I present my annual tradition: finding underground or underappreciated holiday music. Basically it’s all Christmas music, with a few songs about New Year’s Day. If anyone has Hannukkah music, contact me and I will be sure to include next year! 

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This is a diverse playlist meant to have a little something for everyone. Feel free to skip around—or listen straight through—to find a new holiday classic. 

Jonwayne – Sticky Bandits
Gutevolk – Carol of the Bell
REMMI – Xmas
Bitch – New Year
FEET – Vegetarian Christmas
Josie Cotton – Every Day Like Christmas 
Mosey – If Christmas Didn’t Exist
Ghost Cousin – What Better Time Than Christmas
Los Lobos – Feliz Navidad
Coco Reilly – Christmas With You
Violet Skies – Two of Us This Christmastime
Oh Wonder – This Christmas
Sløtface – New Year, New Me
Kacey Musgraves feat. Leon Bridges – Present Without a Bow
Gabrielle Aplin & Hannah Grace – December
Mabel – Loneliest Time of Year
Meg & Dia – December, Darling
Now, Now – Lonely Christmas
Oh Land – Wishes
Richard Walters – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes – Christmas Alone
Sufjan Stevens – Lo! How a Rose E’er Blooming
Scott Orr – The Christmas Song
Coyote Eyes – O Come O Come Emmanuel
Samuel Proffitt feat. Allen Tate – Snow in December
Illicit Ghost – Silent Night