Pretenders News and Photos

Gimme Five: Our Christmas favorites include Nat King Cole, Vince Guaraldi … and Henry Rollins?!?

Tue, December 25 2012 11:50am - Source: Something Else!

There are as many Christmas music traditions as there are stockings hung with with care.

The Popdose 50: Our Favorite Holiday Songs

Mon, December 17 2012 10:49am - Source: Pop Dose

Any other collective of jaded music geeks might have stampeded toward a recent-vintage slab of Xmas irony as our all-time fave holiday hit – "Fairytale of New York," say, or "Christmas Wrapping."

The Pretenders’ 10 Best Songs

Fri, December 14 2012 10:53pm - Source: Stereogum

The Ohio born singer-songwriter and frontwoman of the Pretenders emerged from the teeming hothouse of late 1970′s London like Athena cracked forcefully from the skull of Zeus. Hynde the writer and performer was fully formed and completely wonderful — a distinctly feminine (and feminist) counterpoint to the nearly overwhelming crush of alpha-male performers ranging from Elvis Costello to Joe Strummer to Nick Lowe to the still-looming presence of ex-Pistol John Lydon, beginning the first stages of rebuilding his caustic social critique as Public Image Limited.

Desert Island Discs: Christmas Songs Edition

Tue, December 04 2012 12:45pm - Source: Something Else!

Nat King Cole's timeless "Christmas Song."

Rolling Stones: my favourite song, by Chrissie Hynde

Tue, November 20 2012 8:04am - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

It really captures the druggy, sloppy mood that everyone was in love with in the Seventies, which I think was probably the most beloved era for the Stones.

Xaque Gruber: The Top 20 Best James Bond Theme Songs

Fri, October 19 2012 6:08am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

2012 marks the 50th anniversary of James Bond's cinematic debut, and is proving to be a banner year for the iconic franchise with the highly anticipated feature, Skyfall (November 9) as well as the release of Best of Bond, Capitol's expansive CD set spanning a half-century of remastered 007 music.