Randall Poster’s Deep-Summer Playlist:
Ella Fitzgerald, Vampire Weekend, the Meters, and More …
Randall Poster’s Bumper-to-Bumper Blues Playlist
Lily Allen, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Traffic
(naturally), Sly & Robbie, and More
Late-Night
Beck, Ray Charles, the Beastie Boys, Vans Morrison and McCoy, and more
All Work and No Playlist? Hardly!
Here are Donna Summer, Howlin’ Wolf, Queen, Betty Everett, and more
Fashionable Tracks
Danceable ones, too, from (among others) Beyoncé, Rihanna, Destiny’s Child, and, yes, Freezy
Show Tunes
The O’Jays, Bette Midler, James Brown, Bobby Darin, and more
September Songs
Fontella Bass, King Curtis … Willie Bobo! And much more
Mad About the Girl
Judy Garland, Jeff Buckley, Noël Coward, and more
Dancing in the Air
Chic, the Temptations, Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters, the Trammps, the Pointer Sisters again … and more
College Tour 2019
A road trip with R.E.M., Kanye, Django Reinhardt, Post Malone, Joe Turner, and more …
Halloween Charade
An All Saints’ party with Patti, Billie, Neko, Nico, Emmylou, Bruce, Lucinda, and more—some with full names!
From Marty Scorsese’s Movies
What do Hoagy Carmichael, the Ronettes, Artie Shaw, the Rolling Stones, Dr. John, and Dropkick Murphys have in common?
Sum of the Parts
Tracks from albums you should hear lots more of, courtesy of Bowie, Coltrane, Dylan, Prince, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, the Stranglers, and others
Come On in My Kitchen
Music to cook by, from Domenico Modugno, Roberta Flack, Fleetwood Mac, Dolly Parton, the Temptations, Renato Carosone, and more
Thanks Again
Michael Kiwanuka, J. J. Cale, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Nina Simone, and Sly & the Family Stone are among those who know just how to say it
Bomb Cyclone
All systems go, weather and otherwise: tracks from Tom Petty, Beth Orton, James & Bobby Purify, Fiona Apple, the Staple Singers, ? & the Mysterians, et al.
Once More unto the Holidays
Reliably spirited tracks from David Bowie, Prince, Dire Straits, XTC, Talking Heads, Ice Cube, Buzzcocks, the Clash, and more
Music to Festoon By
Jollity and beauty from Joni Mitchell, Lena Horne, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Louis Armstrong, the Pogues, Eartha Kitt, and more
Around the World in a Decade
Think globally, act … well, globally. The best of the new from the last 10 years, including Avicii, Rihanna, Kanye, Luis Fonsi, Drake, Lorde, Jay-Z, PSY, and more
Looking Ahead
And maybe even up? Bright tunes from Ian Dury, the Pixies, Liz Phair, Frank Zappa, Wingy Manone, Elvis Costello, Mary Weiss … and more
Doctor’s Orders
Old-school remedies for winter doldrums, from (among others) Bobby Womack, Bobbie Gentry, Jean Knight, Elvis Presley, and, yes, Carol Douglas
