Your New Year's Eve party deserves some hot party tracks. Here's a mixed genre list of fun, from funk to hip hop to indie rock and beyond:

How Do I Let A Good Man Down by Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings
Never Found A Girl (featuring Joseph Henry) by The Poets of Rhythm
Up from the South by The Budos Band
Shot Down (Featuring Lee Fields) by Sugarman Three
Do it Up by Demien
Waitin by Choklate
7 Days by Adriana Evans
Revolution feat. Raashan Ahmad by Afrodisiac
No Way by Krystylez
Damn Joe by Mambo Sauce
GROUPIES by DB & Stakka
Love Wont Save You by Pinknruby
My People by Street Credit
Cracking up my heart by Utah Rangers
Naturally by Middle Distance Runner

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We hope everyone is avoiding the endless check-out lines and traffic, spending time with family and friends, and enjoying the last days of 2006.

For your listening pleasure, here are two of our favorite Christmas songs. We hope these tracks make the rotation along with the old standards.

First is a new track by Middle Distance Runner, whose album Plane In Flames has been getting some "Top Album of the Year" nods from places like Instrumental Analysis. The track is XMAS PARTY and don't wait to buy and REC it.

Second is The Christmas Song by Adam Arcuragi from his critically acclaimed, self-titled album. Again, don't wait to buy and REC this great song.

Enjoy the holidays and 2006 while it lasts!

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Hey Amie Street, it's time for a shopping spree! As you may have noticed, Amie Street recently partnered with KUFALA Recordings to bring you the highest quality, authorized live recordings. Kufala believes that the best music is always performed live, and, with their extraordinary albums, it's hard to disagree. Now Amie Street presents to you KUFALA's entire catalog! Want to easily expand your music collection with 1000s of great new songs? Buy Kufala's albums today! Here are some suggestions on where to start:

Patrick Park (Acoustic, Indie Rock) - Mondays at Spaceland 9/25/06 - Buy MP3 Album

Honest Screw "Park's style incorporates rough subject matter, passionate vocals, bitter honesty and fervent energy into his warm and crisp guitar playing." [CMJ]

Asobi Seksu (Experimental, Indie Rock) - Spaceland Presents Asobi Seksu at The Echo - Buy MP3 Album

Thursday "... turbulent shoegazer fuzz with sparkling pop confection ..." [Pitchfork]

The Slip (Rock) - Live Providence 06/12/04 - Free Download

CHILDREN OF DECEMBER

"Seeing them live was amazing...I instantly felt a bond with these three guys. You see so many tired, boring rock acts doing the same thing over and over, but these guys are reaching out... They're taking what we know of music and trying to twist it to a different place." [New York Times]

Darker My Love (Rock, Psychedelic) - Mondays in Spaceland July 2006 - Buy MP3 Album

Summer is Here

"if swirly, hazy, grungy, fuzzy, drug-induced, psychedelic rock is your thing, you are going to want to give this album a spin." [Mainstream Music Isn't So Bad...Is It?]

Thunderbirds Are Now! (Rock, Indie Rock) - Live in Spaceland 10/14/06 - Buy MP3 Album

(the Making of...) Make History

"Perfect for anyone who believes complex song structures are best served by punk attitude and pop amenities." [Rolling Stone]

Jay Nash (Rock) - As It Stands - Free Download

Leave You Alone

"One of the strongest voices in the Los Angeles singer songwriter scene," Nash has "loose, gorgeous melodies full of confidence, without swagger." [Los Angeles Times]

Buy these albums, put 'em on your iPod, and enjoy all your new music. Also, stay tuned for more from Kufala Recordings.

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Tagged as Acoustic, Experimental, Indie Rock, Psychedelic, Rock

Yesterday, Amie Street got an extraordinary track from the phenomenal Drum and Bass duo DB & Stakka - GROUPIES is a must buy, must REC song.

DB is a DJ and an A&R at Breakbeat Science and Deaf Dumb and Blind Communications and Stakka is a long time DJ and Producer with his own imprint, Cargo Industries. In 2004, DB and Stakka started the amazingly good Ror-Shak project.

Quit wasting time and check out the track GROUPIES from their out-of-print 12".

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Tagged as Classical, Drum and Bass

Amie Street is proud to present its fourth installment of its Showcases series. This Friday, December 15th, from 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Amie Street favorites Rob Drabkin and Morgan Rogers will play Arlene's Grocery (95 Stanton Street, NYC) . For those unfamiliar with Rob Drabkin's music, you got to check out Sweet Things and The Way You Look Tonight - two great songs which illustrate Rob's sick guitar skills and sultry voice. For the Dave Matthews fans out there, be sure not to miss this. Rob is currently on tour with Tim Reynolds.

