A reminder that earfulsofeggnog.com offers a 24/7 radio station sharing the b-side of Christmas. Check it out for some hand-picked alternatives to the standard #ChristmasMusic sounds of the season. Have a great holiday everyone! And please consider donating to a community radio station near you. 📻 💗

Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas :: Unsanctioned Soundtrack (1977) aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/12/07/e... It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.

West Indies Christmas (A Mixtape) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/w... With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.

Always one of the best... thanks to @falalalala.com for putting together another top notch collection of rare #ChristmasMusic gems.

The King of Jingaling@falalalala.com · 9mo ago

Hey, folks. Been a while... Take a listen to my 2025 Christmas mix, The King of Jingaling Fling. All from vinyl. hearthis.at/falalalala/2... Link to download in the comments. #christmasmusic #christmasmix #christmasmusicmix #falalalala #kingofjingaling

Andy Cirzan is basically the Indiana Jones of overlooked #ChristmasMusic. If you don't know, he has an annual showcase on Sound Opinions. It's consistently an enlightening listen. Check out the #ChristmasMix here: www.soundopinions.org/show/1046 (Note: Actual footage of Andy's basement below...)

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Alas… he’s done it again! One of the “Ol’ Faithful’s” of the #ChrismasMix community. Hope you’re feeling better @xmasunderground.bsky.social! Thanks for doing it.

Christmas Underground@xmasunderground.bsky.social · 9mo ago

well... technically it is out there. I haven't posted it on the site yet... but.... www.mixcloud.com/christmasund...

Here’s a 30 year old #ChristmasMix from Lux Interior, co-founder of The Cramps. I definitely missed this last year when it posted. Thanks to @dustycarpenter.bsky.social for the tip off! It’s surprisingly cheery. File under: Krampus/Crampsmas - insheepsclothinghifi.com/jesus-f-its-...

Revisiting a Classic: Lux Interior’s Cassette Mixtape, ‘Jesus F*%! It’s Christmas’ | In Sheeps Clothing

Listen to a bounty of holiday heat taken from an XL-II 90 made by the Cramps. The deeper and further you dig into the past, the weirder it gets. All the rebel energy that drives contemporary youth ...

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Happy Hanukkah (a bit early) to everyone! Excited to share a Hanukkah mix for the first time after about 20 yrs of collecting holiday sounds - www.mixcloud.com/radiorethink... - its made up of my all time favorites + a Klezmatics remix (Ben Mandelson’s) that’s kind of vanished from the web. Enjoy!

Earfuls of Latkes: A Hanukkah Mix

For a couple of decades I've been stashing away my favorite Hanukkah tracks looking forward to sharing a full mix. Here it is! Hope this collection of tunes can help you celebrate. Full track listings...

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Does everyone know about Mummers? There was a segment on the public radio show Soundprint in 2005 that mesmerized me talking about this intrusive, mysterious, sometimes dangerous Christmas tradition of Newfoundland. I’d love to hear that audio again. Here’s a CBC 101 - m.youtube.com/watch?v=aXLH...

CBC NL Christmas Throwbacks - Mummers take Twillingate (2011)

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So surprised to see that one of the super secret tracks of the season is now out and easy to grab. It’s on this new Chess comp! song.link/s/4e7QQLyJUW... It’s a rare gem that took years to find. Had an unmarked sample of this & scoured for years… Staples? Pointer Sisters? Lenox Ave! #ChristmasMusic

Always a great mix from Bill Adler. He's not on Bluesky - but #ChristmasMix / #ChristmasMusic crate diggers should definitely be aware of his annual offerings - soundcloud.com/xmasjollies/... - there's a Norteño bit in here that is off the charts.

Xmas Jollies 2025

1. Intro by Randy Rainbow, 2019 2. Gracie Fields, “I Took My Harp to a Party,” 1933 3. Ringo Starr, “Come on Christmas, Christmas Come On,” 1999 4. DJ Schmolli, “Back Door Santa Getting It On,” 2006

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It's Bandcamp Friday and I gotta go to the post office, so if anyone wants to buy a copy of my Christmas LP The Darkest Time of Year, now would be a perfect time. Only 25 bucks to own one of only 100 copies in existence. muzach.bandcamp.com/album/the-da... #bandcampfriday #christmasmusic #vinyl

The Darkest Time of Year, by Zach Malm

11 track album

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Doing a little live radio 7-9p MT tonight. Playing off-width / "land of misfit toys" type holiday selections for your Friday. Dial it in for some seasonal sounds. Learn more here: kgnu.org/music-posts/earfuls-of-eggnog-radio - Discord chat: radiorethink.com/livechat - #ChristmasMusic #ChristmasMix

If you're within range... these would be magic. @advancebase.bsky.social - how can we help get this tour to Colorado next year?

Owen Ashworth@advancebase.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My annual Christmas tour begins tonight in Chicago. This is the tour where I pull out all of the Advance Base & Casiotone for the Painfully Alone songs that deal with Christmas. Tonight, Chicago, we're going to deal with Christmas. Tickets & info at advancebasemusic.com

This is what it's all about. Like many other non-profits and community organizations, KGNU is actively fundraising today. Follow the links below or just take some time out of your busy day to support worthy causes and institutions in your area - there's no doubt they could use the help. Cheers!

