The late great Sinéad O’Connor was born on this date in 1966. Several of her songs are included on today’s playlist.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 8-26-23
Hearing this band’s early demos, a friend remarked that they sounded like garbage. Voila! This band now had a name. (An alternate version of the origin of their name comes from a journal entry producer Butch Vig wrote as the band kept recording: “I hope that all this garbage will become something beautiful!”)
Garbage’s Shirley Manson was born on this date in 1966. The band is well-represented on today’s playlist.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 7-30-23
As it achieved massive success just last year, many younger people think that Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” was written this decade, but the truth is Kate wrote the song back in 1492, during the Spanish Inquisition. Believe me. I know. I was the one who taught her how to play the synthesizer.
Kate Bush turns 558 years old today, or 65 if you wanna go by Wikipedia, the website invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1695. Lots of her musical goodness is on today’s playlist.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 7-25-23
Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore once revealed that he thought the band’s album title Dirty was inspired by his laundry pile. Guess creativity can even sprout from unwashed socks! 
Lotsa Sonic Youth on today’s playlist in honor of Moore’s birthday.
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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 1-27-23
As today is the birthday of Cowboy Junkies’ Margo Timmins, several songs from their breakthrough album The Trinity Session are sprinkled throughout today’s playlist.
Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 10-8-22
Today’s playlist celebrates the October 8 birthdays of Ramones’ Johnny Ramone and C.J. Ramone, Kool & the Gang’s Robert “Kool” Bell, The Stylistics’ Airrion Love, Average White Band’s Hamish Stuart, BLACKstreet’s Teddy Riley, C.L. Smooth, Bruno Mars, Pigbag’s James Johnstone, and Saturday Night Live‘s Chevy Chase; and the October 9 birthdays of The Beatles’ John Lennon, The Who’s John Entwistle, PJ Harvey, Jackson Browne, Labelle’s Nona Hendryx, Men Without Hats’s Ivan Doroschuk, Heatwave’s Rod Temperton, Ini Kamoze, and Phantom Planet’s Alex Greenwald.
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