This site does not certify itself to be 100 percent authoritative, but we'd sure like it to be that way when it grows up. Rock 'n roll is a subjective thing, we realize, but we're keeping the definition as wide open as it can be. Click on the Statement of Purpose for more.
Say goodbye to 2007 with a New Year's single from Regina Spektor, free at iTunes if you act quickly. We're capping off the year with posts about songs by Reuben, Ivy, Saint Etienne, Jim Boggia and Sarah Silverman. Check out reviews of new holiday CDs by The Smithereens, Darlene Love, Raul Malo, The Nines and a dozen other songs and albums we just got around to rounding up. Update: We've now posted Jars of Clay, the new Christmas in the Northwest, Monster Ballad Xmas, the collection from Yep Roc Records, Alternative Rock Christmas, plus Sister Hazel, Psychostick, NRBQ, the Isley Brothers, Canned Heat, The Bird and the Bee and more. Just added: Keith Sweat and Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra. Still more: The Dan Band, Joel Kopischke, Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Staple Singers and more. Add to the above: Little River Band, Christopher Cross, Juice Newton, the Killers and KAL. Check out the latest: KT Tunstall, The Automatics, Elliott Yamin, Jacqui Naylor and A Santa Cause 2. And again: a new Double Crown compilation, Patent Pending, Joe Gibbs Reggae Christmas, Lifehouse, Cass Dillon, The Weepies and The Swimmers. Back again: Santastic III, Jingle Punx, Davie Allan and the Arrows, Maroon 5, Robbers on High Street, Better Off Dead, Pas/Cal, Manic Street Preachers, compilations from Les Disques du Crepuscule, Double Down Saloon, the musicians of Gavle, Sweden, Standard Recording Co., and more. New new new: Holiday tunes from Hem, Joss Stone, The New Pornographers, The Brigadier, Go Johnny Go, Jon Anderson and the 1910 Fruitgum Co. Newer still: Remington Super 60, Rob Halford, Jenny Owen Youngs, Suzie McNeal, Super Furry Animals, Henry Gross, Sofia Talvik and Daddy Bone. Questions and tips are always gratefully accepted at the e-mail link, and many questions even get answers.
Volunteer Records is offering their two double-disc Christmas compilations, Holiday Heart and Ho Ho HoSpice, at bargain prices to Mistletunes visitors. Click on What's New for the full scoop. Also, for those of you out there who occasionally pelt me with old Xmas TV show questions I can't answer, Diane Werts, radio-TV writer for Newsday, offers her obsessive expertise at Newsday's TV blog. Click on the Christmas Zone category once there.
Just discovered: a blog that has set out to document every cover version ever recorded of Wham's Last Christmas. And hat tip to Mojochronic at YouTube for his Christmas mashup, Yuletide Zeppelin. Wait, don't forget to watch his Yuletide Zeppelin II. And stop by Retro Remixes while they're all Christmased up.
Had to punt on the idea of an iMix for this year; instead, we've hooked up with Coolstreams to stream the Mistletunes compilation this year. Check above right and in What's New. And thanks to www.jjradio.com out of Los Angeles for hosting your friendly webmaster for an interview.
While you're here, sniff around the other menus for the oldies but still goodies. And enjoy the holidays, every last one of them. Declare a few of your own if necessary. Note the iTunes link at right and feel free to use it as well as the Amazon link. Oh, and one more thing: Merry Christmas!
This year's Mistletunes mix is streamable at Coolstreams, a non-profit membership streaming site. (Free streams include advertising.) Read more at What's New.
Eras: The Beginning, The Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The 21st Century
Genres: Reggae, Soul/R&B, Rap, Blues, Punk, Surfin' Xmas, Tropical
Novelties: Fifties and Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The 21st Century
Compilations: Regular Comps, Charity Comps, Soundtracks
Special Reports: Recent Releases, Hanukkah, Miscellaneous
Enjoy these links: Visit this holiday site, MyMerryChristmas.com. Also try Jingle Bell Junction
Need to send an e-card? Visit Christmas E-Greetings and New Year's Greetings.
Visit A Christmas Yuleblog, Check the Cool Wax and Ernie Not Bert, holiday goodies blogged by collectors
Senses Working Overtime and Christmas A Go Go, same as above
Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else and BongoBells, still more Christmas music blogging
Jul Igen-Christmas Again blogs holiday music from a Swedish perspective
A Christmas song article at Movie Poop Shoot (with link right back here)
A cartoon video for Bob Rivers' "White Trash Xmas" (Flash req.)
You loved it on "Saturday Night Live": "Christmastime For the Jews" (Quicktime required)
Jeff's Christmas Music — a crazy Canadian who's actually put up a useful database of his collection
Groovy Christmas — album cover scans and Phil Spector worship, mostly in Spanish, however
Neat singing Santa (Flash req.)
Lounging around at FaLaLaLaLa.com.
Christmas tribute to the White Stripes
Non-rock Christmas music at ChristmasReviews.com
Randy's Rodeo has a Christmas tunes page
Dr. Clueful's Christmassacre has a few strong opinions....
And you'll like the Rebel Without a Claus (another Flash flick)....
Now more than ever....
