<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>snoopspecial</title><description>Curated music — playlists, artists, setlists. 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Rahman&apos;s soundtrack work — Mohit Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, and Javed Ali feature heavily across films like Rockstar and Delhi 6.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Bollywood</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/bollywood/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/bollywood/</guid><description>A 74-track Bollywood energy mix spanning bhangra crossovers and dance-floor hits — Shreya Ghoshal, Mika Singh, Juggy D, and Akon&apos;s Chammak Challo alongside Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy productions.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Christmas</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/christmas/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/christmas/</guid><description>A 73-track Christmas standards collection with an eclectic edge — Sammy Davis Jr., Eartha Kitt, Andy Williams, and Charlie Parker share space with reggae dubs and Beach Boys remixes.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Church Piano Hymns</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/church-piano-hymns/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/church-piano-hymns/</guid><description>A 50-track solo piano hymn collection performed entirely by Michael Silverman — traditional congregational standards from Amazing Grace to Holy, Holy, Holy rendered in a simple, unaccompanied style.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Classics</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/classics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/classics/</guid><description>A 100-track classic rock and pop mix drawn from the 80s and 90s — Led Zeppelin, Bon Jovi, Meat Loaf, Robbie Williams, and Extreme anchor a broad mainstream rock survey.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Essential Power Ballads</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/essential-power-ballads/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/essential-power-ballads/</guid><description>A 70-track power ballad anthology covering the genre&apos;s canonical peaks — Bonnie Tyler, Heart, Celine Dion, REO Speedwagon, and Sinead O&apos;Connor among the essential entries.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Fresh Finds</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/fresh-finds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/fresh-finds/</guid><description>Spotify&apos;s Fresh Finds editorial playlist — a 100-track rotating selection of emerging independent artists across indie pop, lo-fi, and alternative, featuring Snarls, nomi., and Lily Hain.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Greatest Rock Guitar Riffs</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/greatest-rock-guitar-riffs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/greatest-rock-guitar-riffs/</guid><description>A 100-track guitar riff anthology sourced from classic and hard rock — Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Cream, and Guns N&apos; Roses anchor a canonical survey of the electric guitar canon.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>House</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/house/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/house/</guid><description>A lean 13-track house set mixing early-2010s club radio with deeper cuts — Swedish House Mafia, Sak Noel, and Tony Ray sit alongside lesser-known Mykonos and Bar Oceano tracks.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Instrumental Pop ,Violin and Soft Guitar</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/instrumental-pop-violin-and-soft-guitar/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/instrumental-pop-violin-and-soft-guitar/</guid><description>A 100-track instrumental pop collection pairing soft orchestral covers of pop standards — Yesterday, Piano Man, Brown Eyed Girl — with Lindsey Stirling&apos;s violin-driven electronic pieces.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Jimmy&apos;s Truck Playlist</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/jimmy-s-truck-playlist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/jimmy-s-truck-playlist/</guid><description>A personal 45-track country and Americana road mix — Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams alongside newer country radio from Tim McGraw and Blake Shelton.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Major Beats</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/major-beats/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/major-beats/</guid><description>A 100-track melodic house and electronic set spanning contemporary producers — Lost Frequencies, Kygo, Alok, Paul Kalkbrenner, and Tame Impala in a festival-ready, emotional-dance direction.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Mashups</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/mashups/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/mashups/</guid><description>A 61-track dance and electro-house mashup set from the late-2000s club era — Freemasons, Steve Angello, Dizzee Rascal, and Pitbull remixes alongside Fragma and Bart B More originals.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Maximal House Music | EDM | Tomorrowland | Above &amp; 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official greatest hits playlist — 42 tracks spanning Under the Bridge, Californication, Give It Away, and By the Way, covering the band&apos;s commercial peak across the 90s and early 2000s.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Rolling Stone&apos;s 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/rolling-stone-s-50-greatest-hip-hop-songs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/rolling-stone-s-50-greatest-hip-hop-songs/</guid><description>Rolling Stone&apos;s editorial list of the 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs — a 48-track canon spanning Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, Salt-N-Pepa, Outkast, Missy Elliott, and Eminem from the genre&apos;s origins through the early 2000s.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Suits Summer Playlist</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/suits-summer-playlist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/suits-summer-playlist/</guid><description>The official Suits TV series summer playlist — a 25-track soul and indie rock set used in the show, featuring Charles Bradley, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, The Black Keys, and Foster the People.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Today’s Top Hits</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/today-s-top-hits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/today-s-top-hits/</guid><description>Spotify&apos;s flagship Today&apos;s Top Hits editorial playlist — a 50-track current chart snapshot with Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Bad Bunny, and Tame Impala representing 2026&apos;s pop mainstream.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Top 40 Kinda Stuff</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/top-40-kinda-stuff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/top-40-kinda-stuff/</guid><description>A personal 21-track early-2010s top 40 snapshot — LMFAO, Pitbull, Akon, and David Guetta carrying the party-rap and electropop sound that dominated radio circa 2010-2012.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Angine de Poitrine at Le Trianon</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/setlists/2025-09-12-angine-de-poitrine-le-trianon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/setlists/2025-09-12-angine-de-poitrine-le-trianon/</guid><description>Seed entry — replace with the actual setlist + photos.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tiny Desk Favorites</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/tiny-desk-favorites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/tiny-desk-favorites/</guid><description>Twelve tracks of NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert favorites — the pared-down acoustic-and-low-volume run that defined the series’ aesthetic across its first decade and into the post-2020 home-concert era. Black Pumas anchor the soul-rock-revival peak that crossed the show into broader pop awareness; Giolì &amp; Assia bring the electronic-acoustic-fusion bridge that opened the format to non-traditional acts who rebuilt their full setups for the desk; the rotating cast of one-off-favorite performances fills the gaps with the kind of intimate-room performances that made the series a cultural fixture and a frequent first-encounter for artists outside their established genre lanes. The shortlist of returns-worth-revisiting, in the order they earned their replay value.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: Body Movers #822</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-body-movers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-body-movers/</guid><description>Ninety-three tracks of body-movers Weekend Kickoff programming — the long-form rotation built around the danceable-soul, blue-eyed-soul, and synth-pop catalog that defined the format’s peak. Daryl Hall and John Oates anchor the blue-eyed-soul singalong core; Foreigner brings the arena-rock-with-keys bridge; Robert Palmer carries the slick-pop-and-rock crossover anchor; Pet Shop Boys close the run with the synth-pop-singalong legacy that the rotation kept circling back to. Built for a four-hour Friday-into-Saturday pre-game — sequenced to keep the floor moving without DJ intervention. 