Pause & Play Today: April 28, 2021
UPDATES / ADDITIONS
NEW RELEASES
“A Few Stars Apart,” Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real – June 11
“Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep,” Mykki Blanco – June 18
“Baw Baw Black Sheep,” Rejjie Snow – June 18
“Eternal Hails …,” Darkthrone – June 25
“Blue Banisters,” Lana Del Rey – July 4
“Mythopoetics,” Half Waif – July 9
“Love Drips and Gathers,” Piroshka – July 23
“Amerikinda: 20 Years of Dualtone,” various artists – Aug. 6
REISSUES
“What’s Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition),” Jessie Ware – June 11
JUST RELEASED
“Storm Shelter,” Ben Watt (six-song mini-album; See here; Unmade Road)
“A Future’s Past,” Sp8ce Owl (four-song EP; See here; Afterlife)
“Ascension,” UKICO (See here; Kiseki)
NEW SONGS
No Gods No Masters, Garbage
Perennial Bloom (Back To You), Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
Frida Kahlo, Lion Babe
House in LA, Frank Moyo
Drum, Emmi
It Don’t Matter, Thomas Fountain
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Ann-Margret (80)
Chuck Leavell (69)
Kim Gordon (68)
Too $hort (55)
Howard Donald [Take That] (53)
Big Gipp (49)
Tom Ogden [Blossoms] (28)
Melanie Martinez (26)
IN REMEMBRANCE
Tommy Newsom (1929-2007)
Percy Heath (1923-2005)
Tommy Caldwell (1949-1980)
RELEASED ON APRIL 28 IN … 1982
“Tug of War,” Paul McCartney (featuring “Ebony and Ivory,” “Tug of War” and “Take It Away”; producer: George Martin; guests: Stevie Wonder, Ringo Starr, Denny Laine, Eric Stewart, Steve Gadd, Stanley Clarke, Carl Perkins; Columbia)
R.I.P.
Anita Lane (collaborator with The Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party)
MUSIC HEADLINES
> Britney Spears to Address the Court in Conservatorship Case on June 23 (Yahoo Entertainment)
> 10 Artists That Destroyed Their Own Album (WhatCulture)
> The Story of … ‘The Living Years’ by Mike + the Mechanics (Smooth Radio)