Inspired by the August 21 birthdays of The Clash‘s Joe Strummer, Kacey Musgraves, Kelis, Kenny Rogers, Jackie DeShannon, Prodigy’s Liam Howlett, and System of a Down’s Serj Tankian.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (8-18-20)
Inspired by the August 18 birthdays of Mika, The xx’s Romy Madley Croft, Aphex Twin, Wu-Tang Clan’s Masta Killa, Arcade Fire’s Régine Chassagne, The Orioles’ Sonny Til, House of Pain’s Everlast, The Toys’ Barbara Harris, The Lonely Island’s Andy Samberg, Maxine Brown, The Primitives’ Tracy Tracy, and Martin Mull.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (7-31-20)
Inspired by the July 31 birthdays of R.E.M.’s Bill Berry, FatBoy Slim, Gary Lewis, Lobo and Lil Uzi Vert.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (7-16-20)
Inspired by the July 16 birthdays of The Police’s Stewart Copeland, BROCKHAMPTON’s Kevin Abstract, William Bell, Desmond Dekker, The Searchers’ Tony Jackson, and Live’s Ed Kowalczyk; the July 15 birthdays of Linda Ronstadt, Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, The Buggles/The Art of Noise’s Trevor Horn, Years & Years’ Olly Alexander, Gregory Isaacs, The Heartbreakers’ Johnny Thunders, Alicia Bridges, and Pamela Myers; and the July 14 birthdays of Belly/Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donelly, Woody Guthrie, Jamey Johnson, and Cliff & Claude Trenier.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (7-5-20)
Inspired by the July 5 birthdays of Wu-Tang Clan/Banks & Steelz’s RZA, Robbie Robertson, Smiley Lewis, Moloko’s Róisín Murphy, D12’s Bizarre, Joe, and Lifehouse’s Jason Wade.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (6-30-20)
Inspired by Black Music Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, the passings of Carl Reiner and composer Johnny Mandel, and the June 30 birthdays of Patrick Wolf, The Supremes’ Florence Ballard, The Moments’ Billy Brown, Sneaker Pimps’ Kelli Dayton, and Girls Aloud’s Cheryl Cole.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (6-29-20)
Inspired by Black Music Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, and the June 29 birthdays of Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie, Men At Work’s Colin Hay, DJ Shadow, Little Eva, Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger, Emily Skinner, and Broadway composer Frank Loesser.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (6-25-20)
Inspired by Black Music Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, and the June 25 birthdays of George Michael , Carly Simon, Harold Melvin, Eddie Floyd, Toto’s David Paich, Peggy Scott-Adams, and Dazz Band’s Skip Martin.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (6-14-20)
Inspired by Black Music Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, and the June 14 birthdays of Culture Club’s Boy George, the xx’s Oliver Sim, The Zombies’ Rod Argent, Jr. Walker, Faithless’ Maxi Jazz, Linda Clifford, Deer Tick’s John J. McCauley, Gunna, and Broadway composer Cy Coleman.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (6-3-20)
Inspired by Black Music Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, the June 3 birthdays of Curtis Mayfield, Deniece Williams, Mott the Hoople’s Ian Hunter, C + C Music Factory’s David Cole, Suzi Quatro, Allen Ginsberg, Dan Hill, Boots Rudolph, Republica’s Saffron, Stereophonics’ Kelly Jones, and Beabadoobee, and the June 2 birthdays of The Rolling Stones‘ Charlie Watts, Chubby Tavares, Cypress Hill’s B-Real, Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley, Bangles’ Michael Steele, Jimmy Jones, Skillz, Otis Williams, David Dundas, Marvin Hamlisch, Sammy Turner, and Robin Lamont.