
Here are twenty recently-released tracks I’ve been grooving to of late. Let me know if you have a favorite I should check out.
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Here are twenty recently-released tracks I’ve been grooving to of late. Let me know if you have a favorite I should check out.
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Tagged as Anderson .Paak, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Bruce Springsteen, Charli XCX, Charly Bliss, Cool New Music, Courtney Barnett, Fall Out Boy, Hot Chip, ILoveMakonnen, Kacey Musgraves, Lil Dickey, Lil Peep, Lizzo, Lower Dens, Mattiel, Morrissey, Robyn, Sleater-Kinney, Smokey Robinson, Sufjan Stevens, The Black Keys, The National, Vampire Weekend
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Tune du Jour celebrates with this playlist consisting of two hundred songs by and/or about Ls, Gs, Bs, Ts and Qs. Happy Pride!
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Tagged as 2 Nice Girls, 4 Non Blondes, A Hint Of Mint, Adam Lambert, Against Me!, Alicia Bridges, Amanda Lepore, Angel Haze, Ani DiFranco, Antony & the Johnsons, Army of Lovers, Arthur Conley, Azealia Banks, Barry Manilow, Ben Harper, Bette Midler, Big Freedia, Bikini Kill, Billy Bragg, Billy Preston, Bloc Party, Blood Orange, Blur, Boy George, Boys Town Gang, Bronski Beat, Bruce Springsteen, Cait Brennan, Carl Bean, Chely Wright, Cher, Christine and the Queens, Chumbawamba, Common, Conchita Wurst, Courtney Barnett, CSS, CupcakKe, Cyndi Lauper, Dan Hartman, David Bowie, Dead or Alive, Deerhunter, Demi Lovato, Department S, Depeche Mode, Diana Ross, Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes, Divine, Donovan, Dresden Dolls, Dusty Springfield, Dynamic Superiors, Electric Six, Elton John, Elton Motello, Erasure, Fever Ray, Fischerspooner, Frances Faye, Frank Ocean, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Frankie Knuckles, Franz Ferdinand, Funkadelic, George Michael, Girls, Gloria Gaynor, Goldfrapp, Gossip, Green Day, Grizzly Bear, Halsey, Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns, Hüsker Dü, ILoveMakonnen, Indigo Girls, Jackie Shane, Janelle Monae, Janet Jackson, Janis Ian, Jens Lekman, Jill Sobule, Joan Armatrading, Joan Baez, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Jobriath, Joe Jackson, John Grant, Johnny Mathis, Jonathan King, Jonsi, Josie Cotton, Judas Priest, Junior Senior, k.d. lang, Kacey Musgraves, KajaGooGoo, Kelela, Kevin Abstract, King Missile, Kitchens of Distinction, Lady Gaga, Lady Sovereign, Laura Nyro, Le Tigre, Le1f, Lesley Gore, Lily Allen, Little Richard, Living Colour, Lou Reed, Luther Vandross, Machine, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Madonna, Man 2 Man, Man Parrish, Mary Lambert, McAlmont & Butler, Melissa Etheridge, MeShell NdegéOcello, Mika, Mista Majah P, Mitch Ryder, Owen Pallett, Pansy Division, Passion Pit, Patrick Wolf, Peaches, Peggy Scott-Adams, Perfume Genius, Pet Shop Boys, Pete Shelley, Placebo, Prince, Pussy Tourette, PWR BTTM, Quarterflash, Queen, Queen Pen, R.E.M., Ricky Martin, Right Said Fred, Rod Stewart, Rostam, Rufus Wainwright, RuPaul, Sam Smith, Sam Sparro, Samantha Fox, Savages, Scissor Sisters, Shamir, Sleater-Kinney, Soft Cell, Sonic Youth, Sophie B. Hawkins, St. Vincent, Starbuck, Steve Goodman, Steven Grossman, Suede, Sweet, Sylvester, Tegan and Sara, Terence Trent D'Arby, The B-52s, The Byrds, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy, the Germs, The Hollies, The Internet, The Kinks, The Lemonheads, The Magnetic Fields, The Mighty Terror, The Miracles, The Psychedelic Furs, The Replacements, The Shins, The Smiths, the Soup Dragons, The Tornados, The Who, Thelma Houston, Throbbing Gristle, Tom Paxton, Tom Robinson Band, Tribe 8, Troye Sivan, U2, Village People, Visage, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, Weezer, Wendy and Lisa, William Goldstein, Willie Nelson, Wilma Burgess, Xiu Xiu, Years & Years, Yoko Ono, Zebra Katz
This playlist consists of twenty songs, most performed by artists who fall somewhere under the LGBTQ umbrella, with a few straight allies whose songs have queer lyrical content. Artists include Sleater-Kinney, The Magnetic Fields and Ani DiFranco.
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Indie rock/pop, with St. Vincent, Sleater-Kinney, Grizzly Bear, and a host of other cool folks.
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In the nascent days of the punk rock movement, punks congregated in gay, lesbian and trans bars, where they could be who they are and dress how they dressed without fear of being hassled, outcasts united against the mainstream of society.
This week’s installment of A Hint of Mint consists of songs from or influenced and/or inspired by seventies punk.
Today is the birthday of two music icons – Jam-Master Jay of rap pioneers Run-D.M.C. and disc jockey Wolfman Jack. Besides their place in their history of rock and roll, both men have another thing in common – they were the subjects of songs. That inspired me to put together today’s playlist – songs named after real people.
I found fifty songs whose titles are actual people. Actually I found more than fifty, but I didn’t want to subject you to Chiddy Bang or Mac Miller. I made a few rules for myself:
1) The title can’t have words besides the person’s name, hence no Kim Carnes’ “Bette Davis Eyes” or Sleater-Kinney’s “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone.”
2) The title has to be the full name the person is known by, so no “Springsteen” by Eric Church or “Jessica” (about Jessica Simpson) by Adam Green. Allowed are “Galileo,” “Joan of Arc” and “King Tut,” as that is how most people identify Galileo Galilei, Joan d’Arc and Tutankhamun.
3) The song doesn’t have to be about the person after whom it is titled, so “Jack the Ripper” and “Rosa Parks” are in.
4) The track has to be on Spotify. This means I left out Bob Dylan’s “George Jackson” and Hoodie Allen’s “James Franco.”
Amazingly for a playlist based on such a goofy concept, it holds together quite well, if I say so myself.
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