Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 11-12-22

Today’s playlist celebrates the November 13 birthdays of Booker T., Buffalo Springfield’s Neil Young, Blue Öyster Cult’s Buck Dharma, Bikini Kill/Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna, Darlene Edwards (a/k/a Jo Stafford), Hot Chocolate’s Errol Brown, Brian Hyland, Bay City Rollers’ Les McKeown, The Mello-Kings’ Jerry Scholl, Tevin Campbell, and Grace Kelly; and the November 13 birthdays of Timmy Thomas, The Teddy Bears’ Carol Connors, Cass McCombs, Onyx’s Sonny Seeza, and Idris Muhammad.

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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 11-2-22

Today’s playlist celebrates the November 2 birthdays of Nelly, k.d. lang, Emerson Lake and Palmer’s Keith Emerson, Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, The Cadillacs’ Earl Carroll, Maxine Nightingale, and J.D. Souther; and the November 3 birthdays of Courtney Barnett, Adam Ant, Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, John Barry, Onyx’s Sticky Fingaz, Lulu, Robert Miles, Icicle Works’ Ian McNabb, Mable John, The Subways’ Billy Lunn, and Lucas.

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All the girls are on me cause I’m down with Mike D

Today Tunes du Jour celebrates the birthday of Beastie Boy Mike D. Originally a hardcore punk band, the Beastie Boys evolved into one of the most influential and longest-running hip hop groups.

Our playlist begins with “The New Style,” which hit the r&b chart a month prior to the Beasties hitting the pop chart with their breakout hit, “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!!!).” Both tracks appear on their debut album Licensed To Ill, which the Village Voice favorably reviewed under the headline “Three Jerks Make a Masterpiece.” The album came out in 1986, the year after the group opened for Madonna on The Virgin Tour, and was practically glued to my turntable. I didn’t think they’d be able to top such a perfect record.

Through the years they continued to surprise and innovate. Enjoy this playlist consisting of a handful of Beastie Boys tracks along with other hip hop favorites.