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Built as a personal-listening summary rather than a chart-history archive — the actual rotation that ran through the listener’s year, weighted toward the catalog-comfort and the legacy-rock-radio that filled the working-from-home hours.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: Later Covi #521</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-later-covi-521/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-later-covi-521/</guid><description>Seventy-eight tracks of the May 2021 Weekend Kickoff ‘Later Covid’ edition — the second-year pandemic-era rotation, refreshed with the year’s alt-pop and dance-radio peaks. Foo Fighters anchor the legacy-rock-radio spine that ran through the year; Marshmello with Halsey bring the EDM-pop crossover anchor; The Weeknd with Ariana Grande carry the year’s most-talked-about pop-feature run; Zedd with Kehlani close the dance-pop bridge. Built for the moment when the pandemic-rotation logic was settling into a longer-term aesthetic — the second-year version of the same listening week, with the Friday-evening lift intact.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Your Top Songs 2020</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/your-top-songs-2020/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/your-top-songs-2020/</guid><description>One hundred and thirty-eight tracks of the personal 2020 year-end rotation — the Spotify-Wrapped-style ‘Your Top Songs’ summary for the pandemic year, captured as the listener’s actual playback rather than the curated year-in-review. Dua Lipa anchors the disco-pop-revival peaks of the year that drove the commercial-radio rotation; The Beatles drop in as a streaming-era catalog-rediscovery anchor that defined the year’s legacy-comfort listening pattern; Coldplay carries the stadium-pop-and-piano spine that filled the working-from-home hours; Justin Bieber closes the year’s pop-comeback-rotation run. The pandemic year captured as the listener actually heard it — heavy on legacy-catalog comfort listening, weighted toward the year’s peak commercial-radio rotation. The personal 2020 year-in-review, intact.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>90s Dance Mix #212</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/90s-dance-mix-212/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/90s-dance-mix-212/</guid><description>A Eurodance fever-dream of the kind that ruled European clubs and roller rinks circa 1992–1997 — re-recordings and revival cuts curated by Génération 90, Corona, and the rotating studio collectives that keep this catalog alive. Synth stabs, four-on-the-floor kicks, vocal hooks built for arms-up choruses. Corona’s ‘Rhythm Is a Dancer’ energy threads through the run; HokkaidoDJ pulls in Italo-house textures; The 90’s Generation closes the gaps with the kind of cheerful Eurodance that DJs slip in when they want a guaranteed reaction. Thirty-four tracks deep, pure nostalgia fuel — built for a basement party where everyone was thirteen the first time.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>90s Rock Hits #416</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/90s-rock-hits-416/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/90s-rock-hits-416/</guid><description>Fifty-one tracks of the alt-rock and post-grunge canon that defined American rock radio from roughly 1992 through Y2K. 311 and blink-182 ride the SoCal pop-punk-meets-reggae-rock current; Alice in Chains drags it back into the heavy-grunge underbelly; The Black Crowes throw bluesy southern-rock into the same set without breaking the spell. It’s the rotation that lived on every late-’90s mix CD — angsty enough to mean something, hooky enough to belt out in a moving car. The April 2016 build with later sequencing tweaks, but the same core run that earned it a spot in heavy circulation back when CD changers held six discs.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>A &amp; P Afterparty</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/a-p-afterparty/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/a-p-afterparty/</guid><description>Twenty-one tracks for the moment the wedding officially ends and the real one starts — when the dress comes off, the heels go in a corner, and someone hooks a phone to the bar speaker. Weezer and Third Eye Blind anchor the ’90s alt-rock singalong contingent; Mark Morrison’s ‘Return of the Mack’ slides in for the hip-hop nostalgia bump; Dave Matthews carries the late-night porch-jam moment. It’s the room-emptying-out, no-script, last-call run — pace deliberately uneven so the floor never fully clears. Built for the after-the-after, when everyone left is a friend and nobody’s checking the time.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Bachelorette Party Gametime!</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/bachelorette-party-gametime/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/bachelorette-party-gametime/</guid><description>Forty tracks of bachelorette-night fuel — the official ‘we’re going out’ block, weighted heavily toward the hooks that everyone in the group knows by heart. Rihanna and Justin Timberlake carry the falsetto-pop and slick-rap-vocal core; Flo Rida runs the chant-along ‘put your hands up’ catalog; Katy Perry’s big-chorus pop closes the gaps. Sequenced for the pre-Uber peak — drinks in hand, group photo already taken, somebody’s sash on slightly crooked. Built to be unmissable from the second the speaker connects, with no quiet stretch long enough for anyone to think about ordering food. Pure ‘we’re leaving in fifteen’ momentum.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Bachelorette Party Pregame</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/bachelorette-party-pregame/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/bachelorette-party-pregame/</guid><description>Bachelorette pregame — the thirty-seven-track warm-up before the night actually begins. Beyoncé and Salt-N-Pepa anchor the empowerment block (the playlist version of fixing each other’s hair in the mirror); Heavy D &amp; The Boyz pulls in early-’90s hip-hop swagger; The Notorious B.I.G. closes the ‘confidence’ run before the cab arrives. Sequenced for the hotel-room phase — door propped, drinks getting poured, someone running late but it’s fine. The volume builds without ever fully cresting, leaving headroom for the gametime list to take over once everyone’s downstairs. The exact mood it sounds like: pre-’uber here in 2 min’ text energy.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Dance Music #413</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/dance-music-413/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/dance-music-413/</guid><description>The retroactive-2020 rebuild of the 2013 dance-music canon — same songs, fresh sequencing for streaming-era ears. Pitbull holds the pop-EDM crossover ground; Steve Angello carries the Swedish big-room legacy; Showtek with Justin Prime drops in ‘Cannonball’ as the obligatory festival-peak nostalgia bump; Hardwell with Amba Shepherd brings the melodic-peak finale. Thirty tracks deep, paced for a workout or a pre-game rather than a four-hour DJ set — the same era’s sound, stripped of the long mix transitions. The ‘best of’ rip from a decade-old festival rotation, now durable enough to outlast the genre that made it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>D &amp; L Wedding Reception Mix</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/d-l-wedding-reception-mix/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/d-l-wedding-reception-mix/</guid><description>Seventy-eight tracks for D and L’s reception — the proper full-arc run from the cake-cutting through the last-call. Justin Timberlake handles the slick-pop floor through the dinner-into-dancing crossover; Van Halen and Aerosmith bring the dad-rock guarantee that pulls the parents in; The Black Eyed Peas closes out the night with the late-2000s wedding-DJ canon. Sequenced for the room to keep its center of gravity — no genre stretch long enough to lose anyone, no slow-jam pocket deep enough to clear the floor. The reception-list version of a polished band setlist: every transition pre-thought, every peak earned.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Everything #1015</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/everything-1015/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/everything-1015/</guid><description>Sixty-one tracks from the October 2015 cultural slice — alt-pop, indie-rock, and R&amp;B caught at the exact moment streaming had unified the radio dial. The Weeknd handles the dark-falsetto R&amp;B core; Jason Derulo brings the pop-radio rotation guarantee; Royal Blood drops in to remind the room that two-piece blues-rock was briefly massive; Nitty rounds out the rap-radio bridge. The kind of cross-genre run that defined what ‘playlist culture’ would mean by the end of the decade — sequencing as the new album. October 2015 in seventy minutes, before any of it became nostalgia.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Everything #1113</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/everything-1113/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/everything-1113/</guid><description>Sixty-seven tracks from November 2013, captured at the late-’10s pop apex. Drake brings the post-‘Nothing Was the Same’ moodboard; Macklemore &amp; Ryan Lewis hold the radio-pop crossover; Justin Timberlake’s ‘20/20’ rollout dominates the slick-R&amp;B run; Robin Thicke carries the year’s most-talked-about chorus before history reframed it. The ‘all-of-it’ list for a month that included EDM peaks, R&amp;B comebacks, and pop-radio dominance happening at the same time. November 2013 sounded like a single station playing every genre at once, and this list captures that exact moment without trying to clean it up after the fact.