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Warner Music Group’s Holiday Mix: Naughty: Warner Music Group’s vast catalog includes holiday classics from the Pogues and Eartha Kitt as well as newer offerings from Jet and the Flaming Lips. Go ahead and check that list: here are some holiday songs that are more naughty than they are nice. 1. Nuttin’ For Christmas – The Countdown Kids 2. Santa Baby – Eartha Kitt 3. Santa Can’t Stay – Dwight Yoakam 4. Christmas At The Zoo – The Flaming Lips 5. Fairytale Of New York – The Pogues 6. Back Door Santa (Non Album Version) – Jet 7. Sexy Christmas Baby Mine – Morphine 8. You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch – Dr.Seuss 9. Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis – Tom Waits 10. Christmas With You Is The Best – The Long Winters 11. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

Dig This! Winners (December 2006): In this recurring feature, we present you with tracks by some of our favorite rising acts. 1. Let My People Go – Darondo 2. Rubies – Destroyer 3. (A Style Called) Crying Chic – Pop Levi 4. On Citas Feat. Keak Da Sneak – Traxamillion 5. Children Of December – The Slip 6. Legs – Darondo 7. Your Blood – Destroyer 8. Mournin’ Light – Pop Levi 9. The Sideshow Feat. Too $Hort, Mistah F.A.B. – Traxamillion 10. Even Rats – The Slip

Celtic Holiday Cheer: A collection of holiday carols and winter solstice melodies from the Celtic regions of Ireland, Scotland and Cape Breton. 1. O The Holly She Bears A Berry – The Chieftains 2. Christmas Eve Set – Rig The Jig 3. Ding Dong Merrily on High / The Cordial Jig / Old Apples in Winter / Con Cassidy’s – Cherish the Ladies 4. The Wexford Carol – Boys Of The Lough 5. The Snowy Path – Altan 6. I Saw Three Ships A Sailing – The Chieftains 7. Tommy Coen’s Christmas Eve – Frankie Gavin/Carl Hession… 8. The Ditchling Carol – Waterson: Carthy 9. Christmas Day is Come – Anuna 10. Mistletoe Waltz – Dordan 11. The Boar’s Head – Maddy Prior/The Carnival Band 12. Fairytale Of New York – The Irish Tenors 13. Ciuin An Oidhach (Silent Night) – Ashley MacIsaac 14. Amid The Falling Snow – Enya 15. The Snows – Maighread Ni Dhomhnaill/Triona Ni Dhomhnaill 16. Like The First Time It’s Christmas Time – Tommy Sands (Irish) 17. The Wexford Lullaby – John Renbourn/Mairead Ni Dhomhnaill And The Voice Squad 18. Auld Lang Syne – Bonnie Rideout

2007 Grammy Nominees: To paraphrase MC Hammer: Stop — Grammy time! 1. Be Without You (Kendu Mix) – Mary J. Blige 2. You’re Beautiful (Album Version) – James Blunt 3. Not Ready To Make Nice – Dixie Chicks 4. Crazy – Gnarls Barkley 5. Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae 6. Jesus, Take The Wheel – Carrie Underwood 7. Hide and Seek – Imogen Heap 8. Ain’t No Other Man – Christina Aguilera 9. Waiting On The World To Change – John Mayer 10. Over My Head – The Fray 11. I Will Follow You Into The Dark – Death Cab For Cutie 12. My Love (Single Version) – Justin Timberlake Featuring T.I. 13. Nausea – Beck 14. Someday Baby – Bob Dylan 15. When You Were Young – The Killers 16. Steady, As She Goes – The Raconteurs 17. Lonely Day – System Of A Down 18. Colony Of Birchmen – Mastodon 19. The Wizard Turns On… – The Flaming Lips 20. Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol 21. Promiscuous – Nelly Furtado 22. Black Sweat (Clean) – Prince 23. Get Together – Madonna 24. I Am Not My Hair – India.arie 25. Touch It (Remix) – Busta Rhymes 26. Kick, Push – Lupe Fiasco 27. Ridin’ Dirty – (with Krayzie Bone) – Chamillionaire 28. Once In a Lifetime – Keith Urban 29. What Hurts The Most – Rascal Flatts 30. One Mary J. Blige and U2 – Mary J. Blige

