A West Midlands GP has shared a message of thanks to people who supported her Christmas No.1 campaign with her single as it ...

What makes a particular piece of music get us thinking of the holidays? It’s the use of sleigh bells and a whole lot of ...

Every December, greetings of Christmas, fill the air … Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! From greeting cards ...

For literally decades, The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York has been embroiled in a fierce debate surrounding one particular ...

Social media and ChatGPT are changing the way we use text. Artists are pulling text in different directions in their practice, too. Some examples from recent shows across Goa and New Delhi.

If you need cheering up, listen to the exuberant song “Praises,” by saxophonist Jimmy Greene, who has included us in his long ...

A new comprehensive analysis suggests that the words embedded in songs do far more than simply provide a narrative for a ...

Big Issue caught up with songwriter Paul K Joyce 25 years since Bob The Builder hit Christmas No 1 with Can We Fix It?

“Shake the Snowglobe” and “Pick Out a Christmas Tree” also truncate the verses towards the middle of the song, so that the repetition of the chorus ends up overwhelming the song. It’s awkward to ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

Terranea and the return home The keys on my MacBook click in the quiet of my West Los Angeles apartment. I have not written ...