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  10 Old School Christmas Albums Worth a Listen

  Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  If you appreciate Christmas music at all — if you don't, we're going to have to ask you to leave — you have probably heard every Christmas carol and song known to mankind. And there have been dozens of versions of every tune done in every style of music imaginable...

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  Best Music to Stream With Your Fourth of July Fireworks Viewing Experience

  Friday, June 28, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  July 4 is almost upon us which means fireworks. Continuous booms, crackles and hisses: that's the soundtrack for the evening. Unless you want to expand upon that by adding a specially curated music list to the experience. Whether you set up sparklers in your backyard or better yet sit on...

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  The Simplest Reason People Defend “Baby It’s Cold Outside”

  Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 5:09 a.m.

  I don’t know about you, but one of my Christmas traditions is reading endless hot takes on the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” In fact, I was going to write a “Top 5 Hot Takes on ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’” article as part of my quest to see if I...

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  Holiday Cheer is Great but Christmas Albums are Awful

  Monday, November 26, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Few headlines make me shiver the way “Billy Corgan wants to make a Smashing Pumpkins Christmas album” did. This is not to say that I’m not somewhat interested, on a conceptual level at least, at what a Smashing Pumpkins Christmas song might sound like. I’m not even opposed to them...

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  Turkey Day Pro Tips with Gnar World Order's Pete Hesher

  Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 6:11 a.m.

  You’ve got mere hours left to get the Thanksgiving meal on the table for your family and friends and maybe you need a little 11th-hour help. Martha Stewart is unlikely to waltz into your kitchen, so we’ve asked the next best person to step in and help save the day...

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  Vince Guaraldi's "Thanksgiving Theme" is the Only Song You Need for This Holiday

  Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 6:02 a.m.

  As a music fan, it’s easy to overlook Thanksgiving. Halloween is a bag stuffed with creepy goodies like “Thriller,” “Monster Mash,” “Ghostbusters,” and a personal fave, “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” (co-written by Childish Gambino!) Christmas’ selections are too numerous to count - though we can clearly all agree none is greater...