Bah Humbug! Get Scrooged!: This playlist is for everyone who has been bummed on X-mas ever since they found out Santa doesn’t really work at the mall. 1. Xmas Blues – Harmon Ray 2. Slick Nick, You Devil You – Fishbone 3. You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch – Dr.Seuss 4. Christmas With The Devil – Spinal Tap 5. No Presents For Christmas – King Diamond 6. Grandpa’s Last X-Mas – The Vandals 7. Santa Doesn’t Cop Out On Dope – Sonic Youth 8. I Hate Christmas Parties – Relient k 9. Candle Song 3 – Mojave 3 10. Xmas – Jesse Malin 11. Christmas In Hollis – Run-D.M.C. 12. Merry Muthafuckin’ Xmas (featuring Menejahtwa/Buckwheat/Will1/At Band Klan) – Eazy-E 13. Xmas In Jail – Asleep At The Wheel 14. Black Xmas – Cronos 15. No Christmas While I’m Talking – The Walkmen 16. How I Hate To See Xmas Come Around (Christmas Blues) – Jimmy Witherspoon

Snoop Dogg’s Hit List: Welcome to Snoop’s handpicked, super-smooth soul cuts. 1. Sanctified Lady – Marvin Gaye 2. Best Of My Love – The Emotions 3. I Choose You – Willie Hutch 4. You Turned My Whole World Around – Barry White 5. To Be True (bonus track) – Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes 6. Disco Lady – Johnnie Taylor 7. I Want’A Do Something Freaky To You – Leon Haywood 8. Young Hearts Run Free – Candi Staton 9. I’m In Love (And I Love The Feeling) – Rose Royce 10. Walk Away From Love – David Ruffin

25 Post-Punk Favorites: 1. Public Image – Public Image Ltd. 2. Nightclubbing – Iggy Pop 3. Blackout – David Bowie 4. Memories Can’t Wait – Talking Heads 5. Shot By Both Sides – Magazine 6. Transmission – Joy Division 7. I Travel – Simple Minds 8. Dumb Waiters – The Psychedelic Furs 9. Primitive – Killing Joke 10. Everything’s Gone Green – New Order 11. Spellbound – Siouxsie & The Banshees 12. The New Stone Age – Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark (OMD) 13. Kick In The Eye 2 – Bauhaus 14. Wax And Wane – Cocteau Twins 15. Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream) – The Icicle Works 16. Was There Anything I Could Do? – The Go-Betweens 17. Lay Of The Land – The Fall 18. Talk About The Past 12′ – The Wake 19. Send Them Away – The Wake 20. Sweatbox – The Wolfgang Press 21. German Shepherds – Wire

The album of last week was the Annuals’ Be He Me.

Two Days In Autumn, Fernwood, Big Sur 2006: If you like camping in the forest and intimate music gatherings, consider visiting a Fernwood festival in Big Sur. 1. You May Be Blue – Vetiver 2. Awful Shade Of Blue, An / Wait – Tarnation 3. We Were All Uptown Rulers – The Court & Spark 4. Born Tp – Women & Children 5. Winding Tree – Nick Castro & The Young Elders 6. Canyon Girl – Fruit Bats 7. The Goodbye Girl – Eric Shea and Bart Davenport 8. It Is Wonderful – Birds Of America 9. Anji – Matt Baldwin 10. Lady Memphis – Johnathan Rice 11. Been So Long – Vetiver 12. Always On My Mind – Paula Frazer 13. Capaldi – The Court & Spark 14. Oranges – Women & Children 15. Sun Song – Nick Castro 16. Born In The 70’s – Fruit Bats 17. Jet Fighter – Bart Davenport 18. I Wish I Was Born An Animal – Birds Of America 19. Split, Part 2 – Matt Baldwin 20. Hickory Wind (Outro) – Johnathan Rice

Dig This Winners (November 2006): In this recurring feature, we present you with tracks by some of our favorite rising acts. 1. Ida, My – Annuals 2. Hang Me Up To Dry (Album) – Cold War Kids 3. The Day I Turned To Glass – Honeycut 4. The Zookeeper’s Boy – Mew 5. Sewn – The Feeling 6. Brother – Annuals 7. Saint John (Album) – Cold War Kids 8. Shadows – Honeycut 9. Special – Mew 10. Helicopter – The Feeling

