Norweigan singer/songwriter Uncle's Institution aka Egil Olsen will be counting down the days until Christmas with special exclusive content on his website including "brand new Christmas tunes, other tunes, cover tunes, videos, art, bravo and a whole load of Christmas fun." He'll be posting something new each day and today's treat is an mp3 for "Birds On My Oatsheef", a track written with lyrics by E of the Eels. Go check it out.

Egil's not the only Norde with a Christmas calendar either - Sondre Lerche's got one too, 'cept his has pictures from tour for each day until the 25th with the promise of a big payoff at the end. Go to his website to check it out. In other news, Sondre has confirmed "Two Way Monologue" as the title of his forthcoming record, due out late Feb/early March next year. They say that the title track will be the first single, too.