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A title like A Looney Tunes Sing-Along Christmas is about as far from deceptive packaging as you can get. It’s out front: you should not be expecting a hidden track featuring a selection from the so-far unreleased CHINESE DEMOCRACY by Guns n’ Roses. Nope, what it says is what you get, which ...

If you’re walking through a shopping mall department store this holiday season and hear pleasant sounding Christmas jazz playing in the background, it may very well be the music of Boney James. James music, I hate to say, is very similar to that of Kenny G. Thankfully it seems ...

I think I’ve stated that I hate Christmas music, and generally hate Christmas CDs, with a couple of exceptions. I’ll add Darlene Love’s It's Christmas, Of Course, to my good list, simply because seasonal aspect notwithstanding, you could listen to this bad boy all year long.Love is a relatively unheralded ...

I hate Christmas music. I mean I HATE it. I have a fairly straightforward LP (like, on a record) of John Fahey performing some traditional Christmas songs on guitar; Phil Spector’s Christmas album (a real killer, heh heh); and Christmas CDs by Fats Domino (which I play year round) and ...

In today’s world of music, a band that has been around for more than ten years is pretty impressive. And that’s exactly what this band from Texas has done. Lonestar has gone from originally being known as an only up-tempo group to being one of the better all-around country artists out ...

I personally think Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra may have created the very first psychedelic hip hop rock instrumental Christmas album of all time. Honestly, that is the only way I can think of to describe this thing. The album, A Very Ping Pong Christmas, is chock full of Christmas ...