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Honus Honus Will (Try To) Play Any Holiday Song You Want

Total disaster? Most likely. Entertaining? I’m sure there will be moments.

December 16, 2016

Talkhouse Playlist: Holiday Picks from Band of Merrymakers

Find out what Christmas song made this supergroup cancel their USA Today subscription.

November 29, 2016

Sondre Lerche Talks Christmas Music Fatigue

A musician who wrote a new Christmas song talks about how there are too many Christmas songs.

December 12, 2015

Emmy the Great Talks Yoko Ono and the Flaming Lips’ “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)”

The Christmas single by the Flaming Lips and Yoko Ono is a reminder that music is one of the only environments in which futility cannot exist.

December 11, 2015

Ryan Kattner (Man Man) Will Sing (Butcher) You (Almost) Any Christmas Song You Want

Spend the most wonderful time of the year staring at the Talkhouse Instagram, where Kattner will be caroling (part of) the day away.

December 10, 2015

Dee Dee (Dum Dum Girls) Talks Kylie Minogue’s Kylie Christmas

For our writer, Minogue’s new Christmas album evokes the ghosts of Kylie Past, Present and Future.

December 9, 2015

John Roderick (the Long Winters) Talks the Criteria for a Good Christmas Song

He also shares some of his favorite carols (that don't suck), written by good songwriters with either a sense of humor or a bottomless well of sorrow.

December 8, 2015

Cassie Ramone (the Babies, Vivian Girls) Talks Train’s Christmas in Tahoe

Christmas in Tahoe is a new classic album. December it today!

December 7, 2015

John Roderick (the Long Winters) Talks Christmas Music

(Not actually) hitting it rich with a holiday album, obsessive record collectors and the truth about what Christmas music is really for.

December 20, 2014