• Thanksgiving Day Music Playlist: stuff your face while stuffing your ears with these eight Turkey Day songs [LISTEN]

    Thanksgiving is, unfortunately, the holiday that most often gets swept under the rug. Nuzzled in between the Hallmark behemoths that are Halloween and Christmas, Thanksgiving by and large got the pass when it comes to traditional holiday carols. Though there are plenty of songs that capture the spirit of being with family or stuffing your face with ridiculous amounts of food, songs purely for Turkey Day are few and far between.

  • READ: It’s Time for Musicians to Form a New Minnesota Orchestra

    Attorney Lee Henderson, a member of the community-based group “SOS: Save Osmo," wrote an editorial urging the musicians and community to work together towards establishing a new symphony orchestra. Here’s an excerpt from his editorial that appeared in the Minneapolis...

  • Women We Love Wednesdays: Metric's Emily Haines

    To do what we can to celebrate women in music and give them the positive recognition they deserve, each week Music Times will introduce you to a female in the music industry whom we love. Singer-songwriters, rappers, DJs, producers, filmmakers, and any woman who is part of the music industry is fair game for this segment. So read on, and get to know the women who continue to wow us. This week we'd like to show off Metric's Emily Haines.

  • The National and 'Bob's Burgers' team up again for a gravy-filled new video

    Brooklyn rockers The National have teamed up with Fox's comedy Bob's Burgers to create a video just in time for the gravy-filled holidays, "Sailors in Your Mouth." The Thanksgiving episode aired last week. Believe it or not the video isn't entirely funny. It has its moments, but it's actually just kind of trippy. It's bizarrely entrancing, as the band (in the form of gravy) spill out of the gravy boat, captained by frontman Matt Berninger.

  • Morrissey is not cool with Obama's annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon

    Morrissey is not hesitant to share his thoughts and feelings about animal rights. This time he's addressing President Obama directly about the annual Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon. Since Thanksgiving in 1989 when George H. W. Bush was in office, a "presidential pardon" is given to one bird, allowing it to live. It does seem like a bizarre tradition, but for Morrissey, it's way more than that.

  • Billy Joel will make a 'historic announcement' next week at Madison Square Garden

    Billy Joel announced that he will hold a press conference at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 3 where he will reveal an "exclusive and historic announcement." No one seems to know what the news will be, and Joel and MSG are keeping their mouths shut. Fuse, the MSG Network and BillyJoel.com will broadcast the announcement live that day.
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