Seoul Wanderer – Christmas Carols
Christmas albums are, for the most part, one-offs, and one particular effect of this is that they rarely ever get truly tight.
Eraserheads – Fruitcake
Every Christmas album is, in a way, a concept album. But, conversely, we rarely see any of them that venture far beyond the connotations offered by Christmas itself.
Globalised Christmas and Seasonal Hotspots
Something interesting has happened in the past year when searching for almost any Christmas standard on a streaming platform.
Christmas With Arthur Godfrey and All The Little Godfreys
One of the most wonderful things about listening to the very earliest attempts at Christmas albums is to see a genre take form. Take radio personality Arthur Godfrey.
Heavy Christmas
There’s a fascinating parallel between how traditional Tin Pan Alley pop, on the one hand, and prog rock, on the other, is treated by mainstream music journalism.
Rotary Connection – Peace
You’d hardly expect a hip, critically lauded psychedelic rock band of the late sixties to release a Christmas album.
Elvis Presley – Elvis’ Christmas Album
Perhaps the most unique feature of the rock‘n’roll revolution in the mid-fifties is its cross-market singularity.
A Child’s First Christmas, Or: How Do We Really Understand Music?
I know, of course, that it’s another year of crisis and that Christmas will continue to be indelibly different this year.