LISTEN: Mike's Local Kine Hawaiian Christmas Show (STREAM/DOWNLOAD!)

Back for your holiday listening: It's an all-Christmas edition of my former KCSN radio show, "Hawaiian Eye." First aired on Dec. 21, 2007, it's familiar Christmas tunes done in a not-so-familiar island style.

The show kicks off with Pure Heart's rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" -- Local Style ("numbah one day of Christmas my tutu gave to me, one mynah bird in one papaya tree"). Other favorites include Willie K's powerful version of "O Holy Night"; the Brothers Cazimero's haunting "We Three Kings," and Hawaiian Christmas tracks from artists like Keali'i Reichel and Amy Hanaiali'i.

Listen below! You can stream it or download it for future listening too.



Go here for a full track listing of all the songs. Mele Kalikimaka!

Free Music: RCRD LBL's Lollapalooza Mix

There's truly no reason to illegally download music these days, as sites like RCRD LBL off up plenty of new music from emerging and veteran artists... for free.

Above, RCRD LBL put together a download-ready mix in honor of this past weekend's Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. Not every track is a gem, of course, but there's plenty of good stuff here.

FREE L.A.: Amoeba Records' Music Downloads Page

Where iTunes usually offers just one or two free song downloads a week -- and they can be very hit or miss -- Amoeba's extensive free downloads pages are chock full of good stuff.

Plus, I trust the Amoeba team's music taste a whole lot more than I trust iTunes. Find 12 pages of the downloads here.