Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 15: Krampusnacht by Riverghost

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Season of fear, coming to take the children to hell! It’s our second satanic holiday song. Increasingly sinister as it goes on! Love it!!!

Hlycrp holiday 2020 songwriting contest submission #14: Mother’s Little Christmas Helpers by Zelda Starfire

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We’ve been waiting for a song like this! Our first country/drinking Christmas song. She didn’t mean to break every single dish!

Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 13: Nuclear Winter Wonderland by The Nuclears

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A three-eyed glowing Santa bops around with some carolers in the snow. Church bells, screaming, harmonies – this one is the whole package.

Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 12: “The Satan Clause Ch 1” by Scott Thompson

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Scott Thompson brings it to a whole other level with this disturbing and hilarious tune that you are hereby forbidden to play for your kids. His Satan is the funniest thing I have heard in all of 2020

Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 11: Sex Toys for Xmas by Pockets Ov

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Pockets Ov going for the win! She is bored with the boys in this town and ready to get some toys that come at variable speeds for Christmas. Wooo!

Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 10: X-Mas Night by The In-Fuzzed

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From France! Evidently it’s the holidays over there too. The In-Fuzzed seems pretty cheerful about things — holding hands, closing doors and stuff like that — we love the backup singing in particular, and of course some degree of spoken-word is mandatory for all good holiday songs.

Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 9: December by Day & Dream

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Inspired by what Abby from Day & Dream refers to as the “sad/happy” music from the Peanuts Christmas special, with the addition of the Day & Dream haunting/beautiful spin

Ep 132 – ‘How to Compliment Artists’ With music by: Tucker Riggleman and the Cheap Dates, The Ratz, Good Trauma, Doc Aquatic, Matt Walsh, Beth Lee and the Breakups, Paralleles, Johnny and the Dark City Kings

Best of the underground, week of Nov 17, 2020: Compliments! Good, bad, strategic, and cringy. Also, John’s particular form of ESP, and great music. (All podcasts and reviews are on www.hlycrp.com, and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.)

This week we played:

    • “Void” by Tucker Riggleman and the Cheap Dates

(prerelease)

    • “You’re Dead” by The Ratz

    • “Strange Days” by Good Trauma

    • “Juan Miro” by Paralleles

    • “Chemicals” by Doc Aquatic

    • “Happy or Blue” by Matt Walsh
    • “Waiting on You Tonight” by Beth Lee & The Breakups

  • “Winter Solstice Holiday” by Johnny and the Dark City Kings (prerelease)

Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 8: Christmas Party by Icarus Tyree

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Complexities of dating AND holidays! This is our first song to reference dancing on tables or to have boop boop background singing or to talk about dating Jesus! Icarus ups the bar