Is Christmas really the saddest day of the year? There’s a whole history of holiday music that explores what it’s like to be down-and-out during the season. Are you mourning absent family members?

Limiting your holiday playlist to your standard “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Deck the Halls” denies you one of the best musical offerings of the yuletide season: sad Christmas songs. Indeed, not every ...

The holiday season is a time of joy and togetherness for many people. However, not everyone has a holly-jolly time when the holiday season comes around. For one reason or another, it’s the hardest ...

"White Christmas," "Silent Night," "All I Want for Christmas," they all reduce me to tears, every year, and I'm not the only one. A quick Google reveals many people feel sad when they hear Christmas ...

For most people, Chiristmas was a time for joyful songs. Shane MacGowan went a different route. MacGowan, the lead singer of the Pogues, had plenty of hits, but the one that gets the most airplay, at ...

Holiday music is getting sadder. Artists like Phoebe Bridgers, Sabrina Carpenter, and Ed Sheeran are driving the shift with sad Christmas tracks as playlists for melancholy holiday moods surge across ...

It’s well-documented that I thoroughly dislike Christmas. Fortunately, I’m in robust company. Don’t believe me? Just check the comments via that link. Despite all of the reasons society tells us to ...

Hot on the heels of LCD Soundsystem's new anti-festive track, Miley Cyrus has provided her own take on the typically cheery fare available to listen to this time of year and shared a new song entitled ...