By now, your brain is probably crammed full with the holiday songs you’ve heard since you were five–and they’re all stuck on repeat, right?

Playing the traditional earworm cleanser, AC/DC’s “Back in Black,” wouldn’t be seasonally appropriate on this day. But maybe the following playlist will help: songs by artists based around D.C., or who at least got their start there, that either speak to the holiday or to the time of year.

• “November Day,” Alice Despard
• “Spider in the Snow,” The Dismemberment Plan
• “I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm,” Last Train Home
• “Could Have Been Christmas,” Tsunami
• “Linus & Lucy,” Danny Gatton
• “Christmas Swing,” Chesapeake
• “The King Is Dead,” Last Train Home
• “Ski Trip,” Tsunami
• “The Ice Of Boston,” The Dismemberment Plan

Merry Christmas!

(Links are to Amazon’s MP3 store or if unavailable there, to iTunes; if unavailable there as well–yes, that remains possible–I pointed to Amazon CD listings. You can also hear most of these on a Spotify playlist.)