The holidays are upon us. First it’s Thanksgiving and then December with its plethora of celebratory times, including December 25. Indeed, Christmas is just around the corner. And while it can be a ...
Awash in the glow of red and green stage lights, Tim Convy belts out a rendition of “Feliz Navidad” and encourages the audience to sing along. The Ludo keyboardist is dressed in a festive red suit, ...
In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that ...
That’s Rad!, a local pop punk cover band, presented the second annual “A Very Pop Punk Xmas” at the 40 Watt Club Saturday night. The event celebrated the genre of music in holiday fashion. Performers ...
Our critics on 10 new holiday albums from Cher, Robert Glasper, Sabrina Carpenter and more. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz There is no one correct way to celebrate the holiday season ...
Struggling post-punk band the Waitresses dragged themselves off the road and into a Manhattan studio to record -- of all things -- a Christmas song on a hot August day in 1981. Little did they know ...
‘You scumbag, you maggot’: For broken romantics, nothing says Christmas like ‘Fairytale of New York’
Have you ever heard a better opening to a song than that one, from “Fairytale of New York” by MacGowan’s Irish folk-punk band, the Pogues? In just four lines, he’s drawn an indelible scene with ...
Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...
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