Month: April 2026

(Another Year has G)One Less Lonely Girl

The Used raise voices over abandonment issues when they’re “Alone This Holiday“. Harmonic indie pumped.

Leon Russell sings blues about The coldest place I know in “Christmas in Chicago“. It’s funky because it’s sad.

Also homesick, Leon Mondschein wheels through “Christmas in Hamburg” with AI Motown. I’d recommend cartoons, but–hey is that a BLUE ALERT?!

“Another Lonesome Christmas Eve in San Francisco” takes in the sites and landmarks, but that’s because Milena Wings has no one to share a fireplace with. Jazzy diva blues with a wild, atonal piano solo.

Not quite ready for adulting, K Bibbles tries on “1st (& 2nd) Christmas Alone“. Slow rapping about missing everyone in that new place. Might as well write a song.

SoliMary Man

BoroTone Music tries metal via AI with “Christmas in a Broken Home“. The loneliness here is palpable, if not physical.

AI jazz pop from Leon Mondschein, “Silent Rooms” attempts a pity ballad. Am i crazy, or is this persona?

The Cardoors twiddle twaddle with their low key indie “Christmas by Myself was Not in His Eyes“, a long story about waiting for Mr. Right. (Santa?)

Tony Driscoll and His Yuletide Warblers fool around with what ifs in the hard folk of “It’s Christmas (and I’m Lonely)“. Now i’m wondering, too.

Gary Strickland club rocks “CrackerJack” about losing that special someone. Not to worry, he’s hunky dory.

Dancing with My Twelfth (Month of the Year)

Kelly Clarkson belts out “Every Christmas” as if by sheer volume she could entice you home. Lounge diva hollering.

Tommy Lellan has so much love to give, but is “Alone on Christmas“. Easy listening pop that dares to reveal how much this sucks.

Also hating it, Ben Smith calls out loneliness on the “Feast of Steven“. Dirge-like indie with a sense of the triumphal later on. It’s a journey.

5 Alarm’s “Holly Jolly Lonely” is a bluesy rocking sojourn of sorrow. If a tree is decorated with no one around, does it help?

Bobby Allen & Exceptions miss their baby, crying tinselly “Lonely Christmas Tears“. This in fact is the blues.

All by My Elf

Brian Lim wallows in the alone with the jazzy indie “Season’s Change”, a light metaphor for being left. Then continues with the salsa beat jazz pop “New Year’s Eve”, an invitation to make him plussed one.

Cold, snow-covered footsteps, unenjoyed fire… The Moody Blues lament “A Winters Tale“. Prog indie that asks, if a song is sung in the forest does it make a difference?

Make Like Monkeys take Wham’s “Last Christmas” and reimagines it with a boss retro beat. This is a whole ‘nother way suffer! No one should be lonely at Christmas!

“A Lonesome Prayer” by 3JS is a cowboy pop tribute to the sad sacks who get nuttin’ from Santa’s sack.

Encore! Okay, they’re back with “Found Love for Christmas“–more retro pop on the verge of breaking that whole alonely curse for the holidays.

Heartbreak Hot-elf

L&R rap over the metal of “Single Guys Need Food But Stores Are Closed“. It’s a Christmas reference for those bros who need routine to lead fulfilled lives.

Lloyd and Debby Lytton embody the existential angst of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with their blues ballad “Show Me the Light“. Does anyone know this ’98 cartoon movie?

The Christmas Cards rhyme Christmas with loneliness in their slow-mo pop “Christmas Present“. Sentimental pop leaning into easy listening.

The Eggnog Crew present a “Christmas Miracle” when brandy begins to speak to the loneliest drunk ever. Experimental blues a la Tom Waits. Funny, in a horrible way.

Promising he’s on his way home, Sanford is impelled by you being “All Alone on Christmas“. It’s country pop with just a skoosh of blues. Hope it helps.

I’m So Snowsome I could Die

Static Cadets make a shaggy dog out of “The (new) Christmas Song“, a slow burn of misery and distractedness. Intimate, confessional indie.

Swamp Ass and the Meat Sweats scream up a metal storm when they’re “Alone for the Holidays“. They burn out quickly (with cautious bleeping), so you can breathe after.

Cowboy country time. Dave Dudley makes maudlin with “Lonely Christmas Again“. Some overlap with last month’s without you theme, so let’s make the distinction clear. Missing you is a singular thing. Loneliness is every[one]thing.

Slowing the moodiness, “Alone For The Holidays” pits Adrian Glynn, Nat Jay against the void. More country, now with western. He’s cryin’; she’s bitchin’.

Only the Holly

Chancellor Arnold sings “The Christmas Song” about hurt and emotional distance. But it’s preppy indie with a drunkenly pronounced rhythm. You explain that.

Concave Onion’s “Funky Time Christmas” is technically about an unattended tree and unrequited wishlists, but it stands up via funk. So that’s weird.

Nyco Nemesis wants to share the warmth with you. Why? Because “Winter was Lonely“. New Age indie with atonal girlishness. I don’t know what that means.

“Christmas will be Just Another Lonely Day” pops Brenda Lee contrasting your joy to her boy-lessness. It’s a slow dance. Go figure.

12/25 is the Loneliest Number

Darling statistics like to reveal the great number of people today who suffer isolation in our overpopulated world. Brazil self reports over half the pop is lonely. Social media overusers claim to have no real friends. We’re all in this together, right?

Then there’s the most family-oriented, romantic, friend-gathered holiday of them all: Xmas. God is love and Santa is giving and stores want you to come on back now, y’hear. But for many, this ideal deepens the chill and heightens the emptiness. Those commercials, i’m telling you, really rub it in.

I’m not entirely sure if featuring a month of solstice solitude will achieve cathartic relief for us or drive us toward the beckoning arms of self harm… but, gotta stay busy.

Start with the blues, amiright? Marc Broussard claims to be coming home when it’s “Almost Christmas“. I hope it’s the solution he needs right now. Home can be standoffish.

Metal to balance: “You’re Alone on Christmas Eve” from Aristocorpse is probably BLUE ALERT (mine ears can not discern so, but i’d expect no less).

Also more mood than word, B. Wells (feat. DaVan Official) rap out “Christmas Time!” as if that were a bad thing.

Brad and Barry turn down the indie rock to 11 with the blubbering “I’ll be Alone for Christmas“. Not introspective so much as it is deflated. Catching the mood just by listening, so–affective AF.