If you tune in to 103.1 The Wave this week, you might be surprised to hear the Talking Heads and REM replaced by Dean Martin ...

Popular streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music offer curated holiday playlists, while SiriusXM features dedicated holiday channels, including a new one hosted by Jimmy Fallon. Free options ...

The change marked the end of northern Utah’s alternative “The Wave 103.1,” with something “exciting” planned in its place.

For the past four years, JT Griffith has been OPB’s guide to the niche genre of holiday music. Griffith was a longtime Christmas music curator for OPB, KMHD and the Oregon Zoo’s Zoo Lights, and after ...

From Matt Redman’s rich sing-alongs to CeCe Winans’s surprising crossovers, these 2024 releases are getting us in the spirit. Have you ever heard a medley of “Feliz Navidad” and “O Holy Night”? I hadn ...

Christmas is about two weeks away, and country singers have been extra busy this year releasing new holiday anthems to be the yuletide soundtrack all Christmas season. Here are 10 Christmas music ...

Christmas music is a big part of the music industry. John Yang speaks with Nate Sloan, an assistant professor of musicology at the USC Thornton School of Music and co-host of the podcast Switched On ...

Some Christmas gifts keep giving year after year after year. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU") MARIAH CAREY: (Singing) I don't want a lot for Christmas. There is just one thing ...

Is Christmas really the saddest day of the year? There’s a whole history of holiday music that explores what it’s like to be down-and-out during the season. Are you mourning absent family members?

Jam out this season to highlife, Afrobeats, jazz, a cappella, R & B, rap, dance, and hip-hop artists from Nigeria, South Africa, and more. Having listened to hours of African Christmas music, I can ...