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Everything #1214</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/everything-1214/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/everything-1214/</guid><description>One hundred and ten tracks from the December 2014 wide-net rotation — the year-end snapshot when alt-rock, EDM, and R&amp;B-pop were sharing chart space without obvious hierarchy. Coldplay holds the stadium-pop core; Imagine Dragons brings the alt-rock-anthem peak; Enrique Iglesias closes the Latin-pop crossover loop; will.i.am rounds out the dance-radio bridge. The ‘every song that mattered this month’ list, fully unranked — sequenced to play in the background without dropping in tempo or losing the room. December 2014 as a single long room tone, before the next year made any of it feel dated.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Fine Dining Background Music #212</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/fine-dining-background-music-212/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/fine-dining-background-music-212/</guid><description>Forty-seven tracks of fine-dining-grade background jazz and lounge — calibrated to fill a room without competing with conversation. Beegie Adair’s piano-trio standards anchor the run; New York Jazz Lounge and the New York Lounge Quartett carry the cocktail-hour sophistication; Michael Bublé drops in for the modern-vocal-jazz bridge that nudges the volume up without breaking the mood. Sequenced for the dinner service window — pre-dinner softness, mid-meal swing, late-table wind-down. The kind of background tape professional rooms run when a live trio isn’t in the budget; you only notice it’s there when it stops playing.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Happy Cinco de Mayo! #512</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/happy-cinco-de-mayo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/happy-cinco-de-mayo/</guid><description>Fifty-one tracks of Cinco de Mayo cookout fuel, refreshed for streaming-era listening. Shakira opens the radio-pop bridge between Latin-pop and the global Top 40; Don Omar carries the reggaeton anchor; Gipsy Kings delivers the rumba-flamenco classic that ends up in every cookout rotation eventually; Mariachi Aquila handles the traditional mariachi run that closes the late-afternoon. Programmed for outdoor speakers and uneven attention — the kind of list that plays through a six-hour cookout without anyone needing to skip a track. A modern rebuild of the original holiday rotation, lighter on filler, heavier on the songs that earned their spot the first time.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>latin</category><category>party</category><category>festive</category><category>dance</category></item><item><title>Hard Dance Mix #1212</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/hard-dance-mix-1212/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/hard-dance-mix-1212/</guid><description>Thirty-seven tracks of December 2012 big-room hard-dance, captured at the EDM-festival peak. Skrillex carries the brostep-to-mainstream bridge in two separate runs; Bingo Players drops the era’s dirty-house-into-mainstage anthem; Daft Punk lands the late-set legacy moment that recontextualized everything before it. Built for the kind of room where the kick drum hits in the chest and the lighting rig is doing as much work as the DJ. Sequenced for a one-hour pre-game rather than a full festival set — minimal mood drops, every transition leaning on the next peak. The exact sound of December 2012 main-stage rotation.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Hard Dance Mix #212</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/hard-dance-mix-212/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/hard-dance-mix-212/</guid><description>One hundred and four tracks of the streaming-era hard-dance-revival, anchored to the Swedish House Mafia and LMFAO peak rotation. SHM holds the festival-mainstage spine — every drop earned its applause line; LMFAO drops in for the ‘Sorry For Party Rocking’ pop-EDM bridge; Avicii carries the melodic-peak melodies that defined 2011-2012; Pitbull rounds out the pop-radio crossover. Sequenced for a long pregame rather than a tight DJ set — generous song lengths, peaks and valleys spaced for stamina. The 2020 rebuild of the hard-dance canon that mattered, programmed for streaming rather than an Ibiza opening party but sounding the same either way.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>House Dance Mix #1212</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/house-dance-mix-1212/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/house-dance-mix-1212/</guid><description>Forty-five tracks of December 2020 house-revival programming, leaning on Sunnery James &amp; Ryan Marciano’s tribal-house peak. Kaskade brings the melodic-house romance; Afrojack with Shermanology drops in for the festival-friendly pop-house crossover; Steve Aoki featuring Wynter Gordon carries the late-’10s electro-house bridge that bridged Vegas and Ibiza. Sequenced for a workout or a long pregame rather than a beach-club set — tight transitions, no extended mix-out tails. The 2020 streaming-era rebuild of the late-2012 house-rotation canon, refreshed for current ears but pulling from the same body of work that defined the era the first time.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>I&apos;ve Got a Fever and The Only Cure is More Clorox</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/i-ve-got-a-fever-and-the-only-cure-is-more-clorox/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/i-ve-got-a-fever-and-the-only-cure-is-more-clorox/</guid><description>Nineteen tracks of pandemic-era cabin-fever fuel — a shorthand list compiled when ‘the only cure is more Clorox’ was a real-time joke. U2 anchors the stadium-rock catharsis; John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ does the unironic work it was always meant to do; Eagles drop in for the long-drive-with-nowhere-to-go interlude; Black Eyed Peas closes the late-night ‘what year is it’ block. Sequenced as a coping-mechanism mix rather than a party run — long stretches of rock-radio comfort interrupted by big-pop interruptions, like the news bursts that punctuated 2020. The lockdown rotation, unedited and intact.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Martini Lounge #1111</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/martini-lounge-1111/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/martini-lounge-1111/</guid><description>Thirteen tracks of cocktail-hour piano-and-strings programming — calibrated for a hotel bar where the bartender is wearing a vest. Beegie Adair handles the standards-piano-trio core; Buddy Cole brings the lounge-organ legacy that connects the run to the ’50s Vegas-era cocktail canon; Jack Jezzro drops in for the guitar-led standards bridge that softens the room without flattening the pulse. Built for an hour and a half of background time — long enough to cover the cocktail rush, short enough to refresh before the dinner-service playlist takes over. The hotel-bar-grade lounge tape, programmed in November 2011 and still working.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Partytime #914</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/partytime-914/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/partytime-914/</guid><description>Seventy-six tracks of mid-2014 party-radio — the September snapshot when the year’s peak hits had stabilized and the year-end charts were starting to lock in. Pitbull anchors the pop-EDM crossover; Maroon 5 carries the pop-rock-radio spine; Charli XCX brings the electro-pop-feature peak; Iggy Azalea drops in for the rap-pop crossover that defined the year’s most-debated chart moment. Sequenced for a Saturday-night house party with a four-hour timeline — the kind of run that opens at low volume in the kitchen and ends with the speaker pointed at the back porch. The September 2014 ‘party time’ rotation, intact.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>R&amp;B Soul Sing Along #212</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/rnb-soul-sing-along/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/rnb-soul-sing-along/</guid><description>Two hundred and ninety-two tracks of streaming-era R&amp;B and soul singalong — the long-form 2020 rebuild of the genre canon, expanded with deeper cuts and rerecorded staples. Hi-Five anchors the new-jack-swing run; Mariah Carey carries the legacy-diva-vocal spine; Usher holds the early-’00s R&amp;B peak; Keith Sweat brings the ’90s slow-jam-radio bridge that runs through the back half. Built for sustained playback — the kind of list that runs through a long workday and never lands on a song you need to skip. The expanded R&amp;B-singalong canon, ordered for the 2020 ear without losing the original sequencing logic.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>r&amp;b</category><category>soul</category><category>classics</category><category>sing-along</category></item><item><title>Road Trip in Astoria</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/road-trip-in-astoria/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/road-trip-in-astoria/</guid><description>Seventy-eight tracks for the road-trip ‘in’ to Astoria — the leg with momentum, the one where everyone’s still excited about the destination. Avicii anchors the festival-pop crossover; Justin Timberlake handles the slick-pop-radio core; Maroon 5 brings the radio-rock-pop bridge that filled the late-2010s long-drive rotations; LMFAO closes the early-leg party-pop run with the songs that locked in the trip’s energy from the on-ramp. Sequenced for the outbound drive — peaks weighted forward, fewer cooldown valleys, the kind of run that keeps the carload from arguing about who gets to plug in next. The ‘we’re going’ tape.