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AP LCD Soundsystem to Reunite for Coachella: Too Soon?
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USA Today Sports / Reuters Kanye West’s 2016 Rap Resurrection
“Facts” has him returning to the hip-hop fray after a year of ignoring it.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Like a Rolling Millennial
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Jim Ross / Invision / AP RIP, Lemmy
The Motörhead frontman had been battling an aggressive form of cancer. He was 70 years old.
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Xavier Romero-Frias / Creative Commons The Mysteries of ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’
No one is quite sure what the most rewritable holiday song means.
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Dylan Martinez / Reuters The Adorable Grandiosity of ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’
We’re talking expansive adoration, not cute-puppy adorable.
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Mary Mapes Dodge / University of North Carolina ‘Jingle Bells’: A Racy Drinking Song (for Thanksgiving)
On the uncertain history of the first song to be broadcast from space
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Wikimedia The Cosmopolitan Genius of ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’
The song, one of the “Great Four” Anglican hymns, now has a life outside the church.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’: A Historical Dialectic
Mariah Carey, the great philosopher of love in our time
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Andrea De Silva / Reuters R. Kelly and the Year of Celebrity Semi-Reckonings
Allegations against the singer are making headlines again. But 2015 has shown how little headlines sometimes matter.
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MGM ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’: An Ode to Seasonal Melancholy
The song popularized by Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis captures the bittersweet nostalgia many feel around this time of year.
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CBS ‘Christmas Time Is Here’: A Hymn for the Ages
The 50-year-old song from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is here to stay.
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Wikimedia The Quiet Universality of ‘Silent Night’
The song’s message of peace helped bring about the Christmas truce during World War I.
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Toby Melville 'Sussex Carol’: A Reminder of Christmas Music's Local Roots
Before technology allowed songs to play all over the world, they were distinct from place to place.
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Sony The Glorious Bitterness of ‘Last Christmas’
Breakups can happen anytime. But holiday breakups are special.
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Wellcome Images / Wikimedia ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’: A Literary Christmas Carol
The lyrics, written by Christina Rossetti and set to music by Gustav Holst, imagine a child being born in a desolate climate.
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Max Rossi / Reuters ‘O Holy Night’: A Call to Fall to Your Knees
The Christmas carol’s charm is in its humility.
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CBS ‘You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch’: When Christmas Songs Are Insult Comedy
He’s got spiders in his brain and garlic in his soul.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Case for Hamilton as Album of the Year
This is music that wants to do everything, and succeeds.
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YouTube ‘Baker Street’: The Mystery of Rock's Greatest Sax Riff
The disputed history behind Gerry Rafferty’s 1978 hit
