Pause & Play Today: July 11, 2021
UPDATES / ADDITIONS
NEW RELEASES
“Sick Sesh!,” Teenage Bottlerocket – Aug. 27
“Starting Now,” Toad the Wet Sprocket – Aug. 27
“Posh Pop,” Toyah – Aug. 27
“Nocturnes: Music for 2 Pianos,” Craig Armstrong – Sept. 3
“Wonderful World,” Chris Standring – Sept. 3
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REISSUES
“Songs of Hope: The Essential Joe Hisaishi Vol. 2,” Joe Hisaishi – Aug. 20
“Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971,” The Beach Boys – new release date, Aug. 27
“The Wild, Exciting Sounds of Marshall Crenshaw: Live in the 20th and 21st Century,” Marshall Crenshaw – Aug. 27
“In It for the Money (Deluxe Expanded Edition),” Supergrass – Aug. 27
“The Early Columbia Recordings 1949-56,” Juilliard String Quartet – Sept. 3
“The Complete Stax Singles Vol. 2 (1968-1974),” Booker T. & The MG’s – Sept. 3
VINYL
“Songs You Don’t Know By Heart,” Jimmy Buffett – Aug. 27
“Eden,” Everything But the Girl – Aug. 27
“Trio ’64” and “Trio ’65,” Bill Evans – Aug. 27
“Liberation in Swing: The Octave Records Story & Complete Symphony Hall Concert” and “Liberation in Swing: Centennial Collection,” Erroll Garner – Sept. 17
MUSIC BOOKS
“Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present,” JR Moores – Oct. 11
“Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism,” Rob Christopher – Oct. 12
“I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen,” Allison Moorer – Oct. 12
“The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics,” The Beatles – Oct. 19
“Tenement Kid: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream,” Bobby Gillespie – Oct. 26
“The Golden Road: The Recorded History of the Grateful Dead,” John Kilbride – Jan. 28, 2022
JUST RELEASED (surprise releases + more)
“The Song of the Earth (Das Lied von der Erde),” Yu Long and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (Read here; Deutsche Grammophon)
“The Leap Year Sessions: Volume Zero,” Greensky Bluegrass (Big Blue Zoo)
“Only Human,” Luke LeBlanc (producer: Erik Koskinen; Luke LeBlanc)
“Love Is for Lovers,” Real Sickies (See here; Stomp)
NEW SONGS (click on title to stream)
Move Into the Light, Southern Avenue feat. Jason Mraz
Yabba dabba doo, Kosha Dillz x Jenya
3roken Soul, YTB TRENCH
Astor Place, Eric Harrison
Jungle, Strange Bones
TOUR DATES (just added)
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Jeff Hanna (74)
Fern Kinney (72)
Peter Brown (68)
Peter Murphy (64)
Michael Rose [Black Uhuru] (64)
Kirk Whalum (63)
Richie Sambora (62)
Suzanne Vega (62)
Scott Shriner [Weezer] (56)
Lil’ Kim (47)
Lil’ Zane (40)
Alessia Cara (25)
IN REMEMBRANCE
Charlie Haden (1937-2014)
Rob Grill [The Grass Roots] (1943-2011)
Walter Hawkins (1949-2010)
Herman Brood (1946-2001)
Helen Forrest (1917-1999)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
RELEASED ON JULY 11 IN … 1975
“Fleetwood Mac,” Fleetwood Mac (the first Mac album with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks; after debuting on the Billboard chart on Aug. 2, 1975, 58 weeks later it finally reached No. 1; featuring “Over My Head,” “Warm Ways,” “Rhiannon,” “Say You Love Me” and “Landslide”; producers: Fleetwood Mac, Keith Olsen; Reprise)
R.I.P.
Byron Berline (fiddler played for Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, et al)
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