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This week on What’s Next, brand new music from Spoon, Beach House, Deap Vally, Chief Cleopatra, Broken Social Scene, Arca & many more, plus more of the best from 2021! Also, musical milestones from your favorites, and a classic Janelle Monae album tribute!
What’s Next Playlist 12.16.21
| Hour One | ||
| Deap Vally | Look Away | Marriage |
| Beach House | New Romance | Once Twice Melody |
| Yaeji & OHHYUK | 29 | single |
| Nirvana [aired on MTV 12.16.1993] | Where Did You Sleep Last Night | Unplugged |
| Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy | Make Worry For Me | Superwolves |
| Leon Russell | Slipping Into Christmas | single |
| Jazmine Sullivan | Pick Up Your Feelings | Heaux Tales |
| Spoon | Wild + Dennis Bovell remix | Lucifer On the Sofa |
| Vanishing Twin | Phase One Million | Ookii Gekkou |
| Alan Vega, Ben Vaughn, Palmyra Delran & Barb Dwyer | Nothing Left | Alan Vega After Dark |
| Courtney Barnett | Before You Gotta Go | Things Take Time, Take Time |
| David Bowie [released 12.17.1971] | Quicksand | Hunky Dory |
| Hour Two | ||
| BLK Odyssy | Drinking Good | BLK Vintage |
| Bonobo ft. Jamila Woods | Tides | Fragments |
| Billy Paul [hit #1 on 12.16.1972] | Me and Mrs. Jones | 360 Degrees of Billy Paul |
| Tame Impala | No Choice | The Slow Rush Box Set |
| King Hannah | All Being Fine | single |
| Chief Cleopatra | Dreamlights | Friends |
| Julian Baker | Ziptie | Little Oblivions |
| Janelle Monae [classic album tribute] | Tightrope ft. Big Boi | The Arch Android |
| Janelle Monae [classic album tribute] | Come Alive (The War of the Roses) | The Arch Android |
| Yves Tumor | Jackie | The Asymptotical World |
| The Replacements | Takin’ A Ride (Basement Version) | Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) |
| Bully | Just For Love | single |
| Amadou and Mariam | DJuru | Welcome to Mali |
| L’Rain | Find It | Fatigue |
| Hour Three | ||
| The Pogues w/Kirsty MacColl [Kirsty MacColl killed 12.18.2000] | Fairytale in New York | If I Should Fall From Grace With God |
| Jon Hopkins | Tayos Caves, Ecuador II | Music For Psychedelic Therapy |
| Flock of Dimes | Price of Blue | Head of Roses |
| Megan Thee Stallion | Thot S**t | single |
| Makaya McCraven | Black Rhythm Happening | Deciphering the Message |
| Run DMC [certified Gold 12.17.1984] | It’s Like That | Run DMC |
| IDLES | Car Crash | Crawler |
| Branzino | Golden Days | single |
| Captain Beefheart [died 12.17.2010] | When It Blows Its Stacks | The Dust Blows Forward |
| Alejandro Escovedo w/Alex Ruiz | Bandido Para Ti | La Cruzada |
| The Krayolas | Tex-Mex Rudolph (Navidad Remix) | single |
| Broken Social Scene | This House Is On Fire | single |
| Arca | Prada | Kick ii |
| Spoon | Christmas Time Is Here Again | single |
| James Brown | Santa Claus, Santa Claus | single |
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