As It Was, Harry Styles | 
Strange Game (From The Apple TV+ Original Series “Slow Horses”), Mick Jagger |
When You’re Gone, Shawn Mendes |
Nightfalls, Keith Urban |
Take My Hand, 5 Seconds of Summer |
You Were Loved, Gryffin & OneRepublic |
Wake Up Dead, Lamb of God & Megadeth feat. Dave Mustaine
Living With Your Memory, Jewel |
100 Chicagos, Lupe Fiasco |
WE (Warm Embrace), Chris Brown |
PURGE, Willow feat. Siiickbrain |
Never Til Now, Ashley Cooke + Brett Young
Top Notch, City Girls + Fivio Foreign
Get My Shit Together, Johan Lenox feat. Thouxanbanfauni |
Trouble, Meresha
Forbidden Fruit, Mychelle feat. ENNY |
Killing the Beautiful, Cultus Black |
RUFF!!!, Jahvillani |
Tragic Endings, Tamar Berk |
Someplace Else, Bestfriend |
Bring Me Home, RainCrowd
Break of Dawn, Cory Singer |
Nobody else, Lubalin |
“Lessons,” Eric Roberson (guests: Raheem DeVaughn, Anthony Hamilton, Kevin Ross, Mumu Fresh, Pop Roberson, Intro, Cory Henry; Hear here; Blue Erro Soul)
“Namen Namen,” Namen Namen (six-song EP; new single: “The One I Love Most”; Massif)
“Our Hell,” Roye Trout & Jesse Fellows (four-song EP; new single: “Dreamers”; See here; Psychic Readings Records)
”(Meta)Morphosis,” The Nocturnal Affair (producer: John Moyer; Hear here; Earache)
“Anthems of the Night,” Cobra Spell (four-song EP; Cobra Spell)
“Big Storm,” Pretty Little Goat (Island Ford Productions)
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UPDATES / ADDITIONSNEW RELEASES
“12th of June,” Lyle Lovett – May 13
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYSRudolph Isley (83)
Jimmy Cliff (74)
Billy Currie (72)
Susan Boyle (61)
Woody Lee (54)
Method Man (51)
Hillary Scott (36)
Arejay Hale [Halestorm] (35)
Getting caught up …
March 31 Birthdays: Shirley Jones (88), Herb Alpert (87), Mick Ralphs (78), Angus Young (67), Bob Crawford [The Avett Brothers] (51), Tony Yayo (44), Christian Scott (39), Jack Antonoff (38)
IN REMEMBRANCEApril 1:
Lonnie Brooks (1933-2017)
Jesse Stone (1901-1999)
Rozz Williams (1963-1998)
Marvin Gaye (1939-1984)
March 31:
Nipsey Hussle (1985-2019)
Jackie McLean (1931-2006)
Tommy Seebach (1949-2003)
Jeffrey Lee Pierce (1958-1996)
Selena (1971-1995)
RANDOM LYRICS“Are you ready for the time of your life?
It’s time to stand up and fight”
“Skin Tight,” Ohio Players (their fifth album, featuring the title track; it reached No. 11 on the Billboard 200 chart and No. 1 for six weeks on the Black Albums chart; producers: Ohio Players; Mercury)
RELEASED ON MARCH 31 … IN 1987“Sign o’ the Times,” Prince (his first album following the disbanding of The Revolution, featuring the title track, “If I Was Your Girlfriend,” “U Got the Look,” with Sheena Easton, and “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man”; Paisley Park / Warner)
R.I.P.Bill Fries, aka C.W. McCall (of “Convoy” fame)
John Swenson (OffBeat contributing editor and writer)
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