Listen To This: Christmas 2015
I got a late start listening to holiday tunes this year, what with Hamilton taking up all my available ear-space for the last month or so. I set the show tunes aside long enough to dive into all the Christmas music I could handle, once again turning to Spotify for the most accessible selection. Every year, I’m worried I won’t find enough new-to-me songs to fill a playlist; how many Christmas songs can there actually be? Quite a lot, it turns out, as again this year I had no trouble at all placing song after song. In fact, I placed a song or two, listened through the list and decided…
Listen to This: Christmas 2014
I know very little about music. While friends share playlists of the latest indie acts, my knowledge can be summed up in three categories: show tunes, John Mayer and Christmas music. It’s easy to give me a hard time about any one of those, I understand. Who’s still a John Mayer fan? You willingly listen to show tunes? Don’t you get sick of the same holiday songs over and over again? Me. Yes. Never.
Listen to This: Christmas 2013
To a select few in the know, one of my favorite holiday traditions is building a new Christmas music playlist each year. I’m always listening to holiday music (and I do mean always. Like, in June.), so it only seems natural that I’d have an idea or two of new and different songs worth throwing together for a bit of festive listening. I like to think my mixes aren’t your grandparent’s holiday records. Last year, as I whittled away the winter hours in a basement apartment in Park City, I had all the time in the world to not only craft the playlist but burn dozens of CDs and handwrite…
