New Releases: June 11, 2021
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ryan Adams | “Big Colors” (producers: Don Was, Beatriz Artola, Adams; Red Vinyl, with bonus 7-inch disc; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW  |
(Pax Americana Recording Company LLC / EMPIRE) |
| AFI | “Bodies” (producer: guitarist Jade Puget; mixed by Tony Hoffer; new singles: “Looking Tragic” and “Begging For Trouble”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Rise) |
| Rachel Baiman | “Cycles” (producers: Baiman, Olivia Hally; new single: “Joke’s On Me”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Signature Sounds) |
| Mike Block + Sandeep Das (members of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble) | “Where the Soul Never Dies” (new single: “Glory in the Meeting House”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Bright Shiny Things) |
| Joe Bonamassa | “Now Serving: Royal Tea Live From The Ryman” (new single: “Walk in My Shadow”; See here; DVD; Blu-ray; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(J&R Adventures) |
| Alessandro Cortini | “SCURO CHIARO” (new single: “LO SPECCHIO”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mute) |
| Crowder | “Milk & Honey” (new single: “He Is”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(SixSteps / Sparrow) |
| Dennis DeYoung | “26 East, Vol. 2” (reportedly the former Styx singer’s final solo album; new single: “Isle of Misanthrope”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Deezer; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| Danny Elfman | “Big Mess” (his first non-soundtrack solo studio album since 1984; new single: “True”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(ANTI- / Epitaph) |
| Garbage | “No Gods No Masters” (producers: Garbage, Billy Bush; new single: “The Men Who Rule the World”; See here; Read here; Green Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Alanis Morissette and Liz Phair) » BUY NOW |
(Stunvolume / Infectious Music) |
| Islands | “Islomania” (new single: “[We Like To] Do It with the Lights On”; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) » BUY NOW | (Royal Mountain) |
| Leslie Jordan | “Company’s Comin'” (the comedian/actor’s debut album, inspired by his weekly “Sunday Mornin’ Hymn Singin'” live stream; JSYK: his Apple Music Country show “Hunker Down Radio with Leslie Jordan” premiered Feb. 28; producers: Travis Howard, Danny Myrick; guests: Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker, TJ Osborne, Travis Howard, Katie Pruitt, etc.; first single: “Angel Band”; Hear here; Download, released on April 2) » BUY NOW |
(Platoon) |
| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | “Butterfly 3000” (Read here; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(KGLW) |
| Dave Koz & Cory Wong | “The Golden Hour” (new single: “Today”; See here; Read here; Download; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Just Koz Entertainment) |
| Julian Lage (guitar virtuoso) | “Squint” (featuring bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King; producers: Armand Hirsch, Margaret Glaspy; first single: “Saint Rose”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Blue Note) |
| mammoth WVH (Wolfgang Van Halen’s band) | “mammoth WVH” (includes “Distance,” a tribute to his late father Eddie Van Halen; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(EX1) |
| MARINA | “Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land” (new single: “Purge the Poison”; See here; Read here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Atlantic) |
| Maroon 5 | “JORDI” (the album title is a tribute to their late manager, Jordan Feldstein; guests: Stevie Nicks, H.E.R., Megan Thee Stallion, the late Juice WRLD, blackbear, Bantu; new single: “Beautiful Mistakes”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs, alternative cover and poster; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(222 / Interscope) |
| Brad Mehldau & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | “Variations on a Melancholy Theme” (Hear/Read here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Nonesuch) |
| Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | “A Few Stars Apart” (producer: Dave Cobb; new single: “Perennial Bloom [Back To You]”; Black w/ White Splatter Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Fantasy / Concord) |
| Nefesh Mountain (bluegrass group) | “Songs For The Sparrows” (producers: principal members Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg; guests: Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Bryan Sutton, John Doyle, Mike McGoldrick, Jeff Taylor, Wes Corbett; first single: “Wanderlust”; See here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Eden Sky) |
This album is very much a celebration; it’s about adventure and endurance and pushing through the difficult times,” Zasloff tells Pauseandplay.com. “We’re looking at some painful things in these songs, but it always comes back to the idea of persevering and letting love be your fuel.
