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Christmas 2015: A Very Christmas Show

Read More Kat Perkins The Voice's Season 6 Top 5 contestant, Kat Perkins will be in Minneapolis as part of Pride 2015 week. She's scheduled to appear at the Saloon, right next to the Brave New Workshop Comedy …

Like previous years, I will be compiling some 2015 Christmas songs and Xmas-related news for you to enjoy!

Read more Christmas.

KAT PERKINS
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The Voice's Top 5 contestant Kat Perkins has a four night residency over at the Plymouth Playhouse on December 13 and 22. If you're not familiar with the area, Plymouth is west of Golden Valley and south of Maple Grove.

Also note that her new EP A Kat Perkins Christmas, featuring four Christmas classic and one original Perkins composition, is available now. Perkins released her debut album Drive earlier in July 2015.

Tour dates:

12/08/15 St Cloud, MN at Pioneer Place
12/09/15 Anoka, MN at Lyrics Arts
12/10/15 Hibbing, MN at HCC Concert Series
12/11/15 Fargo, ND at Fargo Theatre
12/12/15 Wilmar, MN at Willmar Education
12/13/15 Plymouth, MN Plymouth Playhouse
12/22/15 Plymouth, MN Plymouth Playhouse
02/13/16 Medina, MN Medina Entertainment Ctr

BONUS: Perkins' keyboardist Dan Musselman Holiday album A Modern Christmas is available now and proceeds goes to charity: Water Project.

Read More Mariah Carey So, Carey's Christmas album, Merry Christmas II You, the follow-up to her 1994 Merry Christmas, was released in 2010. Carey decided to re-release Merry Christmas II You this year - as far as I .....

MARIAH CAREY
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Global superstar Mariah Carey recently added three additional dates to her much-anticipated second annual "All I Want For Christmas Is You" residency at the The Beacon Theatre in New York City, due to popular demand.

Presented by Hallmark Channel, the shows will celebrate her iconic Christmas catalog, which includes 1994’s Merry Christmas and 2010’s Merry Christmas II You.

If you recall, Carey's Merry Christmas album is Lara's favorite Christmas album of all time.

Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You Concert Dates:

12/08 Beacon Theatre New York, NY
12/09 Beacon Theatre New York, NY
12/11 Beacon Theatre New York, NY
12/12 Beacon Theatre New York, NY
12/14 Beacon Theatre New York, NY
12/15 Beacon Theatre New York, NY
12/17 Beacon Theatre New York, NY
12/18 Beacon Theatre New York, NY

BONUS: Google Play is offering for FREE. You will need to setup payment information for the free item. It's worth it, I've gotten like 10 free albums so far.

Read More Pandora In a recent Edison's annual audio report "The Infinite Dial", Pandora is miles ahead of their competition for the most popular music streaming service in the United States. .....

PANDORA HOLIDAY
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One of the most powerful music discovery platform Pandora is presenting their Pandora Holiday special concert on December 10th at 36 Basketball City in New York City.

The festive concert event will feature some of the most recognizable and popular rock bands of all time: Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco. Best of all, you can RSVP for absolutely free.

Additionally, Oakland rapper G-Eazy and DJ Cash Cash will open and play between sets.

All Pandora listeners will be able to experience it through a special livestream.... Plus Pandora is offering two unique mixtapes celebrating the event. The first is curated by Fall Out Boy, featuring the band's favorite rock music, and the second features hip hop and was curated by G-Eazy. Both mixtapes are available now on Pandora.

"Pandora's partnerships with artists have risen to a new level over the past 12 months, so it's appropriate to wrap up 2015 with a show featuring dazzling talent with whom we have truly partnered with across the year. We're also elated to be extending our Holiday event to a broader audience for the first time via the livestream," said Lars Murray, SVP Music Makers Group, Pandora.

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W♥M228: Christmas Will Be Magic

W♥M228: Christmas Will Be Magic (28 mins) Read More Kate Bush British singer Kate Bush is at the start of her Before the Dawn residency at Hammersmith Apollo in London. This is her first live performance since her The Tour of Life in 1979, so it's no surprise that within minutes of the announcement .…

This is the Christmas Edition with John and Vu.

News:

Band Aid 30 has the #1 Christmas single in the UK for their remake of "Do They Know It's Christmas?", featuring One Direction, Ellie Goulding, Ed Sheeran, Bono, Sam Smith, Rita Ora, Emeli Sande, Paloma Faith, Sinead O’Connor, Chris Martin and Seal (with Bono being the only singer from the original to take part).

U2 (minus Bono) celebrated World AIDS Day 2014 with a full concert with Chris Martin and Bruce Springsteen.

Christmas time:

Ella Fitzgerald's Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (1960).

Phil Spector's A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector (1963), featuring Darlene Love, The Ronettes, The Crystals, etc.

Song of the show is Kate Bush's "December Will Be Magic Again", is a one-off single released in the U.K. in November 1980.

BONUS:

Original Christmas songs, in recent memory, Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" (as recently covered by Fifth Harmony) and Wham!'s "Last Christmas" (as covered by Ariana Grande).

T.Rex's "Christmas Bop" is still a favorite.

Morrissey has a bad reputation for canceling shows.

