We all have our favorite Christmas music. This holiday, The Brian Setzer Orchestra offers to keep your holiday rockin' with their holiday CD, "Christmas Rocks: The Best Of Collection."

The 4-CD “The Soul of Rock And Roll” is an almost overwhelming collection that spans Roy Orbison’s career — including hits, b-sides, soundtrack work and unreleased tracks — in fine fashion.

Dubbed “America’s Orchestra,” the Boston Pops is especially beloved during the holidays, when it performs many of the traditional songs to which people attach fond memories with the holiday season.

From the land down under to San Francisco, and a Christmas movie, too.

The indie rock collective Ra Ra Riot, described as the next Arcade Fire due to their use of the unconventional instrumentation found in many indie rock bands, met in 2006 at Syracuse University.

Sure, stories about aging, death, failed marriages and disgraced presidencies are the last thing you want to see when you’re struggling to keep food on the table. But when it’s this good, it’s worthwhile to give art a chance this holiday season.

Interview with James Franco, co-star of Gus Van Sant's "Milk."

Film chronicles the life and times of the slain San Francisco politician.

It’s a Western, a war picture, a romantic comedy, a family drama, a history lesson. Yes, “Australia” is all those things and more – too much more.

Click below to listen to Britney Spears' newest album, "Circus," a week before its Jive Records release (legally!), courtesy of Imeem.com! Click here for a GateHouse News Service review of "Circus."

As the holiday shopping überbonanza prepares to launch into full blitzkrieg mode, some of pop’s brightest stars are releasing new albums. Both Beyoncé and Britney take a few chances, but while Britney brings little new to the table, Beyonce's alter ego rips up the dance floor.

On a frigid evening Friday, fans of The “Twilight Saga” novels braved the cold to see, at long last, the vampire, Edward, and his beloved Bella in “Twilight."

Kanye West's "808s and Heartbreak" wants to juxtaposition the intricacies of the modern relationship with the simplicity of one of hip-hop's classic weapons, the 808 drum machine. But with too little in the way of soundscapes and too much when it comes to everyone's favorite new toy, the Auto-Tune, it largely fizzles when it should pop.

On Nov. 27, 1978, Dan White, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, entered City Hall, walked to the office of Mayor George Moscone, and shot him in the chest and head. He then walked to the other side of the building, approached City Supervisor Harvey Milk — the first openly gay person to be elected to that level of office — and killed him with the same gun.

The season for scary movies is over, but so few good horror movies get made these days that I felt it was my duty as a film critic to alert you to “The Strangers.”