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By Justin Cole
Reviews Editor

Music around the holidays can be incredibly repetitive, especially if you work in retail. Seriously, how many times can you hear this Mariah Carey song? It’s harder to avoid than snow in upstate New York on any given day of the year. There is, however, a very sobering performance from Carey live last year at “Christmas In Rockefeller Center.”  Nonetheless, sometimes an artist can take a song and breathe new life into it. The following playlist contains new spins on Christmas classics that you are probably ready to pack away for the holidays.

“Indie Tracks” is the Stony Brook Independent’s series of handcrafted playlists that cater to the daily ups, downs and upside-downs of students at Stony Brook University.