June 16, 2024

Heyo Neuphorians!

Tonight is the 77thAnnual Tony Awards and by the time you read this, you will know whether “Hell’s Kitchen” or “Stereophonic” was the big winner- each has a record 13 nominations and has a song on this playlist.  These shows both follow the recent Broadway trend of being loosely based on nonfictional rock or pop music stories.

Of course, I can’t ignore that today is Father’s Day- and neither could Country superstar, Luke Combs who released his latest LP “Fathers & Sons” last week. The LP explores father/son relationships from many points of view- and you may find its lyrics touching, or corny- or most likely both. However, given that Combs has introduced his own line of American Greetings digital Father’s Day cards with his album launch, some skepticism of his motivations is warranted.

There’s also been an abundance of new music released in the June 16 fortnight. Even with a (too long) 17 song playlist, I haven’t been able to fit great new music by Kaytranada, Peggy Gou, Jung Kook, Zach Bryan, jazz’s Robert Glasper, Nilüfer Yanya, Carly Pearce, Gracie Abrams, Normani, Fana Hues, Swedish House Mafia, Dom Dolla, Tove-Lo/SG Lewis and others on this playlist. I recommend you check some of those releases out.

If you wish to vote, please submit your votes by EOD Saturday June 29, either in the playlist site in the comments section or via email to me.