The folk-pop duo of singer-songwriter/actress Zooey Deschanel and indie musician M. Ward talk about ow one of the most beloved holiday movies of all time, Elf, led to She &...

Band Aid! Band Aid II! The Waitresses! Wham! The Pogues! Pretenders! Hall & Oates (especially Oates)! MTV’s annual Christmas videos! Even Spinal Tap! Join me and John Hughes as we...

Ten seasons ago, the weirdest holiday movie you’ve likely never heard of, Christmas on Mars, by Oklahoma indie-rock eccentrics the Flaming Lips, was released to both bafflement and acclaim (OK,...

When songwriting legend Paul Williams met Muppets mastermind Jim Henson in 1976, after appearing on The Muppet Show, the fateful encounter led to a long and fruitful musical partnership, highlighted...

Thirty-four years ago, on Nov. 25, 1984, new wave’s elite came together to record “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” a now-legendary holiday benefit single for Ethiopian famine relief. Most people...

American Idol Season 3 champion Fantasia’s life struggles have been well documented — in her memoir and accompanying TV biopic Life Is Not a Fairytale, for starters, as well as...

Two and half years ago, in August 2015, Gwen Stefani was in a dark place, as her 13-year marriage to the father of her three children, Gavin Rossdale, whom she’d...