Every Christmas, without fail, I see The Nightmare Before Christmas, and it's not like I even want to. Since it's considered one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time, I kind of have to, ...

Brittany Ann Tranbaugh is the winner of American Songwriter‘s It’s a Wonderful Write song contest! The songwriter won for “Office Christmas Party,” a song she penned alongside Carsie Blanton and Joe ...

Every holiday season, listeners are swept into John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by a chorus of bright, unmistakably youthful voices. And since the track’s release in December 1971 ...

Blake Shelton is one of country music’s most recognizable stars. With more than 13 million albums sold, 52 million singles, and 30 No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, he’s built a career ...

Christmas and country music were made for each other. Sure, the classics — from Dolly Parton’s “Hard Candy Christmas” to Merle Haggard’s “If We Make It Through December” — still define the season, but ...

In 1940, legendary composer and songwriter Irving Berlin told his musical arranger Helmy Kresa that “White Christmas” was not only the best song he ever wrote, but also “the best song anybody ever ...

On the six-seventh day of Christmas, my elementary music teacher gave to me … a silly holiday song to sing by the tree. Like many of his colleagues around the country, Tyler Bishop, who teaches music ...

The perfect Christmas song sets the mood right away. Our next guest wants to destroy all that. STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: (Laughter). MARTIN: Stephen Thompson of NPR Music has brought us some of his ...

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. It's the holiday season and you know what that means? It's time to break ...

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 ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...