Thirty years after her last Christmas album, Dolly Parton is back again with the charming and homegrown A Holly Dolly Christmas. Her previous Christmas releases—Once Upon a Christmas with Kenny Rogers in 1984, and Home for Christmas in 1990—were fairly even mixes of traditional…
Our Favorite 21st Century Christmas Songs
The middle of December usually means that Christmas music is unavoidable. Maybe your local adult contemporary radio station playing nothing but the classics, or perhaps those familiar songs can be heard wafting out of downtown storefront. Despite the omnipresence of…
Album Review: Sia – “Everyday Is Christmas”
If you’ve got the pop songwriting chops of Sia, eventually you’re going to try your hand at a Christmas album. Everyday is Christmas (grammar is hers, not mine) is Sia’s eighth album, and unlike many other attempted entries into the…