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HARK! The Holiday Music Podcast

Dec 26, 2018

Hanukkah and Christmas are done and past for another year, and on this December the 26th we're celebrating Kwanzaa! We add two new Kwanzaa songs to the list: Teddy Pendergrass' smooth, catchy, and a little bit corny anthem "Happy Kwanzaa" and Lovely Hoffman's - well, lovely - "A Kwanzaa Song".


Dec 19, 2018

Our 200th episode is here, and RJ and Ian are once again trying to beat out the best and worst songs on the list! We begin by discussing the safe, reliable picks that we both settled on weeks ago - and then instead present the riskier choices that surprised us in the eleventh hour. Listen in to hear which unique tune by...


Dec 12, 2018

With Christmas less than two weeks away, we're trying something novel and only listening to extremely good music in this episode. These two songs - "Mary's Baby" by Charles Bradley and "Christmas is a Feeling In Your Heart" as performed by Love Colony featuring Six - may not be the greatest holiday songs of all...


Dec 5, 2018

As we hurtle inevitably towards the holiday season and the end of 2018, our usually-jolly co-hosts take an episode to cover some music that speaks to the melancholy that many experience at this time of year. "Reason to Think Aloud" by Dan Mangan is a slow burn of a song containing some poetic lines about loneliness...


Nov 28, 2018

Hanukkah starts at sundown on December 2nd, and we're celebrating with two Hanukkah songs perfect for any indie-folk-rock-heavy holiday playlist! "Hanukkah" by The Living Sisters offers pleasing harmonies about the festival of lights, though its message is a bit muddled - while "Rock of Ages" by Ben Kweller is a take on...