Here's my summer 2024 playlist, a collection of boogaloo and rock and dance, good background music for your summer endeavors, with lots of artists you haven't heard of that are worth exploring.
This year's selection is nearly 90 songs deep, more than four hours long, from musicians representing more than twenty countries. There's a lot more Brazil in the music this year – nine artists from there, the most of any country except the U.S. (the Brazilian artists: Djalma Dias, Trio Mocoto, Zito Righi e Seu Conjunto, the legendary Jorge Ben, Sessa, Jubarte Pipo, Erasmo Carlos, Elza Soares, Pixinguinha).