Some Christmas music is classic; some is cringe-worthy. Today we celebrate the latter. This is the music you play when you want your guests to leave. Indeed, it is, and nothing sets the mood quite ...

Today on World Cafe, we want to introduce you to someone who knows more about Christmas and holiday music than almost anyone in the biz.For the last 32 years, DJ Robert Drake has been hosting an ...

In fact, right now there are a grand total of two 2024 songs on this week's Holiday 100: Laufey's "Christmas Magic" (No. 53) and a new version of "White Christmas" in which a long-dead Bing Crosby ...

Questions, comments, suggestions or feedback of any kind always welcome: [email protected]. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ... A very tolerable Christmas, with All Songs Considered 2024 ...

Host Bob Edwards talks with Jon Pareles, music critic for the New York Times. Pareles has logged year after year reviewing holiday releases, and says the Christmas music genre does a good job of ...

This year marks 30 years since the release of Mariah Carey's hit, "All I Want for Christmas is You." But have any other pop singles been able to enter the holiday music canon since?

The holiday theme for Jazz Piano Christmas this year was definitely for the adventurous among us. Our three performers placed familiar holiday songs inside masterfully crafted clusters of sound ...

Adrian Quesada throws a psychedelic fiesta. Madison McFerrin sings through the heartache. Durand Jones is thankful for what ...

The Earworm Eraser is a 40-second audio track specifically designed to banish "Jingle Bells," "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and other much-too-catchy seasonal tunes.

This is the music you play when you want your guests to leave. A good Christmas song can set the mood. Others can ruin the mood | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR ...

Mariah Carey (shown performing in New York City in 2014) released "All I Want For Christmas Is You" in 1994, but it took 25 years for the song to reach the top of Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart ...

'Tis the season for a handful of familiar Christmas songs to monopolize the top spots on the Billboard pop chart. But a few newer songs are making a play to join the annual holiday jukebox.