Pause & Play Today: July 16, 2021
UPDATES / ADDITIONS
NEW RELEASES
“Good Things,” Dan + Shay – Aug. 13
“Reverie,” Ben Platt – Aug. 13
“Ground Control,” Rudimental – Sept. 3
“Back in Love City,” The Vaccines – Sept. 10
Artist Merch Shop: See the New Arrivals. »
JUST RELEASED (surprise releases + more)
“Fallen Embers,” Illenium (guests: Tori Kelly, Tom DeLonge, Krewella, Lights, Excision, Natalie Taylor, etc.; See here; 12Tone Music)
“Guardians of the Path,” Fit For A King & August Burns Red (four-song collaborative EP; Solid State)
“Sugarcane,” Charlie Worsham (six-song EP; producer: Jay Joyce; See/Read here; Warner Music Nashville)
“Ain’t That the Truth,” Drakeo the Ruler (16-track mixtape; Hear/Read here; DistroKid)
“Live At Rippers,” Wild Yaks (See here; Ernest Jenning Record Co. / Open Ocean)
“Aeonia,” What Aleph Said (Swiss post-rock band’s debut album; Hear here; Fluttery)
“Something Personal,” Hankshaw (1997 compilation; remastered; New Granada)
“Moving My Body Through Space,” Ted Byrnes (Arkeen)
“Bloods, Side A,” Man Without Country (seven-song EP; new single: “Gardener in a War”; See here; Killing Moon)
NEW SONGS (click on title to stream)
Don’t Wait Up, Shakira
Cherry Flavored Stomach Ache (From “The Last Letter From Your Lover”), HAIM
Good Girls, CHVRCHES
Give Me the Future, Bastille
My Way, Logic
Good Things, Dan + Shay
When the Summer Dies, deadmau5 & Lights
Never Love You Again, Cheat Codes with Little Big Town & Bryn Christopher
I’m in Love, Paul Oakenfold & Aloe Blacc
Walking Away, Chelsea Cutler
Wild Side, Normani feat. Cardi B
Sweet Dream, Alessia Cara
So Sorry, Rudimental x Skream
Can You Handle My Love??, Walk the Moon
Why You Gotta Be Like That, Scotty McCreery
Fast Car, Syd
It Gets Better, Swedish House Mafia
Midnight, Anthony Russo
Hood of My Car, Anderson East
No Greater Love, Rudy Currence & Chrisette Michele
happy to be sad, Ben Platt
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
William Bell (82)
Rubén Blades (73)
Stewart Copeland (69)
Ed Kowalczyk [Live] (50)
Jeremy Enigk (47)
Ryan McCombs [Drowning Pool] (47)
Wizkid (31)
Luke Hemmings [5 Seconds of Summer] (25)
IN REMEMBRANCE
Johnny Winter (1944-2014)
Kitty Wells (1919-2012)
Jo Stafford (1917-2008)
Celia Cruz (1925-2003)
Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989)
Wayne King (1901-1985)
Harry Chapin (1942-1981)
RELEASED ON JULY 16 IN … 1984
“Diamond Life,” Sade (released in the U.K. on this day and then in the U.S. on Feb. 27, 1985; the band’s debut album, featuring “Your Love Is King” and “Smooth Operator”; producer: Robin Millar; Epic)
R.I.P.
R.I.P. Biz Markie (“Just a Friend” rapper) https://news.yahoo.com/just-a-friend-rapper-biz-markie-dead-at-57-002807616.html
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