The holiday season is a time to enjoy favorite pastimes like expanding your credit-card debt, eating way too much food, and arguing with your relatives. And of course, there's the best staple of them all: butchering holiday jingles. Never finding a song they didn't want to shill, iTunes offers an extensive holiday collection ready to aid you in your quest to be merry and croon.
The Freebies (because you know you love free stuff)
Faith Hill, "O Holy Night": Taken from her new Christmas album, Jo
If you're looking to escape the homogeneity of mainstream radio in favor of something a little more distinct, head over to Blind I for the Kids. At the site's top right, it calls itself a "social purveyor of vanguard taste."
That's a crafty way of saying "our taste is better than most, just go with it" - but to be fair, they're not lying. Comprised of eight bloggers posting everywhere from Chicago and San Francisco to Philly and Atlanta (and yes, of course, New York and L.A.), Blind I offers
Do you find yourself listening to the radio and suddenly envying the deaf? Do you long for the days when people had no idea what AutoTune was and sang in a way that didn't remind you of R2D2? Do you miss R&B and soul music that actually sounds like R&B and soul music?
If so, an older fellow by the name of Sir Shambling has some classic gems on his site for you. Self-described as a man with a passion for most forms of black music, the good Sir has amassed a record collection of around 25
...and so say all of us! - Chris Gray, Craig Hlavaty, Dusti Rhodes, Keith Plocek, William Michael Smith, Bob Ruggiero, John Nova Lomax, Ernest Barteldes, Brandon K. Hernsberger, Jef With One F, Michael Arceneaux, Linda Leseman, kris ex, Kathy F. Mahdoubi, Rosa Guerrero, Nick DiFonzo, Jason Ferguson and Shea Serrano
Special guest Drunkard Holden Rushing of Small Sounds
Named after a line in Wilco's "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," L.A.-based music blog Aquarium Drunkard offers an eclectic mix of indie and classic rock, with a few dashes of country, soul and R&B thrown in for good measure. Launched in 2005, the blog's popularity has been steadily rising ever since it was named one of the best music blogs by both Rolling Stone and Yahoo! Music.
Founded by Justin Gage, Aquarium Drunkard gives the self
Despite being branded a hero, "Frat Boy Fresh" Asher Roth has since clarified that he's more so a hero by association. Wednesday, a post on the URB blog claimed that according to his publicist, Roth was involved in detaining a man who made a bomb throat on an Atlanta flight headed for Los Angeles.
The polarizing rapper was en route to L.A. to perform on Last Call with Carson Daly. The Associated Press reported that, as the plane was landing at LAX, an unidentified man announced he had a
