I rather took the themes and built you might say a concert overture, around the Christmas songs. They're not just carols because in this we end with "Jingle Bells", that is, of course, a secular ...

U.S. troops around the world sing ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ At the request of the NewsHour, the Defense Department produced a music video ... part of a NewsHour Christmas tradition ...

If you stroll into a department store as the leaves fall and temperatures drop, the chances are not zero that you’ll hear Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” blast through the ...

It seems to get earlier every year: the leaves are still on the trees, but the strains of Christmas songs are drifting out of shops, and radio and personal playlists are being made. The big ...

There's no getting around it: Christmas 2020 will be a bit different this year for many people, particularly amateur musicians. Music-making, especially singing, is a big part of traditional ...

October 18, 2024 • NPR Music's Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to this week's most compelling new musical offerings. For October 18, their selections include an array of ambitious ...

October 26, 2024 • The Grammy Award-winning rapper, whose real name is Durk Banks, was arrested in Florida on federal charges that he paid for the attempted 2022 revenge killing of rapper Quando ...