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The DNC ceremonial roll call featured a DJ and songs to represent each state and territory. Here are all the songs on the playlist
The Democratic National Convention turned a routine roll call into a dance party Tuesday night as Democrats celebrated Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee for the 2024 presidential race.
The ceremonial roll call became a star-studded fest that included a live performance from Lil Jon and a medley of songs from Dolly Parton, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and others that corresponded to each state and U.S. territory.
The roll call concluded with Harris’ home state of California, which was intentionally left until the end, and featured four songs, including two from Kendrick Lamar. Harris later appeared on video from Milwaukee, where she was holding a rally, and thanked supporters for nominating her. The playlist was put together by celebrity DJ Cassidy, who posted his setlist on his Spotify.
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Following the event, DJ Cassidy told Rolling Stone that he got a call a month ago from a producer of the convention, who told him they wanted him to become the convention’s “first musical maestro” for the DNC’s roll call. He told the outlet that there were many hours of “meticulous curation” involved in the choosing of songs, saying, “None of them were freestyle.”
DJ Cassidy said it was a “surreal feeling to see the ‘Pass the Mic’ experience connected to the roll call.”
“It hit me differently than I thought it would,” he said. “It felt like it brought a new life to the process that people take for granted. And the process is giving people a voice.”
Full list of songs played during DNC’s roll call
- Delaware: “Higher Love” – Kygo, Whitney Houston
- Alabama: “Sweet Home Alabama” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Alaska: “Feel It Still” – Portugal. The Man
- American Samoa: “The Edge of Glory” – Lady Gaga
- Arizona: “Edge of Seventeen” – Stevie Nicks
- Arkansas: “Don’t Stop” – Fleetwood Mac
- Colorado: “September” – Earth, Wind & Fire
- Connecticut: “Signed Sealed, Delivered” – Stevie Wonder
- Democrats abroad: “Love Train” – The O’Jays
- Washington, D.C.: “Let Me Clear My Throat” – DJ Kool
- Florida: “Won’t Back Down” – Tom Petty
- Georgia: “Turn Down for What” – Lil Jon
- Georgia: “Get Low” – Lil John & the East Side Boyz
- Guam: “Espresso” – Sabrina Carpenter
- Hawaii: “24K Magic” – Bruno Mars
- Idaho: “Private Idaho” – The B-52s
- Illinois: “Sirius” – The Alan Parsons Project
- Indiana: “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” – Michael Jackson
- Iowa: “Celebrate” – Kool & the Gang
- Kansas: “Carry on Wayward Son” – Kansas
- Kentucky: “First Class” – Jack Harlow
- Louisiana: “All I Do Is Win” – DJ Khaled
- Maine: “Shut Up and Dance” – Walk the Moon
- Maryland: “Respect” – Aretha Franklin
- Massachusetts: “I’m Shipping up to Boston” – Dropkick Murphys
- Michigan: “Lose Yourself” – Eminem
- Minnesota: “Kiss” – Prince
- Minnesota: “1999” – Prince
- Mississippi: “Twisting the Night Away” – Sam Cooke
- Missouri: “Good Luck, Babe” – Chappell Roan
- Montana: “American Woman” – Lenny Kravitz
- Nebraska: “Firework” – Katy Perry
- Nevada: “Mr. Brightside” – The Killers
- New Hampshire: “Don’t Stop Believin'” – Journey
- New Jersey: “Born in the U.S.A.” – Bruce Springsteen
- New Mexico: “Confident” – Demi Lovato
- New York: “Empire State of Mind” – Jay Z and Alicia Keys
- North Carolina: “Raise Up” – Petey Pablo
- North Dakota: “Girl On Fire” – Alicia Keys
- Ohio: “Green Light” – John Legend, Andre 3000
- Oklahoma: “Ain’t Going Down (Till the Sun Comes Up)” – Garth Brooks
- Oregon: “Float On” – Modest Mouse
- Pennsylvania: “Black and Yellow” – Wiz Khalifa
- Pennsylvania: “Motownphilly” – Boyz II Men
- Puerto Rico: “Despacito” – Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee
- Rhode Island: “Shake it Off” – Taylor Swift
- South Carolina: “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine” – James Brown
- South Dakota: “What I Like About You” – The Romantics
- Tennessee: “9 To 5” – Dolly Parton
- Texas: “Texas Hold ‘Em” – Beyoncé
- Utah: “Animal” – Neon Trees
- Vermont: “Stick Season” – Noah Kahan
- Virginia: “The Way I Are” – Timbaland
