When Bob Goulet married his wife Vera in 1982, they started an annual tradition: sending Christmas cards to family, friends, and fans everywhere. Here are all of them, presented in order and set to his own music. Thanks, YouTube!

The band that helped us believe in a thing called love (at least while singing along in falsetto) decided to make a christmas single during their fifteen minutes of fame. Yes, this video is as bad as you expect.

And just like that, a new internet thingy is born. They lip sync Hall & Oates' (Oates and Hall's?) masterpiece "You Make My Dreams" backwards. That dwarf from Twin Peaks would be so proud.

It's been twenty wonderful years (some more wonderful than others) that The Simpsons have been caricatures of the American dream. What better way to celebrate than in song? Here are the greatest Simpsons musical numbers from the show's auspicious run.

Two great musicians get together and make a great song. Too bad the banter in the beginning of this music video leans more towards forced-and-boring than natural-and-cute.

Initially banned, here is the original video for Sophie B. Hawkins' debut single, Damn! I Wish I Was Your Lover. What the censors didn't want you to see: Sophie's infantile regression; drawing on walls and wearing a diaper.

Clearly the theme of the week is The Sing-Off at Gawker.TV. In recognition of that, today's Cheesy Holiday Retro Jam stars none other than the shows' host, Nick Lachey during his boyband days.

When something comes along that combines the worst aspects of white people, YouTube videos, soundwaves, and human interaction, it's easy to see that Satan has a sense of humor.

It's night two of the epic Sing-off, or The Subtle Train Wreck of 2009. Last night, the show proved to be educational beyond my wildest dreams. Did Nick Lachey and the gang keep it up tonight? HELL YEAH, they did!

This is the story of a diva named Pedro Martell. Martell—a Mariah Carey fanatic—is now a rising YouTube star, thanks to his new Beyoncé video. Which is a shame, because there's much more to love about him.

This may look like a long-haired clown giving you a seductive stare, but it's actually vintage Bono serenading us with a holiday tune. I know people say that U2 were still cool in the 80s, but this video proves otherwise.

How academia should be: "'Hideous Gnosis,' a six-hour theory symposium on black-metal music" at a Williamsburg bar last weekend. Talks included "Perpetual Rot: Obsessive Cycles of Deterioration," on "'liminal death-space' in the work of Xasthur." Screw college. [NYT; Related]

Yes. Eleven god damn pounds of coke, he tried to buy, in Florida. Allegedly! He and two other guys were arrested last week, and now the DEA has released its version of the story, in which a snitch told them earlier this month that Buju et al "wanted to purchase kilogramme amounts of cocaine in the Sarasota area of the Middle District of Florida." Yea, while you're in Sarasota, pick up some coke, k? So the DEA stone cold set them up, undercover style. Allegedly:

Tonight, NBC premiered The Sing-off—a four-day a cappella group competition that was marketed as a cross between American Idol and Glee—and it was amazing, for all the wrong reasons. Here are the six things I learned while watching.

These two girls play "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" so well it makes Tom Hanks' rendition of "Heart and Soul" in Big look like child's play.

Using almost every part of this Jeep, these kids use it to make techno almost palatable. It took two weeks of preparation and seven hours of filming before they got the perfect take. Worth every second.

For all of the millions of words written about Radiohead, soulful is usually not one of them. This homeless man, named "Homeless Mustard," does an acoustic cover with such intensity and passion, it's hard to not get shivers.

The band that put the "boom boom" into our hearts also brought us this holiday classic. George Michael wrote this song in 1984 and released it alongside the lesser-known half the duo, Wham!

Today: we college toured with Harry Potter, celebrated #indierockhanukkah, gifted, and told UTICA to suckit. Finishing a little late, here's your Open Thread. Saturday Night Live is on right now with Taylor Lautner. Commenters, get to it.

Vice: "How To Ruin Music." Missing: "Let Justice remix your song." They're French, too.