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Christmas is a time for giving, and thirteen of the world's top alternative acts have contributed their radical musical interpretations o f the holiday spirit to O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL an album benefiting Rock For Choice, an organization created -- as stated in the liner notes for the album -- "to mobilize music fans and the music community to stand up for reproductive freedom , encourage voter registration and provide a new platform for pro-choice voices to be heard."
September 19, 1996
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"O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL:
ROCK FOR CHOICEChristmas Album Proceeds To Benefit Rock for Choice
On board for O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL: ROCK FOR CHOICE are-Henry Rollins (doing an eerie reading of Clement Moore's "'Twas The Night Before Christ mas" with sound effects by Joe Cole); Dance Hall Crashers (confessing a flirtation with Santa in "I Did It For The Toys"); Sponge (gleaning the meaning of the holidays in a society in chaos on "ChristmasDay"); Juliana Hatfield (incorporating the melodic s trains of "O Come All Ye Faithful" into her ballad "Make It Home"); Shudder To Think (performing the traditional "Al Hanisim"); Wool (deploying the "Award Winning WOOL Children's Choir" on the ironic "Xmas It's Christmas"); Bush (merging "GoodKing Wencesl as" with strains of "Hey Joe" on "Good King Something or other");Luscious Jackson (finding hip-hop in Bethlehem on "Queen Of Bliss"); MikeWitt and the Crew of the Flying Saucer (pounding out a percussive kinda Christmas on "The Little Drummer Boys"); the Presidents of the United States of America (warbling a spirited new holiday sing-a-long "Christmas Piglet"); Cranes (singing the timeless John Lennon-Yoko Ono seasonal classic "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)"); face to face (updating Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas"); and Deep Forest and Wes Madiko (shining an ambient seasonal light on "Nemene").
Rock For Choice is planning a holiday concert, to take place in November,featuring several of the artists on O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL: ROCK FOR CHOICE < /i> performing songs from the album. The benefit concert will take place in Los Angeles and will be taped for a proposed Rock For Choice Christmas Special.
Rock For Choice -was founded in 1991 by the rock band L7, music journalist Sue Cummings and the national women's rights organization the Feminist Majority. The first Rock For Choice concert -- held in Los Angeles on October 25, 1991 -- featured Nirvana, L7, Hole, and Sister Double Happiness and was an enormous success. In the intervening ye ars, more than 70 Rock For Choice benefit shows have been held across the United StatesO COME ALL YE FAITHFUL: ROCK FOR CHOICE is the latest chapter in the fight for reproductive freedom that Rock For Choice represents.
O COME ALL Y E FAITHFUL: ROCK FOR CHOICE will be in stores October 15.
For more information, please contact Lisa Lashley, Columbia Records, Media, Santa Monica, 310-449-2500
##### For more information about Rock For Choice, please email the organization at R4C@aol.comor write to: Rock For Choice, 8105 West Third Street #I, Los Angeles, California 90048.
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