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

As we head into December 2025, both Brenda Lee and Bobby Helms are in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Holiday 100 — for 1958’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and 1957’s “Jingle Bell Rock,” respectively.

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

The British singer Chris Rea, who wrote the classic song “Driving Home for Christmas,” has died at the age of 74, just days before the festive holiday.

Songs from the soundtrack to ‘Oh. What. Fun.’, new holiday albums by Mickey Guyton, Old Crow Medicine Show, Brad Paisley ...

Whether your music collecting began like many of our generation’s with Columbia House’s legendary 10-CDs-for-only-a-penny ...

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 ...

Taylor Swift handed out cash to the workers at Travis Kelce's Dec. 25 Chiefs game, sparking an emotional reaction from the ...

The best winter albums match the moment when December's frenzy of social activity subsides and real hibernation hours kick in ...

The depth and breadth of the international Christmas songbook continues to astound. This year I’m adding a dozen new tracks, and they’re all over the place genre-wise – soul, punk, country, doo-wop, ...

Chris Rea has died peacefully in hospital just days before Christmas, it has been announced.