The holiday season is upon us (also basketball season, finally). But mostly, it's the season of ugly sweaters, drunk uncles, and, if you're a teenager, enough gift cards to paper your walls because nobody knows what to get you. We here at The Wild Honey Pie are better at Christmas shopping than your great Aunt Mildred, though. We put together a holiday playlist full of classics and indie favorites that will keep your earbuds warm when the weather outside starts to get frightful. There's no better soundtrack to accompany the decking of halls, the nogging of eggs, [...]
Sent out to funders of her upcoming Goldmine project, Nina Hynes (with Fabien Leseure) covers a song from Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas (aka the best Christmas album ever). The album is three-quarters the way t...
In the five years that we've been doing HT, we've never been very enthusiastic about Christmas music, but this year there has been unexpected amount of fantastic offerings from some bands we really dig that would even get The Grinch in the holiday spirit. The latest act to throw their hat in the metaphorical ring is Dawes , who contributed a cover of Vince Guaraldi's classic Christmas Time Is Here to the second installment of The AV Club's Holiday Undercover series. The Laural Canyon-based act turned in quite the sublime version of a tune that [...]
Here is Day 7 of the Holiday Contest. I think no one can go wrong with this one. I am talking about A Charlie Brown Christmas. Who watches the special every year? In my opinion this is the best Christmas/Holiday soundtrack every. From "Linus To Lucy" to "Christmas Time is Here" who doesn't love feeling like a kid again? So I am decided to giveaway the vinyl copy "unopened". If you want to win a copy of the soundtrack. Simply fill out this form and tell [...]
Listen to new Christmas covers by the Civil Wars, David Bazan, Woods, Little Scream, the Bandana Splits, Saskatchewan, Coming Soon, and Aidan Moffat!
It's almost Christmas time! Or, it's almost Christmas time? Or, sigh, it's almost X-Mas time. Whatever your thoughts about the holiday season, it's barrelin' down the pipe and you can either start drinking the egg nog or settle in to your shuttered apartment and wish the whole damn month away. Regardless, Woods as a Christmas gift [...]
Tune in for Noon ET airing and the Midnight ET (9pm PT) airing of My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU ! Turn your dial to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM. You can also listen online with a free trial here . Check out this week's playlist below! The Black Keys - Gold On The Ceiling Dirty Feathers - Midnight Snakes Heartless Bastards - Parted Ways [...]
Here is this week's music chart for the week ending December 4 - 10. This is a first time that a song has return back to #1. Rich Aucoin's was #1 for two weeks on Chart #78 and #79 . This past week the music video for "IT" was dropped and it got a lot of people talking. The music video is a homage of movies Rich grew up watching. It is one fun video to see. So why not have the song return back to #1. There are new debuts [...]
Woods - Christmas Time is Here (Vince Guaraldi cover) Årets jullåt har landat på Pitchfork: finfina Woods har gjort en stämningsfullt jingeljanglig lo-fi-version av "Christmas Time is Here" från Vince Guaraldis utsökta soundtrack till "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Vackert så det förslår. [via Pitchfork ]
Woods Lo-fi folk collective Woods have been feeling in the seasonal mood recently and have decided to give fans an early Christmas present in the form of a cover of 'Christmas Time Is Here' by Vince Guaraldi. If you wondered whether the festive season might cause Woods to deviate from their folky songwriting you'd be, er, wrong - it's another porch singalong here, but it sounds as lovely as ever. There are no sleigh bells as far as we can make out. The band are touring the US this December. You can stream 'Christmas [...]
Originally published in July of 2009, we revisit the You Can't Always Get What You Want Cover Wars with recent renditions from Umphrey's McGee and the cast of Glee. You Can't Always Get What You Want is the closing track on the 1969 Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed . There are some very interesting quotes regarding the drumming on this track included in the book According to the Rolling Stones, you can see the page in question over at Google Books . [...]
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Cal Tjader + Stan Getz + 4 = a jazz album of note.
A summit meeting of some of the finest players in jazz, circa 1958.
Calm, cool, and collected jazz from two influential masters.
Wouldn't you know it — Songblague turns 2 years old and I'm not even around to mark the occasion. I'd say it at least warrants taking a little listen back to SB's first day on planet Internet. It's an intro tune I'm still quite pleased with. I guess now that I'm toddling, I may as well tap into some happy childhood memories. Borrowed memories of course, since I wasn't much of a presence in 1965, when the world swooned to the jazzy pep of the Peanuts' Christmas antics. [...]
Did you guys ever watch that one episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' where Larry doesn't go golfing one day because the weather forecaster said there was a chance of rain in the forecast. Larry had to go to the country club for some reason and finds the weather forecaster playing golf with his buddies only to find that the course was empty and only being used by the weather forecaster + friends. This week, the good weather people pulled a fast one on everybody. They claimed that the roads up to Vail were going to be treacherous with [...]
Apologies all around for my recent unexplained absence. As you can see my last post was on my birthday and, if you can believe it, the linear dissection of events played out like this: big birthday bash into hangover (sizable) into 1/2 sec of recovery into food poisoning into bad stomach flu knocking me on my ass for 5 days. But the good news, I was finally able to get caught up on Mad Men . But now I'm back, and bearing gifts no less; everyone's favorite Peanuts classic, [...]
There's a new number one selling album this week—click through to check out the week's top selling albums (both vinyl & CD lists) at Grimey's New & Preloved Music in Nashville.
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