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Holiday songs: The Chieftains, The Bells of Dublin
More holiday albums that don't suck: an Irish Christmas album that is low on schmaltz and high on craic.
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Holiday songs: Boston Camerata, Sing We Noël
Holiday albums that don’t suck, Number 5: eight centuries of ringing, vibrant carols. And you thought Middle English was just for freshman lit.
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Holiday songs: Duke Ellington's Three Suites
More holiday albums that don’t suck: The Duke swings the Nutcracker Suite. Jump, jive, and dance with the sugar rum cherries.
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Holiday songs: A Dave Brubeck Christmas
This late-90s Brubeck recording recaptures the holiday family piano parlor tradition, helping you get out of the holiday bustle and into a meditative mood for the season.
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Holiday Songs: James Brown's Christmas Collection
A fabulous collection of original and funky Christmas tunes from the Godfather of Soul, the Hardest Working Man at the North Pole, James Brown!
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Holiday songs: Low's Christmas EP
Christmas albums that don't suck, Part 1: Slowcore Christmas joy from Low.
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Deep linking strategies for iTunes
There are three ways to deep link to the iTunes Music Store, all now fully supported by Apple. Does this pose a threat to Amazon? Probably not...
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REM at Bumbershoot
Live in concert, R.E.M. breathes new vitality into songs from their whole career and shows that they continued to write great songs across the twenty years and 11 albums after Murmur.
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Wilco at Bumbershoot
Jeff Tweedy is still trying to break your heart, and he’s doing it with a tight live show that showcases the genius of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and the heart of Being There.
The collision of political stagecraft and Barbie, or, questions I’ve never had to ask before in a KB Toys.
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