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Road Trip to Astoria</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/road-trip-to-astoria/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/road-trip-to-astoria/</guid><description>Eighty-three tracks for the long drive to Astoria — the cruising-speed companion to the ‘in’ tape, programmed for the back half of a multi-hour highway run. Coldplay anchors the stadium-pop pacing that fills hour-long stretches; Red Hot Chili Peppers brings the alt-rock road-canon ballast; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers handles the classic-rock open-window run; AC/DC drops in for the truck-stop wake-up moments where the energy needs a hard reset. Sequenced for sustained 70-mph listening — fewer hard cuts, longer song lengths, the kind of run that lets the driver forget to skip. The ‘still driving’ tape.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>St. Patrick&apos;s Day Party Mix #312</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/st-patrick-s-day-party-mix-312/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/st-patrick-s-day-party-mix-312/</guid><description>Thirty-seven tracks of March 2012 St. Patrick’s Day party programming — the working-pub rotation, not the radio-friendly version. The Sing-A-Long Gang holds the chant-along pub-floor core; The Dubliners bring the legacy Irish-folk anchor that grounds the run; Paddy Reilly carries the singalong-balladeer bridge; Brendan Moriarty closes the late-night Irish-pub canon. Built for an actual pub afternoon-into-evening that runs from open through last-call — sequenced for sustained playback, not for a TV-show shorthand of what an Irish pub sounds like. The working-rotation Irish-pub set, programmed by ear, the way the genre actually moves.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>The Challenge: Hello (Reggae Cover)</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/the-challenge-hello-reggae-cover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/the-challenge-hello-reggae-cover/</guid><description>Twenty-nine tracks of reggae-cover programming — the working-rotation tape for an event called ‘The Challenge’ where every song was a reggae version of a pop or rock original. Music Brokers carries the studio-collective production core; Conkarah with Rosie Delmah brings the modern reggae-cover-pop crossover; Urban Love handles the smooth-reggae lounge bridge; Sublime Reggae Kings close the run with the catalog of cover versions that built their entire commercial identity. Built for a beach-bar afternoon where the trick is that every song is somehow familiar even though nothing on the list is the original.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Top Songs of 2018</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/top-songs-of-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/top-songs-of-2018/</guid><description>Ninety-five tracks of 2018’s top-rotation hits — the streaming-era year-end snapshot that captured what was actually being played versus what the chart-history retrospectives would later canonize. Sir Sly carries the alt-pop-radio bridge that defined the year’s indie-rotation peak; Jack White drops in for the rock-vinyl-revival anchor; Drake holds the rap-radio core throughout the run; Music Brokers’ studio-collective work fills the cover and reissue gaps. Sequenced for sustained playback rather than a tight short-list — the long version of the year, with rough edges intact and the deep cuts that didn’t make the official year-end charts.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Top Songs of 2019</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/top-songs-of-2019/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/top-songs-of-2019/</guid><description>Ninety-eight tracks of 2019 top-rotation hits — the year-end snapshot for a year when alt-rock, post-punk-revival, and slick-pop were all sharing playlist space. Foo Fighters anchor the rock-radio core that ran through the year; The Black Keys bring the garage-blues revival bridge; Justin Timberlake carries the legacy-pop-radio anchor; Bruno Mars closes the soul-pop crossover that dominated mid-year. Sequenced as a year-in-review rather than a curated short-list — long enough to play through a workday, deep enough to surprise on shuffle. The functional 2019 year-end record, intact.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Vintage Café - Lounge &amp; Jazz Blends #1111</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/vintage-cafe-lounge-jazz-blends-1111/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/vintage-cafe-lounge-jazz-blends-1111/</guid><description>Twenty-eight tracks of November 2011 vintage-café lounge programming — the original build of the ‘Vintage Café’-style cover-and-reinterpretation canon that filled coffee shops and small bars through the early ’10s. BLACK COFFEE drives the smooth-house-meets-lounge bridge; the Radiohead-cover ‘CREEP’ entries capture the cover-jazz aesthetic that defined the genre at its peak; SPACE COWBOY drops in for the lounge-pop bridge; ‘Don’t Speak’ closes the run with the No Doubt cover that became a fixture of the format. Built for working-café-rotation predictability — every track soft enough to sit under conversation, recognizable enough to reward attention.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Weekend Kickoff Songs - The Bank</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-songs-the-bank/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-songs-the-bank/</guid><description>Three hundred and thirty-three tracks of long-form Weekend Kickoff programming — the catalog-version of the rotation, expanded for sustained playback across an entire workday and into the evening. Avicii anchors the EDM-pop crossover spine; Flo Rida brings the dance-radio-floor anchor; Coldplay carries the stadium-pop pacing that fills hour-long stretches; David Guetta closes the festival-pop bridge that ran through the late-2010s. Built for unsupervised eight-to-ten-hour playback — the kind of rotation that fills a long Friday office-and-into-the-bar afternoon without ever needing intervention. The long-form catalog version of the kickoff.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: Alt/Pop Mix #916</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-alt-pop-mix-916/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-alt-pop-mix-916/</guid><description>Thirty tracks of September 2016 alt-pop programming — the late-summer Weekend Kickoff edition leaning into the year’s electro-pop and dance-rotation peaks. The Chainsmokers anchor the EDM-pop crossover spine that defined the year’s mainstream-radio dominance; Fonkynson featuring Le Couleur brings the French-indie-pop bridge that defined the year’s European indie-rotation pulls; ATR31 carries the underground-electro-pop run; DJ Snake closes the dance-pop crossover that ran through the year’s mainstream-radio rotation. Built for a tight Friday-evening pre-game — peak-heavy, short, and committed to a specific rotation moment rather than a broad genre survey. The September 2016 alt-pop snapshot, intact and locked.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: Alt/Pop/Rock #716</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-alt-pop-rock-716/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-alt-pop-rock-716/</guid><description>Twenty-nine tracks of July 2016 alt-pop-rock programming — the mid-summer Weekend Kickoff edition leaning into the alt-rock-revival peaks of the year. The Jayhawks anchor the alt-country and roots-rock bridge; The Strokes bring the early-’00s NYC rock-revival catalog that was finding renewed playlist relevance; The Kills carry the late-night blues-punk peak; Red Hot Chili Peppers close the run with the ‘The Getaway’-era release-cycle peaks. Built for an outdoor July-evening pre-game — sequenced to hold its energy across a long cookout-into-bar transition. The mid-2016 alt-rock weekend-rotation snapshot.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: Booty Moving Beats #1217</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-booty-moving-beats-1217/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-booty-moving-beats-1217/</guid><description>Thirty-one tracks of December 2017 booty-moving Weekend Kickoff programming — the late-year edition leaning into the year’s peak afro-pop, dancehall, and indie-rotation crossovers. U2 anchor the legacy-rock-anthem spine that opened the run; Wale brings the cross-Atlantic afro-pop-rap bridge; The Beaches carry the indie-rock-pop indie-rotation peak; Tash Sultana closes the run with the looper-and-guitar one-person-band moment that defined the year’s breakout-act narrative. Built for a December Friday-evening pre-game — peak-heavy, short, and committed to the year’s specific rotation moment.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: Catchy Alt Tracks #618</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-catchy-alt-tracks-618/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-catchy-alt-tracks-618/</guid><description>Thirty-two tracks of June 2018 catchy-alt-tracks Weekend Kickoff programming — the early-summer edition leaning into the year’s alt-rock and alt-pop-rock peaks. Sir Sly anchor the moody-alt-pop core; Jack White brings the rock-vinyl-revival anchor; Joywave carry the alt-pop-rock bridge; Portugal. The Man close the run with the radio-rotation crossover that defined the year. Built for an outdoor June-evening pre-game — sequenced to crest mid-list and hold rather than peaking late, the way the season’s slower-evening pacing rewarded the rotation. The mid-2018 alt-rotation snapshot, intact.