Do You Hear What I Hear?

Here's a Christmas cure-all, an ear salve for those who have tired already of hearing holiday songs, and there are many days ahead. Voc...

It's as if jazz singer Etta Jones has been scrubbed from the collective memory, confused with and overshadowed by the more famous Etta ...

Making note Veteran's Day, present here is Darryl Worley who threw aside a college degree in biology and chemistry, and an engagement t...

Lou Donaldson is an alto sax player who cut his teeth on bop. Posted is a quiet blues that feels like a seventh inning stretch with an earl...

The list of musicians affected by the over-shadowed scion curse (regardless how talented one might be, acclaim is still attached to the pare...

Joni Mitchell 's birthday is today. It's hard to over-state her acclaim or impact: AllMusic.com said, "When the dust settles, J...

On this date in 1967, The Beatles finished recording "Blue Jay Way," thereby introducing to the world that there is fog in sunny S...

The late Steve Goodman was a great songwriter, i.e. "(The Train They Call) The City of New Orleans", and here is sample of that i...

For Christian pop that sounds more like Imogene Heap than Sandy Patty, Beckah Shae is likely what the hipsters among the faithful are listen...

James Bay is a folk/popster in the manner of James Taylor, Brett Dennen and David Gray whose contemplative songs evoke a quiet resonance. C...

To say the artist Adrien Orange performing as Thanksgiving is raw, is to understate its naiveté. To say it sounds naive implies it's si...

Styled as a sort of hard-bop tango, "King of the Ghosts" by NY septet Homer Erotic is both breezy and gutsy cruise through a pop s...

via CrackerBarrel.com Here's a  14-hour playlist of songs for Halloween , or songs using the day's tropes as metaphors, much lik...

via  Devangelical.com "Dancing the Devil Away"  by Arden & Ohman, pianists who filmed a number of their Depression Era per...

via Live-Onstage Blog Although not strictly a Halloween song, here's a dressing down of dressing up. Every now and again it's wo...

via Amazon It's scary season. But the only thing to fear is halitosis, so says Marc Bolan of T. Rex in this posthumous release.  You...

Halloween looms like the Angel of Death, so here's kind of surf punk latino rockabilly "Robot Zombie"   from The Benders' ...

Originally on Jethro Tull's "Songs From The Wood" LP, "Ring Out Solstice Bells"  was later repackaged on a off-bea...

via JohnLindberg.se If you were lamenting that '50s rock pioneer Eddie Cochran never did a Christmas record, you may be sated by the...

Of course it's a novelty song, but it's really only an exaggerated reminder that the holidays aren't jolly for everyone. But the...

Nelson Mandela, one of the most influential political figures of the last century, died at 95. His prison-to-president path alone earned h...

Charlie Bertini and Friends – Frosty The Snowman starts as fast, catchy riff on the standard then at 0:40 it grows into a ripping New Orle...

In  "Wonderful Christmastime"  by Dweezil Zappa, freaky guitar bits interrupt this otherwise standard contemporary standard, writ...

via  NeilZaza.com That Neil Zaza has toured as a representative of an amplifier company shouldn't hurt his credibility as a musicia...

via Last.fm A remixed (house-ified) version of Nina Simon's treatment of this song shows up on a few Christmas records, but it's...

via Yahoo.com Funerals began today for children murdered in the mass slaughter incident at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut...

via SmokingGun.com It's a horrible and horrific day at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticutt. Johnny Cash weighs in on the...

Leonard Nimoy was once willing to do anything. He's been an actor, director, poet, photographer and, apropos of our purposes here, a si...

via KidsBritannica.com Ravi Shankar:  April 7, 1920 – December 11, 2012 The sitar master performed in 10 decades (his last show was No...

via NY Daily News Banda superstar Jenni Rivera died in plane crash today. Her song,   "Amarga Navidad" , translates to "B...

Dave Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) via Wikipedia "(Farewell) Jingle Bells"  comes from his "A Dave Bru...

This under-exploited song has a YouTube video of audio with a slideshow of Santa clip art, but here's the song pulled ino the 21st ce...

via Wikipedia.com Members of Led Zepplin were bestowed with Kennedy Center Honors for contributions to the arts -- a recognition that...

via SNCMusic.com The a capella dectet, Straight No Chaser, seasons much of their music with irony and "Santa Claus Is Back In Tow...

via AndrewGold.com   ❄  In honor of today being St. Andrew's Day -- a fete of Scottish nationalism -- here's Andrew Gold (not ...

  via WonderGirlsWorld.com K-Pop (that's "Korean pop" for the uninitiated) doesn't stop at Psy and his earworm ...

via Sufjan.com In this season of joy and giving, love and charity, it may be a bit discordant to learn that a traditional seasonal car...

"Que Verdes Son"  is a mashup of tradition and reinvention of a holiday standard from the surf/latino-billy rebooted remakes from...

The Skatalites The Skatalites – James Bond Moby – James Bond Theme - Moby's Re-version Desmond Dekker – 007 (Shanty Town) << ...

Since retailers have determined it's Christmas time, let's jump right in with the late-too-early Amy Winehouse (which proved to b...