Hot Holiday Music: The Yule Logs!

Holiday music can be divisive, to say the least. For some, a fear of those opening strains of sleigh bells preceding the first winter's many unplanned Jingle Bells encounters is enough to keep them from leaving the house the day after Thanksgiving. For others, it just isn't Christmas until Nat King Cole wishes you a merry one. Of course, there'll always be those brave and enterprising artists hoping to pen a new classic for people to dread in the late Novembers of years to come, or to just give a little spit-shine to a well-worn favorite and make it look new again.

To kick off the beginning of Hanukkah, and the two-weeks-till-Christmas countdown, we'll be digging up a couple fresh holiday jams that the carolers can add to their collections and that the bah-humbuggers can, well, maybe at least find more tolerable than Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime."

First off, we proudly present The Yule Logs: a merry little band out of Chico, CA that's made Christmas cheer a year-round commitment. The self-proclaimed "Hardest Working Band in Snow Business," these joyous young fellows deliver the goods. In addition to some tasteful re-imaginings of the classics, they boast a sleighfull of catchy original tunes that strike a perfect balance between tongue-in-cheek humor and genuine sincerity. Mixing slinky surf-guitar, doo-wop harmonies, Beatlesesque melodies, and plenty of straight up rock-n-roll, these tunes sound great anytime of the year, but definitely come in handy when trying find something everyone can agree on for that big holiday dance party you've been planning.