Fa-la-la-la-la, Christmas is here! There are a lot of ways to get into the holiday spirit: You can decorate a tree, bake Christmas cookies, exchange gifts at a white elephant party—the list goes on.

For more traditional and kid-friendly tunes, I keep going back to Martin Sexton’s Camp Holiday. No matter what Sexton is singing, he sounds gleeful, which makes a song like Holly Jolly Christmas fun ...

Country music's Christmas songs are like side dishes at your fancy holiday dinner. Most country fans reach for the standards, but a few will always prefer those specialty treats. Others you may simply ...

The depth and breadth of the international Christmas songbook continues to astound. This year I’m adding a dozen new tracks, and they’re all over the place genre-wise – soul, punk, country, doo-wop, ...

We aren’t really sure why Christmas music is so controversial. Maybe it is its unrelenting ubiquity from Thanksgiving through the end of the year. It could be some of the overplayed, hideous songs ...

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles recorded the famed label's first complete holiday album with 1963's "Christmas With the Miracles," followed by Yuletide classics such as the 1973 star-studded "A ...

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 ...

Christmas songs can give you the feels, but some just make you cringe. From boy bands to chipmunks, here are the 10 worst.

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra sing during the taping of "The Dean Martin Variety Show" circa 1967 in Hollywood, California. The list spans decades, beginning with 19th-century carols and leading into ...

You know Dasher and Dancer and Pran … ugh, you know the rest of it. Yes, Virginia, while there is a Santa Claus, the music of the Christmas season can make you shift from having the feels to the ...