Nothing rings in the holiday season quite like Christmas music. As debates on when to begin playing holiday music rage across the internet like wildfire, the actual tunes get lost in the shuffle. For ...

Forty years ago, indie label ZE Records released the holiday compilation A Christmas Record, the very first alternative music Christmas album, featuring esoteric offerings by NYC no/new wave artists ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with the holiday season back once again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than ...

Chris Butler was the least likely person to write a Christmas song, he recently told the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal. During his childhood, he hadn’t found much joy in the holiday. His family, which ...

There’s something truly magical about a classic Christmas song and its ability to fill a person with the Christmas spirit, conjure memories of the kind of holiday you’re meant to dream of when Bing ...

If you're tired of hearing the same old Christmas songs ever year, blame the internet, the music industry and your parents. The likes of Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is You", The Pogue's ...