If you’ve spotted film crews or unfamiliar faces wandering through town lately, you aren’t imagining things—Lowell has ...

Xmas Holidays: the best moment of the year to rest and take a break. Have a veeeeery relaxing Christmas with this music ...

In lieu of a holiday card, Reid Hoffman sent fellow Silicon Valley elites a vinyl record of LLM-generated Yuletide tunes. Merry Slop-mas!

You've heard the A-sides a million times during the holiday season. But what about the B-sides of some holiday classics?

I will be saying 'Merry Christmas.' Deal with it. Re "Get over yourself and say 'happy holidays,'" Dec. 24: Columnist Pamela Hilliard Owens could not be more wrong when she mentions that we should say ...

There's an emotion that is expressed in a lot of Christmas songs: yearning. From Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" to John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," yearning is everywhere in ...

Christmas music fills the air every December, but much of what dominates playlists is remakes of familiar classics. For listeners searching for holiday tracks that feel fresh yet still capture the ...

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“Hello, this is John speaking with his voice. We’re all very happy to be able to talk to you like this, on this little piece of plastic.” In 1963, The Beatles made a short holiday recording for their ...

We take a motorcycle road trip to Wisconsin in our annual search for the true spirit of the season. And, of course, we meet some special guests along the way. Listen to the songs featured on this ...

'Harlequin Live' is a raucous blast, and a worth-the-wait example of Gaga's unending musical curiosity and prowess. She talks about what went into this more intimate but still viscerally thrilling ...

I think the song is a perfectly sentimental jamboree—repetition as a remedy for the innocuous—and I don’t take its opposition too seriously. Like the Beatle naysayers that still dare walk among us, I ...