Greg Dulli first made a name for himself crafting low-fi rock and soul songs about hustlers and heartbreak for Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers. Dulli is currently one half of a new project called the Gutter Twins (the other half being former Screaming Trees frontman and frequent Queens of the Stone Age collaborator Mark Lanegan). Their debut album Saturnalia (Sub Pop) comes out on March 4, but Dulli provided Rock Daily with a special Valentine’s Day playlist for that special someone in your life today.

John Lee Hooker & Miles Davis, “Coming to Town”
“You have to have a good opener with a strong visual sense for where you’re going on Valentine’s Day. It’s from the Hot Spot soundtrack. That movie was fucking awful, but the soundtrack is fucking fantastic. It’s got a bump and grind to it. You have to balance romance with sex, otherwise it’s just a sissy fest.” (more…)

CBS finally gave in to pressure and axed Imus yesterday, just as he was leaving to apologize to the Rutgers women in person. Our playlist says we haven’t heard the end of this circus…

• “Fired” – Ben Folds
• “Too Little Too Late” – Barenaked Ladies
• “This Is a Fire Door Never Leave Open” – The Weakerthans
• “Life’s a Bitch” – Nappy Roots
• “I Love Them Ho’s [sic]” – Eamon feat. Ghostface

The iconic author of Slaughterhouse-5 has died from brain injuries following a fall—at age 84, the same age his alter-ego Kilgore Trout dies in Timequake. A few songs in tribute to a beautiful mind…and don’t miss a profile we published in the magazine this summer or a piece on the American Dream Vonnegut himself wrote for us in 1998. Plus: Tell us your favorite Vonnegut book.

• “Paperback Writer” - The Beatles
• “Don’t Go” – Yaz
• “Cat’s in the Cradle” – Harry Chapin
• “Man Out of Time” – Elvis Costello
• “All I Can Do Is Write About It” – Lynyrd Skynyrd

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DNA tests finally hand Larry Birkhead the golden ticket…but our songs say easier said than done.

• “Golden Boy” – Greg Dulli
• “Sweet Child O’ Mine” – Guns N’ Roses
• “Danny’s Song” –Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
• “Poor Little Rich Girl” – Tony Bennett
• “Lesser of Two Evils” – Dokken

Apple announced the sales milestone, proving that Steve Jobs kinda knew what he was talking about. What’s he listening to this morning (other than the sound of gold coins dropping into the bucket…)?

• “100 Million Little Bombs” – Buddy Miller
• “Apple Blossom” – The White Stripes
• “Dinosaurs Will Die” – NoFX
• “Odd Jobs” – Captain Beefheart
• “The Man Who Sold the World” – David Bowie

Don Imus apologized again today for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy headed hos,” but that hasn’t stopped Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for calling for his racist head. Some tunes for Imus to play on the air this morning…

“Your Racist Friend” – They Might Be Giants
“American Idiot” – Green Day
“All Apologies” – Nirvana
“Too Little Too Late” – Barenaked Ladies
“My Name Is Mud” – Primus

A Coast Guard ship just returned to Florida with 15 tons of cocaine —worth $400 million dollars, pushing the total seized so far this year past the total of all but three other entire years—and that was just what made it back to port. Think that was a party cruise?

“Cocaine” – Eric Clapton
“White Christmas” – Bing Crosby
“I Will Take Your Drugs and Try Them All” – The Pulses
“Bales of Cocaine” – The Reverend Horton Heat
“Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” – Daft Punk

After a sunny two week holiday in Tehran, the 15 British sailors were suddenly released and are now safely back in the U.K. Think they’ll be partying in London?

“Release the Hostages” – NoFX
“A Sort of Homecoming” – U2
“Green, Green Grass of Home” – Johnny Cash
“Everything’s Forgiven” – Paul K & the Weathermen
“England Swings” – Roger Miller

A Chicago woman is suing a man for “negligent dancing” after he flipped her, dropped her, and cracked her skull at an office party, giving her brain damage. Wonder what song got them so fired up?

“The Last Dance” – Frank Sinatra
“Do You Really Want To Hurt Me” – Culture Club
“I’ll Catch You” – The Get Up Kids
“You Can’t Catch Me” – The Rolling Stones
“Scatterbrain” - Radiohead

The sneezing, the runny nose, the itchy eyes…most of us don’t need scientists to tell us half the U.S. currently has the highest pollen
counts on record—and, naturally, greenhouse gases are to blame. A few tunes to help ease the misery:

“Pollen” - Mirah
“In Your Eyes” - Peter Gabriel
“Try Not to Breathe” - R.E.M.
“Allergic Boy” - Victoria Williams
“It Keeps You Runnin’ ” - The Doobie Brothers

Baseball’s opening day is here, and whether you’re a fan of the national pastime or a critic, it at least means we can officially
celebrate the end of winter:

“Play Ball” – The Tokens
“Centerfield” – John Fogerty
“The Boys of Summer” – Don Henley
“I’ll Go Down Swinging” – Los Straitjackets & Exene Cervenka
“We Are All On Drugs” – Weezer

A patch that boosts sexual desire in women is available in France, Germany, and now the UK — but the prudish FDA has rejected it here, stating concern that it might be abused. Um, isn’t that the point?

• “Sex Drive,” Grace Jones
• “I Believe In Miracles,” Jackson Sisters
• “Medicinal Sweetheart,” Wannabes
• “Can’t Buy Me Love,” The Beatles
• “Orgasm Addict,” Buzzcocks

A Maryland woman choking on an apple credits her dog with saving her life. Guess who’s getting non-poisoned canned food tonight?

• “How Much Is That Doggie In the Window?” – Patti Page
• “Every Dog’s Got His Day” – Johnny Copeland
• “My Best Friend” – Weezer
• “How To Save a Life” – The Fray
• “Pushin’ Forward Back” – Temple of the Dog

In what could bode well for our Olympic hopes, four different U.S. swimmers, including golden boy Michael Phelps, broke world records at the world championships in Australia. Is there something in the water?

• “Broken Records” – Grand Champeen
• “Born in the Water” – The Tragically Hip
• “Speed Trials” – Elliot Smith
• “Swim Real Fast” – Butch Castetter
• “Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)” – Prince

With new home sales at a seven-year low and foreclosures on the rise, Wall Street is getting worried. The good news? You can get a new house for a song!

• “Home Sweet Home” – Mötley Crüe
• “Can’t Find My Way Home” – Blind Faith
• “My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains” – Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
• “The Great Collapse” - Nine Inch Nails
• “I Was In the House When the House Burned Down” – Warren Zevon