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‘NOW That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 79’ coming August 6

July 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

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Get ready for another edition of NOW That’s What I Call Music!

The compilation series will release its 79th volume next month, featuring 16 major hits including “deja vu” by Olivia Rodrigo, “pov” by Ariana Grande, “Kiss Me More” by Doja Cat featuring SZA, “Your Power” by Billie Eilish, “Peaches” by Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, and more.

The album will also feature TikTok favorites such as Masked Wolf‘s “Astronaut in the Ocean” and Kali Uchis‘ “Telepatia.”

NOW That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 79 is due out August 6. On the same day, another compilation album, NOW That’s What I Call A Decade! 1980s, will also be released.

Here is the track list for Vol. 79:

NOW That’s What I Call Music! 79

Masked Wolf — “Astronaut in the Ocean”
Riton X Nightcrawlers featuring Mufasa & Hypeman — “Friday (Dopamine re-edit)”
Doja Cat feat. SZA — “Kiss Me More”
Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon — “Peaches”
Maroon 5 and Megan Thee Stallion — “Beautiful Mistakes”
Ariana Grande — “pov”
Kali Uchis — “Telepatia”
Olivia Rodrigo — “deja vu”
Billie Eilish — “Your Power”
Giveon — “Heartbreak Anniversary”
Duncan Laurence — “Arcade”
Imagine Dragons — “Follow You”
Nelly & Florida George Line — “Lil Bit”
AJR — “Way Less Sad”
Regard x Troye Sivan x Tate McRae — “You”
Marshmello x Jonas Brothers — “Leave Before You Love Me”

NOW Presents What’s Next:
Mike Mineo — “What Love Is”
Q — “Take Me Where Your Heart Is”
19 &You — “Heard/Heart”
Destiny Rogers — “West Like” feat. Kalan.FrFr
Carly Gibert — “Interstellar”
Aidan Bissett — “More Than Friends”

Foo Fighters reschedule LA Forum concert that was canceled due to COVID

July 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

After scrapping a July 17 concert at The Forum in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California, because of a case of COVID-19 in their camp, Foo Fighters have now rescheduled the show.

The new date is Thursday, August 26, the band announced on Tuesday, and tickets to the original show will be honored on that date. The July 17 show was to have been the venue’s first full-capacity show in over a year.

Dave Grohl and company announced on July 14 that “despite having made every effort to follow CDC Covid protocols and local laws, there has been a confirmed Covid-19 case within the Foo Fighters organization.”

Their statement went on to say, “Out of an abundance of caution and concern for the safety of the band, crew and most of all the fans, Saturday’s show at the Los Angeles Forum is being postponed to a later date.”

On June 20, the band played the first full-capacity show at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where all ticket buyers were required to be fully vaccinated.

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H.E.R.’s Lights On Festival is coming to New York

July 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Grammy-winning singer H.E.R. and Live Nation Urban have announced a second showcase for H.E.R.’s California-based Lights On Festival.

The second show will take place in Brooklyn, New York, and include performances from R&B vocalists such as Ari Lennox, Queen Naija, Chloe Bailey, Lucky Daye, West Coast natives Blxst and Victoria Monét and newcomer Joyce Wrice.

To join her at the Barclays Center, H.E.R. recruited a few special guests and past collaborators such as Bryson Tiller, Skip Marley, Tone Stith, and R&B veterans Maxwell and SWV.

H.E.R.’s Lights On Festival made its debut in 2019 with performances from Daniel Caesar, Summer Walker, and more, while the 2020 festival was postponed due to the pandemic.

The 2021 Bay Area Festival takes place September 18-19 at the Concord Pavilion, featuring live art installations, R&B Museum, Guitar Lounge, rides, attractions, and additional performances from Erykah Badu and Keyshia Cole.

The New York Lights On Festival goes down on October 21-22. For more information, visit lightsonfest.com.

Dolly Parton releasing limited edition of ‘Songteller’ that features two unreleased songs

July 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

When Dolly Parton drops the limited edition of Dolly Parton: Songteller in Octoberl, fans will have access to two songs that have never been shared before.

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics, Limited Edition will come with a pink vinyl record featuring a pair of unreleased songs, “I Don’t Care” and “The Fall,” with the lyrics printed on the back. The special version of the book is also housed inside a denim-wrapped clamshell box and features a ribbon bookmark.

Originally released in 2020, Songteller chronicles the stories behind the lyrics of more than 100 songs from Dolly’s catalogue, including “Jolene,” “9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You,” alongside photos and other memorabilia gathered during her more than 60-year career.

The limited edition is available for pre-order now.

