We’d like to apologize for what happened when we debuted Bang Camaro’s “Push Push (Lady Lightning)” back in June. It’s amazing what a little hyperbole (“mp3 of the decade”) and a catchy thumbnail description (“Polyphonic Spree meets Headbangers’ Ball”) can do in this town: all the sudden the band’s headlining awards shows and getting slapped on the covers of every fishwrap in town.

We were looking for this footage on YouTube back when we named James Brown's historic concert at the Garden in 1968 -- yes, the one he did the night Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated -- the best concert in Boston, ever. The performance, nearly cancelled but eventually broadcast live on WGBH, has been widely credited over the years with sparing Boston from the riots that erupted in many other cities.

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100. Kevin Federline, “Popo Zao”

099. Rihanna, “S.O.S.” With apologies to Vanessa Hudgens’s “Baby Come Back To Me” (“Baby Come Back”), J-Simpson’s “A Public Affair” (“Holiday”), and Jamelia’s “Beware of the Dog” (“Personal Jesus”): best ripoff of the year.

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It's 6:30 a.m. and my six year old daughter is shaking me out of bed. "Where's Camille leaving to?" she says. I have no idea how she knows Camille is going anywhere. Maybe she read the Great Scott calendar like everyone else.

She got a job in New York, I yawn.

"She's moving away to go work there?"

DOWNLOAD: Piebald, "Oh, the Congestion"

Ten years on and no closer to stardom, PIEBALD keep finding ways to get better. Once upon a time they were a band defined by their quirks, by Travis Shettel's archly geektoid sense of humor and his ability to turn a simple melody into a manic obstacle course full of twists, turns, and on-a-dime shifts from jangly art rock to sweeping piano choruses.

Between this and "Dick in a Box," 2006 might be the best year for Christmas parodies yet. Quite frankly, this blows R. Kelly's version away, especially chapter three, which makes South Park look like The Electric Company. Thanks to Brenda at Fenway Recordings for dropping the dime on it.

WATCH: Trapped in the Clauset Chapter 1

1. You always wanted to be at that party where Charlie Brown throws down with Jim Jones. So if you haven't already, point your browser at Lemon-Red, who's come out of hibernation to upload a dastardly X-mas mix from fellow Lab scientists Snack and C'mish. Elf people stand up.

2. Click 5, Christy Carlson Romano crash Q Division holiday bash

IF YOU GO:

THROWED
feat. Spank Rock, Chris Rockswell, E-Marce, David Day and !!!'s Justin Vandervolgen
Harpers Ferry, Allston
10 pm, 18-plus

Year-end lists won't reflect it (SORRY, DUH), but '06 was the year that PAPER broke through and turned hardcore's infamous "the kids" into non-rockist party-music ballers.

Making a shameless ploy to make it onto year-end ballots -- check back later this week for those, btw -- ABERDEEN CITY sent fans and critics a christmas card directing folks to a little holiday treat hosted on their site. The chestnut: a cover of Low's sad, simmering "Just Like Christmas," b/w a slowly-as-the-snow-falls rework of their hit "God Is Going To Get Sick of Me."

First, you should know this about the In Out:

It’s the In Out. Not the In-Out, and certainly not the In/Out. (I learned this the hard way thanks to an e-mailed tongue-lashing from bassist Nick Blakey.)

However, while I’m not sure exactly what the inspiration was for the band’s name, if it was indeed referring to its use in A Clockwork Orange — as in, “a little of the old .

Even before this came on, the entire first half of the new all-Timberlake SNL scanned like it was written explicitly for YouTube. Justin as singing cup-of-soup is damn near classic at this point: you couldn't get more viral without having the soup can sing Webstar and Young B. As for "Dick In a Box," NBC clearly is hoping for another "Lazy Sunday": by the morning after, it was taking center stage on the NBC video page under the title, "A Special Christmas Box."

DOWNLOAD: Los Wunder Twins del Rap, "Feast of Steven" (mp3)

Of the few holiday carols that haven't already been appropriated by R&B hitmakers, "Good King Wenceslaus" looms as the most implausible basis for a hip-hop anthem. Which makes it the perfect foil for Lowell's finest novelty-rap duo — and success is all the sweeter when LWTDR's D-Tension plays off his government name to throw off his own "Feast of Steven" (sic, for the benefit of all our copy-editing thugs).

1. Cop that Mission of Burma product.

2. If you've ever seen Eli "Paperboy" Reed play a live set, you've probably thought to yourself, "Damn, I'd like to download that kid's record collection." Next best thing: he guest-deejayed and spun a shitload of really rare records on PJ's "Galactic Fractures" show, which you can, in turn, download.