Northeast Ohio's holiday calendar features everything from metal at The Agora to a capella in Akron, and punk rock in Lakewood between December 20-30.

When pianist Jim Brickman released his first Christmas album, "The Gift," in 1997, there wasn't anything else out there that sounded quite like it. His gracefully simple approach to songs of the ...

Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Dec. 18 ...

Direct from his piano in Draper, Tolk’s songs have been streamed more than 750 times million in more than 200 countries.

Christmastime is unofficially "Mariah Carey Season," as the pop star's ubiquitous Christmas hit, "All I want For Christmas," is the most-streamed Christmas song of all time, according to Forbes. But ...

Declaring one Christmas song to be more annoying than all others is a brazen act, given the sheer number of terrible Christmas songs that exist. Let’s get a few of the obvious offenders out of the way ...

With all those Christmas cookies around, it might be a good idea to get your heart pumping this holiday season. The average American gains a pound or two between Thanksgiving and New Year’s — and ...

Jim Goodwin of the Christmas Underground blog returns with 2025’s indie rock Christmas mix, this year titled A Bit of Christmas. Every year for over two decades Goodwin puts together an annual mix of ...

As the holidays approach, Christmas songs have been climbing back up the charts. As of Dec. 9, 13 of the top 20 on Billboard's Global 200 chart are holiday songs—eclipsing pop hits like Taylor Swift's ...

Some of the most popular Christmas songs, including “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” and “Frosty the Snowman” have Cincinnati roots. We have updated a Cincinnati Christmas playlist from 2015, adding a ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

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