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51:13 Humbugs may sneer, but filmmaker Mitchell Kezin is obsessed with Christmas music, and he isn’t alone. In his documentary Jingle Bell Rocks!, Kezin hit the road to document the vibrant subculture of holiday music fanatics and the yuletide tunes they love. In advance of our free online screening of his film, we’ll check in with Kezin to hear what place Christmas music has during a pandemic, and talk with him about his pop-culture pilgrimage, where he introduces viewers to the motley crew of merry misfits that worked to reinvent the seasonal soundtrack. Please join us for our free onl...
City Weekly’s conversation with Jingle Bell Rocks! director Mitchell Kezin was an illuminating one, but also frustrating, since he gave us far too many Christmas song recommendations to fit in the piece about his unique, spirited documentary film. So, here we’ve compiled the top ten list of Kevin's favorite Christmas song discoveries of 2020. There’s something for everyone in here, so read on, even if you think you hate Christmas music. Who said Christmas music couldn’t be cool? The fact of Jarvis Cocker doing Christmas music, alongside Feist and Chilly Gonzalez should be more than...
erry Christmas ... I hope you have a white one, but for me, it's blue." That's the opening line of the jazz number "Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)," by Miles Davis and Bob Dorough. Dorough's distinctive, honeyed voice continues with its bebop ease over the tumbling of Davis's instrumentation: "Blue Christmas, that's the way you see it when you're feeling blue / Blue Xmas, when you're blue at Christmastime you see right through / all the waste, all the sham, all the haste / and plain old bad taste." It's a striking and unusual Christmas song, and one that struck a chord for Canadian filmm...