Let It Snow Baby....Let It Reindeer

While Nat King Cole is cozy and Brenda Lee can rock around the Christmas tree, sometimes the golden oldies get a little too...oldie....and golden. Here's a list of Wanderlust approved holiday tunes to shake things up for a new generation.

• A Great Big Sled - The Killers

• What's This? - Fall Out Boy (Nightmare Before Christmas cover)

• This Time of Year - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

• *Merry Christmas, Here's to Many More - Relient K

• Season of a Lifetime - Plain White T's

• Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow! - A Fine Frenzy

• Last Christmas - Glee Cast

• *Back Door Santa - Jet (Clarence Carter cover)

• Christmas is Going to the Dogs - The Eels

• Deck the Halls - Relient K

• Last Christmas - Dexter Freebish

• Latke Clan - The Leevees

• Merry Xmas Everybody - Rooney

• Jingle Bell Rock - Aly & AJ

• A Wonderful Christmas Time - June (Paul McCartney cover)

• Blue Christmas - Flee the Seen

• Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Death Cab for Cutie

• Maybe This Christmas  - Ron Sexsmith

• Christmas Crush - Homegrown

• Bizarre Christmas Incident - Ben Folds

• Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses

• All I Want for Christmas - Mariah Carey

• *All I Want for Christmas - My Chemical Romance

• Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) - The Darkness

• Just Like Christmas - Low

• *Donde Esta Santa Claus - Guster

• Carol of the Meows - Guster

• Where Are You Christmas - Faith Hill

• Wild Christmas - Chris Trousdale

• *Big Winter - Robbers on High Street

• Ludachristmas - Ludacris

• Mr. Grinch - The Offspring

• Silent Night - The Dickies

• White Christmas - The Wildhearts

• It's Cold Out There - Spitalfield

• *Let It Snow - El Dog

Chrismakkuh is the bestakkuh

Every year in December I host a party lovingly dubbed Chrismakkuh, a holiday for all to celebrate, complete with a dreidel drinking game, dance party, decorate your own ridiculous drunken cookie (still can't believe that actually took off) and the best rockin' holiday mix ever created. Holiday Cheer up, the egg nog is coming ;)

The Sugar Covered Holiday Party Mix (serving bowl not included)

• Wonderful Night - Fatboy Slim

• What Christmas Means to Me - Stevie Wonder

• Merry Xmas Everybody - Rooney

• Never Let You Go - Third Eye Blind

• Latke Clan - The Leevees

• Glamorous ft. Ludacris - Fergie

• Ima Hustler Baby - Jay-Z

• Golddigger ft. Jamie Foxx - Kanye West

• Meet Me Halfway - Black Eyed Peas

• Get Your Dreidel On -Incubus

• Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel - South Park

• Christmas is Going to the Dogs - The Eels

• Great Big Sled - The Killers

• The Blankest Year - Nada Surf

• I Just Want U 2 Myself - Brite Lite Brite

• Uh Huh - Munchausen by Proxy ft. Zoey Deschanel

• Time After Time - Quietdrive (Cyndi Lauper cover)

• Last Christmas - Dexter Freebish

• Burning Down the House - The Used (Talking Heads cover)

• Mr. Brightside - The Killers

• Back Door Santa - Jet (Clarence Carter cover)

• Use Somebody - Kings of Leon

• Come Around ft. Timbaland - M.I.A

• The Queen and I  - Gym Class Heroes

• Love Lockdown (LMFAO Remix) - Kanye West

• Paper Planes ft. Lil Wayne - M.I.A

• Erotic City - George Clinton and the Paliament Funkadelic

• When You Were Young (Jacques Du Cont Mix) - The Killers

• Be Faithful - Fatman Scoop vs. The Crookers

• Bad Romance (Chew Fu Ghettohouse Mix) - Lady Gaga

  

• Bittersweet/Dirt Off Your Shoulder - The Verve vs Jay-Z

• It Takes Two  - Rob Base and Dj EZ Rock

• Hey Ya! - Outkast

• This Time of Year - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

• Jingle Bell Rock - Aly & AJ

• Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee

• A Wonderful Christmas Time - June (Paul McCartney cover)

• Valerie ft. Amy Winehouse - Mark Ronson

• That's Not My Name - The Ting Tings

• Deck the Halls - Relient K

Dreidel Drunk - played with 2 dreidels. 2 players spin at a time and does whatever action associated with the symbol. (Must have at least one Jew to play)

Nun - Nothing happens

Hai - Drink Half of your beer.

Gimel - Give a drink to someone else.

Shin - (Beer) Chug it.  (Liquor) Take a shot.

Please Drink Responsibly