I was a skinny Jewish kid in Charlotte, North Carolina spazzing out in the middle of a mosh-pit at the Milestone Club as The Dead Milkmen sang about a bitchin’ Camaro.

I have always loved the DIY ethos of punk and when my friend Dewar Macleod, A.K.A. the professor of punk, frontman for the beloved New Jersey punk band Thee Volatiles, asked my friend Debra Caplan and I to add a Hannukah song to his punk rock Christmas album, we were thrilled to contribute. Here is that track: