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HARK! The Holiday Music Podcast

Jan 30, 2019

For Groundhog Day, we're celebrating the 90s way, with a little déjà vu! We cover requests from some of our repeat-requesters, digging into "Home Once a Year" by Marshall Burns and "Christmas C'mon" by Lindsey Stirling and Becky G.

Thanks to Listener Jenny and Captain McGloo for these requests!


Jan 23, 2019

This week we listen to two more Christmas songs from the southern hemisphere - "Aussie Jingle Bells" by Bucko & Champs, which is exactly what you would expect, and "Santa Never Made It Into Darwin" by Bill & Boyd, which is maybe more of a bummer than you would expect. FYI, this one is Ian's fault.


Jan 16, 2019

It's our first requests of 2019 (submitted in 2018)! We cover two songs destined for the "mushy middle" of the list, but each one brings us some joy along the way. "Santa Says Relax" by Joe Innes and the Cavalcade is a post-ironic indie tune that makes us wish it was Christmas, while "Christmas in New Orleans" by Rickie...


Jan 9, 2019

RJ and Ian are back from their international holiday travels, and they are SLEEPY. In this first episode of HARK recorded on this side of 2019, Ian explains the Julian calendar, RJ coins some new idioms, and we cover two new year songs - "Same Old Land Syne" by Dan Fogelberg and "New Year's Day" by U2. Yeah.


Jan 2, 2019

We have been informed that we do not cover enough songs from the 1980s, and for our first episode of 2019, we are taking decisive action. Unfortunately for 80s fans, that action does not involve covering songs from that decade. Instead, we're talking about two songs that remind us of the 1980s - "Christmas was Better in...