Radio Rethink@radiorethink.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Each year we team up with our pals @kgnu.bsky.social for some holiday cheer. Hear a 24/7 festive stream, mixes, & more @ earfulsofeggnog.com - One reason we do it is to encourage $$$ support for community radio. Donate at give.kgnu.org or find your local station via @nfcb.bsky.social - nfcb.org/map/

Vol. 12 of the Earfuls of Eggnog Holiday mixtape series is up now at earfulsofeggnog.com - you can find volumes 1-11 there too. Hope the music helps get you in the Christmas spirit during these days of early sunsets. Mele Kalikimaka! 🎄📻 #christmasmusic #christmasmix

Aside from the fact that this is a total gem of a collection, and the amazing backstory of the source material - which is worth noting on its own - a big *heads up* - Zach is also now on Mixcloud! There are already some archives posted up there along with this one. Press play people... press play.

Zach Malm@muzach.bsky.social · 10mo ago

1/2 My new Christmas mix is out now and it's a really special one. Earlier this year I had the chance to go through the collection of my late friend Mitchell Kezin, director of the Christmas music documentary Jingle Bell Rocks! (2013). www.mixcloud.com/zachmalm/chr...

If you love the overlooked and rare sounds of the holidays, @muzach.bsky.social always delivers a stocking full of greatness. Thanks Zach! #ChrismasMix

Zach Malm@muzach.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My new Christmas mix will be out on mixcloud tomorrow (www.mixcloud.com/zachmalm/), but if you see this and want to download it now, I'm opening the gates early. Here you go: drive.google.com/file/d/1cg9c...

Hampton is back dishing out the cranberry sauce and holiday tunes. Probably the only mix you’ll hear this season with both Fozzy and Shonen Knife. Thanks @hamptonoid.bsky.social!

Hampton@hamptonoid.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Mix is up, 90s alternative rock theme. Turned out to be a tough choice, and I'd already used a lot of the top tracks. Anyway here it is. www.mixcloud.com/ItsHampton/

Isle of Lucy is one of the best Christmas mix makers out there. She just posted a new one - a “best of” pulled from her nearly 20 years of mixes. www.mixcloud.com/isleoflucy/c... You can also find a bunch of those earlier collections on her MixCloud. 🎄🔊 #ChristmasMix #HolidayMix #ChristmasMusic

Christmas Mix 2025

Coming up on almost 20 years of making official annual mixes, I figured it was finally time to put together an advent-calendar-style “best of” — my top 25 deep-cut Christmas songs for 2025. These gems...

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It’s always great to discover a fellow #ChristmasMusic crate digger. @thatwilkinsguy.bsky.social has piles of mixes over here - m.soundcloud.com/seenthat - and it’s always funny to see collections limited to ~74 minutes… (if you know, you know). Thanks for all of the audio cheer Mike. #XmasMix

More of the consistently great holiday storytelling from Advance Base here for the #ChristmasMusic crate diggers.

Owen Ashworth@advancebase.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Big thanks to Jon Doyle at Various Small Flames for writing about "Movie Theater Manager" & "Blue Christmas 2", my latest entries into the Advance Base Christmas canon. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/11/07/a...

We’re “after Thanksgiving” people, but we have some fans in the “after Halloween” camp… and so, the eggnog radio stream is flowing for those that want to start the yuletide early earfulsofeggnog.com

Earfuls of Eggnog: The B-side of Christmas.

Earfuls of Eggnog is a virtual record crate on the internet for highlighting the quality Christmas & holiday season recordings that have been generally overlooked or forgotten.

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Found a copy of this. Bill Adler flashes this cover momentarily in the Jingle Bell Rocks! documentary. I couldn’t find a sampling of it anywhere online and just took a chance. Solid front to back. Not typical #ChristmasMusic and doesn’t ooze holiday vibes, just a good album with great guitar work.

One of my absolute favorite obscure finds. This is such a great record front to back if you like tropical vibes. Highly recommended. #ChristmasMusic #ChristmasVinyl

Paradise Found Records in #Boulder - a great record store that’s fully showing off the holiday vibes in their front window. Love to see it. #ChristmasVinyl #ChrismasMusic

As always... there's a lot of rare stuff in this stocking. Thanks @falalalala.com for making spirits bright - that Associate Singers to close reminds me of our pal. Cheers King!

The King of Jingaling@falalalala.com · 2y ago

Take a listen here to my 2024 Christmas music mix, 20 years after I made my first in 2004. (Link to download later...). hearthis.at/falalalala/t... #christmasmusic #christmasmix #christmasmusicmix #falalalala

#24-XMAS-SONGS Song 20: Neil Halstead - The Man in the Santa Suit www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB_1... Note: It's originally from the flip side of a Fountains of Wayne 45 from 1997, but Neil's version from the very first Brushfire Holiday release makes this tune shine on another level. #ChristmasMusic

Neil Halstead - The Man in the Santa Suit

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#24-XMAS-SONGS Song 19: Freedom Fry - Next Christmas freedomfry.bandcamp.com/track/next-c... Note: Freedom Fry definitely loves the holidays, they've put out a few seasonal releases - this is one of my favs. It's catchy and does a great job of painting the cycle of these seasons. #ChristmasMusic

Next Christmas, by Freedom Fry

from the album Holiday Soundtrack - EP

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Ah man... 😢 - all season as I've scoured the digital and physical crates he's been on my mind. We should combine and post a full archive of his mixes - or maybe the Smithsonian Institute should. Happy to help make that happen somehow. Thanks for posting this.

The King of Jingaling@falalalala.com · 2y ago

My friend and famous Christmas music collector Mitchell Kezin passed away this year. So some of his friends have compiled a Christmas mix in his honor. Mitchell directed Jingle Bell Rocks! Download it below. mega.nz/file/MVU3QQZ... #christmas #christmasmusic #christmasmusicmix #jinglebellrocks