Last year I wrote a newsletter highlighting some of my favorite pop-punk and emo adjacent Christmas and holiday songs. I am posting the full list here for posterity. The Apple Music playlist will only show the songs available on that platform, but the entire list can be found below. Please add others you like in the replies.
- Acceptance – So This Is Christmas?
- All Time Low – Fool’s Holiday
- All Time Low – Merry Christmas, Kiss My Ass
- The Almost – Little Drummer Boy
- American Hi-Fi – Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) [feat. Mike Herrera]
- Anberlin – Coming Home for Christmas
- Andrew McMahon In the Wilderness – New Year Song
- Bad Religion – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Bad Religion – O Come All Ye Faithful
- Bad Religion – O Come, O Come Emmanuel
- Bad Religion – White Christmas
- Bad Religion – Little Drummer Boy
- Bad Religion – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Bad Religion – What Child Is This?
- Bad Religion – Angels We Have Heard on High
- Bad Religion – American Jesus (Andy Wallace Mix)
- Bayside – Angels We Have Heard On High
- Bleachers – Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call
- Blink-182 – I Won’t Be Home For Christmas
- Blink-182 – Not Another Christmas Song
- Bouncing Souls – Home for the Holidays
- Brenna Red – Punk Rock Christmas
- Butch Walker – Santa’Self (F*ck Your Christmas Party)
- Capital Lights – His Favorite Christmas Story
- Cartel – Christmas Night of Zombies
- Cold Years – Merry Christmas Everyone
- Daphne Loves Derby – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Daphne Loves Derby – Silent White, Christmas Night
- Daphne Loves Derby – Christmas Star
- Daphne Loves Derby – Christmas Lights
- Daphne Loves Derby – Certain End
- Dashboard Confessional – The Only Gift I Need
- Death Cab for Cutie – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
- Eisley – You’re the One I Miss (This Christmas)
- Fall Out Boy – Yule Shoot Your Eye Out
- Fall Out Boy – It Feels Like Christmas
- Fickle Friends – My Favourite Day
- FM Static – Christmas Shoes
- Fun. – Believe In Me
- Fun. – Sleigh Ride
- Goldfinger – White Christmas
- Goldfinger – Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Goldfinger – Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Goldfinger – 12 Days of Christmas
- Good Charlotte – Last Christmas
- Good Charlotte – Christmas by the Phone
- Good Charlotte – Let the World Be Still
- Good Charlotte – Last December
- Good Charlotte – Fairytale of New York
- Great Good Fine Ok & Abigail Barlow – Last Christmas
- Green Day – Xmas Time of the Year
- Half Past Two – Breakdown For Christmas
- Hawk Nelson – Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Hawk Nelson – The Wassail Song
- Hawk Nelson – Up On the Housetop
- Hawk Nelson – The Holly and the Ivy
- Hawk Nelson – Joy to the World
- Hawk Nelson – I Saw Three Ships
- Hawk Nelson – Silent Night
- Hawk Nelson – Gloria
- Home Grown – Christmas Crush
- House of Heroes – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Joy to the World
- House of Heroes – O Holy Night
- House of Heroes – Christmas Morning
- House of Heroes – All I Want for Christmas Is You
- House of Heroes – Silent Night
- House of Heroes – O Come, O Come Emmanuel
- Jack’s Mannequin – The Lights and Buzz
- Jars of Clay – Wonderful Christmastime
- Jars of Clay – Love Came Down At Christmas
- Jars of Clay – O, Little Town of Bethlehem
- Jars of Clay – God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
- Jars of Clay – Drummer Boy
- Jars of Clay – Gabriel’s Message
- Jars of Clay – In the Bleak Midwinter
- Jars of Clay – I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day
- Jason Gleason – Sleighbells and Wine
- Jason Lancaster – All I Can Give You
- Jimmy Eat World – Last Christmas
- Jimmy Eat World – If You Were Born Today
- Jimmy Eat World – 12.23.95 (Acoustic Version)
- Kutless – O Holy Night
- Kutless – This Is Christmas
- Kutless – Breath of Heaven
- Kutless – Mary Did You Know
- Kutless – It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Lindsey Stirling – Time To Fall In Love (feat. Alex Gaskarth)
- Lit – Father Christmas
- The Maine – Ho Ho Hopefully
- The Maine – Santa Stole My Girlfriend
- The Maine – Mr. Winter
- The Maine – Last Christmas
- The Maine – Winter Means Nothing (Without You)
- The Maine – 12.25
- Manchester Orchestra – Blue Christmas
- Manchester Orchestra – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
- Manchester Orchestra – Christmas Eve Can Kill You
- Manchester Orchestra – Christmas Time Is Here
- Manchester Orchestra – God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Manchester Orchestra – Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- Manchester Orchestra – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Manchester Orchestra – I’ll Be Home For Christmas
- Manchester Orchestra – O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
- Manchester Orchestra – O Holy Night
- Manchester Orchestra – Silent Night
- Manchester Orchestra – White Christmas
- Me First and The Gimme Gimmes – Santa Baby
- Millington – Christmas Song (I Don’t Want To Hear Another)
- Millington – Jingle Bells (Millingbells)
- Millington – Little Saint Nick
- Millington – Snow Miser/Heat Miser
- Millington – You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
- MxPx – Punk Rawk Christmas
- MxPx – Christmas Day
- MxPx – Christmas Day (Acoustic)
- MxPx – Christmas Only Comes Once a Year
- MxPx – You’re the One I Miss
- MxPx – Late Great Snowball Fight Of 2006
- MxPx – Christmas Party
- MxPx – Christmas Night of the Living Dead
- MxPx – So This Is Christmas?
