12/25/11 — Christmas edition & the year-end wrapup
December 25, 20112011 was an intense year for music. And I like to think it’s fate that this sucker for Christmas songs had her last show of 2011 fall out on the big day. The first hour was entirely alternative Christmas music, and I threw my top albums of the year into the mix during the second half. See you in 2012!
Grandpa Elliott; Please Come Home For Christmas; Sugar Sweet
Ry Cooder; Christmas Time This Year; Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
The Jigsaw Seen; What About Christmas?; Winterland
The Jigsaw Seen; Christmas Behind Me; Winterland
The Superions; Chillin’ At Christmas; Destination Christmas
Blink-182; I Won’t Be Home For Christmas; A Santa Cause: It’s A Punk Rock Christmas
The Front Bottoms; Christmas Wrapping; Christmas Wrapping [single]
Sufjan Stevens; Joy To The World; Songs For Christmas
Sufjan Stevens; Get Behind Me, Santa!; Songs For Christmas
Fucked Up; David Christmas; Couple Tracks
Slow Club; It’s Christmas And You’re Boring Me; Christmas, Thanks For Nothing EP
The Oxygen Ponies; Christmas EVery Morning; Exit Wounds
C-Rayz Walz & Kosha Dillz; I Love Jews; Freestyle vs. Written
Bayside; Already Gone; Killing Time (top albums of 2011!)
Something Corporate; Forget December; A Santa Cause: It’s A Punk Rock Christmas
The Front Bottoms; Maps; The Front Bottoms (top albums of 2011!)
Skrillex; First Of The Year (Equinox); More Monsters And Sprites EP (top albums of 2011!)
Breathe Carolina; Blackout; Hell Is What You Make It (top albums of 2011!)
Death Cab For Cutie; Codes and Keys (Yeasayer Remix); Keys and Codes EP (Codes and Keys– top album of 2011)
The Black Keys; Lonely Boy; El Camino (top albums of 2011!)
The Pack A.D.; Haunt You; Unpersons (top albums of 2011!)
Gatsby’s American Dream; Christmastime Is Here; A Santa Cause: It’s A Punk Rock Christmas
Noel Gallagher; The Death Of You And Me; Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (top albums of 2011!)
Grafffiti 6; Stone In My Heart; Free EP (top albums of 2011!)
From First To Last; X12 Days Of XXXMasX; A Santa Cause: It’s A Punk Rock Christmas
We Were Promised Jetpacks; Medicine; In The Pit Of The Stomach (top albums of 2011!)
M83; Midnight City; Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (top albums of 2011!)
InMemory; It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
Sufjan Stevens; Angels We Have Heard On High; Songs For Christmas
Sufjan Stevens; The Little Drummer Boy; Songs for Christmas
