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Zach Cordner / Invision / AP Can the Feds Free Wu-Tang's Album From ‘Pharma Bro’?
With Martin Shkreli’s arrest on securities-fraud charges, there’s new hope that Once Upon a Time in Shaolin might become public.
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Dylan Martinez / Reuters ‘Joy to the World’ Isn't a Christmas Song
The song is synonymous with the holiday, but it wasn’t originally written that way.
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra The Ironic Intensity of ‘Carol of the Bells’
Originally a Ukrainian folk chant about spring, the Christmas song reached its zenith with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s electric guitar-infused adaptation.
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Jeff Zelevansky ‘Feliz Navidad’: How Jose Feliciano Won America's Heart
The Puerto Rican musician wrote the lyrics of his Christmas classic in English to ensure American radio stations would play it.
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AP / Reuters / Joan Marcus / Cash … Our Favorite Songs of 2015
Staff selections, from Drake to Hamilton to Courtney Barnett
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AP The Apocalyptic Fear in ‘Do You Hear What I Hear’
It’s the nativity story, retold during the Cold War.
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Darren Ornitz / Reuters ‘Let It Snow’: How to Quench Holiday Ardor
The classic is the most G-rated entry in the ‘Yule log and chill’ genre, with the exception of one notable cover.
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Reuters ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem,’ From Both Sides of the Atlantic
Even though it has the same words, the carol’s tune is different in Britain and in the U.S.
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Classic Media ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’: Superhero
The eponymous outcast is an archetype unto himself.
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Wikimedia The High Spiritual Stakes of ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’
Satan’s power has led mankind astray, and Annie Lennox, Barenaked Ladies, and 98 Degrees are here to remind us of that fact.
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John Shearer / AP This Is Why You Don’t Sell the One Copy of Your Album for $2 Million
Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin has gone to the notorious “pharma bro,” who seems to be looking for companionship.
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Steve Marcus / Reuters How Coldplay Found a New Way to Be Boring
On A Head Full of Dreams, they’ve lost even the ability to excite with gentleness.
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Track of the Day: 'Never Again'
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NBC The Wiz Live! Was NBC’s Best Musical Yet
Thanks to Mary J. Blige, Ne-Yo, Kenny Leon, and a lot of star power
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Ethan Miller Scott Weiland Was Bigger Than Grunge
The Stone Temple Pilots singer, now dead at 48, brought an old idea of rock stardom to a new era.
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Mario Anzuoni Coldplay’s Super Bowl Show: Inevitable
Like it or not, their halftime booking is a reminder they're the biggest youngish rock band going.
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Another Idea About 2015 Music's 2015-ness
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Mad Decent The Most 2015 Song of 2015
Major Lazer's “Lean On” is the top-streamed song of the year, probably because it encapsulated a lot of its trends.
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Track of the Day: 'That's the Truth'
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Interscope The Rapper of Refugees
What’s M.I.A.’s “Borders” video really about?
