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Happy holidays to everyone celebrating! To keep you and your family entertained this Christmas, we've put together a fun little quiz to test how well you know these popular festive songs. Music is ...

It turns out that science is to blame. It all comes down to repetitive lyrics, harmonic dullness, and shrillness. Of course, the fact that many of the same holiday songs are played over and over again ...

This festive tune is what the Piripenguins sing on their big holiday, the date they remember and celebrate when their ancestor Piris first arrived on the beautiful iceberg they call home.

When this song was released in 1961, it was a pivotal time not only for Christmas music, but for America itself—culture was colliding with mid-century modern sensibilities and Christmas was becoming ...