Indie Rockify Your Holiday Season

As you've probably gathered from Erika and Quinn, it's the holiday season. Even if you dislike Christmas, you can't argue with the annual Suburban Sprawl Holiday Sampler. (Image from Suburban Sprawl.)

If you're unfamiliar, Suburban Sprawl is a local independent label and music collective. There are a ton of great bands over there who are worth your time.

I'm still on my first listen, but for starters check out:

• A Town of Glass from Lightning Love (I won't lie, these kids are one of my favorite southeast Michigan bands [please make another album!])
  
• It's Christmas at the Airport Bar by the Cuban Mistletoe Crisis
• LCD Soundsystem-esque Hum Bug by the High Strung
• Promise Me by American Mars
• Good Luck, Just Wait by Adam Mercer & Brook Jacoby
• Holiday Song by Lawnmower
  
• Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree by the Deadbeat Beat
• Alexandrine by Millions of Brazilians
  
• Oh Christmas Time by Woodman
  

If the 2010 compilation isn't enough, you can still download those from past years.

I can't wait to visit Ann Arbor for the holidays — save some snow for me.