Happy Holy Days 2011 and 5 Free Downloads

Happy Holidays from 11 Acorn Lane! Celebrate with 11 Acorn Lane and get 5 free downloads at the bottom of this post!

We are very excited that our version of “Deck The alls” was selected by Amazon to be part of their “25 Days of Free” promotion. Last year they had over a million downloads. Our track is the new free download on December 13. Get it here!

Radio

One of our favorite stations and a great station to hear 11 Acorn Lane’s music and all kinds of other cool sounds is Soma FM! Check out their Christmas Lounge and Xmas in Frisko channels for great seasonal programming or the exquisite Illinois Street Lounge and Secret Agent. Thank you, Soma FM!

And thank you to all stations that play  11 Acorn Lane’s Christmas music, including 1fm’s Always Christmas, Lagniappe Christmas on the New Orleans Radio Network,  The Night Owl Show on Radio Wey with Mandy Morrow, DJ Robert Drake‘s Night Before on XPN, Dr. StrangeDub’s “Christmas In Dub” at KFAI, Francisco Manuel Lopez’ “La Otra Orilla” on Radio Despi, Vasja Ivanovski’s “Jazz Spaces” on 94.1 FM in Skopje Macedonia and all the ones we’re unaware of but appreciate just as much!

NPR

This NPR program features music that jingles another way. It’s about holiday music for the rest of us and includes music by 11 Acorn Lane. Thank you once again to Robert Drake!

College Radio

‘Happy Holy Days’ for CMJ RPM ADDS – #4 Most Added in week of 12/12/2011

Big thank you’s to WPKN, WRUV, WEFT, KSBR, KFAI, KAOS, KSCU, KDHX, CSCR, WSUM, WVPH, WMSE, KMHD, WOYE, KRCB and all the other ones who gave ‘Happy Holy Days’ a spin!

Tunecore Interview

Check out our recent interview with Tunecore that reveals a bit more about the making of ‘Happy Holy Days’ and our own blog post about the many instruments used on this record (and all of our other records for that matter).

Study Break Holiday Style

We think this video by a group of University of Texas Austin students is absolutely hilarious. They are taking a break from studying for their finals to our version of “Hark The Herald Angels Sing”.

5 Free Downloads

Listen to the 5 songs here:

Celebrate with 11 Acorn Lane
Five free songs to help you say Merry Christmas! Mazel Tov! Happy New Year!

11 Acorn Lane have a thing for happy occasions.  And their music is perfect to help you celebrate happy occasions throughout the year blending a buoyantly Esquivelian Sixties lounge aesthetic with modern electronica. Upbeat, fun and rich in musical layers.

For the upcoming festive season the NY duo offers five of their most requested songs as free downloads: Deck The Halls, Mazinka, Auld Lang Syne (all three from their new release “Happy Holy Days”), Happy As Can Be (as featured in season 6 of Showtimes’ “Weeds”) and Live It Up. The message is clear: Merry Christmas! Mazel Tov! Happy New Year!