If like Gossip Wolf you’re a dedicated hater of Christmas music, this time of year can be an endless waking nightmare. Every public space is blanketed in treacly tunes celebrating fake holiday warmth. Bah! Humbug! Local label Eye Vybe Records has the right idea: its new cassette compilation, Alone in Logan on Christmas Eve, is refreshingly frank about how grim and miserable this supposedly merry season can be. The album’s eight acts include honky-tonkers Cat Mullins & Them Boys (who contribute the steel-guitar-saturated “Lonely Holiday”) and pop polymath Magic Ian (with the hilariously deadpan anti-gift-giving screed “Digital Friends”). Beginning Monday, December 23, you can buy a copy at Cafe Mustache, Bric-a-Brac, the Burlington, and the Chicago Diner (as well as via Eye Vybe’s Bandcamp). Proceeds benefit Molasses Chicago, a Black and Brown trans and nonbinary collective that hosts an awesome monthly party at Berlin.
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