Christmas music

If you’re looking for Christmas songs with more edge and less glitter, give these five songs a listen.

“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” raised millions of dollars to fight famine in Ethiopia in the 1980s. Now the song is coming back with a new group of stars and new lyrics to try and do the same for the Ebola epidemic.

We love music on The Takeaway, and we know you do to. So it’s no surprise that when we asked, you delivered. A ton of responses this morning to our question: What are your most loved or most hated holiday songs? Wallace Graham in Brighton Beach, N.Y., had this to say: The Christmas song I […]

It’s the week before Christmas, and as usual, we’re celebrating with our annual ?Remixing the Holidays? series. All week long, we’re talking with musicians, music lovers, writers, and you, our listeners, about the best songs of the season. Our series wraps with nine-time Grammy winner Natalie Cole, who talks with us about her new Christmas […]

Maybe it’s Handel’s “Messiah,” or something by Bing Crosby? Or maybe it’s something less conventional, like The Ramones’ “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight).” Whatever it is, everybody’s got their own pick for the best holiday song. We asked you to weigh in: What’s the music you play around this time of year? […]