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The second Monday of every month, we\u00a0explore the trappings of the millennial mama with parenting tips and tricks that are more\u00a0Tycho<\/a>\u00a0than\u00a0 Tangled<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\" — My son giving Santa the “Who are you again?” eyes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
If you’re like my family, the holidays are spent watching the same movies (Muppet Christmas Carol<\/a><\/em> on repeat), eating the same food (#homemadefudge4life), and listening to the same holiday music. This is our son’s first Christmas and we’ve been hard at work, creating our own traditions by infusing our music taste into the mix.<\/p>\n
In order to bring you the best and brightest Indie Christmas playlist, I had to comb through some fairly terrible holiday tunes. Did you know that Oasis managed to get it together long enough to make “Merry Christmas Everybody”<\/a>? Or that The Killers composed the jaunty tune “Don’t Shoot Me Santa”<\/a>? These are just a few of the gems I would not expose my child to.<\/p>\n
We’ve laid out some of our favorite new classics below, with even more in the AudioMama Vol 3 playlist. Turn on *Kiss Kiss Bang Bang<\/em><\/a>, pop some\u00a0Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies<\/a> in the oven, and listen to the sweet sounds of Bright Eyes moping around on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n*
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>“Christmas Is Going To The Dogs” – Eels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plum fairies are replaced with chew toys in this playful tune made for your favorite pup! Indie artists tend toward the morose (we’re looking at you, Bright Eyes), so this is a rare uplifter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>“Lumberjack Christmas \/ No One Can Save You From Christmases Past” –\u00a0 Sufjan Stevens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember that year you drunkenly told your office crush\u00a0 ____ while ____ and after that he \/ she totally _____? The memories may never fade, but at least you’ve perfected the perfect smile-while-avoiding-direct-eye-contact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>“My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year)” –\u00a0Regina Spektor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes an old classic gets a makeover and you remember why you loved it in the first place. Sometimes an old classic gets a makeover and you’re introduced to it for the first time. I’d never heard this Peggy Lee number, but with Regina Spektor at the helm it instantly brings to mind classic that New Year’s movie scene of a forlorn lover waiting at the doors of a party for Mr. Right to waltz in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>“Linus & Lucy” – Anderson .Paak\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>\u00a0is one of those rare movies the whole family can enjoy. Anderson .Paak gives\u00a0Vince Guaraldi’s “Linus & Lucy” a more improvisational jazz feel. It’s tight and cheery, with the perfect modern twist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>“50 Words For Snow” – Kate Bush<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While it’s not directly a Christmas song, “50 Words For Snow” has the kind of magic meant for the holidays. Bush was fascinated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/there-really-are-50-eskimo-words-for-snow\/2013\/01\/14\/e0e3f4e0-59a0-11e2-beee-6e38f5215402_story.html?utm_term=.46c4294106bd\">the claim that the Inuit people have over 50 words for snow<\/a>. The song features\u00a0Stephen Fry listing out Inuit words for snow while Kate eggs him on: <em>“Come on Joe, you’ve got 32 to go.”<\/em>\u00a0 The words devolve into nonsense: “<em>19 phlegm de neige \/ 20 mountainsob \/ 21 anklebreaker \/ 22 erase-o-dust \/ 23 shnamistoflopp’n \/ 24 terrablizza \/ 25 whirlissimo \/ 26 vanilla swarm \/ 27 icyskidski…<\/em>” you get the drift. See what I did there?<\/p>\n<p><em>If you’ve got a good tune for our list, tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/audiofemme\">@AudioFemme<\/a> and we’ll add it! Happy Holidays!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second Monday of every month, we\u00a0explore the trappings of the millennial mama with parenting tips and tricks that are more\u00a0Tycho\u00a0than\u00a0Tangled. If you’re like my family, the holidays are spent watching the same movies (Muppet Christmas Carol on repeat), eating the same food (#homemadefudge4life), and listening to the same holiday music. This is our son’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":26250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8137,6732,6733],"tags":[8262,5492,8261,7037,57,8286,804,5204,297],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/47500382_10156102460910748_4508789240649220096_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26238"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26328,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238\/revisions\/26328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}