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: Club Mix #517</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-club-mix-517/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-club-mix-517/</guid><description>Thirty-five tracks of May 2017 Weekend Kickoff club-mix programming — the late-spring edition leaning hard into the dance-and-house-revival peaks of the year. Erick Morillo versus Eddie Thoneick featuring Angel Taylor anchors the pop-house-radio-crossover core that ran through the season; Toby Green brings the bigger-room electro-house bridge that defined the year’s outdoor-festival pulls; Bob Sinclar with Daddy’s Groove carry the festival-house anchor that connected European clubs to American outdoor rotation; LP closes the run with the alt-pop-vocal bridge that defined the year’s mid-tempo summer crossover. The May 2017 club-rotation snapshot, intact and ready for an outdoor Friday-evening pre-game.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: Covid Distractions #1</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-covid-distractions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-covid-distractions/</guid><description>Forty-five tracks of pandemic-era Weekend Kickoff programming — the tighter version of the Covid-distractions edition, built for the days when the long-form rotation felt like too much commitment and the listening week needed a quicker lift. Dua Lipa anchors the disco-pop-revival core that defined the year’s commercial-radio peak; Taylor Swift brings the alt-folk-rotation bridge from the ‘Folklore’ release week that reframed the year’s rotation; Harry Styles carries the soft-rock-revival anchor that drove the year’s pop-radio rotation; Lizzo and Ariana Grande close the pop-rotation peaks that capped the year. The shorter, punchier 2020 Friday-evening rotation — same era, less time commitment.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekend</category><category>feel-good</category><category>dance</category></item><item><title>WK: Pop/Dance #1016</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-pop-dance-1016/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-pop-dance-1016/</guid><description>Thirty-two tracks of October 2016 Weekend Kickoff pop-dance programming — the mid-fall edition leaning into the year’s rap-and-pop crossover peaks. Mac Miller anchors the cross-genre rap-and-pop-feature run that defined his late-2016 rotation; The Weeknd brings the dark-falsetto R&amp;B-pop crossover that ran through the year; Trick Daddy carries the legacy Florida-rap reunion-track bridge that opened the run; Tory Lanez closes the run with the year’s most-talked-about feature-and-radio-rotation crossover. Built for a Friday-evening pre-game — peak-heavy, short, and committed to the year’s specific rotation moment rather than a broad cross-decade survey. The October 2016 pop-dance kickoff, intact.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: Pop, Fun, Catchy #119</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-pop-fun-catchy-119/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-pop-fun-catchy-119/</guid><description>Twenty-two tracks of January 2019 Weekend Kickoff pop-fun-catchy programming — the new-year edition leaning into the year-end and early-2019 pop-radio peaks. Mabel anchors the UK-pop-radio bridge that was breaking through to American rotation; Bruno Mars brings the slick-pop-and-soul-pop anchor; Silk City carries the dance-pop-supergroup bridge; Dua Lipa drops in for the year’s most-played pop-radio peaks; Liam Payne closes the boy-band-solo-pop run. Built for a January Friday-evening pre-game when the energy needed a fresh-year lift. The early-2019 pop-rotation snapshot, intact.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: Tribe Pregame Show #1116</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-tribe-pregame-show-1116/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-tribe-pregame-show-1116/</guid><description>Thirty-one tracks of November 2016 Weekend Kickoff tribe-pregame programming — the late-fall edition built around the A Tribe Called Quest comeback-album release-week peak that defined the month. Tribe anchor the legacy-hip-hop spine that drove the rotation through the back half of the year; Snoop Dogg brings the West-Coast-rap legacy bridge that grounded the run; Anderson .Paak carries the post-‘Malibu’ year-end peaks that defined his breakout year; Mos Def closes the underground-rap-legacy run with the catalog moments that connected the run back to the genre’s roots. Built for a tight Friday-evening pre-game tied to the comeback-album release week — peak-heavy, short, and committed to the moment. The November 2016 hip-hop-rotation kickoff, intact.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: Variety Mix #717</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-variety-mix-717/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-variety-mix-717/</guid><description>Thirty-two tracks of July 2017 Weekend Kickoff variety-mix programming — the mid-summer edition with the broadest cross-genre pulls of the year, locked in the week before the long July listening run. Calvin Harris anchors the dance-pop-radio crossover core that defined the year’s summer rotation; Foo Fighters bring the legacy-rock-radio spine that grounded the run in catalog rock; Logic carries the politically-charged-hip-hop bridge that defined the summer; NoMBe closes the alt-R&amp;B run with the year’s most-played indie-rotation crossover. Built for an outdoor July-evening pre-game where the rotation has to hold its energy across a long cookout-into-bar transition. The mid-2017 variety-rotation snapshot, intact.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>WK: When Jazz and Rap Unite #317</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-when-jazz-and-rap-unite-317/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/wk-when-jazz-and-rap-unite-317/</guid><description>Twelve tracks of March 2017 Weekend Kickoff jazz-and-rap programming — the early-spring edition leaning hard into the boom-bap-and-jazz-sample-revival peaks of the year. Denitia and Sene anchor the alt-R&amp;B-and-jazz bridge that defined the rotation’s late-’10s leftward turn; Domo Genesis brings the LA-underground-rap-and-soul-rap collaboration core that drove the year’s indie-rap rotation; Dag Savage carry the underground-soul-rap legacy bridge that grounded the run in the genre’s lineage; RAIZA BIZA closes the New Zealand-and-diaspora rap run that opened the rotation to broader source material. Short, deliberate, and committed to a specific rotation moment — the working-rotation tape for the genre’s reunion week.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Your Top Songs 2019</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/your-top-songs-2019/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/your-top-songs-2019/</guid><description>One hundred and thirty-nine tracks of the personal 2019 year-end rotation — the Spotify-Wrapped-style ‘Your Top Songs’ summary for a year defined by legacy-rock catalog peaks and the slick-pop-and-soul-pop crossover. Foo Fighters anchor the legacy-rock-radio core; The Black Keys bring the garage-blues-revival bridge; Justin Timberlake carries the legacy-pop-radio anchor; Post Malone closes the rap-radio-and-pop-radio crossover that defined the year’s mainstream-rotation peaks. The personal 2019 year-in-review, intact and weighted toward the listener’s actual rotation rather than the year-end charts.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Weekend Kickoff: Hip Hop Shorty</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-hip-hop-shorty/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-hip-hop-shorty/</guid><description>Twenty-eight tracks of hip-hop-leaning Weekend Kickoff programming — the run for the Fridays where the rotation pulled toward the rap side rather than the broader cross-genre survey. Gang Starr anchor the boom-bap-with-jazz-samples legacy core that defined the East Coast lineage; Guru with Angie Stone bring the Jazzmatazz-era soul-rap bridge that opened the genre to broader rotation; Ghost Town DJs drops in for the bass-music-classic singalong moment that always works; Da Brat closes the late-’90s and early-’00s Atlanta rap legacy run with the catalog moments that bridged the South into the broader rotation. Built for a Friday-evening pre-game rather than a long-form workday rotation — short, peak-heavy, and committed to the genre.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Weekend Kickoff: June 2018</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-june-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-june-2018/</guid><description>Thirty-two tracks of the June 2018 Weekend Kickoff rotation — the early-summer edition of the recurring Friday-evening list. Jack White anchors the rock-vinyl-revival core; Joywave brings the alt-pop-rock bridge that ran through that year’s indie-rotation peaks; Sir Sly handles the moody-alt-pop run; Sir Sly with K.Flay drops in for the cross-act collaboration moment that defined the year’s feature-track economy. Built for the early-summer pre-game when the energy is climbing into the season — sequenced to crest mid-list and hold rather than peaking late. The June 2018 working-rotation, intact.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Year In Review 2017</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/year-in-review-2017/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/year-in-review-2017/</guid><description>One hundred and sixty-four tracks of the canonical 2017 year-in-review — the long-form catalog of the year’s peak rotation, compiled in early 2018 as the definitive working snapshot. Calvin Harris anchors the dance-pop-radio crossover spine; RAIZA BIZA brings the New Zealand-and-diaspora rap bridge; Dizzy Wright carries the underground-rap legacy run; Awon and Dephlow close the boom-bap-and-soul-rap-revival catalog. Built for unsupervised long-form playback — sequenced to play through an entire workday and into the evening without intervention. The 2017 long-form catalog version of the year, intact.