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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHavana-born, two-time Grammy nominee Elsten Torres teams up with Latin fusionists Los Damn Ramblers for A Ramblin Xmas Collection. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHavana-born, two-time Grammy nominee Elsten Torres teams up with Latin fusionists Los Damn Ramblers for A Ramblin Xmas Collection. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A Ramblin Xmas Collection album cover.<\/p>\n
When you don\u2019t have to shovel snow, there\u2019s more time to create art<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Okay, so maybe our merry metropolis would be a death sentence for Frosty. And, sure, Santa may find himself feeling a little overdressed and woozy on all but those rare years when it\u2019s cold enough for us to hang our frozen iguanas by the decorative chimney with care. But if anyone thinks that means our homegrown artists can\u2019t hang with the best<\/a> when it comes to creating a soundtrack for rockin\u2019 around the Christmas tree, they\u2019ve got \u2014 in the words of notable caroler and Yuletide authority Rob Halford <\/a>\u2014 another thing coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here are five rousing anthems for your holiday season, courtesy of the local Miami music scene<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis year, make your gift count \u2013 \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOur work is funded by readers like you who make voluntary gifts because they value our work and want to see it continue. Make a contribution today to help us reach our $30,000 goal!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Alexa Lash \u2014 \u201cA Miami Holiday\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow come there are no songs about a Miami Christmas?\u201d a child\u2019s asks at the opening of this Alexa & the Old Fashioneds\u2019 new holiday track \u2014 and Magic City\u2019s fast-rising alt-folk chanteuse Lash spends the next three minutes or so rectifying that oversight with this affecting, holiday song trope-free sonic chestnut that \u201cspeaks to Lash\u2019s personal life evolving out of love\u2026the holidays serve as an avenue to grow from childhood trauma, and to create new, loving memories with a wonderful partner.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Elsten Torres (featuring Los Damn Ramblers) \u2014 \u201cSanta Cross the Border\u201d<\/p>\n Havana-born, two-time Grammy nominee Elsten Torres teams up with Latin fusionists Los Damn Ramblers for A Ramblin Xmas Collection<\/a>, an infectious EP of holiday songs as diverse and exhilarating as the territory Santa covers every year. I could quote some lyrics from this fun and slyly subversive little number, but it\u2019s better experienced in full, very Miami glory.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ryan Cooper \u2014 \u201cChristmas Song\u201d<\/p>\n Among Miami\u2019s finest purveyors of Americana, Ryan Cooper finds \u201creason for the season\u201d in an Instagram cover<\/a> of this searching and elegiac track, which appeared on both the self-released debut Dave Matthews Band full-length (Remember Two Things; 1993) as well as the album of reinterpretations Matthews recorded a few years later with Tim Reynolds Live at Luther College. And though both original versions are very well crafted and executed, Cooper manages to tease out new, deeper tones and pathos from this decades-old deep cut.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sasha Saturn \u2014 \u201cNaughty List\u201d<\/p>\n Sasha Saturn sees your love for that cutesy little \u201cI Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus\u201d<\/a> and raises you (and Tommy Boyd, the Jackson 5, the Ronettes, Dolly Parton, etcetera) \u201cNaughty List,\u201d a decidedly friskier holiday offering that musically falls somewhere between electropop and the Cardigans, featuring true-to-its-title lyrics like: \u201cAll I want for Christmas is you\/Light the candles for a table of two\/I\u2019ve got dessert for you. I hope you made room\/And when we\u2019re done, we have unwrapping to do\/Let me sit on your lap and tell you what I want\/Ride on your sleigh\/I\u2019ll be Mrs. Claus.\u201d And if you think you may be misinterpreting her repurposing of the Grinch \u201cthree times in size\u201d line\u2026well, Saturn confirms you\u2019re not here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Te\u00e1 Mox \u2014 \u201cFrigid Christmas\u201d<\/p>\n Mexican painter, musician, visual artist, and poet Te\u00e1 Mox closes out a year of multimedia art around her stellar art pop EP triumph Sailors<\/a> with this deft melding of modern bedroom DIY and classic female-fronted jazzy big band of yore. Which is to say, \u201cFrigid Christmas\u201d really does feel as akin to Peggy Lee<\/a> as it does to, say, Gracie Abrams<\/a>. Mox continues to broaden the possibilities of her own increasingly singular niche by finding and channeling the art in everything \u2014 up to and including Christmas.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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