Best Christmas songs of all time. 40 holiday classics, ranked

Here are 40 Christmas music classics for your playlist, from Mariah Carey to Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Joni ...
RTÉ Ireland

Behind the music - The WU

Dublin alternative band The WU have released their new single, Off My Head. We asked them the BIG questions . . .
Spin

Deep Cut Friday: ‘Hammering In My Head’ by Garbage

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday ...

The Man Who Wrote Songs for the Muppets and the Carpenters Takes a Bow

Paul Williams is known for his ability to elicit both laughter and tears. This week, he and his decades of music will be ...
The Berkshire Eagle

Corny songs such as 'Monster Mash' were like the cultural comfort food of music

In the late 1950s and through the mid-1960s there was a flurry of corny songs, many with nonsense word refrains.
Louder

"I joined a band because I hated the f****** beach." Shirley Manson doubles down after beach ball rant at Garbage show in Australia

There's a time and a place for beach balls. It has now been firmly established that a Garbage gig is never the place ...
American Songwriter

How “Song to the Siren” Transgressed Tim Buckley’s Folk Into Something Unearthly by Elizabeth Fraser and This Mortal Coil

Russell formed This Mortal Coil, a musical collective featuring label co-founder John Fryer and members of the Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Pixies, Throwing Muses, and more. Though short-lived, the ...