Christmas A Go Go!

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One of the most remarkable releases of this year is that of The Qualities, an unidentified male vocal quartet from the late 1950s. The cat...

We hardly write about Italy. ' Memoria Polaroid ' is a music blog and radio show from Bologna, busy since 2001. "On the morning...

There I was at my Christmas gig playing some old, early 1980s favourites, like Montréal's Rational Youth and I hadn't realised th...

We have completely ignored the Christmas compilations that the Chirp Records label (Check ’em all at their Bandcamp ) from Portsmouth, Rhode...

MERRY CHRISTMAS! An oldie but a groovie: The Gruesomes from Montréal, Québec, a band that is still around and synonymous with Canada...

When you release a Christmas record at the end of September, you run the risk of being overlooked in November, December. And Kees Draaisma, ...

Last year our beloved collegue Christmas Underground already pointed us the way to this utterly superb indie Christmas album from The Happ...

What does it matter if the AI occasionally falters during your AI Christmas show when you are blessed with one of the very best R&B soul...

The Christmas rush has also started in full force at the CAGG headquarters. Add to that the fact that So-Fi (Sophie Reekers) also has a clos...

If you weren't there last week in Paradiso Amsterdam (and why not?!), then you also missed the scoop of their brand new Christmas singl...

This mural depicting Beau Dommage , one of Québec's most popular 1970s bands, is the cover of their eponymous first album, which feat...

Arbor Christmas, we've discussed them here many times and this twenty-fifth (!) edition also contains six beautiful tracks. Of course T...

Ten years of Santa Tell Me , the modern xmas pop classic that shows (over a billion streams on Spotify) that, yes, there ARE new seasonal ...

Duncan Baird , the mastermind behind the Christmas music force that is Winterval , wrote a guestblog on Paul McCartney's Wonderful Chris...

This one's soooo cool! The Living Pins (Carrie Clark and Pam Peltz) have released a Christmas song every year since 2021. And with this...

In 1973 the mighty Merle Haggard and the Strangers recorded the original version of 'If We Make It Through December', Xmas country ...

The best ideas start like this: Last week, Chelsea texted me, "I wish I had thought of it sooner, but it would be fun to do an Urge ...

Yep, we had a vinyl giveaway this year again. A red or green vinyl ten inch record, A Dutch Xmas Party , curated by CAGGs very own Oscar Sm...

In 2013, at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam, I met Mitchell Kezin (he's the tall guy). Mastermind behind Jingle Be...