Sorry about the late post on this one – I got the email ready early last week, and thought I’d posted it here, too… my bad.
This being the last Fun Friday before the holidays, I thought I’d try and tilt the theme that way as much as possible.  Unfortunately, while I did get some end-of-the-year [...]

MercyMe’s rendition of “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” is ambitious, yet somehow still simple.  I think it has something to do with the spare guitar at the beginning, and the fidelity to the traditional melody, at least on the verses.  The choruses are a multi-layered construction that manages not to seem out of place [...]

A couple of months after I wrote the review on the Logitech Freepulse headphones, the power button stopped working, so I had to find a new pair of headphones.
For a while, I made do with a pair of wired headphones, but they’re clearly not geeky enough, so I was looking for a new pair of [...]

The warmth of Colbie Caillat’s version of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” is what drew me to include it in this year’s list.  While the song is normally fairly laid back (and I should know, with 14 different versions perfomed by everyone from Judy Garland to Kermit the Frog), Caillat’s has a beat, even [...]

Sorry for the late posting of this one… I was out finishing my Christmas shopping yesterday and forgot to post.
Today’s song is a re-interpretation of “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” by Casting Crowns.  It seems like every recording I have of this song (I have 5) uses a different melody line, but this [...]

I’m just going to say for the record that whoever wrote the song “12 Days of Christmas” seems to have been a little obsessed with birds.  By my count, at the end of the twelve days, the beloved would have received 184 birds of different, including 42 of these swans.  I don’t know how well [...]

Allow me to tell you a story of technology run amok.  Today’s song was downloaded from the iTunes store as one of their free “tracks of the week.”  Free, mind you.  Unfortunately, Apple encoded (at the time) all their music in a proprietary codec with a DRM wrapper.  Boo.  So, after trying to find a [...]

Back on the 2007 list, I wished that Crash Test Dummies had done a version of The First Noel.  No sooner had I asked than Jeremy pointed out that they had, in fact, recorded that very song for their 2002 Christmas album Jingle All The Way.  Lead singer Brad Robert’s voice does indeed fit well [...]

Today’s song is a mashup of Hark the Herald Angels Sing and Angels We Have Heard On High.  Now, I have a fair number of Christmas remixes, and they don’t always work.  This one, by Dynamo & JP, doesn’t mess around with the melody, which seems to be a feature of the dance versions that [...]

Today’s song is a medley of the Carol of the Bells & Sing We Now of Christmas, as sung by BarlowGirl.  Because of the limited number of songs this time around, there aren’t as many repeat artists as the Month of Music, but BarlowGirl has two songs on the list.  The blending of the two [...]

Two years ago, I did a series of posts leading up to Christmas that I called Month of Music.  Each day, I posted a Christmas song I enjoyed, for 30 days.  I decided to do something similar this year, but I didn’t have enough new music for a whole month, so I decided to countdown [...]

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Women of the Year – It would be easy to dismiss Glamour‘s list of Women of the Year because, well, it’s Glamour.  That would be a mistake, however, as their list [...]