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Ashlie Bachelorette Party 1</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/ashlie-bachelorette-party-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/ashlie-bachelorette-party-1/</guid><description>Bachelorette party, side one — the warmup through the peak. Beyoncé and Salt-N-Pepa carry the unapologetic-anthem core; Bell Biv DeVoe’s ‘Poison’ pulls everyone onto the floor whether they wanted to dance or not; Heavy D &amp; The Boyz with Aaron Hall closes the loop on early-’90s slow-jam-into-club-hit transitions. Thirty-seven tracks built for a hotel suite that turns into a club around 11 p.m. — a sequence that knows when to hit the throwback wall and when to bring the room back to the present. The ‘before we leave for the bar’ tape, except no one ever made it to the bar.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Ashlie Bachelorette Party 2</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/ashlie-bachelorette-party-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/ashlie-bachelorette-party-2/</guid><description>Bachelorette party, side two — the part where the night turns from cute to chaotic. Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber bring the pop-radio fuel; Justin Timberlake holds the falsetto-floor; Beyoncé, JAY-Z and Kanye West close the late-night statement run. Forty tracks deep, ordered for the back half of the night when shoes come off and nobody’s taking the camera seriously. Less restrained than side one, more committed to the floor — the playlist that makes the hotel security guard come up at 1 a.m., and the same one nobody regrets the morning after. Pure ‘group-text in caps’ energy.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Road Trip April 2017 - Cruising</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/road-trip-april-2017-cruising/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/road-trip-april-2017-cruising/</guid><description>Eighty-four tracks of April 2017 cruising-speed road-trip programming — calibrated for a long highway drive where the cruise control is set and nobody’s in a hurry. Red Hot Chili Peppers anchor the alt-rock road-canon; Coldplay brings the stadium-pop-with-piano stretches that ate up the late-afternoon miles; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers handle the open-window classic-rock backbone; Eagles close the late-evening cooldown with the run that every road-trip eventually returns to. Sequenced for sustained 70-mph listening — no abrupt tempo changes, no genre jumps that pull a passenger out of the drive. The cruising-tape, designed for highway.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Road Trip April 2017 - Partying</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/road-trip-april-2017-partying/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/road-trip-april-2017-partying/</guid><description>Seventy-eight tracks of April 2017 road-trip-party programming — the high-energy companion to the cruising tape, meant for the rest-stop-to-rest-stop stretches when the energy needed a refresh. Avicii anchors the EDM-pop crossover that ran through the year’s rotation; Justin Timberlake holds the pop-radio falsetto-floor; Kesha brings the party-pop singalong peak; Ja Rule with Ashanti drops in for the early-’00s nostalgia bump that gets every passenger to commit to the chorus. Built for the kind of trip where the playlist is the entertainment — sequenced for the second half of the drive, when energy management matters more than mood.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Weekend Kickoff - DEC 2017</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-dec-2017/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-dec-2017/</guid><description>Thirty-one tracks of the December 2017 ‘Weekend Kickoff’ rotation — the year-end edition of the recurring Friday-evening playlist that kicked off the weekend listening week. U2 anchors the legacy-rock-anthem spine that grounded the run; Wale with Major Lazer, Dua Lipa, and Wizkid carries the cross-Atlantic afro-pop-and-club crossover that defined the year’s winter peaks and the moment afro-pop went from regional to global; The Beaches bring the Toronto indie-rock-pop bridge that defined the year’s breakout indie-band narrative; Tash Sultana closes the run with the looper-and-guitar one-person-band moment that defined the year’s breakout-act narrative. The December-edition working-rotation, intact and ready for the year-end week.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Weekend Kickoff - July 2017</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-july-2017/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-july-2017/</guid><description>Thirty-three tracks of the July 2017 Weekend Kickoff rotation — the mid-summer edition of the recurring Friday-evening list. Foo Fighters anchor the legacy-rock-radio spine that ran through the year; the Logic with Black Thought, Chuck D, Big Lenbo, and No ID collaboration brings the politically-charged hip-hop peak that defined the summer; NoMBe carries the alt-R&amp;B bridge; Mura Masa with A$AP Rocky closes the electronic-rap-feature run. Built for the kind of Friday-evening pre-game where the rotation has to hold its energy across a four-hour cookout-into-bar transition. The mid-2017 weekend-rotation snapshot.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Weekend Kickoff - May 2017</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-may-2017/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-may-2017/</guid><description>Thirty-five tracks of the May 2017 Weekend Kickoff rotation — the late-spring edition of the recurring Friday-evening list, leaning hard into the dance-and-house-revival peaks of the year. Erick Morillo with Eddie Thoneick and Angel Taylor anchor the pop-house-radio-crossover core that ran through the season; Bob Sinclar with Daddy’s Groove brings the festival-house bridge that connected the European clubs to the American outdoor rotation; Toby Green carries the bigger-room electro-house anchor that was finding renewed traction; Sam Feldt closes the deep-house-pop bridge that defined the year’s mid-tempo summer run. The May 2017 working-rotation, intact and ready for an outdoor pre-game.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Your Top Songs 2017</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/your-top-songs-2017/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/your-top-songs-2017/</guid><description>One hundred tracks of the personal 2017 year-end rotation — the Spotify-Wrapped-style ‘Your Top Songs’ summary for a year defined by alt-rock-rotation peaks and the producer-and-vocalist house-rotation crossover. Red Hot Chili Peppers anchor the alt-rock-radio core; Foo Fighters bring the legacy-rock-radio spine; NoMBe carries the alt-R&amp;B-and-indie-rotation bridge; Erick Morillo with Eddie Thoneick and Angel Taylor close the pop-house-radio-crossover anchor. The personal year-in-review for 2017 — a year where the listener’s rotation tracked the playlist-rotation more closely than the chart-history.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Big Party Mix</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/big-party-mix/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/big-party-mix/</guid><description>Two hundred and twelve tracks of all-purpose party fuel — the catch-all tape for the kind of event where the guest list spans three decades and four taste profiles. Lionel Richie and Queen carry the boomer-anthem floor; Red Hot Chili Peppers brings the alt-rock peak; Coldplay handles the cool-it-down stretches before the next hard cut. Built to play unsupervised for hours, sequenced in big blocks rather than abrupt mood swings — meaning the kitchen group and the dance-floor group both get long enough at their preferred tempo. The list you put on when nobody’s officially DJing and you just need it to keep working until the food runs out.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Weekend Kickoff July 2016</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-july-2016/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-july-2016/</guid><description>Twenty-nine tracks of the July 2016 Weekend Kickoff rotation — the summer-peak edition of the recurring Friday-evening list, locked in the week before the long Independence Day weekend. The Jayhawks anchor the alt-country and roots-rock bridge that ran through the summer’s indie-rotation pulls; The Strokes bring the early-’00s NYC rock-revival anchor that was finding renewed playlist relevance after a few years out of rotation; The Kills carry the late-night blues-punk peak that defined their mid-decade run; Red Hot Chili Peppers close the run with the ‘The Getaway’-era release-cycle-tied catalog peaks that drove the year’s alt-rock-radio rotation. The July 2016 working-rotation, intact and unedited.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Weekend Kickoff - Mar 2017</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-mar-2017/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-mar-2017/</guid><description>Fourteen tracks of the March 2017 Weekend Kickoff rotation — a tighter-than-usual edition for the early-spring shoulder season. Denitia and Sene anchor the alt-R&amp;B bridge that defined the rotation’s late-’10s leftward turn; Domo Genesis with Anderson .Paak brings the cross-act hip-hop and soul-rap collaboration peak; Dag Savage with Exile, Johaz, and Aloe Blacc carry the underground-soul-rap legacy run; RAIZA BIZA closes the New Zealand-and-diaspora rap bridge. Short, deliberate, and committed to a specific rotation moment rather than a broad weekend survey — the working-rotation tape for a quieter month.