Thurs. Dec. 22

 Erin McKeown's new disc features songs like "Santa is an Asshole" and "Christmas (Love It or Leave It)." Suggests a certain spirit about the season doesn't it? The album title makes it a bit more clear: "F*ck That! Anti-Holiday Album." The Virginia-born, Mass.-bred queer folksinger-electro popper will celebrate that release wtih two neatly timed "Anti-Holiday Show" at Club Passim Thursday Dec. 22. She pitches it this way: "Tired of holiday hype? Gritting your teeth until New Year's Eve?" The album is "filled with profanity, irreverance, and just plain bad behavior. 'F*ck That!' is the antidote to all that annoying holiday spirit. It's the world's first anti-capitalist, pro-queer, suspicious of christmas-as-patriotism, sex-positive, not safe for work, multi-ethnic, radical leftist Anti-Holiday record. There is nothing redeeming about Christmas in any of these 10 songs. Please note this album contains adult language and themes completely inappropriate for children. On purpose. McKeown, the 34-year-old Virginia-born and Mass.-based singer-songwriter, is part of the Ani DiFranco/Indigo Girls wing of lesbian feminist pop. She's also worked with Modest Mouse and Bill Frissell; she's a boundary and genre-pusher. And she was selected to be a 2011-2012 fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. (She has a degree in ethnomusicology from Brown.) At Harvard, she will work to connect the worlds of policy, art, and technology while considering questions about how to make a creative life a viable vocation.
Shows at 7 and 9:30. Tix: $20.

47 Palmer St., 617-492-7679 www.clubpassim.org