Bethany Joy Lenz is a fixture of the Hallmark Channel now, but her career began when she was still a kid. Here's how she got where she is today.

A free Christmas in July screening of a holiday film favorite, a piña colada festival, and more Sarasota area events the ...

With sharp wit and even sharper observational skills, Megan Moroney has recorded some of the very most relatable lyrics in country music in the past few years. Her songs primarily deal with the ups ...

Brittany Ann Tranbaugh is the winner of American Songwriter‘s It’s a Wonderful Write song contest! The songwriter won for “Office Christmas Party,” a song she penned alongside Carsie Blanton and Joe ...

A YouTube account created the fabricated song as one of its "hilarious AI-generated song parodies." In the lead-up to Christmas 2025, a purported risqué song in the style of 1940s or 1950s "oldies" ...

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Dec. 24 (UPI) --Christmas music often brings to mind familiar carols and pop standards that return every December. But over the years, artists across punk, indie, hip-hop and alternative rock have ...

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 ...

Christmas and country music were made for each other. Sure, the classics — from Dolly Parton’s “Hard Candy Christmas” to Merle Haggard’s “If We Make It Through December” — still define the season, but ...

In defense of the sad holiday song. By Melissa Kirsch Perusing painkillers at CVS the morning after Thanksgiving, I should not have been surprised by the telltale clattering of horse hooves thundering ...