VARIOUS - PUNKS IN VEGAS HOLIDAY, VOLUME 1

1.  Another Christmas At A Bar - Brock Frabbiele (of The Core)
2.  Happy Holidays, You Bastard - Forever Came Calling
3.  The Christmas Song - Brendan Scholz (of Deadhand)
4.  The Duke's Real Name Was Marion Morrison - Last Call
5.  All I Want For Christmas Is You - Jesse Pino
6.  White Christmas - No Red Alice
7.  Christmas At 22 - Wear Your Heart
8.  100 Resolutions - The Sheds
9.  Decemberween - Devon Kay & The Solutions

NAME YOUR PRICE AT BANDCAMP

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Punks In Vegas is a music site that focuses on Punk and (mostly) Pop Punk music with reviews, features, interviews and stripped down sessions.  For the last month or so, they've been asking some of their favorite musicians to perform acoustic versions of their favorite holiday tunes (covers or originals).  The stripped down sessions were then remastered and collected up in a compilation to benefit the Manilow Music Project, providing support to school music programs.  The compilation is "name your price", so you can download it free at Bandcamp.  But, should you be feeling generous, that's where your money will go.  Something about acoustic and Pop Punk that just doesn't seem to mesh, but there are a few interesting bits here.  Nothing to break the bank over, but for free...  I enjoyed Wear Your Heart, as you might gather from the video.  Other highlights, to me, were Brock Frabbiele's "Another Christmas At The Bar" and The Sheds' "100 Reslutions".  And the only track that's actually recorded well enough to be air-worthy is Devon Kay & The Solutions' "Decemberween".  Jesse Pino's got a nice voice as well.