Christmas Music in the News

The movie, written by Heaton and starring Teri Polo and Tess Harper, will air this holiday season on the Hallmark Channel, on a date to be determined. It's a story is about a family in Lakewood whose 17-year-old son has a cardiac episode and needs a heart transplant a week before Christmas. The film was shot in Winnipeg, Canada, in March.

A look at this summer's hottest Indie, Old School, and Headbanging concerts. Indie Mogwai : This band’s surreal, spacey compositions are cinematic in scope.  [9 p.m. June 1, Regency Ballroom, $25] Poor Moon: Members of Fleet Foxes, Crystal Skulls and the Christmas Cards combine delicate folk talents in this new band. [9 p.m. June 1, Brick and Mortar Music Hall, $10-$12] The Temper Trap: The ...

A documentary director and a social worker hatch a new idea: personalized music for every nursing home resident.

A documentary director and a social worker hatch a new idea: personalized music for every nursing home resident.

Although it’s only May, Elaine Stindt can’t wait until Christmas.

JOHN J. MOSER caught the music writing bug in high school when his Led Zeppelin story won an award.

Dianne England remembers the Christmas caroling and singing on television as a teenager.

When you think of Christmas, auto racing might not come to mind. But the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon has turned a mile long race course into a Christmas display featuring more than a million LED lights. NHPR’s Brady Carlson took his family to see the show and has this report. I’m not really a light kind of guy – in fact, the first thing I do when I host All Things Considered is turn ...

Tickets are now on sale for the Nov. 9-Dec. 30 engagement of the 2012 production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. The opulent holiday musical revue, complete with live nativity and high-kicking Rockettes (in their 85th year), features new choreography and favorite numbers that have been part of the show since it began.

Some consider Record Store Day the Christmas for independent music stores. Last year on RSD, Electric Fetus set a sales record.