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Every year, we are inundated with a new Christmas album by artists and performance that are "hot" at the moment. This is not always the right idea, but money is money and show business is show business, so here are the top 10 worst Christmas albums ever...for now.

10. Merry Christmas With Love - Clay Aiken

9. Cledus Navidad - Cledus T. Judd

8. Merry Christmas – Mariah Carey Dual Disc, jesus

7. Christmas With the Brady Bunch - The Brady Bunch

To ring in the New Year, here are the new music releases for January, 2009...never a good month without a Motley Crue release.

January 6th
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Communion
The Gourds - Haymaker!
Erin McCarley - Love, Save the Empty
Jessie Kilguss - Nocturnal Drifter (Friday, Jan 9th)

January 13th
Varsity Fanclub - Varsity Fanclub
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Too Pure to Die - Confess
Heather Headley - Audience of One
My Dear Disco - Dancethink Music

January 20th
Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light
Cash Cash – Take It To The Floor
Combichrist - Today We Are All Demons
Or, The Whale - Light Poles And Pines
John Frusciante - The Empyrean
Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew

TV On The Radio is having one hell of a year with Dear Science, and I must say, I am pretty happy with this list.

1. TV on the Radio: Dear Science

2. Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs — The Bootleg Series Vol. 8

3. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III

4. My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges

5. John Mellencamp: Life, Death, Love and Freedom

6. Santogold: Santogold

For better or worse, here are the new albums dropping this month...minus this week of course, sorry.

December 9th

AC/DC Church of Rock: The Bon Scott Years
Cat Power - Dark End of the Street
The Thrillers – The Tropic of Cancer
Maroon 5 - Call and Response
Oasis - The Lowdown Unauthorized
Common - Universal Mind Control
50 Cent - Before I Self-Destruct
The Damned – So, Who’s Paranoid?
Collective Soul - Afterwords

December 16, 2008

Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux
Dave Matthews – Live at Denver
All-American Rejects - When The World Comes Down
Mötley Crüe – Journals of the Damned
Keyshia Cole - A Different Me
Bob Dylan - Playlist
Plies - Da Realist
Saliva - Cinco Diablo
UGK - UGK for Life

December 30, 2008

Blender just released their top 33 Albums of 2008...very impressed with a few, pretty disappointed in some.

33 Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind
32 Taylor Swift - Fearless
31 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
30 Young Jeezy - The Recession
29 Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
28 Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
27 Mariah Carey - E=MC²
26 Usher - Here I Stand
25 Santogold - Santogold
24 The Roots - Rising Down
23 The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale
22 Coldplay - Viva La Vida
21 Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Pt. One (4th World War)
20 Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
19 Katy Perry - One Of The Boys
18 Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual

Indie kids, metal heads, and emo folks alike, be warned, this post is going to lean towards punk rock, perhaps due to my musical tastes, the intensity and infamy of the live shows associated with these bands, or maybe because of the fleeting nature of the late seventies, early eighties punk influx that swept the country.

Black Flag – (Any show 1981 – 1986)