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HARK! The Holiday Music Podcast

Apr 25, 2018

This week, we cover two requests for songs about Christmas wishes - mature, adult Christmas wishes. "My Grown Up Christmas List" by Amy Grant is a sentimental classic that doesn't quite pull our heartstrings, while "I Want a Boob Job for Christmas" by Virginia Kegel is a theatrical romp exemplifying the immature version...


Apr 18, 2018

OK, look. We've run out of funny things to say about April 20th, the weed holiday, here in the episode description. But we will never, ever run out of winter holiday songs about weed: for 4/20/2018, we listen to "Weed (All I Want for Christmas)" by Nellie McKay and "Have a Willie Nice Christmas" by Kacey...


Apr 12, 2018

This week on HARK, we cover two songs by request: the haunting reverie of Loreena McKennitt's "In Praise of Christmas" and the playful brevity of the Squirrel Nut Zipper's "Winter Weather". We also have our biggest disagreement about a song since covering Ian's sworn enemies The Killers!

Thank you to merikus for the...


Apr 4, 2018

In honor of Passover, we're listening to some new music about another Jewish festival - this week features Hanukkah songs released in 2017! Incidentally, both are raps about food - "8 Days of Latkes" by Ben Schwartz (THE Ben Scwartz) and "Bimuelo" by Sarah Aroeste featuring Kosha Dillz.