February 13 Playlist: Happy Valentine’s Day

Today’s show began with an ode to resiliency, a soulful tribute to Hanukkah, a comical walk-through Staten Island, a 20th birthday, a 29th wedding anniversary, a 50th anniversary of the events that inspired a classic rock tune, a tribute to Steven Sondheim, an incredible Michael Jackson cover and ended with a rockin’ rendition of Silver Bells…and that’s only a third of the show!

Listen to the rest of it here!

Here’s the full playlist:

• THE BAD EXAMPLES Not Dead Yet
• LOS STRAITJACKETS Game of Thrones Opening Theme
• MATTHEW SWEET Sick of Myself
• WINGS Junior’s Farm
• BUSH TETRAS You Can’t Be Funky
• SHARON JONES & THE DAP-TONE HORNS 8 Days of Hanukkah
• GWEN McCRAE Rockin’ Chair
• AVRIL LAVIGNE Sk8er Boi
• RANCID Roots Radicals
• THE ROOTS How I Got Over
• PETE DAVIDSON, BIG WET, MARC COHN & METHOD MAN Walking In Staten
• DEEP PURPLE Smoke on the Water
• DOKKEN Just Got Lucky
• THE BEATLES I’ve Just Seen a Face
• FLORENCE + THE MACHINE No Choir
• PET SHOP BOYS Somewhere
• BRYAN FERRY Send in the Clowns
• DURAN DURAN Femme Fatale
• MINK DEVILLE Guardian Angel
• CHRIS CORNELL Billie Jean
• LENNY KRAVITZ Dig In
• FOO FIGHTERS Love Dies Young
• EAGLES OF DEATH METAL I Want You So Hard
• PEARL JAM Rearviewmirror
• TWISTED SISTER Silver Bells

Today’s edition of The Rocker offered a degree of catharsis from the solemn events of this morning. Plenty of bad dancing for the eyes but lots of good music for the ears. The link to the show is here.

• LOS LOBOS Love Special Delivery
• BOBBY LEE COMBO And Then There Were Drums
• THE FOUR TOPS Back to School Again
• CHUCK BERRY School Days
• THE YARDBIRDS Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
• PAUL SIMON Me and Julio Down by The Schoolyard
• JET Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
• BIFFY CLYRO Tiny Indoor Fireworks
• STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Look at Little Sister
• ROLLING STONES Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
• THE UNDISPUTED TRUTH Smiling Faces
• THE IMPRESSIONS Choice of Colors
• URIAH HEEP Lady in Black
• GREEN DAY Still Breathing
• PERRY SERPA I Got a Fever
• BLACK ROSE BURNING Soul Is On Fire
• BON JOVI Older
• THE PRETTY RECKLESS Take Me Down
• SALIVA Bleed for Me
• TWISTED SISTER with ALICE COOPER Be Chrool to Your Scuel
• ADAM SANDLER The Lonesome Kicker
• DADDY DEWDROP Chick-a-Boom
• CAVIAR Tangerine Speedo
• SAXON Ride Like the Wind
• JUNIOR WALKER Shotgun
• AL WILSON Show and Tell
• MARVIN GAYE Inner City Blues
• CALEXICO Falling from the Sky
• MACHINE GUN KELLY featuring BLACKBEAR My Ex’s Best Friend
• REBECCA LOU Bad Heart
• PETULA CLARK Downtown
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Rising

In honor of International Women’s Month, we dedicated an entire show to some of our favorite female rockers! (If you want to get a regular dose of female-fronted bands from around the globe, check out The She Pop Show with my colleague Kitty the DJ – only on MPR!) Listen to the show here!

Our playlist:

• THE BANGLES Manic Monday
• THE GO GOs We Got The Beat
• NO DOUBT Just A Girl
• THE INTERRUPTERS Bad Guy
• ROCK GODDESS I Didn’t Know I Loved You
• (‘Til I Saw You Rock N Roll)
• THE RUNAWAYS Queens of Noise
• LITA FORD Kiss Me Deadly
• PAT BENATAR We Live For Love
• GARBAGE When I Grow Up
• BLONDIE Union City Blue
• BREEDERS Divine Hammer
• FANNY Charity Ball
• JANIS JOPLIN Kozmic Blues
• IKE & TINA TURNER Proud Mary
• LIZ PHAIR Extraordinary
• HALESTORM It’s Not You
• EVANESCENCE Bring Me To Life
• PATTI SMITH Because The Night
• THE PRETENDERS Back on the Chain Gang
• PARAMORE Still In To You
• B52s Deadbeat Club
• BISHOP BRIGGS River
• EMMA & THE IDLES Shot By The River
• ANN WILSON Immigrant Song
• LUCINDA WILLIAMS Passionate Kisses
• VERUCA SALT Seether
• CONCRETE BLONDE Heal It Up
• THE PRETTY RECKLESS Death By Rock and Roll