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

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 ...

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra sing during the taping of "The Dean Martin Variety Show" circa 1967 in Hollywood, California. The list spans decades, beginning with 19th-century carols and leading into ...

With Mariah Carey and Wham! saturating airwaves with their holiday tunes, it’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. But if all you want for Christmas is a reprieve from stereotypical Christmas ...

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 ...

Artists across all genres tend to release Christmas music every year. Sometimes, they compose new original songs for the holiday season. Others choose to put new spins on Yuletide classics. However, ...

Do you know what bobtails and wassailing are? We have experts explain the meaning of those weird Christmas carol lyrics. Many of our most popular holiday songs are from the 19th century, when ...

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 ...

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?