Some of us prefer our Christmas music on the pensive side, with wistful lyrics about dusky snowfalls and memories. It’s not joy being sought, but permission to wallow in nostalgia. Others relish the ...

That statistic isn’t true, but it’s just plausible enough that it could be. That’s only 25 times per holiday season. That’s what, one trip to Old Navy? Worse still, there are dozens of other songs ...

There’s a reason that listeners seem to get more impatient every year for the Christmas music season to start: Nothing else feels quite like it. The things that make Christmas songs great — whether ...

As we stick a fork in 2024, hosts Robin Hilton and Stephen Thompson set off on another adventure in their annual attempt to throw a holiday party for the ages. This year, we've got a very tolerable ...

We’re in the time of year when the Billboard Hot 100 chart is ruled by Christmas songs. Specifically, there’s Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” and then a bunch of hits from the ’50s ...

For the past four years, JT Griffith has been OPB’s guide to the niche genre of holiday music. Griffith was a longtime Christmas music curator for OPB, KMHD and the Oregon Zoo’s Zoo Lights, and after ...

For most people, Chiristmas was a time for joyful songs. Shane MacGowan went a different route. MacGowan, the lead singer of the Pogues, had plenty of hits, but the one that gets the most airplay, at ...