Road Trip in Astoria
Seventy-eight tracks for the road-trip ‘in’ to Astoria — the leg with momentum, the one where everyone’s still excited about the destination. Avicii anchors the festival-pop crossover; Justin Timberlake handles the slick-pop-radio core; Maroon 5 brings the radio-rock-pop bridge that filled the late-2010s long-drive rotations; LMFAO closes the early-leg party-pop run with the songs that locked in the trip’s energy from the on-ramp. Sequenced for the outbound drive — peaks weighted forward, fewer cooldown valleys, the kind of run that keeps the carload from arguing about who gets to plug in next. The ‘we’re going’ tape.