Charlie Brown

Fourteen years running, A Charlie Brown Christmas LIve in Brooklyn features a live jazz trio performing Vince Guaraldi's iconic soundtrack with the actors matching the original special “word for word and gesture for gesture.“

The original album has gotten a new stereo mix from the original tapes, plus many outtakes from Vince Guaraldi Trio's sessions for the ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas‘ score.

part of Hop Along's new video for "How Simple" is strikingly simiar to a scene in the Peanuts film Snoopy Come Home.

Also: John Waters, Menorah Horah, Murray Hill, Justin Vivian Bond, Cyndi Lauper, Kacey Musgraves, and more.

It's the 50th anniversary of beloved holiday special A Charlie Brown Christmas, which first aired December 9, 1965. It already aired on TV this year, but there's a new 50th Anniversary DVD edition, and it's available for streaming and you can watch below...

Sun Kil Moon at Pitchfork 2014 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) War on Drugs fan Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon, Red House Painters) is releasing another album this year, a Christmas album called Sings Christmas Carols, due out November 4 on his own Caldo Verde label...

Dawes & Jackson Browne @ Zuccotti Park today (photo via ATO) A picture from this afternoon's festivities above. A video from that, and a video of Dawes playing a recent AV Club Holiday Undercover session, below...

DOWNLOAD: Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time is Here (MP3)

DOWNLOAD: Wham - Last Christmas (MP3) DOWNLOAD: ABCQ - It's Christmas Time (MP3) DOWNLOAD: ABCQ - lumen de lumine (MP3) DOWNLOAD: ABCQ - Snowbus (MP3) DOWNLOAD: ABCQ - I wish you love (MP3) Download a few mellow Christmas songs for your non-ironic holiday mix, courtesy of A Band Called Quinn...