It’s that time of year again, when Christmas music can drive you crazy. It’s on the radio, in the stores, and blaring at countless parties. Nothing makes me want to climb a tower with a rifle quicker than premature holiday music. When I heard the first set of yuletide yahoos on WARM 106.9 FM back in October (it seems) I aimed my crosshairs at my radio set to blow it apart like a bowl full of jelly. All Christmas, 24 hours a day? Are you kidding me?

Thankfully, urbanXchange hosts a free Christmas show I can get behind Sunday. Trans Union, Ghosts & Liars and Garage Voice will fill Tacoma’s hippest resale fashion store with perfect pop while cookies and candy canes dance in my stomach.

Trans Union’s passionate ’80s post-punk is wrapped in tight, melancholy ballads sporting a name tag that says Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lights and drawings of Santa Morrissey plastered on the present.

Pull the draw string on Ghost & Liars and listen to some of the most well thought out pop music you’ve ever heard. Honey sweet melodies, radiator-warm cello line and candy canes are their trademarks.

Garage Voice heads down the chimney with emotionally significant, jazz-inspired rock loaded with pretty piano work.

It's free, too. Thank owner Julie Bennett for the early present. â€" Suzy Stump