{"id":16448,"date":"2015-12-11T07:11:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T07:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=16448"},"modified":"2015-12-11T07:11:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T07:11:57","slug":"essential-advent-calendar-xo-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-xo-publicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Advent Calendar: XO Publicity – ‘Home For the Holidays Vol 8’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"advent<\/p>\n

It’s day 11 on the Essential Advent Calendar\u00a0and behind the door is\u00a0‘Home For the Holidays Vol 8’ from XO Publicity, a compilation album featuring 9 bands from the XO stable.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"XO<\/p>\n

This is the eighth year that XO Publicity have issued their Christmas compilation, and it certainly makes a change from the usual holiday music!<\/p>\n

The cover artwork is by Stephen Jordan, and is a combination of digital and freehand weave type drawings in ink.\u00a0Each side of the crescent shaped design is symmetrical in terms of drawing patterns yet the bottom centre portion is not as symmetrical. This was designed to symbolise diversity and culture coming together despite potential differences.<\/p>\n

‘XO For the Holidays’ is available as a free download and features the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Snowed In – STUBBORN SON<\/li>\n
  2. Rootin Tootin Santa Clause – PINEY GIR<\/li>\n
  3. Mas X – WINTER SOUNDS<\/li>\n
  4. Winter Wanderland \u2013 ARTPEACE<\/li>\n
  5. Celebrating Every Day – JOSEPH DEMAREE<\/li>\n
  6. Not A Holiday Song \u2013 CALISSE<\/li>\n
  7. Hazy Shade Of Winter \u2013 MAGNUSON<\/li>\n
  8. Merry Christmas Baby – ALEJANDRA O’LEARY<\/li>\n
  9. White Christmas – REVOLT REVOLT<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We’ve featured Stubborn Son<\/a> and ArtPeace<\/a> at Essentially Pop before, so be sure to check them out!<\/p>\n

    Download ‘XO For the Holidays’ here<\/a>. You can also get hold of their previous 7 volumes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s day 11 on the Essential Advent Calendar and behind the door is ‘Home For the Holidays Vol 8’ from XO Publicity, a compilation album featuring 9 bands from the XO stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3768],"tags":[3916,2766,3914,470,3909,3913,3915,3911,3917,3910,3787,3912,3908,3907],"class_list":["post-16448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","tag-alejandra-oleary","tag-artpeace","tag-calisse","tag-christmas","tag-compilation-album","tag-joseph-demaree","tag-magnuson","tag-piney-girl","tag-revolt-revolt","tag-stubborn-son","tag-the-essential-advent-calendar","tag-winter-sounds","tag-xo-for-the-holidays","tag-xo-publicity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-4hi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24802,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-xo-for-the-holidays-vol-ix\/","url_meta":{"origin":16448,"position":0},"title":"Essential Advent Calendar: XO FOR THE HOLIDAYS VOL IX","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"07\/12\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"We featured XO For The Holidays Volume VIII last year and they're back again behind Door Number 7!","rel":"","context":"In "Christmas"","block_context":{"text":"Christmas","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/archived-categories\/christmas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/XO-for-the-holidays-volume-ix.jpg?fit=424%2C424&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16705,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-essential-advent-playlist\/","url_meta":{"origin":16448,"position":1},"title":"Essential Advent Calendar: Essential Advent Playlist","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"25\/12\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! 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