Elvis Presley poses for a portrait in 1956. The singer's hit version of "Blue Christmas" remains a staple during the holidays. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) In American culture, Christmas is ...

Yesterday I re-discovered a playlist I made for my iPod last year titled "Lonely Christmas." I imagine not everyone sees the attraction in collecting a bunch of morose songs that reference Christmas ...

An animated river runs through Joni Mitchell‘s video oeuvre now, as a 50-year-old song that has been gradually drafted into the holiday music canon, “River,” has just gotten its first music video. The ...

Former Casiotone For The Painfully Alone mastermind Owen Ashworth is about to launch his latest tour under his current guise, ...

“Cool Blue Christmas” is, indeed, cool. It’s actually eight cool things -- compilations of vintage blues, R&B, soul, country and jazz Christmas recordings, with a few rock ‘n’ roll tracks thrown in ...

In American culture, Christmas is often synonymous with joy. Many familiar carols proclaim this message, with “Joy to the World” resounding in thousands of churches, while its secular counterpart ...