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Christmas 2012

Read More Mariah Carey Part three of We♥Christmas, the hits keeps on coming. Lara picks her least favorite Christmas song, as well as thrown in some of her favorites: Mariah Carey's "O Holy Night". .....

Christmas time is almost here, so I've been getting a lot of xmas emails lately. If you recall, I started writing about Christmas releases in November (that's because they have to get the product in stores for Black Friday).

Anyway, as usual, I get so much Christmas-related music that I can't really mention them all.

MARIAH CAREY
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Lara previously mentioned how her favorite Christmas album was from Mariah Carey.

So, Carey's Christmas album, Merry Christmas II You, the follow-up to her 1994 Merry Christmas, was released in 2010. Carey decided to re-release Merry Christmas II You this year - as far as I can see, the track listing is the same as the 2010 version. There doesn't seem to be anything new/different in this new version.

The only thing I can think of the re-issue is for the benefit of the Australian audience… where she is playing a few dates.

01/01/13 Gold Coast, Australia Convention & Expo Centre
01/03/13 Sydney, Australia Allphones Arena

Read More Glee With Season 4 just kicked off last month, here are some of the covers: Adele's "Chasing Pavements", Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe", Imagine Dragons' "It's Time", The Fray's "Never Say Never", mashup of Jennifer Lopez and Lady Gaga's .....

GLEE
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Fans of "Glee" should pick up the new Christmas album, hitting stores today (December 11th). The incredibly popular musical television series selling strong - both on the physical CD and digital downloads.

The new album is entitled, Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 3 and should be in most retail stores (including a massive Target section). The album will contain four new songs, recorded exclusively for this album: "Joy To The World", "Silent Night", "I'll Be Home For Christmas" and "Happy Xmas."

The full track listing for Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Vol. 3 is as follows:

1. Feliz Navidad
2. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
3. Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah
4. White Christmas
5. Jingle Bell Rock
6. The First Noel
7. I’ll Be Home For Christmas
8. Silent Night
9. Joy To The World
10. Happy Xmas

Still can't get enough of Glee? You should pick up Glee: The Music - Season 4 Vol 1, released in November. The thirteen track includes a cover of the popular Psy's "Gangnam Style" song. You can read more about Psy here.

CHRISTMAS IN THE SMOKIES
bluegrasschristmasinsmokies.com

Kicking off tomorrow and continues to December 15th is "Christmas In The Smokies: Bluegrass Festival Announces 2012 Festival."

Bluegrass is not my scene, so looking over their flyer, I didn't really know any of the bands involved. It seems like it's targeted to families and good times.

The Annual Christmas in the Smokies will feature 15 talented artist including: Carolina Road, Your Host Band; Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Marty Raybon, Goldwing Express, Ralph Stanley II, Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press, Gary Waldrep Band, Jerry Butler & The Blu-J's, Remington, Ryde, Bluegrass Mountaineers, The Larkins, Reno Tradition, Mountain Faith, Hart Brothers and Bluegrass Gentleman.

General admission is as little $23 for one day. Children under 12 are free. See their website for full price breakdowns.

Event will take place at:

Ramada Inn & Smokey Mountain Convention Center 4010 Parkway
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863

INVISIBLE CHILDREN HOLIDAY BENEFIT SHOW
invisiblechildren.com

Invisible Children announced their Holiday Benefit show at Los Angeles' Troubadour with help from 89.9 KCRW and Chop Shop Music. The show will take place December 15th.

The main band on the bill is DeVotchKa (with a 7-Piece String Ensemble) with White Arrows, The Colourist, Whispertown and more. Not all the guests have been announced.

The proceeds from this year's show go to Invisible Children's holiday campaign, Come Home For the Holidays, an effort to increase HF radio coverage and defection fliers that will encourage LRA combatants to lay down their weapons and return home.

The first 50 people through the door will receive a limited edition show poster designed by Jon Contino (if you are a later arriver, the posters will also be available for purchase at the show.)

Tickets for the show are $25 and can be purchased at the Troubadour's website.

LEFTOVER CUTIES
leftovercuties.com

Christmas Time Is Here is the new holiday EP from Los Angeles' Leftover Cuties.

The band is currently in the studios recording new music for an upcoming album with producer/engineer Dave Way (Fiona Apple, Macy Gray, SherylCrow) - set to be released in Spring 2013.

You can listen to Christmas Time Is Here on Soundcloud.

Catch Leftover Cuties Live:

12/19 – The Mint – Los Angeles, CA
01/14 – City Winery (with Shelby Lynne) – NY
01/15 – Rockwood Music Hall – New York, NY

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W♥M095: O Holy Night

W♥M095 (7min, 6mb) W♥M095

Part three of We♥Christmas, the hits keeps on coming. Lara picks her least favorite Christmas song, as well as thrown in some of her favorites: Mariah Carey's "O Holy Night".

What's interesting is that there's two different version of "O Holy Night" on her 1994 Christmas album, Merry Christmas. I chose not to use the one with Michael Bolton, but now I'm regretting it as I write this.

If you've been out shopping, you'd undoubtedly notice that Carey has a new Christmas album this year, it's the sequel, Merry Christmas II. I don't have the new album, but if I see a collector's edition for cheap, I may pick it up.

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