. Mistletoe"

The Apples in Stereo
Album: Oh Santa!
Song: "Holiday Mood"

Amiina
Album: Hilli (at the top of the world) Single
Song: "Hilli (feat. Lee Hazlewood)"

Trio Mediaeval
Album: Folk Songs
Song: "Solbonn"

I listened to this a couple of days ago. Good stuff.

Another podcast that may be of interest is a recent Coverville:

Coverville 399: The 2007 Holiday Cover Show
Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title/Artist/Original Artist

"Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me)"/The Smithereens/Elvis Presley
"Last Christmas"/The Fire Apes/Wham!
"Silent Night"/Wil Van Winkle/Traditional
"Heatmiser"/The Badlees/Rankin-Bass
"Christmastime is Here"/Combustible Edison Combustible/Vince Guaraldi Trio
"You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"/Aimee Mann and Grant Lee Phillips/Thurl Ravenscroft
"Happy X-Mas (War is Over)"/The Polyphonic Spree/John Lennon and Yoko Ono
"Fairytale Of New York"/Christy Moore/The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
"Christmas In Las Vegas"/Richard Cheese/A Richard Cheese Original

Appears to be dead, you get some video from the website, and it won't let you download it through Itunes... That stinks.

That Coverville site looks pretty neat, thanks for mentioning it. I'll download that file the next time I at a high-speed computer (I'm on dialup at home).

Starman9000, which one are you having trouble with? I just tried both of them and both started to download just fine. Don't try to download through iTunes, just download them directly to your computer (right click --> save target as...)

I tried the one that said a link to the podcast, it downloaded fine, but was a video file (MP4) about making a song in 24 hours or something. (Project Song: Georgie James) Looks like they just updated it early.

I don't suppose there's anyplace to find the old ones? It's listed in Itunes, but doesn't download.

The All Songs podcast is good enough to save. I haven't burned it to disc yet, so I still have it on my hard drive. I've uploaded it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D68R2ICV

If that doesn't work I'll upload it elsewhere.

Thanks a million DJLinus.

Hey, it's Christmas! You're welcome.

There will be a new Belle & Sebastian Christmas song available to download free on Christmas day. From their email:

Myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/thebandbelleandsebastian

Thank you!

Another great podcast is the Annual Andy Cirzan Xmas Spectacular on Sound Opinions. I haven't listened to this year's yet, but I plan to tonight while I wrap presents. You can download it here: http://christmas.soundopinions.org/ (available until Jan. 2)

I've also uploaded my annual Christmas mix: http://jmblya.blogspot.com/2007/12/d...hightunes.html

Sweet! I love the Christmas show that's been circulating for a few years now (which I discovered last Christmas).

You're welcome!

Yeah more free xmas music. Its like its christmas or something.

Speaking of Sound Opinions, that's another show I listen to each week (download their podcast). Right now I'm in the middle of their "best of" 2007 episode.

And regarding All Songs Considered, you can download the holiday episode as well as other past episodes here:

http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_...p?pod_id=22737

One of the episodes that I really liked was the Rilo Kiley concert from 9/27/07, and Jose Gonzalez was really good too (he's a Swedish singer, singing in English), 10/6/07.

It didn't occur to me that Belle & Sebastian's "midnight to midnight" time frame would be on Scottish time, so when I went to download the song at 11 pm last night it was back to streaming only. Did anyone get the song?

The Nick Lowe concert was great, too.