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The Current Holidays: Join The Current for a twist on traditional Holiday music with our Holiday Stream.
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November 28, 2022

Join The Current for a twist on traditional Holiday music with our Holiday Stream featuring more than 35 hours of curated holiday music.

To start the stream in your browser, click here, open up The Current’s mobile app and select the Holiday Stream, or tell your smart speaker “Alexa, play Holiday Stream from The Current.”

With more than 600 songs on the list, this collection goes all the way from Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters’ 1945 collaboration up to the present. Expect to hear locals like The Replacements and Jeremy Messersmith next to Sufjan Stevens (from one of his multiple holiday albums).

There are JD McPherson’s original holiday songs and classics from Elvis. Run DMC will bring you “Christmas in Hollis,” The Killers have “Christmas in L.A.,” and The Rockford Mules spend “Christmas in South Dakota.” Expect to hear from Sharon Jones, Stevie Wonder, Kacey Musgraves, and even Bad Religion.

It’s a wildly eclectic mix of new originals and old classics, silly and sincere, traditional and some unestablished holiday songs that will become new traditions on The Current’s Holiday Stream.