"What am I gonna sing?" Erykah Badu asked the audience with a smile and a shrug. The challenge facing the performer: transforming one of her barely-still-classifiable-as-neo-soul songs into a country take.

The holiday season is here and what better way to celebrate than with performances from your favorite bands? Seattle radio station 107.7 FM The End couldn't agree more and invited a few friends to join the festivities at the city's WaMu Theater Tuesday night: hometown heroes Death Cab for Cutie, plus the Killers, Cold War Kids, Shiny Toy Guns, and Aqueduct.

Walt Disney Records is gearing up for the September 30 release of Nightmare Revisited, a 20-track collection of cover versions of tunes from 1993's spooky holiday flick The Nightmare Before Christmas. In advance of its release, SPIN.com is streaming the whole album.