Holidays Rule

Recording information: Aural Apothecary Studios; Avatar Studio A, New York, NY; Avatar Studios, New York, NY; Camp Esco Studios, GA; Industrial Oaks, Austin, TX; Metropolis Studios, London, UK; Midnight Sun Studio, Brooklyn, NY; Preservation Hall, New Orleans, LA; Search Party West, Portland, OR; Studio Litho, Seattle, WA; Tucson, AZ; Type Foundry; ValveTone Studios, New York, NY; Washington, DC.Collections of holiday music are a lot like the holiday season itself: not without some magic, but after a few of them you kind of know what you're in for. While that may sound like a cynical assessment, it's not meant to be. Holiday music, Christmas songs in particular, become pervasively ubiquitous, with countless renditions of ageless seasonal tunes showing up every year some weeks before Thanksgiving and sticking around until the year changes. Holidays Rule attempts to shake up the standard holiday listening with a cross section of artists ranging from ragtag indie acts to legitimate pop ic