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Photo via Facebook As you can tell by the title, "Christmas Killing Spree" by Love Love isn't exactly your traditional lovey dovey Christmas song. Although, if you aren't really paying attention, it would really sound like it. As the band explains:  " It has become our tradition to write and record a Christmas song every December. This year we decided to recall how stressed our moms sometimes were around Christmas time—the shopping, the wrapping, the hosting, the pleasing… Perhaps an outrageous and comical fantasy about escaping Christmas at home and going to Italy all by herself would release some of the tension?" You can listen to "Christmas Killing Spree" below. For more on Love Love, check out their website .

We don't usually get political Christmas songs, but these are the times we currently live in. Boston's Love Love has just released their new Christmas song, "It's Christmas We Wanna Be Happy." Musically, it's a straightforward rock song with hardly a jingle bell to be heard. It's only through the lyrics that you ge t the holiday nature of the song, and while politics aren't specifically mentioned, with lyrics like " There’s a bad clown leading us, don’t let him lead you" and the more obvious " Impeach that bad clown and let’s get down to business," I'm pretty sure we can guess where this is going. The message of the song is no matter how bad you may find things, at least try to be happy on Christmas. The band refers to it as a "...  a short song with a long, raucous, party outro," which it is, but make sure to give the party outro a shot. It somehow holds the whole song together. You can listen to "It's Ch...

Love Love is the latest project from Boston based singer-songwriters Chris Toppin and Jefferson Davis Riordan. After her time in Fuzzy ended, Toppin took 10 years off to raise her kids. After the two met, they began working on music together, and Love Love was born. With two gifted songwriters, Love Love's songs are tight, poppy showcases of Americana. Their latest video, "I Like You Weird" from their EP released back in September, features Riordan on vocals with Toppin singing back up. It starts off simply enough with a basic guitar/bass/drums mix, and then slowly becomes more lush as extra instruments get added. It's an ideal blend of the mid 90s Boston scene and the contemporary country/folk revival. You can check out the video for "I Like You Weird" below. For more information on Love Love, you can head over to their website or Bandcamp . Their debut full length is due out in May. If you're in the Boston area, you can see them at The Midway Ca...