Today’s playlist includes a few tracks from Janelle Monáe, who celebrates a birthday today.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 9-18-23
With his album Boy In Da Corner, Dizzee Rascal, who was only 17 years old when he wrote and recorded the album, became the youngest and first Black artist to win the Mercury Prize, beating out Coldplay, Radiohead, and The Darkness.
Dizzee Rascal was born Dylan Mills on this date in 1984. Some of his work is included on today’s playlist.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 8-5-23
Today Tunes du Jour is celebrating the birthday of the late Adam “MCA” Yauch of Beastie Boys, a passionate advocate for Tibetan freedom who in 1996 organized the Tibetan Freedom Concert, a series of music festivals that raised awareness and millions of dollars for the cause.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 12-9-22
Today’s playlist celebrates the December 9 birthdays of Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, Green Day’s Tre Cool, Joan Armatrading, Jessie Hill, Cybotron’s Juan Atkins, The Osmonds’ Donny Osmond, Uffie, Imogen Heap, Donald Byrd, Dan Hicks, Sylvia, and Neil Innes; and the December 10 birthdays of Commodores’ Walter Orange, The White Stripes’ Meg White, Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis, Placebo’s Brian Molko, Paul Hardcastle, Kyu Sakamoto, Peter Sarstedt, Wang Chung’s Jack Hues, Chad & Jeremy’s Chad Stuart, and Teyana Taylor.
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