Christmas is a great time to buy gifts for the music lovers in your life-whether they dread the Christmas number 1 or have a penchant for traditional carols,all tastes are now catered for with plenty of bands bringing out both covers and original tracks. For Folks Sake have produced a lovely compilation album featuring the talents of Caitlin Rose,Fiona Bevan, Laura Boyle, Paper Aeroplanes and more.

Gabby Young has recorded a cover of 'Have yourself a merry little Christmas' with her partner and the lead singer of Revere, Stephen Ellis,download here and read our little interview with Gabby here.

Feminist music site Wears the Trousers have created an old-school annual featuring the  coolest girls from Tori Amos to Emmy the Great, Joan as Policewoman and She Keeps Bees.Bookslam are also publishing their first annual, where each story shares its title with a famous song.

From the States, A Very She and Him Christmas is bound to get you in a joyful spirit.

Back on home soil, folk darling Emmy the Great has teamed up with Ash singer Tim Wheeler for 'This is Christmas', a gorgeous album full of brilliantly written tracks. Christmas Day(I wish I was surfing) and (Don't Call me)Mrs Christmas are two new classics in the making.

New talent Emeli Sande will be releasing a special live version of her single 'Daddy' for Big Issue readers-just buy a copy of next week's magazine for your code-the track will be available 12-18 December.

You can't get much better than a custom-written Christmas song-which is what Kim Boekbinder is offering fans here.

Or if you fancy getting music fans a visual delight, try cult gig organisers God Don't Like It's series of screenprinted posters, or this 'Don't Talk over Music 'print from Pedlars

Still stuck?Just buy a pair of gig tickets for the New Year- we already have some great musicians' gigs listed for January and February,all bound to be sell-outs, so book now.