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Weekend Kickoff Nov 2016</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-nov-2016/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-nov-2016/</guid><description>Thirty-one tracks of the November 2016 Weekend Kickoff rotation — the late-fall edition leaning hard into the year’s peak hip-hop deep-cuts run, locked in the week of the A Tribe Called Quest comeback-album release. Tribe anchor the legacy hip-hop spine, with the ‘We Got It from Here’ release-week-tied peaks driving the rotation through the back half of the month; Anderson .Paak brings the post-‘Malibu’ year-end peaks that defined his breakout year; Mos Def carries the underground-rap legacy bridge that grounded the run in the genre’s lineage; The Pharcyde close the run with the West-Coast underground-’90s anchor. The November 2016 working-rotation, intact and weighted toward the year’s most-played hip-hop catalog.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Weekend Kickoff Oct 2016</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-oct-2016/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-oct-2016/</guid><description>Thirty-two tracks of the October 2016 Weekend Kickoff rotation — the mid-fall edition with the year’s strongest rap-and-pop crossover peaks, locked in the week the year’s rap-rotation hierarchy was settling into its year-end shape. Trick Daddy with Khia and Tampa Tony anchor the legacy Florida-rap reunion-track core; Mac Miller with Miguel brings the cross-genre collaboration that ran through the year’s rotation; Mac Miller with Ariana Grande drops in for the late-2016 pop-rap-feature peak that defined the second half of the year; Tory Lanez closes the run with the year’s most-talked-about feature-and-radio-rotation crossover. The October 2016 working-rotation, intact and weighted toward the year’s peak rap-radio catalog.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Weekend Kickoff - Year in Review 2016</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-year-in-review-2016/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/weekend-kickoff-year-in-review-2016/</guid><description>One hundred and forty-five tracks of the 2016 Weekend Kickoff year-in-review — the December roundup edition that compiled the year’s peak rotations into a single long-form catalog, intended as the working reference for the year’s entire Friday-evening listening week. The Kills anchor the alt-rock-blues-punk rotation peaks that ran through the indie-rotation pulls; The Chainsmokers bring the EDM-pop crossover that defined the year’s mainstream-radio dominance; Daniela Andrade carries the alt-pop-vocal bridge that ran through the year’s indie pulls; DJ Snake with Justin Bieber close the dance-pop crossover that capped the year. The full 2016 weekend-rotation year, in working-catalog order.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>NFL Pump Up!</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/nfl-pump-up/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/nfl-pump-up/</guid><description>One hundred and thirteen tracks of locker-room and pre-game energy — the long-form NFL pre-game canon, sequenced for a four-hour Sunday rather than a single hype-clip. DJ Khaled drops in for the producer-tag motivational anchor; Kanye West carries the late-’00s and early-’10s rap-arena peaks; Drake handles the post-‘So Far Gone’-era confidence run; Lil Wayne closes the mixtape-era bridge that connected commercial rap to the actual locker rooms playing it. Built for stadium PA durability rather than playlist novelty — the songs that worked the first time and kept working through every season after.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Everything 2014</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/everything-2014/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/everything-2014/</guid><description>One hundred and eleven tracks of 2014, in the order they piled up. Coldplay carries the stadium-pop spine across the year; Pharrell Williams holds the ‘Happy’-era radio dominance; Jack White drops in for the rock-vinyl-revival anchor; Enrique Iglesias with Descemer Bueno and Gente De Zona pulls in the Latin-pop crossover that defined the back half. The full year-in-review, unfiltered — every chart hit, every rotation favorite, every song that snuck in from a movie trailer. Built to be played long-form in the background, not auditioned track-by-track. 2014 as it sounded inside the year, not after.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Partytime 2014</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/partytime-2014/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/partytime-2014/</guid><description>Seventy-six tracks of 2014 party-radio — the year ‘Bang Bang’ and ‘Fancy’ shared the same chart space and nobody was complaining. Maroon 5 carries the pop-rock-radio core; Charli XCX brings the electro-pop-feature peak that ran through every guest spot that year; Avicii holds the EDM-pop crossover that defined the festival-radio crossover; Kid Ink with Chris Brown rounds out the rap-radio bridge. Sequenced for a long Saturday rather than a tight DJ set — back-to-back hits, generous song lengths, no genre stretch long enough to clear the room. The 2014 party-rotation, captured before the year ended.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Everything 2013</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/everything-2013/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/everything-2013/</guid><description>A sixty-seven track recap of the 2013 listening year — the canonical ‘what was actually on’ list, before retrospective canon-building tightened things up. Justin Timberlake’s ‘20/20’ dominates the slick-pop run; Drake brings the moodboard rap that was pulling the genre into the streaming era; Ariana Grande and Mac Miller appear together as the year’s pop-rap odd-couple; Awkwafina makes the kind of internet-era cameo that would feel inevitable two years later. Sequenced as a year-in-review tape rather than a curated short-list, leaving the rough edges intact — the ‘actually-played-it’ year-end record, not the ‘should-have-played-it’ one.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>NBA Street</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/nba-street/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/nba-street/</guid><description>Eight tracks of underground-’90s hip-hop — the canon that soundtracked street-ball culture and the NBA Street video-game franchise that crystallized the aesthetic. Pete Rock &amp; C.L. Smooth open with the boom-bap-with-jazz-samples blueprint; Lords of the Underground bring the hardcore-East-Coast peak; Dilated Peoples drop in for the underground-’90s-to-’00s bridge; Benzino closes the run with the Boston-rap legacy moment. Short, deliberate, and entirely about a specific era and feel rather than a broad survey — the kind of mixtape that lives on a thumb drive in someone’s glovebox and never gets replaced.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>V&amp;K Wedding Dance Mix</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/v-k-wedding-dance-mix/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/v-k-wedding-dance-mix/</guid><description>Forty-eight tracks for V&amp;K’s wedding dance floor — the dedicated dance-set, sequenced for the post-dinner energy push through last-call. Black Eyed Peas anchor the late-’00s wedding-DJ-canon core; Miley Cyrus drops in for the pop-radio peak; Katy Perry brings the chant-along chorus run; Bruno Mars carries the slick-pop bridge that closed the late-night singalong stretches. Built for a real venue with a real sound system and a real bar tab — sequenced to keep the floor populated without DJ intervention, with peaks weighted late so the energy crests at the end rather than the middle. The wedding-floor reference run.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>3608 - Resurrected</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/3608-resurrected/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/3608-resurrected/</guid><description>Two-hundred-plus tracks reconstructed from a long-lost rotation that lived on a dorm-room hard drive — the kind of mix that played through every party from sophomore year onward. Red Hot Chili Peppers and Outkast share space with Busta Rhymes and Sean Paul; pop-punk crossfades into Bay Area rap, ’00s rock anthems lean into reggae-flavored hip-hop. It’s less a single mood than a snapshot of when genre lines were coming apart and a great song was just a great song. Resurrected here intact, in original sequence — every cut earned its slot the first time around, and earns it again on replay.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Hawaiian Christmas Party 2012</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/hawaiian-christmas-party-2012/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/hawaiian-christmas-party-2012/</guid><description>Forty-four tracks for the Hawaiian-themed Christmas party, December 2012 — a deliberate genre clash where leis met candy canes and the holiday playlist got hijacked by Top 40. Wiz Khalifa brings the rap-radio peak; Nicki Minaj drops the pop-rap moments that defined the year; Kesha carries the party-pop floor; Flo Rida closes the dance-radio bridge. Sequenced like a non-themed party that happens to be in a tiki bar — the holiday connection is the room, not the music. Built for a hosted event where the food was unrelated, the décor was loud, and the playlist refused to participate in the bit.