Alex Amato fell in love with music the first time he heard rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis play the piano. “I was absolutely ...

The best winter albums match the moment when December's frenzy of social activity subsides and real hibernation hours kick in ...

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From Mariah Carey to Gucci Mane, these Christmas albums, EPs, and mixtapes shaped the season and defined the soundtrack of December. Stream the picks here.

White Christmas” is one of the world’s best-selling tunes and continues to be in rotation more than eight decades later ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

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 ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

The Best Christmas Towns Poll launched on Dec. 1 with four festive Arizona destinations going head-to-head to find out which one puts people in the greatest holiday spirit. Prescott, Flagstaff, ...

It’s the most joyous time of year (aka the perfect excuse to cuddle up with hot chocolate and turn on a cozy Christmas movie). Luckily for Netflix subscribers, there’s plenty of festive titles to ...

The group Pentatonix are known for their a capella renditions of Christmas classics. They used to start touring after Thanksgiving, but this year they kicked off on Nov. 8. “We’re like, ‘well, we ...

The Hallmark Channel is far and away the best place to find the corniest, cheesiest holiday movies. And during the Christmas season, that’s just what many people are looking for. They want to light a ...