Sam Kogon Picks Songs For ‘The Sound Of Pleasure’ Playlist: Interview – News47.us

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It’s Pleasure! All through June, HollywoodLife is working The Sound Of Pleasure, a month-long function the place members of the LGBTQ+ group decide songs that needs to be in your Pleasure 2022 playlist. At this time, singer-songwriter Sam Kogon shares his picks. The New York native, who simply dropped a self-titled EP, picked a trio of tracks to make this 12 months’s Pleasure soundtrack have fun the previous, the current, and the longer term.

Sam’s four-song challenge arrived at the beginning of April 2022. “I’m very comfortable to share my new EP with you all as we speak,” Sam mentioned in a press launch when Sam Kogon arrived on all of the streaming platforms. “These new songs symbolize my creative imaginative and prescient, so I made a decision to go the self-titled route. I’m actually happy with my band and the sound we achieved making the file with John Agnello at HoboSound. They’re a batch of 4 singles that I centered numerous thought, intention, and optimistic vitality into, and I hope that it interprets within the listening expertise.”

One of many EP tracks, “Barbed Wire,” earned the excellence of being certainly one of “The Coolest Songs within the World” on Little Steven aka Steven Van Zandt’s legendary SiriusXM present, “Little Steven’s Underground Garage.” HL has included that in The Sound of Pleasure playlist as nicely.

Jobriath, “Area Clown”

Sam Kogon: Jobriath described himself as “rock’s truest fairy” and was, actually, the primary overtly homosexual rock star, however sadly his music isn’t extensively recognized, so I wished to shed some mild on his star.

The Velvet Underground, “Andy’s Chest”

“Andy’s Chest” is an upbeat quantity with a darkish underlying theme impressed by the try made on Andy Warhol’s life. It’s Lou Reed’s method of celebrating Andy and thanking him for The Manufacturing unit. Hear again to the lyrics, it’s basically a delight parade within the type of a music.

Fragrance Genius, “Jason”

“Jason” by Fragrance Genius is a few straight and/or closeted man who has a one-night stand with a homosexual man. I picked this music to symbolize all of the individuals nonetheless dwelling within the closet. A part of the explanation [why] I have fun Pleasure proudly is for many who can’t have fun overtly or freely.

HollywoodLife: We’re asking everybody this: what do you assume is the vibe for Pleasure 2022? 2020 was canceled or digital. 2021 was the comeback. What about 2022?

Sam Kogon: I imagine will probably be a sequel to 2021 Pleasure, hopefully with much less company sponsorship and extra kissing.

How do you intend to have fun this month? Should you’re performing, the place can followers discover you? 

I’m taking myself on a French vacation for my birthday (June seventeenth!) I’m attempting to make it to the Paris delight. Simply be looking out for the brand new yorker in a beret.

My subsequent efficiency within the states might be in Woodstock on July eighth on the Maverick.

This month is about celebrating unsung heroes, so which LGBTQ+ hero would you wish to get extra mainstream recognition? 

Brian Epstein. He deserves the complete Hollywood biopic therapy. Homosexual, Jewish, found The Beatles, died younger…he was the strolling definition of the saying “behind each nice man is a fair better homosexual man.” His dwelling disciple, Andrew Loog Oldham (former supervisor to The Rolling Stones and my pen pal), would definitely agree.

Lastly, what’s a Pleasure 2022 message you’d wish to share with the world?  

Let’s have fun our variations!