Pitchfork

Just because the holidays are over doesn't mean you can pack away your generosity along with those rotting candy canes and the neon green 2OO7 glasses. The season for giving is going on right now, dudes-- and next season too, and, like, always. And with that in mind, the charitable folks and circus-mongers at San Francisco's Three Ring Records have assembled a choice compilation benefiting the homeless.

At the Crossroads: A Benefit for Homeless Youth collects unreleased, hard-to-find, and classic jams from a number of indie favorites, including Calexico (who contribute their version of "All the Pretty Horses", only available prior on a tour EP), Rogue Wave (with a new tune called "Basketball"), Pink Mountaintops (who serve up the unreleased "The Solo Sex") and the Faint (who share Wet From Birth's "I Disappear").

Other contributors include indie old-timers Creeper Lagoon and Bettie Serveert, as well as solid Three Ring acts like Boyskout, the Ebb and Flow, Scrabbel, and the Scattered PAGES (who deliver an innocuously faithful rendition of the Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want", which you may download below).

The compilation hits stores January 9 and every single one of the 12 dollars you spend on it goes directly to At the Crossroads, a San Francisco-based "Street Youth Support Program" that "reaches out to homeless youth and young adults at their point of need, and works with them to build healthy and fulfilling lives."

At the Crossroads: A Benefit for Homeless Youth:

01 The Scattered PAGES - "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want"
02 Rogue Wave - "Basketball"
03 Calexico - "All the Pretty Horses"
04 Minmae - "Holy Grails, Showstoppers"
05 Frankel - "Necessary"
06 The Lonelyhearts - "Overpass"
07 The Ebb and Flow - "Framer Framed (Winslow Turner Porter III Remix)"
08 Ral Partha Vogelbacher - "Silver Mines"
09 Two Seconds - "Make a Run for It (Acoustic Version)"
10 Boyskout - "Jessie James (DJ Kinz Remix)"
11 Rykarda Parasol - "Just Like Gin"
12 The Harbours - "Things You Don't Know"
13 Tom Thumb - "Long Time Coming"
14 Thee More Shallows - "Fly Paper"
15 D.W. Holiday - "Moving On"
16 Creeper Lagoon - "Grocery"
17 Bettie Serveert - "Storm"
18 Scrabbel - "Danger Bears"
19 Scissors for Lefty - "Marsha"
20 The Faint - "I Disappear"
21 Elephone - "Seconds"
22 The Pink Mountaintops - "The Solo Sex"