Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Bing Crosby. Still the best-selling recording artist of all time: more than one billion served. Read John Petkovic (Sweet Apple, Cobra Verde, Sad Planets, Guided By Voices) in MAGNET on the shirt Crosby made famous on the golf course: ... more info

Chorus.fm — Listen to The 1975 cover "Now is the Hour." more info

Stereogum — The Smashing Pumpkins performed their unreleased Christmas song “Evergreen” and a cover of Bing Crosby’s “Silver Bells” live at Walt Disney World for Disney’s holiday special. The Wonderful World Of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration ... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — The current Hot 100 chart features 20 holiday songs, thanks to Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Andy Williams and more. more info

JamBase — Watch The Flaming Lips' homage to David Bowie and Bing Crosby's 1977 version of "Peace On Earth" and "Little Drummer Boy." more info

Stereogum — If "half a billion views on YouTube" is any criteria to go by, there's really only one candidate for a modern Christmas standard, and by "modern" I mean "recorded after Bing Crosby's lifetime." With all apologies to Run-D.M.C., Low, Cristina, and the... more info

New York Times — The second volume of Gary Giddins’s “Bing Crosby” traces the singer’s career through the war years. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — In the late summer and fall of 1977, the world lost four of the most influential singers America had ever produced — Elvis Presley, Ethel Waters, Bing Crosby and Maria Callas. Presley has never been forgotten; Waters largely is. The ghost of C... more info

NME — The building hosted Bing Crosby’s last recording session The studios have been home to the BBC for 84 years The BBC have announced the closure of their Maida Vale studios. The iconic building has been a BBC staple for …Continue reading » T... more info

New York Times — The popularity of streaming holiday-music classics has made record labels more reluctant to release non-Christmas albums in the final quarter. more info