This week's New Music Wednesday is a special yuletide edition of goodness, featuring 20 free downloads of tracks all designed to warm your Christmas cockles and give a modern soundtrack to the holidays. So set your parents' Elvis and Dean Martin Christmas albums on fire, hook up the speakers and rock to the year's best free Christmas songs!
Kanye West
“Christmas in Harlem”
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
“Time of the Season”
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Fleet Foxes
“White Winter Hymnal”
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Deer Tick
“Christmas All Summer Long”
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The Bewitched Hands
“Christmas Tree”
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Crocodiles & Dum Dum Girls
“Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Don’t Die)”
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Dan Zimmerman
“Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence”
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Ben + Vesper
“Planet Witness”
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The Boy Least Likely To
“Christmas Isn’t Christmas”
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Helado Negro
“Parábola”
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Indigo Girls
“Your Holiday Songs”
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The Civil Wars
“Tracks in the Snow”
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Dollyrots
“Messed Up Xmas”
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Fanfarlo
“Just Like Christmas (Low)”
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Fauxbois
“Will You Be Mine?”
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The Innocence Mission
“In the Bleak Midwinter”
“Joy to the World”
“O Lord Of Light”
“Angels We Have Heard On High”
“Gentle The Rain at Home”
“The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came” (David Schelzel & Don Peris)
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Jason Harrod
“Silent Night”
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Joshua Stamper
“To Us A Child of Hope Is Born”
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Kevin Devine
“Splitting Up Christmas”
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Loch & Key
“Christmastime Is Here”
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Special thanks to Paste Magazine for several links.
