Holiday playlists change every year, but a handful of Christmas records from the 1950s and 1960s still feel like the season’s default soundtrack. These albums mix lush orchestration, crooner warmth, ...

Classic holiday favorites such as Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You", Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock", Wham!'s "Last Christmas", and ...

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 ...

The change has been driven by technology. In the pre-streaming era, consumers would play Christmas music through CDs and ...

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 ...

From punk and indie to hip-hop and alternative rock, these unconventional Christmas songs take a different approach to the ...

We hear them from one Yuletide after another, the sounds of the season we’ve known and loved for decades. Just how much do ...