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Today’s playlist celebrates 4/20 and the April 20 birthdays of Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Tito Puente, Luther Vandross, James White, Johnny Tillotson, Alela Diane, Justin Warfield, and Ecstasy Passion & Pain’s Barbara Roy; and the April 21 birthdays of The Cure’s Robert Smith, The Stooges’ Iggy Pop, Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins, Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy’s Michael Franti, The Louvin Brothers’ Ira Louvin, Patti LuPone, and Hedwig & The Angry Inch’s John Cameron Mitchell.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 17 birthdays of Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley, Liz Phair, Tool’s Maynard Keenan, Afrika Bambaataa, Spice Girls’ Victoria Beckham, Billy Fury, Redman, Jan Hammer, Michael Sembello, and Chris Barber; the April 18 birthdays of Onyx’s Fredro Starr, Aminé, and Polly Brown; and the April 19 birthdays of The Association’s Larry Ramos, The Turtles’ Mark Volman, Buchanan & Goodman’s Dickie Goodman, New Seekers’ Eve Graham, and Tim Curry.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 16 birthdays of Gerry Rafferty, Dusty Springfield, Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett, Chance the Rapper, The Blue Nile’s Paul Buchanan, Minor Threat’s Ian MacKaye, Henry Mancini, Soul Asylum’s Dave Pirner, Foghat’s David Peverett, Chaka Demus, Bobby Vinton, Roy Hamilton, Herbie Mann, Selena, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner, Gabrielle, Akon, Gerardo, and Johnny Silver.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 14 birthdays of Deep Purple’s Rtichie Blackmore, Arcade Fire’s Win Butler, Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Loretta Lynn, Edison Lighthouse/The Pipkins’ Tony Burrows, The Rivieras’ Marty “Bo” Fortson, Da Brat, and Brewer & Shipley’s Mike Brewer; the April 15 birthdays of The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney, Bessie Smith, The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser, Dave Edmunds, Ansell Collins, 4 Non Blondes’ Linda Perry, UFO’s Phil Mogg, Margo Price, Marty Wilde, Samantha Fox, and Bob Luman; and we remind those of you in the States to pay your taxes.

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Today’s playlist is inspired by the April 12 birthdays of Herbie Hancock, Steppenwolf’s John Kay, Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell, Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray, Everclear’s Art Alexakis, ILoveMakonnen, The Partridge Family’s David Cassidy, Panic! At The Disco’s Brendon Urie, Hot Butter’s Stan Free, Tiny Tim, 311’s Nick Hexum, Mellow Man Ace, Pat Travers, and Get Wet’s Sherri Beachfront; and the April 13 birthdays of Al Green, Little Feat’s Lowell George, The Flamin’ Groovies’ Roy Loney, Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring, The Brothers Johnson’s Louis Johnson, The Chambers Brothers’ Lester Chambers, Lou Bega, Bill Conti, and Nellie McKay.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 10 birthdays of Spinners’ Bobby Smith, A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip, eels’ E, Stray Cats’ Brian Setzer, The Flamingos’ Nate Nelson, The Roches’ Terry Roche, Katrina & The Waves’ Katrina Leskanich, Martin Denny, Stella Donnelly, Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat, Sheb Wooley, Maren Morris, The Beatnuts’ Psycho Les, and Poor Righteous Teachers’ Wise Intelligent; and the April 11 birthdays of The Specials’ Neville Staple, Big Country’s Stuart Adamson, Richard Berry, Catatonia’s Cerys Matthews, Lisa Stansfield, Zola Jesus, Summer Walker, Joel Grey, The Originals’ Freddie Gorman, and Michael Callen.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 8 birthdays of Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, Guns N’ Roses’ Izzy Stradlin, Yes’s Steve Howe, The 1975’s Matty Healy, The Only Ones’ Peter Perrett, L7’s Donita Sparks, Biz Markie, DeJ Loaf, and Hinds’s Carlotta Cosials, and the April 9 birthdays of The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr., Carl Perkins, My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, Lil Nas X, Paul Robeson, Jazmine Sullivan, Paper Lace’s Phil Wright, and Tom Lehrer.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 6 birthdays of The Pixies’ Black Francis, Merle Haggard, Gerry Mulligan, Charles Wright, Le1f, Patrick Hernandez, Accept’s Udo Dirkschneider, Barbara Pittman, and Little Jackie’s Imani Coppola; and the April 7 birthdays of Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider, Billie Holiday, The Knife’s Karin Dreijer, John Oates, Janis Ian, Mongo Santamaria, Bobby Bare, Percy Faith, Carol Douglas, Don Julian, Kitchens of Distinction’s Patrick Fitzgerald, and Alexis Jordan.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the April 4 birthdays of Muddy Waters, Jill Scott, Pliers, Major Lance, Hugh Masekela, Baccara’s María Mendiola, Cibo Matto’s Miho Hatori, Gary Moore, The Marketts’ Michael Z. Gordon, Kelly Price, and Crabby Appleton’s Michael Fennelly; and the April 5 birthdays of ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog, The Platters’ Tony Williams, Pharrell Williams, The Adverts’ T.V. Smith, The Hollies’ Allan Clarke, Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J, Wall Of Voodoo’s Stan Ridgway, Paula Cole, Crispian St. Peters, and Joe Meek.

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Today’s playlist celebrates the birthdays of Spinners’ Phillippe Wynne, The Band’s Richard Manuel, Doris Day, Jan & Dean’s Jan Berry, Social Distortion’s Mike Ness, Spiller, Richard Thompson, Don Gibson, Tony Orlando, Leona Lewis, Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach, Melody’s Echo Chamber’s April Prochet, Wayne Newton, and The Caravelles’ Lois Wilkinson.

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