- MxPx – It’s Christmas and I’m Sick
- MxPx – 2005
- MxPx – Hold Your Tongue and Say Apple
- MxPx – Gimme Christmas
- MxPx – Another Song About Christmas
- MxPx – Coming Home for Christmas
- MxPx – Auld Lang Syne
- MxPx – Another Christmas
- MxPx – December
- MxPx – Punk Rawk Christmas (Acoustic)
- MxPx – Christmas Day (Acoustic)
- Neon Trees – Wish List
- Neon Trees – Holiday Rock
- New Found Glory – The Christmas Song (Nat King Cole Cover)
- New Found Glory – Ex-Miss
- New Found Glory – Nothing For Christmas
- New Found Glory – Snow
- New Found Glory – We Wish You A Merry Christmas
- New Found Glory – White Christmas
- New Found Glory – December’s Here
- New Found Glory – Somber Christmas
- New Found Glory – Holiday Records
- New Found Glory – Christmas Card
- New Found Glory – Santa Forgive Me
- New Found Glory – Our First Christmas
- New Found Glory – Don’t Fight It’s Christmas
- New Found Glory – It Never Snows In Florida (Holiday Version)
- New Found Glory – For Christmas Sake
- No Use for a Name – Fairytale of New York
- Now, Now – Lonely Christmas
- The Offspring – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
- Paper Route – Sing You to Sleep
- Paper Route – The Sound
- Paper Route – The Music
- Patrick Stump – Merry Spidey Christmas
- POP ETC – Christmas Time Is Here
- POP ETC – All I Want For Xmas (Just My Baby)
- POP ETC – Wonderful Christmastime
- Relient K – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Relient K – Sleigh Ride
- Relient K – Merry Christmas, Here’s to Many More
- Relient K – Angels We Have Heard on High
- Relient K – Deck the Halls
- Relient K – 12 Days of Christmas
- Relient K – Silent Night/Away in the Manger
- Relient K – I Celebrate the Day
- Relient K – In Like a Lion (Always Winter)
- Relient K – I’m Getting Nuttin’ for Christmas
- Relient K – We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Relient K – Santa Claus Is Thumbing to Town
- Relient K – Handel’s Messiah
- Relient K – I Hate Christmas Parties
- Relient K – Boxing Day
- Relient K – Auld Lang Syne
- Relient K – Good King Wenceslas
- Relient K – Silver Bells
- Relient K – God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
- Relient K – O Holy Night
- Save Ferris – Xmas Blue
- Simple Plan – Christmas Every Day
- Simple Plan – My Christmas List
- Slick Shoes – Pass Me By
- Slowly Slowly – Christmas Lights
- Something Corporate – Forget December
- The Matches – December is for Cynics
- This Wild Life – Sleigh Ride
- This Wild Life – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Thousand Foot Krutch – Jingle Bell Rock
- Too Bad Eugene – Here it Is Christmastime
- twenty one pilots – Christmas Saves The Year
- Unwritten Law – Please Come Home for Christmas
- Valencia – How Valencia Stole Christmas
- William Beckett – Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Yellowcard – Christmas Lights
- Zebrahead – All I Want for Christmas Is You
Commentary on some of the songs can be found here, and a text based version of the original playlist is here. I also shared a list of some of my favorite, in general, holiday songs.
I’ll update this list annually when new songs get added.
UPDATE • Dec 6, 2025 @ 6:25 PM