Zedd puts Beverly Hills mansion on the market for $26.5 million

July 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

A few years ago, Zedd took Architectural Digest on a tour of his Beverly Hills mansion, complete with a Skittles machine and a COSTCO room. Now, he’s looking to sell the dream property.

According to the real estate site Dirt, the DJ/producer has put his sprawling modern home on the market for $26.5 million. He paid $16 million when he bought the home five years ago.

Since buying the place, Zedd has made all kinds of upgrades, including a custom-designed soundproof movie theater and nearly-finished professional recording studio.

The property includes a long driveway that crosses a moat before reaching the five-bedroom, nine-bathroom main house. There’s also an indoor/outdoor gym, a billiards room that houses the aforementioned Skittles vending machine, an infinity-edge pool and spa and more.

Depeche Mode box set ‘Ultra — The 12″ Singles’ coming in September

July 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Depeche Mode is continuing its 12-inch vinyl singles reissue campaign with the release of Ultra — The 12″ Singles on September 10.

The deluxe box set features eight 12-inch vinyl discs, including B-sides, alternate mixes and live versions of four singles from the band’s 1997 album Ultra: “Barrel of a Gun,” “It’s No Good,” “Home” and “Useless.” “Barrel of a Gun” and “It’s No Good” were both hits on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart.

Ultra was the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers’ first album as a trio since 1982. It peaked at number five in the U.S. and inspired the name of Miami’s annual Ultra Music Festival.

The Ultra 12-inch singles box follows the release of similar box sets focusing on the singles from the Depeche Mode albums Speak & Spell, A Broken Frame, Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward, Black Celebration, Music for the Masses, Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion.

You can pre-order the box set now.

Senate Republicans warn Schumer they won’t help on Wednesday’s high-stakes infrastructure vote

July 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — The 11 Republicans in the group of senators trying to work out a bipartisan infrastructure deal are sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer saying no GOP member will vote “yes” to start debate on any measure Wednesday, according to a senior lawmaker close to the continuing talks over how to pay for the $1.2 trillion package.

Schumer had set the high-stakes vote to try to force progress on a top priority for President Joe Biden, but he needs the Republicans to get past the 60-vote threshold to advance legislation.

“I don’t think any Republican votes yes tomorrow. I don’t think we should, because we’re not ready,” the senior lawmaker said. “My hope is, by the end of the day, we should know a lot more.”

Instead, the GOP negotiators’ letter to Schumer will say that Republicans, who have been warning they won’t vote on advancing a bill that’s not yet written, are prepared to support starting debate on Monday, the senior lawmaker said.

The group, which has been working around the clock, along with White House officials, is “close,” to a deal on how to pay for roads, bridges and other “traditional infrastructure,” according to numerous members involved. They were meeting again Tuesday afternoon — joined by senior Biden aides – to try to finalize a bill.

The White House said it continued to support Schumer’s tactics.

But the bipartisan group of lawmakers won’t get a final agreement by Wednesday, according to multiple negotiators.

At the same time, the senior lawmaker expects the legislation to be finalized by Monday, and that includes the nonpartisan analyses by various agencies breaking down all of the financing options, how much revenue would be produced, and a final price tag.

Republicans, in particular, will be looking to show that the $579 billion in new spending is fully paid for.

As of Tuesday afternoon, it didn’t appear as if Schumer would delay the vote, but he could minimize the impact, should it be headed for failure.

If it is, Schumer could switch his vote to the losing side at the last minute, enabling him as majority leader, under Senate rules, to call up the vote again for reconsideration.

He could do so on Monday, when GOP members of the negotiating group say they’ll be ready to go.

Might a failed vote Wednesday poison the well for GOP negotiators?

No, says the senior lawmaker close to the talks, and Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, a member of the negotiating group.

The Wednesday vote is to start debate on a shell bill because there is no final bill from the negotiators. It would serve as a placeholder should negotiators strike a final deal.

The measure is separate from a much larger bill Biden and Democrats are pushing that would spend $3.5 trillion on so-called “human infrastructure” such as child care.

Democrats plan to push that through the Senate with no Republican votes, using a budget tool called “reconciliation.”

Mask disputes fuel spike in air rage incidents

July 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — With the rise in airline passengers has come a rise in violence and aggression in our nation’s airports and onboard flights throughout the country.

On Tuesday, two federal U.S. agencies, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) sounded the alarm on the increasingly unfriendly skies.

The FAA announced nearly 100 more in-flight incidents with unruly passengers — a week after it’s worst weekly report of unruly passengers this summer — bringing this year’s total to 3,509 reports. An overwhelming majority of these incidents, 2,605, involve passengers who refuse to comply with the federal mask mandate.

