Looking to box up a box for your manically rock-loving loved ones? Or just hoping to wrap up your year by wrapping up a big-ticket item for yourself? For a diehard music fan, nothing says "merry" quite like getting your hands on a retrospective boxed set, whether it includes six discs or 63. (No lie: [...]

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The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, which is more well-known by the acronym ASCAP, collects royalties for songwriters from businesses that  license songs for commercial use. This includes broadcast television, cable television, background music services, restaurants, bars, theme parks, radio stations, …

'Tis the season. "Idol" season, that is--and "Voice" season, and "Sing-Off" season. Yes, many singing-show contestants have holiday music out right now, to bring you warm tidings during those cold and lonely weeks between when "The X Factor" ends on December 20 and "American Idol" relaunches on January 16. If you're making …

Mariah Carey has been performing her holiday classic "All I Want For Christmas Is You" for a whopping 18 years now--the tune was released in 1994--and has given it just about every slant possible over that period of time. However, this year, she's outdone herself with a surprisingly fresh version of the song. On Tuesday …

Richard Marx's new holiday video is a real Christmas miracle for fans of bizarre celebrity sightings. And it's the gift that keeps on giving, since it really requires multiple viewings to recognize all the random familiar faces goofily lip-synching to "Christmas Spirit"--from Richard's 1980s peers Rick Springfield, Olivia …

It's the happiest time of the year, readers, and we welcome you to this week's extra-special, super-good installment of Framed! Like everyone, we're looking forward to Christmas, and we're celebrating by bringing two of our favorite stars, Mariah Carey and Justin Bieber, to our Yuletide blog. Incredibly, we had Mariah in …

Michael Buble is sure to have a merry Christmas. His 2011 album, Christmas, will top the 3 million mark in U.S. sales within the next two weeks. (Current sales tally: 2,749,000.) It will be the first Christmas album to go over the 3 million mark since Josh Groban's 2007 smash Noel. Buble's album is expected [...]

"The Glee Project 2" contestants Dani Shay and Ali Stroker went public with their romantic relationship last week, when Dani released her "One" music video (premiered via Grammy-nominated band fun.'s LGBTQ non-profit organization, the Ally Coalition), which stars Ali as her real-life love interest. My only complaint about …

Run-DMC deserves homage for their 1987 original holiday song "Christmas In Hollis," but rap stars do not need to create brand new pieces in order to spread a little Yuletide cheer. A video of DMX singing classic "Rudolph The Red-Noised Reindeer" is going viral. During a recent stop at New York's Power 105.1, the Ruff [ …

Christmas came early for "Voice" fans, not to mention for Muppets fans, on October 10, when "Voice" coach Cee Lo Green taped his "Cee Lo & Friends" holiday special at Las Vegas's Planet Hollywood resort and brought out some very special friends indeed.  In fact, it was practically a Christmas miracle when a whopping 20 …

The holidays have rarely seemed so sterile

Blake Shelton is hosting his first Christmas special, Blake Shelton's Not-So-Family Christmas, Monday night on NBC--and it promises to be an Oklahoma-sized program full of off-color jokes, rollicking music, and super-cool special guests including wife Miranda Lambert and buddies Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire. However, …

It's barely November, but Season 10 "American Idol" rocker James Durbin is already in the Christmas spirit, giving a headbanging holiday gift of jingle-bell hard rock to his fans. His new Christmas single--a raucous cover of Elvis Presley's "Santa Claus Is Back In Town"--comes out tomorrow (Tuesday, November 13) on iTunes, …

José Feliciano had a huge hit in North America and throughout the Spanish-speaking world with his song "Feliz Navidad", which he penned in 1970. It has become one of the 25 most played Christmas songs across the world and features simple lyrics in both Spanish and English. Considering that the majority of the world's Latino …

Christmas would just not be the same without Santa Claus. His image has changed a bit since the time he evolved from Saint Nicholas, but it's safe to say that he has settled comfortably into his iconic features. If you happen to be a jolly, rotund, older man with a long white beard, wearing a [...]

Bing Crosby's 1942 recording of the Irving Berling penned "White Christmas" is the biggest selling single of all time. The song has sold in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. Berlin wrote the song while relaxing by the pool in a Phoenix, AZ resort in 1940, and Crosby would record and release it two years [...]

It's amazing how Christmas themed  television shows from the 1960's and 1970's, like those made by Rankin/Bass, continue to be such hits year after year. I think a big part of it is due to the fact that parents want their children to have the same kinds of Christmas memories they hold dear themselves. And [...]

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