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The Hunt for New (Christmas) Music: A double album (kinda) of Christmas music for you to select from. The “COMT VIII (Christmas One More Time, 8th edition) Slow list is just that–Christmas and Holiday Music that is a little lower key than some of the rocking music normally featured. Makes no difference…fast or slow, it’s …
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The Hunt For New Music. Christmas means Christmas Specials. Re-plays of classic old films (“White Christmas“, “Christmas in Connecticutt“, “It’s a Wonderful Life“) and new just-for-the-holidays specials. Here, one of the very best: Michael Buble’s “Home for Christmas Special”, presented in 2011. Like Christmas itself, it’s timeless. Click in, bump it to the flatscreen, run …
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The Hunt For New Music. Christmas means Christmas Specials. Re-plays of classic old films (“White Christmas“, “Christmas in Connecticutt“, “It’s a Wonderful Life“) and new just-for-the-holidays specials. Here, one of the very best: Michael Buble’s “Home for Christmas Special”, presented in 2011. Like Christmas itself, it’s timeless. Click in, bump it to the flatscreen, run …
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The Hunt for New (Christmas) Music: This is the seventh in our series of of posts on the very best music of the Christmas/Holiday season. There are a couple of absolute standouts on this list: The Tractors version of “Santa Clause is Coming to Town”, a live version of “Holiday Road” (theme from National Lampoon’s …
The Hunt for New Music: Christmas One More Time, Playlist VI. Another playlist of great holiday songs. Play it loud. 18 Songs, 1 Hour
It’s not a new version. It’s THE VERSION. The most popular Christmas song of modern times. Thank you, Mariah.
It’s not a new version. It’s THE VERSION. The most popular Christmas song of modern times. Thank you, Mariah.
The Hunt for New Music: We need new music. All the time. And for too long, we have not postyed a new Installment in the Weekend Concert Series. Enough. Here’s one to get things moving in the right direction: it’s the brilliant English musician, Jaime Cullum, featured Live at the Java Jazz Festival, Jakarta. He’s …
Editor’s note: A movie biopic of the rockband Queen and its’ legendary lead singer, Freddie Mercury, opens in theaters today. We have not seen the film yet, but we have seen–and featured, some three years ago–their astonishing concert at Wembley Stadium. You may not get a chance to see the film, but you certainly must …
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There are a lot of great patriotic songs to hear this weekend but there’s one song that sums it all up–Ray Charles’ version of “America The Beautiful”. There’s a long lead in as Ray appreciates one of his musicians, but stay with it. It’s terrific. No further exposition needed. Just listen and enjoy one of …