This past weekend, for the 18th consecutive year, the modern rock purveyors at Los Angeles's KROQ rang in the holiday season with their Almost Acoustic X-mas show, featuring a lineup pulled from their playlists ... meaning one night of mall-punk (Angels & Airwaves, Paramore), and a second night a little closer to home: Feist, Spoon, Modest Mouse, the Shins, Silversun ...