For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

If I may defer, however briefly, to the wisdom of the late Tom Petty, “Well, it’s Christmas all over again.”And for a lot of people, that means listening to the same old Christmas records all over ...

Some of us prefer our Christmas music on the pensive side, with wistful lyrics about dusky snowfalls and memories. It’s not joy being sought, but permission to wallow in nostalgia. Others relish the ...

From punk and indie to hip-hop and alternative rock, these unconventional Christmas songs take a different approach to the ...

Mariah Carey’s “Merry Christmas” album goes diamond Mariah Carey has reached a historic milestone that few artists ever achieve. Her […] The post Mariah Carey earns her third diamond album with “Merry ...

Country music's Christmas songs are like side dishes at your fancy holiday dinner. Most country fans reach for the standards, but a few will always prefer those specialty treats. Others you may simply ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Christmas is the time of goodwill and bad songs — those same sorry anthems by Slade and Mariah Carey, The ...