Foxygen’s Sam France was born on this date sometime in the past century. A couple of his band’s songs are on today’s playlist.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 9-25-24
Celebrating Santigold’s birthday today by including a handful of her songs on the playlist.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 11-16-22
Today’s playlist celebrates the November 16 birthdays The Count Five’s John Byrne, Color Me Badd’s Bryan Abrams, Odyssey’s Lillian Lopez, Chi Coltrane, Arrow, and Dan Black; the November 17 birthdays of Jeff Buckley, The Byrds’ Gene Clark, Gordon Lightfoot, Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding, Bell Biv DeVoe’s Ronnie DeVoe, Foxygen’s Sam France, The Moldy Peaches’ Kimya Dawson, RuPaul, and Martin Scorsese; and the November 18 birthdays of Graham Parker, Hank Ballard, Fabolous, Kim Wilde, John Parr, and The Polyphonic Spree’s Tim DeLaughter.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (11-17-20)
Inspired by the November 17 birthdays of The Byrds’ Gene Clark, Jeff Buckley, Gordon Lightfoot, Foxygen’s Sam France, RuPaul, Ronnie DeVoe, The Moldy Peaches’ Kimya Dawson, Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding, and Martin Scorcese; and the November 16 birthdays of Odyssey’s Lillian Lopez, Chi Coltrane, Arrow, Color Me Badd’s Bryan Abrams and Count Five’s John Byrne.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (4-30-20)
Inspired by the April 30 birthdays of Sugarhill Gang’s Wonder Mike, MC5’s Wayne Kramer, Bobby Vee, Travis $cott, Snap!’s Turbo B, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer, Johnny Horton, Mac Demarco, Santo & Johnny’s Johnny, and Broadway composer Sheldon Harnick.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (3-4-20)
Inspired by the March 4 birthdays of Bobby Womack, Lemonheads’ Evan Dando, Jon Fratelli, Chris Rea, Miriam Makeba, and Brand Nubian’s Grand Puba; and the March 3 birthdays of the Searchers’ Mike Pender, Jennifer Warnes and Tone Loc.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist (2-28-20)
Why is there a comma in the title of “Paint It, Black?” Keith Richards replied “Don’t ask me…that’s Decca’s.” So there we have it.
Today’s playlist is inspired by the February 28 birthdays of The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones, The B-52’s’ Cindy Wilson (why is there a comma in 52’s?), Zero Mostel, Jake Bugg, Joe South, Donnie Iris, The Records’ John Wicks and Barbara Acklin; and the February 27 birthdays of TLC’s Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas and Bobby Valentino.
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