Rainy Day Blues: The forecast may call for rain, but this playlist of stormy weather songs won’t even get your shoes wet. 1. Rain, Rain – Louis Armstrong 2. Stormy Weather – The Pixies 3. Stormy Weather – Frank Sinatra 4. Thunderstorms And Neon Signs – Wayne Hancock 5. Rambunctious Cloud – Vic Chesnutt 6. Lord Let It Rain On Me – Spiritualized 7. Rain Dance – The Guess Who 8. Bad Weather – Diana Ross and the Supremes 9. Thunder – Prince 10. Ill Wind – Billie Holiday 11. Make It Rain – Tom Waits 12. It’s Gonna Rain – Bobby Womack 13. Storm – Gregory Isaacs 14. Another Song About The Rain – Cracker 15. Rainy Day – Brownie Mcghee 16. Stormy Weather – Pere Ubu 17. Strange Weather – Marianne Faithfull 18. Rainy Days And Mondays – The Carpenters 19. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain – Willie Nelson 20. The Rain Came Down – Steve Earle 21. Rain On The Roof – The Lovin’ Spoonful 22. Spring Rain – The Go-Betweens 23. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall – Ella Fitzgerald 24. When The Sun Comes Out – Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Q Brings the Funk: 1. Hikky Burr – Quincy Jones 2. Oh, Happy Day – Quincy Jones 3. Walking In Space – Quincy Jones 4. Mohair Sam – Quincy Jones 5. Love And Peace – Quincy Jones 6. Fever – Quincy Jones 7. I Never Told You – Quincy Jones 8. Dead End – Quincy Jones 9. Cast Your Fate To The Wind – Quincy Jones 10. Gula Matari – Quincy Jones 11. What’s Goin’ On – Quincy Jones 12. Theme From ‘The Anderson Tapes’ – Quincy Jones 13. Along Came Betty – Quincy Jones 14. Superstition – (featuring Stevie Wonder/Bill Withers/Billy Preston) – Quincy Jones 15. Boogie Joe, The Grinder – Quincy Jones 16. Mellow Madness – (featuring Paulette McWilliams) – Quincy Jones 17. Sanford And Son Theme – Quincy Jones 18. Velas – Quincy Jones

Vittorio’s Celebrity Playlist: No one can accuse this golden-voiced tenor of having narrow musical taste: the guy likes Louis Armstrong and Aerosmith. 1. All I Ask Of You – Barbra Streisand 2. Blue Suede Shoes – Elvis Presley 3. We Are The Champions – Queen 4. I Got A Woman – Ray Charles 5. Rock DJ – Robbie Williams 6. Sing For The Moment (Album Version (Edited)) – Eminem 7. Someone To Watch Over Me – Frank Sinatra 8. What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong 9. I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing (Live Version) – Aerosmith 10. The Reason – Hoobastank 11. Hero – Mariah Carey 12. Fallin’ – Alicia Keys 13. In Da Club – 50 Cent 14. ‘Vesti la giubba’ from ‘I pagliacci’ – Maria Del Monaco 15. Intermezzo sinfonico – Pietro Mascagni 16. 1. Allegro con brio – Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67 – 1. Allegro con brio – Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela 17. Lakmé – Viens, Mallika, … Dôme épais (Flower Duet) – Dame Joan Sutherland 18. Somewhere (Ballet) – Larry Kert/reri Grist/carol Lawrence – Leonard Bernstein 19. Deep Lotus – Naked Rhythm 20. Jamming – Bob Marley & The Wailers 21. (Everything I Do) I Do For You – Bryan Adams 22. Born In The U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen 23. Gangsta’s Paradise (Amended LP Version) – Coolio feat. L.V. 24. Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers

CMT Awards Nominees 2006: This Nashville gala favors fans over music industry bigwigs, as nominees (and winners) are chosen by voting viewers. 1. Alcohol – Brad Paisley 2. All Jacked Up – Gretchen Wilson 3. As Good As I Once Was – Toby Keith 4. Believe – Brooks & Dunn 5. Better Life – Keith Urban 6. Honky Tonk Badonkadonk – Trace Adkins 7. Like We Never Loved At All – Faith Hill 8. Who You’d Be Today – Kenny Chesney 9. A Real Fine Place To Start – Sara Evans 10. Georgia Rain – Trisha Yearwood 11. Jesus, Take The Wheel – Carrie Underwood 12. Kerosene – Miranda Lambert 13. Mississippi Girl – Faith Hill 14. Twenty Years And Two Husbands Ago – Lee Ann Womack 15. Big Time – Big & Rich 16. Boondocks – Little Big Town 17. Help Somebody – Van Zant 18. Just Might (Make Me Believe) – Sugarland 19. Skin – Rascal Flatts 20. Something To Be Proud Of – Montgomery Gentry 21. 4th of July – Shooter Jennings 22. Hicktown (Radio Edit) – Jason Aldean 23. I Play Chicken With The Train – Cowboy Troy 24. Pickin’ Wildflowers – Keith Anderson 25. Something More – Sugarland 26. I’m A Worried Man – Willie Nelson 27. Like We Never Loved At All – Faith Hill 28. Live Forever – Billy Joe Shaver 29. The Blues Man – George Jones 30. When I Get Where I’m Going – Brad Paisley 31. Who Says You Can’t Go Home (Duet with… – Bon Jovi 32. Come A Little Closer – Dierks Bentley 33. Making Memories Of Us – Keith Urban 34. Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right – Billy Currington 35. Somebody’s Hero – Jamie O’Neal 36. You’re Gonna Be – Reba McEntire 37. Best I Ever Had – Gary Allan

After a long absence, Sufjan Stevens’ albums are now on Rhapsody. Come on! Feel the Illinoise!