11 Best Christmas Playlists
For Christmas 2023 we give you the best off-beat Christmas playlists with of course some favorites thrown in too.
Christmas Monster Mash
Christmas Songs about the Legends and Myths from Christmastime. Featuring artists like: SJ Tucker, Kraja, The Champagne Drops, Vile Electrodes, Nox Arcana, Chris White, Unto Ashes, Tyler, The Creator, Lifebomb
Sky’s Christmas Medley
Holiday music that leans towards upbeat pop songs. Featuring artists like: Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande, John Legend, Sia, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, Sufjan Stevens, Whitney Houston
Anti-Christmas
A nontraditional holiday soundtrack. Featuring artists like: Peach Pit, The 1975, Taylor Swift, blink-182, Weezer, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Panic! At The Disco, The Black Keys.
Boiled with His Own Pudding
A celebration of Christmas that side-steps the commercial and the religious, coming from leftfield – a symphony of difference. Featuring artists like: Low, Rufus Wainwright, The Hives & Cyndi Lauper, The Big Moon, Half Man Half Biscuit, Tim Wheeler
Festive Funk from The Hoof
Merry Xmas from Music to Shake a Hoof. Featuring artists like: Mayer Hawthorne, Aloe Blacc, Black Pumas, The Teskey Brothers, Blondie, Khruangbin, James Brown, Clarence Carter
Songs For The Solstice
There’s just something about celebrating the turn of the seasons. Featuring artists like: The Staves, Noah Kahan, Emancipator, Khruangbin, The Zombies, Queens of the Stone Age, Tyler, The Creator, Bob Dylan.
Songs on a Snowy Solstice
Want the softer sounds of female vocalists on a snowy winter night? Pour yourself a glass of wine and curl up by the fire with female-fronted bands like Mazzy Star and Cowboy Junkies, and singer-songwriters like St. Vincent, Lana Del Rey, Lera Lynn and more.
Suck My Dickens
Jane Asylum presents “Suck My Dickens”, a Jane Does Christmas Again production featuring an 80s, rock and Goth holiday and winter-themed playlist, along with a somewhat amusing Christmas story to warm your cockles.
More Than Less Than Zero
The definitive Generation X mix tape to disappear in Los Angeles ca. 1983. Fuck Christmas with every directly-name-dropped and/or vaguely-hinted-at song in Bret Easton Ellis’s debut novel “Less Than Zero” — plus a couple of surprises.
Jane Does Christmas
Naughty and nice holiday playlist with a spaceman and a mention of mars, Jane Does Christmas is full of familiar and unusual holiday songs.
Stop the Cavalry – Jona Lewie
A Christmas hit in 1980, peaking at No.3 in the UK chart and winner of a prestigious Ivor Novello Award, Stop the Cavalry was an anti-war song for a world living in the shadow of the bomb, harking back to the slaughter of British soldiers on foreign battlefields, pawns in a game played by generals far from the front lines…