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Our Playlists
| 5/16 - 8am hour | ||||
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8:34am | Kweku Collins Local | Vanilla Skies (featuring Taylor Bennett) | Nat Love (Closed Sessions) |
| Track Notes: 2016 | Add to Collection | |||
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8:31am | L'Orange & Namir Blade | Nihilism | Imaginary Everything (Mello Music Group) |
| Track Notes: 2021. North Carolina producer L’Orange and Nashville, TN based multi-instrumentalist, producer, rapper Namir Blade | Add to Collection | |||
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8:25am | Rupa | East West Shuffle | Disco Jazz (Numero Group) |
| Track Notes: 1982 | Add to Collection | |||
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8:21am | Moses Sumney | Lonely World | Aromanticism (Jagjaguwar) |
| Track Notes: 2017. MOSES SUMNEY MAY 19 BDAY | Add to Collection | |||
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8:11am | Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble Local | Cause and Effect | Black Unstoppable (Delmark) |
| Track Notes: 2007. R.I.P. Bob Koester -- founder of Delmark Records, the oldest indie label for jazz & blues in the U.S. | Add to Collection | |||
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8:09am | Mary Wells | You Beat Me to the Punch | The One Who Really Loves You (Motown) |
| Track Notes: 1962. Mary Wells [b. MAY 13, 1943] | Add to Collection | |||
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8:05am | Statik Selektah | Stop, Look, Listen (Instrumental) | Spell My Name Right (The Album) (ShowOff) |
| Track Notes: 2007. Original track features verses from Q-Tip, Styles P, & Termanology | Add to Collection | |||
| 5/16 - 7am hour | ||||
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7:59am | The New Rotary Connection Local | I Am The Blackgold Of The Sun | Hey, Love (Cadet Concept) |
| Track Notes: 1971. | Add to Collection | |||
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7:55am | Flying Lotus | Black Gold (featuring Thundercat) | Yasuke (Warp) |
| Track Notes: 2021. Soundtrack to the Netflix anime series YASUKE / "complex jazzy music" | Add to Collection | |||
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7:53am | Chromatics | Into the Black | Kill for Love (Italians Do It Better) |
| Track Notes: 2012. Neil Young cover | Add to Collection | |||
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7:47am | Alan Vega | Samurai | Mutator (Sacred Bones) |
| Track Notes: 2021. "Lost" album Vega and his wife / collaborator Liz Lamere recorded in 1995-96, but never released | Add to Collection | |||
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7:42am | Wild Belle Local | Shine | Isles (Columbia) |
| Track Notes: 2013 | Add to Collection | |||
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7:41am | black midi | Slow (Loud) | Cavalcade (Rough Trade) |
| Track Notes: 2021 | Add to Collection | |||
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7:32am | Yellow Pills Local | J's Little Jam | Space Age Inferno (Mint 400) |
| Track Notes: 2021. Chicago’s Ryan Miera | Add to Collection | |||
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7:27am | Melissa Laveaux | Simalo | Radyo Siwél (No Format) |
| Track Notes: 2018 | Add to Collection | |||
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7:22am | Grace Jones | I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) | Nightclubbing (Island) |
| Track Notes: 1981. Reworking of an Argentine tango classic by Astor Piazzolla / BIRTHDAY: MAY 19 <3 | Add to Collection | |||
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7:17am | The Clash | Charlie Don't Surf | Sandinista! (Epic) |
| Track Notes: 1980 | Add to Collection | |||
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7:13am | Charles Trenet | C'était... C'était... C'était... | single (Columbia) |
| Track Notes: 1957. CHARLES TRENET [b. MAY 18, 1913] | Add to Collection | |||
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7:09am | Janet Kay | Silly Games | single (Pressure Recording) |
| Track Notes: 1979. | Add to Collection | |||
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7:03am | Sasha and the Valentines | Angel | So You Think You Found Love? (Oof) |
| Track Notes: 2021 | Add to Collection | |||
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7:00am | Shad | Out of Touch | single (Secret City) |
| Track Notes: 2021 | Add to Collection | |||
| 5/16 - 6am hour | ||||
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6:58am | Jacober | Mirror Trade | Light Years (Crafted Sounds) |
| Track Notes: 2021 | Add to Collection | |||
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6:52am | Pierrot Philibert & Les Frères Déjean | Conseil | Pierrot Philibert & Les Frères Déjean (Disques Debs) |
| Track Notes: 1984 | Add to Collection | |||
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6:45am | Dominique Fils-Aimé | Mind Made Up | Three Little Words (Ensoul) |
| Track Notes: 2021 | Add to Collection | |||
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6:39am | The Staple Singers Local | A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall | What The World Needs Now Is Love (Epic) |
| Track Notes: 1968. R.I.P. Pervis Staples | Add to Collection | |||
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6:34am | Yola | Diamond Studded Shoes | Stand For Myself (East Eye Sound/Concord) |
| Track Notes: ALBUM OUT JULY 30. "It’s people who hold the purses dictating to people who are already scrimping and saving whilst they, you know, try to steal our money.” Yola referring to Theresa May announcing service cutbacks while wearing fancy footwear | Add to Collection | |||
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6:29am | Paul Simon | Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes | Graceland (Warner Bros) |
| Track Notes: 1986 | Add to Collection | |||
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6:24am | David Byrne & St. Vincent | The Forest Awakes | Love This Giant (4AD) |
| Track Notes: 2012. DAVID BYRNE [b. MAY 14, 1952] | Add to Collection | |||
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6:18am | Rob Frye Local | XC175020 | Exoplanet (Astral Spirits) |
| Track Notes: 2021. Member of Bitchin’ Bajas joined by an all-star cast of Chicago musicians (Ben Lamar Gay, Dan Quinlivan, Cooper Crain, Quin Kirchner, Macie Stewart of Ohmme, and others) | Add to Collection | |||
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6:11am | Big Wild | 6's to 9's (featuring Rationale) | Superdream (Counter) |
| Track Notes: 2019 | Add to Collection | |||