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Mike and Ana&apos;s Wedding after-party at B A R</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/mike-and-ana-s-wedding-after-party-at-b-a-r/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/mike-and-ana-s-wedding-after-party-at-b-a-r/</guid><description>Eighteen tracks for Mike and Ana’s afterparty at B.A.R. — the run that picked up where the reception ended, sequenced for a venue with a real sound system and a real bar tab. Kid Cudi with MGMT and Ratatat drops in for the festival-anthem bridge; Flo Rida brings the late-’00s dance-radio peak; Don Omar with Lucenzo carries the bilingual-club crossover; Latino Party closes the room with the merengue-house anchor. Built for an afterparty where the dress code has already loosened and the bar is closing soon — every transition leaning into the floor, no slow-jam pocket long enough to break the room.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Songs from JTree - 2012</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/songs-from-jtree-2012/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/songs-from-jtree-2012/</guid><description>Fifteen tracks pulled from the 2012 Joshua Tree weekend — the rotation that played in the rental and on the drives between the campsite and the trailheads. Bruce Springsteen anchors the heartland-rock road-canon; Wild Cherry drops in for the funk-rock cookout moment; The Rolling Stones bring the all-purpose classic-rock spine; Sir Mix-A-Lot closes the late-night run with the early-’90s hip-hop singalong that the group kept circling back to. Built as an actual real-trip mixtape rather than a themed playlist — the run that captured a specific weekend rather than trying to soundtrack the desert. Personal more than programmatic.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Vinesh, AJD Rehearsal Mix</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/vinesh-ajd-rehearsal-mix/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/vinesh-ajd-rehearsal-mix/</guid><description>Fifty-nine tracks for the Vinesh-AJD wedding rehearsal-week rotation — the run that played through the venue walkthroughs, the rehearsal dinner, and the late-night family-and-bridal-party hangs. Vampire Weekend carries the indie-pop bridge that fits a college-friends rehearsal-dinner crowd; U2 anchor the stadium-rock-anthem spine for the bigger-room moments; Neil Diamond brings the singalong-classic-rock peak; Frank Sinatra closes the cocktail-hour standards run that warmed up every adjacent event. Built as a multi-day event playlist rather than a single-set tape, sequenced to play across the full pre-wedding week without ever sounding wrong for the room.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Zombie Apocolypse - dark</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/zombie-apocolypse-dark/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/zombie-apocolypse-dark/</guid><description>Forty-two tracks of the original October 2012 zombie-apocalypse dark-crawl canon — the cooldown companion to the dance-rotation Halloween-party canon, built for the slower-and-darker hour of the night when the dance-floor peak had passed. Skrillex anchors the dubstep-and-brostep horror-EDM peak that ran through 2012’s rotation; The Cranberries bring the alt-rock haunting-vocal bridge that grounded the run; Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ catalog drops in for the legacy Halloween-music anchor that every Halloween rotation eventually returns to; Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett closes the run with ‘Monster Mash’ as the genre’s permanent foundation track. The 2012 dark-Halloween-rotation reference build, intact and unedited.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Zombie Apocalypse - dance</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/zombie-apocalypse-dance/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/zombie-apocalypse-dance/</guid><description>Seventy-five tracks of the original October 2012 zombie-apocalypse dance canon — the Halloween-party rotation built when the genre split between EDM-festival mainstage and pop-radio commercial dance. Flo Rida anchors the dance-radio-floor core; Nicki Minaj brings the rap-radio-pop-feature peaks; Kesha carries the party-pop-singalong floor; Michael Jackson drops in for the legacy ‘Thriller’-era anchor that grounds the run in actual Halloween-music canon. Built for a Halloween party where the bar tab was bigger than the décor budget — sequenced to keep the floor populated through midnight and into the back half of the night.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Dirty Booty Beats 2011 - updated 2/22/2012</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/dirty-booty-beats-2011-updated-2-22-2012/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/dirty-booty-beats-2011-updated-2-22-2012/</guid><description>Thirty-eight tracks of late-’00s and early-’10s booty-bass canon, sequenced unapologetically. 69 Boyz drive the Miami-bass legacy; Salt-N-Pepa drops in for the foundational hip-hop bridge; Freak Nasty closes the run with the chorus that defined a decade of basement parties. The Humble Vibes Reggae Series interludes pull the tempo down just long enough to let everyone breathe before the next BPM jump. Built for the kind of room where every song is a request and the bass cabinet is doing visible work — programmed in February 2012 with the polish of a decade of trial and error. Functional, exact, and entirely uninterested in subtlety.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Foo Fighters Set List 2011</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/foo-fighters-set-list-2011/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/foo-fighters-set-list-2011/</guid><description>Twenty-nine tracks reconstructing the Foo Fighters’ 2011 ‘Wasting Light’ tour set list, with Mose Allison’s ‘Young Man Blues’ slipping in the way Dave Grohl liked to drop in covers between the catalog hits. The full arc — explosive opener, late-album deep cut, the unplugged middle, the bring-the-stage-down closer. Programmed to mirror a real night at the show rather than a greatest-hits shuffle, meaning the energy peaks and valleys land where the band put them on tour. The ‘what they played, in the order they played it’ tape, built when the band was at its post-‘Wasting Light’ peak and the catalog was already deep enough to argue about.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>House Party 2011 Mix</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/house-party-2011-mix/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/house-party-2011-mix/</guid><description>One hundred and fifty-four tracks of 2011 house-party canon — the long version of the playlist that ran on a loop through every off-campus rental that year. Green Day brings the pop-punk-anthem singalong contingent; deadmau5 carries the progressive-house long-form anchor; JAY-Z drops in for the rap-radio peak; LMFAO closes the late-night dance-pop crossover. Built before the streaming-era ‘curated short list’ logic took over — sequenced for unattended four-hour playback, with the kind of song-length inconsistency that signals an actual mix tape rather than a programmed feed. The 2011 college-party canon, in original sequence.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Latino Mix</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/latino-mix/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/latino-mix/</guid><description>Forty-nine tracks of bilingual Latin dance music — merengue, reggaeton, and the bilingual-pop crossover that defined ’00s Latin radio. La Banda Del Merengue handles the merengue-floor backbone; Don Omar drops in for the reggaeton-anthem peak; Sandy &amp; Papo bring the dembow-flavored bridge; Proyecto Uno closes the merengue-house crossover that ran through every Latin club night for a decade. Sequenced for a quinceañera or a wedding rather than a festival — the run that knows when to keep the older guests on the floor and when to push the BPM for the cousins. A working-rotation Latin set, programmed by ear, not algorithm.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Ottmar Liebert – Nouveau Flamenco 1990-2000 Special Tenth Anniversary Edition</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/ottmar-liebert-nouveau-flamenco-1990-2000-special-tenth-anniversary-edition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/ottmar-liebert-nouveau-flamenco-1990-2000-special-tenth-anniversary-edition/</guid><description>Eighteen tracks of Ottmar Liebert’s nouveau-flamenco catalog, drawn from the 1990–2000 period and assembled for the tenth-anniversary special edition. Liebert with Jon Gagan, Gary Lyons, and Stefan Liebert holds the studio-band core across the entire run; the production team’s consistent personnel means the album-arc stays unified across what was originally multi-record material. Built as a single-artist deep-listen with the kind of programming logic that rewards full-album attention rather than shuffle. The reference work for the genre as it was defined in its commercial peak — a guitarist and a band, recording the sound that defined a decade of upscale-restaurant background music.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item><item><title>Strip Club Mix - snoopspecial.com</title><link>https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/strip-club-mix-snoopspecial-com/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.snoopspecial.com/playlists/strip-club-mix-snoopspecial-com/</guid><description>Eight hundred and five tracks of strip-club rotation — the long-form, working-room playlist that ran on snoopspecial.com as the reference build for the genre. Ludacris carries the rap-radio-club core; Britney Spears brings the pop-radio crossover that defined the genre’s late-’00s polish; Aerosmith drops in for the rock-pop bridge that the older rooms still played; 2 Live Crew anchor the legacy Miami-bass run that grounded the canon. Built for unsupervised eight-hour playback — sequenced to keep the room moving without DJ intervention. The most-trafficked working-rotation in the catalog, in original online-publish order.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feel-good</category></item></channel></rss>