If I may defer, however briefly, to the wisdom of the late Tom Petty, “Well, it’s Christmas all over again.”And for a lot of people, that means listening to the same old Christmas records all over ...

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

“An Old Fashioned Christmas (Daddy’s Home)” opens with a mother, who is enthusiastically singing about her family’s ...

There comes a point every festive season when it suddenly dawns on you that if you hear the same old Christmas songs one more ...

Some of us prefer our Christmas music on the pensive side, with wistful lyrics about dusky snowfalls and memories. We're not looking for joy, but permission to wallow in nostalgia. Others relish the ...

As a songwriter, Johnny Marks had a pretty good career. Although he penned 25 notable songs and is in the Songwriter’s Hall ...

When entertainer Bing Crosby stepped up to the microphone in New York’s NBC Studios on Christmas Day 1941, many of the tens ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Just a few more days until Mariah Carey, Mr. Grinch and “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” take over radio airwaves. In anticipation, we asked a supersized panel of music makers to tell us about the ...