Cali Tucker returns to us this season with the quiet glow of someone who’s been doing far more than singing; she’s been transforming. When we last met her in September with “Last Name,” she was stepping out from the shadow of legacy and planting a flag in her own artistic territory, a moment that felt like watching a door click open on a whole new chapter. Now, with “Santa Baby” , she walks back through that door carrying something softer, heavier, and far more luminous. N

Some holiday albums ask you to hum along. Others dare you to feel. “JD Days Christmas Anthology” belongs firmly to the latter. Arriving not as a single festive statement but as a fully realized winter universe, it signals a songwriter reaching beyond tinsel and tradition to ask a quieter, braver question: what does Christmas mean when the noise fades? From its very first cinematic breath, the project announces itself as more than seasonal soundtrack. It’s a story, a space, a