Get the Yuletide Beat!

Los Straitjacket's "Yuletide Beat" (YepRoc) offers up nine classic Christmas rock surfstrumentals and ends with a bluesy stroll to welcome in the New Year on "Soul'd Lang Syne". You might think you've found a copy of a long lost Bobby Fuller Four Christmas disc when the needle hits the vinyl on "(I) Deck The Halls" with its "I Fought The Law" guitar riff. To hijack a line from Steve Earle "This is the best Christmas disc of the year, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” If you're gonna buy one Christmas disc this year "Yuletide Beat" is the one to buy.