{"id":24802,"date":"2016-12-07T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=24802"},"modified":"2016-12-07T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:16:42","slug":"essential-advent-calendar-xo-for-the-holidays-vol-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-xo-for-the-holidays-vol-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Advent Calendar: XO FOR THE HOLIDAYS VOL IX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15968\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-leesun-were-all-made-of-stars\/advent-calendar-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/advent-calendar-8.png?fit=1496%2C1176&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1496,1176\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"advent calendar 8\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/advent-calendar-8.png?fit=640%2C503&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15968\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/advent-calendar-8.png?resize=640%2C503&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"advent calendar 8\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>We featured XO For The Holidays Volume VIII last year and they&#8217;re back again behind Door Number 7!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24812\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-xo-for-the-holidays-vol-ix\/xo-for-the-holidays-volume-ix\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/XO-for-the-holidays-volume-ix.jpg?fit=424%2C424&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"424,424\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"XO for the holidays volume ix\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/XO-for-the-holidays-volume-ix.jpg?fit=424%2C424&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-24812\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/XO-for-the-holidays-volume-ix.jpg?resize=593%2C593&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"XO for the holidays volume ix\" width=\"593\" height=\"593\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Established in 2003, XO Publicity&#8217;s intent was to work with all genres of music, with the desire to help indie and smaller labels compete in the race to get quality press. Along with press they also offer radio campaigns, with their database including over 15,000 college, indie, webzines, blogs, freelancers, and mainstream contacts. They embrace a grassroots approach to their service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the past few years, XO have been compiling their definitive Christmas volumes. This year&#8217;s edition is eight tracks from artists you&#8217;ll be familiar with from the XO stable, including Piney Gir, and Eaglewolfsnake, just to name two.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can download XO For The Holidays Volume IX <a href=\"http:\/\/xopublicity.com\/xo-for-the-holidays-vol-ix\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and catch up with all the previous volumes <a href=\"http:\/\/xopublicity.com\/xo-holiday-compilations-2\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We featured XO For The Holidays Volume VIII last year and they&#8217;re back again behind Door Number 7!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24812,"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":[111,470,1655,3938,144,77,3787,8481,3908,8480],"class_list":["post-24802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","tag-album","tag-christmas","tag-compilation","tag-essential-advent-calendar","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-the-essential-advent-calendar","tag-volume","tag-xo-for-the-holidays","tag-xo-for-the-holidays-volume-ix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-6s2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16448,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-xo-publicity\/","url_meta":{"origin":24802,"position":0},"title":"Essential Advent Calendar: XO Publicity &#8211; &#8216;Home For the Holidays Vol 8&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"11\/12\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"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.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Christmas&quot;","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\/2015\/12\/XO-for-the-Holidays-1.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/XO-for-the-Holidays-1.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/XO-for-the-Holidays-1.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/XO-for-the-Holidays-1.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16705,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-essential-advent-playlist\/","url_meta":{"origin":24802,"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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