From punk and indie to hip-hop and alternative rock, these unconventional Christmas songs take a different approach to the holidays. The list highlights tracks that favor storytelling, mood and honesty over tradition.

Over the years since Charles Dickens first published A Christmas Carol in 1843, there have been hundreds of adaptations, from silent to sound and animated films to stage productions. Hundreds of people have stepped up to the plate to bring the cold and unhappy Ebenezer Scrooge to life,

The best streaming option currently is Disney+, which is the permanent home for The Muppet Christmas Carol. Disney+ has acquired the rights and is listed as the best holiday films on the streaming platform.

Drinking Christmas songs, romantic Christmas songs, rowdy Christmas songs and spiritual Christmas songs all make this list.

A Christmas Carol is a classic novella written in 1843 by Charles Dickens and was almost immediately adapted for visual performance, first on stage and then on screen. Almost two centuries later, the story of miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his holiday brush with the supernatural is still popular with audiences and has been remade many times over.

When Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol storms into theaters in November 2026 like a ghost ready to teach Scrooge a lesson and reevaluate his lonely and greedy existence, it will bring with it an incredibly talented and diverse cast. Here’s everyone slated to appear alongside Johnny Depp ’s Ebenezer Scrooge in the upcoming adaptation, per Deadline.

Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol has been reimagined by playwright Marie Jones in the setting of Victorian Belfast. It features familiar accents and unfolds against the backdrop of the city's entries and backstreets - and landmarks such as the Oyster Rooms and St Peter's Cathedral.

Greece is steeped in fascinating holiday traditions, with its Christmas carols, or kalanda, being some of the most heartwarming customs.

Born on Christmas Day in 1925, Virginia Carol Rice, nee Mausolf, was the best gift for Joseph and Eva Mausolf, the fifth child of seven. Rice is now 100 years old. She has always used her middle name,

An author hopes to revive a lost Cumbrian Christmas carol that would have likely last been sung in public at the end of the 19th Century. Alan Cleaver discovered handwritten lyrics to an Eskdale Christmas Carol while at a history exhibition in Whitehaven.