Album of the Month: Fender’s Holiday Mix

Considering the amount of repetitive holiday music we hear every year beginning just as the gravy hits the Thanksgiving turkey, it is refreshing when artists come up with something new.

Album Pick of the Month: Gaslight Anthem’s ‘Handwritten’

With the release of their fourth album Handwritten due out on July 23, The Gaslight Anthem will be testing the waters of major-label-dom for the first time. The 11-track effort, produced by Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine and Bruce Springsteen) will be released on Mercury Records.