The Most Christmasy time of the Year

Our christmas gift to Jon Solomon. Every year we've submitted music to his 25hr christmas special on wprb he's played something of ours, so here's hoping something from Stocking Stuffer will get played.

Christmas Comes Early

We recently recorded several new tracks for next year's christmas album, and as a special christmas gift to you here is a rough preview of one of these all new christmas classics. It's christmas on craigslist!

Almost BFF's

As you can see there are some printing issues at the moment, but physical copies of Beast Friends Forever will soon be available for purchase.

Christmas Pharmacy

Stocking Stuffer Now Available

Here's a fantastic last minute christmas present; Stocking Stuffer two mini disc set in crafty paper stocking. Limited edition of 20 each one is different and will be chosen at random. This would also make an acceptable gift for Hanukah, Kwanza, New Years, Flag Day, or whatever. Get it now!

Stocking Stuffer

It's December, the most Christmasy time of the year! Here is our gift to you; Stocking Stuffer available for free download, and very soon available as a limited 2 mini disc set packaged in a one of a kind crafty stocking.

Part One of this album (tracks 1-5) was recorded last December. These include a couple new craigslist inspired christmas songs, as well as some covers of holiday classics.

Part Two (6-9) features new versions of tracks from our previous christmas album; A Craigslist Christmas. These were rehearsal outtakes recorded in preparation for a live set we played in December 2012, which unfortunately there is no footage of. We were so overcome with christmas spirit we forgot the camera.

By next week both this and Beast Friends Forever will be available for purchase; the perfect christmas gift for the whole family!

The Brown Craft Mess

We're getting crafty in the studio in preparation for a very special christmas release.

Bowling Part 2

Bowling part 1

Indian Food

Eclectic Taste

Workout Music for Emotional Problems

If there's one thing The Brown Christmas consistently does, it's coming up with ideas for projects that, for one reason or another, never come to fruition. Every so often however, remnants of these aborted ideas appear on albums. Here is an example from Beast Friends Forever.


The track Workout Music for Emotional Problems, comes from a jam session sometime in the spring or early summer of 2010. The improvisations of this session began taking on an upbeat, energetic, and slightly danceable tone. There was then a humorous realization that we were recording workout music, or at least some bizarre bastardization of workout music.

It was proposed that we continue with this theme, and compile all these tracks into an album. Perhaps something like Sweatin' with The Brown Christmas. We came up with unusual names of exercises, like the lower neck workout. There was also even the idea of either recoding video of fake exercises to accompany the songs, or reediting found exercise video footage and releasing the songs this way.

However because our editing and releasing of music was so far behind, this concept was put on hold. By the time we had caught up and could have potentially released this, the music was already four years old. Much of it didn't age very well; the content and quality of most of the recordings was not of a caliber we felt comfortable releasing at that point. The one gem that existed however was Workout Music for Emotional Problems, and so it found its place on Beast Friends Forever.

Updates

One of the benefits of acting like a hermit is being able to catch up on editing all the weird music no one will listen to. After a few months of mercilessly plowing through hours upon hours of jam sessions I am down to the final two. There are at this very moment, six albums worth of new unreleased Brown Christmas material ready to go. Expect to see these gradually trickle out over the coming months.

Here is a preview track from one of them.


Physical releases are also on the way, although there's been a bit of a setback regarding the logistics of making these. Originally the plan was to make crafty packaging using recycled cardboard boxes from my day job. However after several experiments It became apparent that these were too thick, unmanageable, and of poor quality. Now there are useless mountains of cardboard sitting around taking up space. However this will not deter me, I am exploring other packaging options, and hopefully you will see physical copies of Beast Friends Forever for sale by August.

A short little ditty from World famous mall salesman Todd Goldman

Beast Friends Forever

Here it is, the latest collection of musical madness from The Brown Christmas. Composed mostly from jam sessions recorded in July and August 2012 (with a few dating back farther), back when we were all eagerly awaiting the mayan apocalypse. Available now as a free download and in the near future as a reasonable priced physical object.

We are The Brown Christmas

We are The Brown Christmas, and have been since 2005. In that time we've compiled hours upon hours of audio recordings, put out nearly two dozen releases, played a handful of shows, and have done various other silly things.

We are now The Blog Christmas, this will be our primary means of internet interaction. Here you will find info on upcoming releases, merchandise, shows, and random nonsense. Check out our bandcamp for some of our more recent releases, and check back frequently as we have several releases lined up for the coming months. Occasionally we also post a preview track or some unreleased goodie on our soundcloud. We will also be offering limited edition physical releases in the near future and possibly other treats, so start saving your pennies.