Here are some holiday music giving recommendations in no particular order and suitable commentary:

* Art Brut (listen to it before you buy, but once you get past the lead's singing, you'll dig it)
* Arcade Fire Neon Bible (or Funeral if you don't have it we insist that you must have it and they are Canadian!)
* M.I.A.
* Ok Go! (You will like these guys)
* Ghostland Observatory (see Art Brut above)
* Holy Fuck (only if you want to pay tribute to the now defunct Karlheinz Stockhausen)
* Hot Chip (if you don't have their work you better!)
* Iron & Wine (for a bit of laid-back American rockiness)
* Matt & Kim (there is no way around their infectious personalities)
* Living Things (if you don't have it)
* Black Keys (if you don't have it and crave some fried chicken)
* Broken Social Scene (more Canadians!)
* Feist (even more Canadian music with a loungey kind of feel)
* LCD Soundsystem (you must have this if you don't already)
* The Streets (see Art Brut and Ghostland Observatory)
* Berlin The Final Countdown (for Gob's theme music)
* Built Like Alaska (if you like hippies)
* Battles
* El-P (hiphop yo yo yo yo you extraordinaire)
* Peter Bjorn & John (Scandinavian extravaganza!)
* Sufjan Stevens Welcome to the Illinois (You will like this.)
* TV on the Radio (you must get this particularly Return to Cooke Mountain)
* New Pornographers (more Canadians, we know, but you will, you will like this.)
* Queens of the Stone Age Hero of Vulgaris (or anything else!)
* Scissor Sisters (for the hell of it)
* Kinky Reina (Mexican Rockers, who'd uh thunk it!)