| The Oak Ridge Boys | “Front Porch Singin'” (producer: Dave Cobb; new single: “Love, Light, and Healing”; Hear/Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Lightning Rod) |
| Dustin O’Halloran | “Silfur” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Jesse Royal | “Royal” (producer: Royal; guests: Kumar, Stonebwoy, Samory I, Vybz Kartel, Runkus, Protoje; new single: “Dirty Money”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Easy Star) |
| Sammy Sadler | “1989” (country singer reimagines his past hits; guests: Marty Raybon of Shenandoah, T. Graham Brown, Larry Stewart of Restless Heart; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(BFD / Audium Nashville) |
| Skyzoo | “All the Brilliant Things” (all transition vocals by Aarial and all cuts and scratches by DJ Shakim; guests: Raheem DeVaughn, BJ The Chicago Rapper, Blakk Soul, Aaria, etc.; Vinyl, out Sept. 3; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mello Music Group) |
| Sleater-Kinney | “Path of Wellness” (producers: Sleater-Kinney; new single: “Worry With You”; See here; Opaque Black Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Opaque Black Vinyl, with signed poster; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Wilco) » BUY NOW |
(Mom+Pop Music) |
| TWICE | “Taste of Love [IN LOVE Version]” (10th mini album from the K-pop girl group; TASTE Version) » BUY NOW |
(JYP Entertainment / Republic) |
| Various artists | “In The Heights (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (the movie hits theaters and HBO Max on June 11; written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes and directed by “Crazy Rich Asians” filmmaker Jon M. Chu, starring Anthony Ramos and Melissa Barrera; Hear here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Violet Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW | (WaterTower Music / Atlantic) |
More Releases for June 11, 2021 »
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Cold Cave | “Fate In Seven Lessons” (first single: “Night Light”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Heartworm Press) |
| hooeymoon | “Different View” (producers: hooeymoon ; first single: “Different View”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Fader Mond, June 14) |
| Marshmello | “Shockwave” (guests: TroyBoi, Juicy J, Nitti Gritti, Megan Thee Stallion, DJ Sliink, etc.; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Joytime Collective) |
| Migos | “Culture III” (guests: Drake, Justin Bieber, Juice WRLD, Future, Cardi B, Pop Smoke, YoungBoy Never Broke Again; Read here; On Tour; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Quality Control Music, LLC / Motown) |
| Ruth B. | “Moments in Between” (producers: Justin Raisen, Doug Schadt; new single: “Situation”; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Downtown) |
| Slayyyter | “Troubled Paradise [Vinyl]” (guest: Wuki; new single: “Troubled Paradise”; See here; Transparent Cloudy Clear Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(FADER Label) |
| St. Lenox | “Ten Songs of Worship and Praise for Our Tumultuous Times” (first single: “Deliverance”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Don Giovanni / Anyway) |
| Various artists | “Small Axe (Music Inspired By The Original TV Series)” (British anthology film series, created and directed by Steve McQueen; See here; Read here) » BUY NOW | (Motown UK) |
More Digital Releases for June 11, 2021 »
Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Black Sabbath | “Sabotage (Super Deluxe Edition)” (1975 album; four-CD box set featuring “North American Tour Live ’75” and other bonus live material; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Read here; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| Def Leppard | “The CD Boxset: Volume Three” (six-CD box set of recordings from the band in the 2000s, including the albums “Yeah!,” “X” and “Songs From The Sparkle Lounge”) » BUY NOW, “The Vinyl Boxset: Volume Three” (nine-LP box set; On Tour, with Mötley Crüe, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Mercury / UMe) |
| Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | “Back the Way We Came: Vol. I (2011-2021)” (18-track collection, featuring two new songs, plus a third CD of instrumentals, remixes, acoustic versions, etc.; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Sour Mash) |
| KISS | “KISS Off the Soundboard: Tokyo 2001” (two-CD 20th anniversary live recording at the Tokyo Dome, the first of a “new official live bootleg series” from KISS; lineup: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer and Ace Frehley; See here; Vinyl, triple-LP set; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(UMe) |
| Charles Mingus | “Mingus At Carnegie Hall (Deluxe Edition)” (1974 album; remastered; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino / Atlantic) |
| Kip Moore | “Wild World (Deluxe Edition)” (2020 album; with four extra songs; Vinyl; Download, released on Feb. 12; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(MCA Nashville / UMe) |
| Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band | “‘Live’ Bullet [Vinyl]” (1976 album; newly remastered from original analog master tapes, with lithograph; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Capitol / UMe) |
| The Shins | “Oh, Inverted World (20th Anniversary Remaster)” (2001 debut album; mastering by Grammy-winning engineer Bob Ludwig; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Sub Pop) |
| The Tokens | “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” (34-song retrospective) » BUY NOW |
(Jasmine) |
| Sharon Van Etten | “epic Ten” (double album celebrating her 2010 LP, featuring the original record and a new disc of covers, with guests Fiona Apple, Lucinda Williams, Courtney Barnett, Justin Vernon, Aaron Dessner, etc.; Hear here; Vinyl; Download, released on April 16; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Ba Da Bing!) |
More Releases for June 11, 2021 »
Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Mötley Crüe | “Girls, Girls, Girls” (1987 album, featuring “Girls, Girls, Girls” and “Wild Side”; newly remastered; See here; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Mötley) |
| Jessie Ware | “What’s Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition)” (2020 album; with six new songs and two remixes; new single: “Please”; Hear here; CD and Vinyl out June 25) » BUY NOW |
(PMR / Friends Keep Secrets / Interscope) |
More Digital Releases for June 11, 2021 »
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