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New MixTape... this time with christmas cheer!


It's Christmas time all over the world, and even here at Duck and Cover Headquarters... Even though Jamie is enjoying a gorgeous summer in the Southern Hemisphere while Dakin is oppressed by cloud cover in the Northwest (though soon to be supplanted by the biting cold and irksome provincialism of the American Midwest).

To celebrate this glorious time of year, and the birth of the little baby jesus (as well as to good naturedly poke fun at our Jewish reader(s) [Hi, Katie!]), we present to you the first ever D&C holiday mix! Well, first ever, because this is Duck and Cover's first Christmas (collective "aaaah!"). We hope to have many more, and we shall, unless of course, Dakin and Jamie cannot get along, which, truth be told, is always a very distinct possibility. However, if we do end up doing several more holiday mixes, wtf will we play? I mean, we're kinda blowing our load here, so we hope that you appreciate it.

Also, shame on Seeqpod for having NO versions of Califone's gorgeous "On The Steeple With The Shakes (X-mas Tigers)", Kristin Hersh's classic "Sinkhole", (a useable version of) Rilo Kiley's "Xmas Cake", or any Christmas songs by NKOTB. Yeah that's right, I invoked the New Kids On The Block. What's Christmas without a sense of humor? I mean, really.

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merry christmas duck and cover!

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