These acts of aggression are happening before boarding as well.

TSA Acting Administrator Darby LaJoye told the House Subcommittee on Transportation & Maritime Security Tuesday morning that there have been more than 85 physical assaults on TSA officers since the beginning of the pandemic. That figure includes 25 assaults since the end of May.

LaJoye said there were two assaults reported at checkpoints on Monday alone.

“There has been some frustration over the mask mandate that’s been widely reported,” he said.

But a number of the assaults have also been alcohol related.

“Passengers have pushed and shoved officers and in some cases passengers have literally bitten TSOs,” Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss., said. “All too often these assaults occur simply because a crew member was doing their job in seeking to enforce common sense mask policies designed to protect fliers from COVID-19.”

Assaulting a TSA officer can result in a civil penalty of up to almost $15,000 and a ban from TSA PreCheck. The FAA says its maximum penalty for interfering with flight crew is $35,000, but the agency has proposed fines as high as $52,000.

Last month, the TSA warned of staffing shortages as air travel rebounded more quickly than expected.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., said checkpoint lines in Miami were the longest he’s ever seen — recalling the line for TSA PreCheck was “nearly 50 yards long from front to back.” He expressed concerns that lines might get even longer when international and business travel picks up.

“We have hired about 4,700 officers,” LaJoye said at the hearing on Tuesday. “Just the last two weeks…we brought on almost 500 officers and we are on pace to meet the 6,000 number that we knew we needed, through the summer.”

The assaults can’t help, but he explained retention issues are mostly because of pay.

“It’s common for the most hardworking people to be treated the worst,” Rep. Donald Payne Jr., D-N.J., said. “These front line workers are not being compensated to the levels and degree of the importance of their job… Now TSOs are being assaulted across the country.”

Justin Bieber becomes youngest solo artist to score 100 entries on ‘Billboard’ Hot 100

July 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Justin Bieber has become the youngest solo artist to hit 100 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

“Stay,” his song with The Kid LAROI, debuted at number three this week, officially bringing his career-spanning total to 100 at 27 years, four months and three weeks of age.

Justin surpasses Drake, who previously held the title for scoring 100 career entries on the chart when he was 28 years, 11 months and two weeks old in 2015. Drake currently has the most Hot 100 hits of any artist, with 235.

Lil Wayne is the third youngest soloist to have scored 100 Hot 100 hits, doing so when he was 29 years, five months and three weeks old in 2012.

California pioneers new free lunch program to feed more than 6M students

July 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(LOS ANGELES) — An unexpected budget surplus in the 2021-22 fiscal year acted as a catalyst to serve free lunches to 6.2 million public school students in California.

Starting this fall when schools and classrooms reopen, all students regardless of their family’s income will have the option to eat school meals for free.

“I am excited about the interconnected nature of these historic investments that move forward universal access to school meals for all students, universal preschool, and afterschool expanded learning programs, such as the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program—all critical areas in ensuring equitable opportunities for California’s students,” State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said in a statement.

The 30% budget increase in California public school funding, includes a jump of up to $80.4 billion from $69.3 billion in 2020.

After a year of uncertainty around the U.S. with new initiatives, waiver extensions and a to-go program to help families gain access to meals for their children and prevent the stigma of accepting free lunches, this marks the largest free student lunch program in the country.

School officials, lawmakers, anti-hunger organizations and parents have hailed this pioneering project to further alleviate the negative connotations around food assistance programs.

“This is so historic. It’s beyond life-changing,” Erin Primer, director of food services for the San Luis Coastal Unified School District on California’s central coast said in a statement.

While other major cities including New York, Boston and Chicago have free school meals in place, statewide universal meal programs have been called too costly and unrealistic.

Late last month, California was the first state to adopt a universal program, followed shortly after by Maine which created a similar plan.

“We’ve completely leveled the playing field when it comes to school food,” Primer said, adding that this funding will allow her to offer “tastier, better quality food such as fresh bread, produce and cheese from local producers.”

According to the USDA Food and Nutrition service, a family of four must make less than $34,000 a year to qualify for free meals and $48,000 to qualify for reduced-price meals. While caps shift annually, it’s based on federal poverty measures that don’t take into account taxes and high cost of living in California.

Over 200 organizations back the “School Meals for All” coalition, including longtime universal free meals advocate Sen. Nancy Skinner and other lawmakers, and have pushed for funding in the state budget to gain momentum.

The $262 billion budget provides $54 million for the coming school year, supplementing funding from the Biden administration through June 2022. After that, California will spend $650 million annually.

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