Akron songwriter Chris Butler never expected to create a holiday classic. Forty years later, he’s still amazed when he hears the tune blaring on the radio, wafting through a mall or playing in a movie ...

Forty years ago, indie label ZE Records released the holiday compilation A Christmas Record, the very first alternative music Christmas album, featuring esoteric offerings by NYC no/new wave artists ...

“But it was such an oddball thing that we didn’t think that anything was going to come of it and promptly forgot about it,” he said. “It was like, ‘Okay, we got it.’ We mollified the label head on ...

Sinkane has gotten together a bunch of his talented friends to cover The Waitresses’ new wave holiday classic “Christmas Wrapping” with proceeds going to The Food Bank for New York City. Nancy Whang ...

As part of their ongoing Hanukkah celebration on social media, Haim have released a hilarious and very 2020 parody of the Waitresses’ 1981 holiday song “Christmas Wrapping.” It’s called “Christmas ...