Pause & Play Today: March 7, 2021
UPDATES / ADDITIONS
NEW RELEASES
“Great War,” Rudimentary Peni – April 23
“First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder,” Todd Snider – April 23
“Sharecropper’s Son,” Robert Finley – May 21
“Judgement,” Ten City – June 18
VINYL
“Uh Huh Her” and “Uh Huh Her – Demos,” PJ Harvey – April 30
“Have a Good Time But … Get Out Alive!,” Iron City Houserockers – May 21
JUST RELEASED
“Fastest Land Animal,” Fastest Land Animal (producer: Don Gilmore; mixed by Chris Lord-Alge; See here; Listen)
“Getting Better,” KRANE (guests: Boombox Cartel, Nate Merchant, Malika, B. Lewis, Cece Valor; Hear here; Dim Mak)
“Djinn,” Badlands (new single: “Let Go”; Read here; RITE)
“SUNDROP,” Frank Leone and Teardrop Estates (guests: Cola Boyy, Gary Wilson, J’Demul; Skull House)
“Absolutions,” Noah Young (four-song EP; See here; Bubble Bath)
NEW SONGS
Better Without You, Evanescence
Spinning, No Rome feat. Charli XCX & The 1975
How It Is, Walk Off the Earth
Guilty Love, Ladyhawke & Broods
Break Yoself, G Herbo
Nero in the News, Lo Talker
Give It All Away, Course
Versions of You, January Jane
Fire and Rain, The California Honeydrops … a cover of James Taylor
Grecian Urn, Adult Books
Skaterpark, The Nomadic
Chasing the Sun, Bass Race
Let’s Go, Chief Ghoul
Colors, Nainnoh
Keep Close, jjoey
Everybody Say, Laura Cheadle
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Chris White [of The Zombies] (78)
Peter Wolf (75)
Matthew Fisher (75)
Ernie Isley (69)
Taylor Dayne (59)
Denyce Graves (57)
Randy Guss [of Toad The Wet Sprocket] (54)
Sebastien Izambard [of Il Divo] (48)
Hugo Ferreira [of Tantric] (47)
Josh Dewhurst [of Blossoms] (24)
IN REMEMBRANCE
Claude King (1923-2013)
Peter Banks (1947-2013)
Ali Farka Touré (1939-2006)
Pee Wee King (1914-2000)
RELEASED ON MARCH 7 IN … 1975
“Young Americans,” David Bowie (featuring “Young Americans” and “Fame”; producers: Bowie, Harry Maslin, Tony Visconti; guests: John Lennon, Luther Vandross, Jean Millington, Ralph MacDonald, etc.; RCA)
R.I.P.
Max Graham (Kind Country)
Bhaskar Menon (founding chairman and CEO at EMI Music Worldwide)
MUSIC HEADLINES
> Old vs. New School: The Best Rap Album Debate at the Grammys (The Associated Press)
> Singer Katharine McPhee Welcomed Her First Child Into The World (Buzzfeed)
> Mumford & Sons’ Winston Marshall Faces Backlash After Praising Controversial Right-Wing Personality Andy Ngo (Billboard)
> Michael Stanley, 1949-2021: An Appreciation of Rock’s Ultimate Local Hero (Variety)