Flavor Wave’s single, “The Optimist,” arrived less like a declaration and more like someone tentatively drawing back a dusty curtain on a grey afternoon. From West Chester, PA, these five lifelong friends – Kyle Loedel (vocals, lyrics), Matthew Stretch (lead guitar), Patrick Blair (rhythm guitar), Noah Montgomery (bass), and Joshua Speaker (performer/drums) – typically tread alternative rock paths nodding to influences like The Strokes....

With all these talented artists working together on a single track, you can be sure that it will not be anything short of exceptional, lyrically fascinating, and melodically harmonic. "It's Christmas Time" is the name of the new song that Tommy Danger, Dom Brady, and the ladies of One Voice wrote, and it's the ideal Christmas song to get you in the spirit. Warm melodies performed...