Happy holidays! Get ready to have your stocking stuffed with a steamy helping of Dan Savage’s sexy advice. Got a question for Dan? Phone it in! Call the Savage Love Hotline at 206-201-2720.

Welcome to 3-Minute Limit. This week, host Lance Chess celebrates Christmas with the Pogues. Nothing says “fuck all” like an array of good old-fashioned Irish drinking songs to help you drink yourself into a ditch and raise a single digit salute to the yule log of scrutiny foisted toward you by your so-called friends and loved ones.

WARNING: This episode of Mercury music editor Adam Gnade’s Best Show/Worst Show is nasty, heavy, and dark. After being tortured for two months with Christmas music broadcast in every public place you can imagine, Adam decided he needed to fight back with a noise, metal, and punk podcast. This one’s not for… well, it’s not for a lot of people. Featuring selections from Wolves in the Throne Room (pictured below), the Locust, Yellow Swans, and Inca Ore.

All month long, Chas Bowie has been dropping his favorite hiphop jams of ‘06 in his Best of the Year episodes of It’s the Jump Off. This week, Chas ties up all the loose ends with five serious bangers in preparation for next week’s Rapper of the Year episode. This week’s show takes you from New York to Oakland to Memphis, and is 23 minutes of straight fire. Happy Holidays.

This week on The Rock Report, Christine S. Blystone interviews local singer & songwriter Jon Garcia. Armed with a whole crew of talented musicians, Jon Garcia creates songs that combine folk, a tiny bit of country, and a whole lot of rock. If you like what you hear, be sure to check out Jon Garcia December 20—that’s tomorrow night—at the Tonic Lounge with Heirs of the Eiffel Tower and City Vein.

Love… is strange. Not only will it beat you down into a puddle of insecure guts, it will also beat you down so emotionally that you’re actually CRAZY for love! Need proof? Check out this week’s edition of HUMPY’S SOUL SHOW where artists such as LTD, CHI COLTRANE, and NATALIE COLE get all worked up and sweaty over that cruel (yet wonderful) drug called LOVE.

Welcome to the eleventh episode of the Dave Allen podcast series. Join him each week as he explores the best of the Portland music scene. This week, Dave Allen is back from his tour in Europe! Check it out.