It’s back and worse than ever! Yes, you remember when Helen and Mary used to write this for us but then they stopped because the dynamic duo got sick of it but since they are both enjoying their vacation and I alone am responsible for the next EIGHT DAYS!, I’m am resurrecting it. With any luck no one will read this because it sucks
Cat Power just covered the ultra classic song ‘Have A Merry Little Christmas’, and you know what? She managed to reinvent the song, it’s beautiful, chilling, and she sings with a voice to give you lumps in the throat, and I hate Christmas songs
It sounds like a total joke, but it’s nevertheless very true as Epitaph Records is announcing the album for October 29th… so way before Christmas and right on time for Halloween! But apparently this idea has been germinating in their heads for quite some time.
I hate, hate Christmas compilation albums that we get at this time of the year, and I don’t understand why artists keep recording these same Christmas song over and over, what are they thinking exactly?
Driver Friendly just cheapened themselves so much that there is no turning back unless someone scrubs my brain with bleach and I forget I ever heard it. The worse part is how great it could have been if it weren’t written in the back of a Prius on the way to the studio (or basement)
More like a High School cafeteria than the Billboard 200 comes alive, Taylor is dating Harry and Justin has broken up with Taylor’s best friend forever, meanwhile Ed, the perennial guy no one sleeps with is scurrying between TS and 1D mutterring “Don’t call me Ginger”. Is this any way to run the US Top 10? I mean, honestly.
I mean there is Rhianna and Mariah and they’re all well and good but when you get some ‘alt’ bands in on the mix it sounds so much more refreshed and energized. Considering these kids are young enough to still believe in flying reindeer, there’s no doubt that the amplified enthusiasm is sincere.
Say what? 364 other days in the year and this cat wants to be the next Bing Crosby. I figure Buble’ is a lot like Harry Connick Jr, in that they both ripped off the old school swag of the likes of Sinatra and modernized it just a tiny bit.
Paul McCartney is hosting their December 22nd Christmas edition (Martin Short is hosting… Martin Short? Was everybody in the Universe taking an early vacation??). Only two years ago, everybody at rock nyc were fighting over Macca’s lousy performance on SNL, and already we have to go through it again.
the song was a maudlin piece of schmaltz to begin with and the snippit I’ve heard, it is released in the UK December 17th, is unfit for human consumption. Which makes it perfect for the season and assures it a # 1 hit this Christmas
Nate Ruess makes me a-ring-ting-tingle.fun. covered “Sleigh Bells” and it’s so good I could cry. I hit ‘play’ and was just blown away. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but whatever expectations I had, they exceeded. Ruess can literally sing anything and fun. makes this song not a lame Christmas tune, but a legit great dance song
Dan Fogelberg passed away from prostate cancer in 2007, yet will most likely taunt me from the grave every holiday season for the rest of my life. Nobody gets the last laugh on Dan Fogelberg.
On This Winter’s Night – Lady Antebellum – A vision of hell, the breathing embodiment of Scrooge’s old admonishment ” “Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”. With worlds of competition, this includes the single worst versions of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” and “All I Want For Christmas” and “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”. A dreary, dire, humorless slog through worn out chestnuts that are like old horses dragging overweight Christmas tourists from the Mid-West around Central Park.
‘XX’ will include the original album, collectible b-sides, demo tapes recorded in 1991, whereas one of the DVDs will feature their 2010 London reunion free concert – performed as a thank-you to UK fans for making ‘Killing in the Name’ Number One single during Christmas in 2009 – as well as various music videos and the other DVD has the band’s first ever concert!
oining the old friends on some songs will be Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Cliff Richard and Kenny G. Three ouitta four ain’t bad and also, according to MSNBC, “I Think You Might Like It,” is said to be a sequel to “You’re The One That I Want:
