(ThyBlackMan.com) Christmas Eve always feels different. It is the night when the noise fades, the lights feel softer, and memories seem closer than usual. Before the wrapping paper and the laughter, ...

Like fruitcake and tangled lights, holiday songs show up every year, some nice, some naughty. For the past five decades, several Christmas songs have risen above the tinsel and snow to become true ...

At the height of her career, Mariah Carey took a risk by releasing a holiday song. Given what we know about the singer who has dubbed herself "Queen of Christmas," and the ubiquity of the seasonal hit ...

from left Ma Crow, Jake Speed and Ed Cunningham. Christmas Eve night in 2004, a blizzard hit Cincinnati. Singer Katie Laur was stuck in Kaldi’s Coffee House in Over-the-Rhine when inspiration struck.