And for fans of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and any man who can play a harmonica, we have Morgan Rogers; a timeless Amie Street artist who is best exemplified by his tracks Backwards and Drunken Words . Both songs exist as true throw-backs to the glory days of acoustic rock in the 60s and 70s. The show begins at 7:00pm and ends at 8:30pm. Despite featuring two artists, tickets are only $10 (a great deal). See you then.

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Tagged as Event

According to Sonic Slang, "The Mystic Underground's retro, brit pop sound is influenced perhaps most heavily by synth acts like Erasure and very early Depeche Mode. Lead singer/songwriter Vladimir Valette's vocals, in particular, evoke the heyday of the former while Benedetto Socci lays down pulsing, hit-worthy beats."

Obscure Sound had this to say about The Mystic Underground: "My favorite song at the moment from them is Athletes , which appears to be an obvious destined single...As the song gains momentum and the chorus explodes into a frenzy, Valette appears to be talking growing up in general: 'the talk of the town and the boys' bathroom walls,' 'the stories spun in the gym, they circulate through the school, and now we're scarred for life.' The topic is widely recognizable and the song is very memorable and catchy."

Listen to The Mystic Underground!

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Tagged as Electronic, Pop

Wednesday night at NYC's The Annex, Amie Street enjoyed a blue-ribbon set by The Jaguar Club. Out of Brooklyn, this Pop/Indie trio comes with a dangerously danceable sound that's especially evident on a song like The Sirens . The four tracks from their self-titled EP have made a splash on Amie Street by collecting 40+ RECs in no time at all. The Jaguar Club is Jeremiah on drums and vocals, Yoichiro on bass, and Will on guitar and vocals. Look for them at Fat Baby on December 16th and don't forget to buy and REC 'em!

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Tagged as Indie Rock, Pop

The Budos Band is another hot group from the unparalleled Funk/Soul label Daptone Records.

plasticaisle says: "I saw this band with Sharon Jones earlier in the year and they were GREAT. The basslines alone were worth the price of admission. They had everyone's legs wiggling and wobbling...If you haven't anything fun to do, you will have a great time seeing them, rest assured. Three percussionists should be the norm, if you ask me."

Three-Sixty-Five45s says: "Start to finish, this is probably the best new funk release I have heard in 2006.

"On the back of the CD they describe their sound as 'afro-soul', and that seems a very apt description. There is plenty of percussion and they are heavy on the horns throughout (just check their version of Sing a Simple Song ), yet do a great job of mixing up the feel of the songs. Some tunes are dark and heavy like the flute-led King Charles , while Monkey See, Monkey Do has a laid-back, almost latin feel to it. Then there's the explosive Budos Theme that is one for the dancefloor.

"For me the standout track is Eastbound , with the solid groove, a guitar that is stripped down and yet has some 'wah', the almighty horns, and a phenomenal bit of flute and trumpet playing. But when followed by an organ-funk track like Aynotchesh Yererfu , it's hard to pick the top track. Do yourself a favor and get The Budos Band on your turntable or in your CD player."

How about on your iPod folks? Show The Budos Band some love!

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Tagged as Afrobeat, Funk

The Utah Rangers are new to Amie Street so give 'em a listen. Here's what BiBaBiDi had to say about the band: "Whatever the hell Utah Rangers means, I don't care ... this duo is ace. They're indie-pop, yeah, but there such a rush their music; such a happy, dancey feel to it. I can't resist. Imagine a peppier version of Envelopes or something. And those bass lines work oh-so-well with those excellent jangle-pop guitar riffs and perfect hooks."

Have a listen and start with Cracking up my heart and One reason to go to spain .

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Tagged as Indie Rock, Pop

These guys sound like space-rock hippies adrift on a sea where sunny acoustic guitars and melodies peak from behind clouds of ambient keyboards and electronic textures. Well.... we've never met Lush Progress so maybe they aren't hippies, but you can put the rest of that illustration to test with Laying Eggs , or one of the seven other tunes they've uploaded. Regardless of exactly what it is they're doing it's undeniably interesting, with song structures that are sometimes more like free ranging excursions than easily grasped structures. On the other end of the spectrum there's Three Long Nights that despite some less than conventional chord changes and slightly bizarre harmonies may as well be a pop song with a hypnotic instrumental jam at the end. Be sure to listen to the textures in each song. While , in particular shows off how good this band can be at putting just the right sounds together.

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Tagged as Experimental, Indie Rock