Happy New Year! ML rolls out some New Wave holiday songs, good and bad, to ring in 2022.

THE STRAIGHT DOPE:  If you’re sick of the same tired ol’ Christmas music that has been playing on the radio since Halloween, you’ll love our special all-music episode. From borderline NuWave group Elastica to synth pop Gods Erasure to kitschy and clever They Might Be Giants to genre chewing Sonic Youth to golden throated Alison Moyet to jaunty Mono Puff to classic poppy melodic Aztec Camera, the boys play a half dozen NuWave holiday tunes you won’t hear anywhere else.