This list was damn near impossible to compile. The criteria: original holiday songs recorded after 1990. There aren't many tunes that qualify, and of the ones that do, few of them are worth listening to. Like fake marshmallow froth atop a cup of instant cocoa, here's the crème de la crème of the less-than-lame holiday songs.
5. Savatage, "Dead Winter Dead": Hails from the 1995 metal album of the same name, which also spawned the overplayed hit "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)." The latter i
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Local girl made good: Houston native Brooke Waggoner charmed her hometown crowd Sunday night.With a charming and agreeable voice mirroring the likes of Colbie Caillat and Ingrid Michaelson, Houston-born Brooke Waggoner opened Sunday's show at JavaJazz, impressing the crowd with the catchy keyboards of "Hush If You Must." Compared to the recorded versions, the songs' richer textures and quicker tempos live made them instantly likeable - 'I Am Mine' was a definite c
Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com.
After last week's Artist of the Week set off a firestorm of offensive - and possibly genius - comments ("FUCK BARNUM AND BAILEYS... FUCK KRYLON... FUCK RESALE SHOPS..."), we set off to find a group whose music was capable of
Skyler Stonestreet is so cute. She started her singing career at a young age singing along to the Olsen twins. This multi-talented young woman who writes her own lyrics and plays everything from the piano to the drums; she's so damn loveable we're still trying to get the taste of unicorns and rainbows out our mouth.
This is by no means an insult, because she's too charming to insult. Stonestreet may be sweet as sugar, but her lyrics deliver just the right dose of sass to know let you know she's
Ask any musician: there is something basically and viscerally masculine about the industry itself, and that masculinity can seep into the most feminine of rocker chicks and indie music queens. That swagger, that attitude, that confidence coupled with soft hair, a pair of soft lips and a softly lilting voice can make any girl fall in love with their favorite female musician. It's called a girl crush, and it's all good.Similar to its kissing cousin, the man-crush, a girl crush isn't so much an