- Washington: “Can’t Hold Us” – Macklemore
- West Virginia: “Take Me Home, Country Roads” – John Denver
- Wisconsin: “Jump Around” – House of Pain
- Wyoming: “I Gotta Feeling” – Black Eyed Peas
- Virgin Islands: “VI to the Bone” – Mic Love
- California: “The Next Episode” – Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg
- California: “Alright” – Kendrick Lamar
- California: They Not Like Us” – Kendrick Lamar
- California: “California Love” – Tupac
The third night of the DNC kicks off Wednesday, with a focus on how the party’s new ticket plans to fight for America’s freedoms. Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is expected to officially accept the vice presidential nomination and will be among the list of speakers.
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A 15-year-old boy was charged Thursday with murder in the shooting deaths of his parents and three of his siblings at a home in Fall City, Washington, according to court documents obtained by CBS News.
The teen, whose name is being withheld because he is a juvenile, was charged with five counts of aggravated murder in the slayings of his parents, Mark and Sarah Humiston, two brothers, ages 9 and 13, and his 7-year-old sister, per King County court records.
He was also charged with one count of attempted murder for shooting and wounding his 11-year-old sister, the documents read.
That girl was in “satisfactory condition” at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, hospital spokesperson Susan Gregg told the Associated Press Tuesday.
Autopsies performed by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that all five victims died of gunshot wounds. The handgun used in the shooting was believed to belong to the victim’s father, the court records state.
According to the charging documents, just before 5 a.m. Monday, the suspect called 911 with a false story in which he claimed that his 13-year-old brother “just shot my whole family and committed suicide too” at the family’s home in Fall City, which is a community located near Seattle.
However, at about the same time as that call, 911 dispatchers received a second call from a neighbor who lives about a quarter-mile away. That neighbor said the suspect’s 11-year-old sister had ran to his house and was bleeding from what appeared to be a gunshot wound, the documents said.
The girl said her entire family had been fatally shot and identified her 15-year-old brother as the shooter. The girl told dispatchers she was also shot by her brother and “then described holding her breath and playing dead,” the documents read. The girl later told detectives that she had escaped through a bedroom window.
Deputies responded to the Humiston home, where they found the suspect in the driveway and took him into custody, court records show. The five victims were found dead inside the home.
In a hospital interview with detectives later that day, the suspect’s surviving sister said that she identified the firearm used in the shooting as “her father’s silver Glock handgun,” court documents state.
She said that her father kept the pistol in a small lockbox that “he would sometimes put by the front door so he could bring it to work,” the documents read. She told detectives that the suspect was “the only one who knew the combination to the Glock lockbox.”
Investigators determined that the suspect “systematically murdered” his parents and siblings and “then staged the scene prior to the arrival of first responders to make it appear” that the murders had been committed by his 11-year-old brother, documents read.
The court documents did not speculate on a motive.
The suspect is scheduled to be arraigned Friday afternoon. The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said in a news release Thursday that the suspect is in custody at the Clark Child and Family Justice Center, which is a juvenile facility.
The teen is currently being charged as a juvenile, and prosecutors said a judge will determine whether his case “will be moved to adult court.”
In a statement Tuesday, public defenders representing the suspect said that “our client is a 15-year-old boy who enjoys mountain biking and fishing and has no criminal history.”
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