MusicMonday: December Downloads, New Holiday Tunes

New Holiday Music

I tweeted two new holiday songs over the past few days -- and they're worth repeating here:

• Coldplay's new holiday single "Christmas Lights" was released last week. Watch the video at www.coldplay.com -- and you can download the song by purchasing it at www.iTunes.com/Coldplay.
  
• The Maccabeats, a singing group from Yeshiva University, has huge internet Hanukkah hit with "Candlelight." It's sung to the tune of the pop song "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz -- and it's pretty catchy! Check out the story here -- and the YouTube video here.
  

• The music of The Grateful Dead is meant to be shared and enjoyed by everyone. Through December 8, you can download 30 classic live tracks here -- or by clicking the image at right.
  
• Not to be outdone, the third volume of Live Bait -- tracks from Phish -- can be downloaded here.
  
• To celebrate the release of Joe Purdy's 12th album "This American," you can download this 15-song album for free throughout December here.
• Finally, Amazon has a free holiday mp3 for download each day through Christmas; download here.
  

Want more free downloads? Well, don't forget to continually check the following sources -- new songs covering all genres are added frequently. Just click on the links below and enjoy some new tunes.

• AbsolutePunk
• Amazon singles
  
• Amazon albums
• The BoomBox
• eMusic
• Fuse.tv
• Guvera
  
• KickKickSnare
• MTV
  
• Spinner
• Stereogum
• VolumeVote
• YNot Radio
  
• Walmart