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Shine your dancing shoes. The La La Land soundtrack is now online and available to stream in full. While you’re prepping to get your boogieing on, keep scrolling to check out Fred Armisen’s songs about KFC, Elton John’s music video contest, Thurston Moore’s new Can supergroup, and a Big Freedia song about Santa Claus. In other words, all the music news you may have slept through over the weekend.

One of the most anticipated films of 2016 only just now came out, and based on reviews, it’s worth all the hype. We’re talking about Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, the Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling-starring musical with tons of comedy and romance thrown in. It looks charming as heck. In case we doubted that, its soundtrack is streaming in full, including songs sung by both leads. Let the swooning commence.

Fred Armisen doesn’t know how to take a break from comedy. Somewhere between acting in movies, appearing on SNL, writing and starring in Portlandia, creating fake bands, and recording albums, he took some time to write songs about KFC. Armisen wrote a two-song EP that was pressed onto 125 copies of vinyl and then hidden in record stores across the country. If you can’t find one of the copies, have no fear. Both “C-O-L-O-N-E-L” and “Nashville Centric Boogie” are on Soundcloud to stream right now. [Consequence of Sound]

Classic rock and the hits that are tacked onto that genre are timeless. Their music videos? Eh, not so much. Elton John is well aware of this fact and partnered with YouTube to change it. He’s now letting fans create music videos for three of his biggest songs: “Bennie and the Jets,” “Rocket Man,” and “Tiny Dancer.” Technically, those songs were released before the music video era so they don’t actually have videos, but if they did, they likely would be full of cheese (Sorry not sorry). So, submissions are now open each week for filmmakers to submit their own animation, live-action, and choreography to the entries. Read up on the details over at Elton John’s website. [Rolling Stone]

Next year is the 50th anniversary of experimental rock act Can‘s formation. The German group influenced just about every rock, psych, or jam band to exist, so this is a pretty big anniversary, as if the five-decade number didn’t indicate such. To celebrate, London’s Barbican Centre will host a tribute concert series in April entitled The Can Project. The original keyboardist in the band, Irmin Schmidt, will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra for a piece called “An Homage to Can.” Better yet, classic Can songs will be covered by a Can tribute group led by none other than Sonic Youth‘s Thurston Moore. Tickets have already sold out, but we’re willing to bet (See: praying) the event will be recorded and uploaded for fans to watch sometime shortly after. [Consequence of Sound]

Not every holiday song is meant to be played by the fire. Big Freedia dropped a new EP called A Very Big Freedia Christmazz and it is, exactly as expected, full of songs for twerking. From “Rudy, The Big Booty Reindeer” to “Santa Is a Gay Man,” she made sure to cover all topics with a smirk and sarcasm. It’s available to stream right now, and if you want to hear these songs live, grab tickets to her upcoming tour and hope she’ll stay in the holiday spirit long after Santa and his sleigh have flown away. [Rolling Stone]

See you back here on Wednesday for another Music Dispatch!

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