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Yacht Rock Detroit Festival announces smooth lineup for 2026 event

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Get ready to sail the seas of smooth at the 2026 installment of the Yacht Rock Detroit Festival.

The two-day event is set for July 17-18 at Detroit’s Roostertail on the banks of the Detroit River. In addition to music, it’ll feature themed cocktails, a yacht rock costume contest, VIP lounges, nautical-themed photo ops, DJs and more.

The lineup includes Three Dog Night, Ambrosia and Pablo Cruise, as well as members of some popular yacht rock groups: Peter Beckett of “Baby Come Back” act Player; Elliott Lurie, the voice of Looking Glass’ “Brandy”; John Ford Coley of England Dan & John Ford Coley fame; and Water Egan, known for his hit “Magnet and Steel.”

The bill also includes Yacht Rock Revue, the popular band that performs the biggest yacht rock hits of the ’70s and early ’80s, as well as original songs.

Tickets are on sale now at yachtrockdetroit.com.

Black Veil Brides announce new album, ’Vindicate’

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Black Veil Brides have announced a new album called Vindicate.

The band’s seventh studio effort, and first since 2021’s The Phantom Tomorrow, is due out May 8.

“This record is rooted in the feelings of revenge and vindication,” says frontman Andy Biersack in a statement. “These are emotions that can either push us forward or hold us back. There’s a duality to them. They can fuel growth, drive ambition, and help us rise above what’s tried to break us, but they can also become destructive if we let them consume us.”

The Vindicate title track is out now alongside a NSFW video, which you can watch on YouTube.

Vindicate also includes the previously released songs “Certainty,” “Bleeders” and “Hallelujah.”

Black Veil Brides will launch a U.S. tour in April. From Ashes to New will also be on the bill.

Here’s the Vindicate track list:
“Invocation to the Muse”
“Vindicate”
“Certainty”
“Bleeders”
“Hallelujah”
“Cut”
“Alive”
“Purgatory”
“Revenger”
“Sorrow”
“Grace”
“Ave Maria”
“Woe & Pain”
“Eschaton”

Paul McCartney featured in latest episode of Audible’s ‘Words + Music’

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Paul McCartney is the latest artist to take part in Audible’s Words + Music series.

The latest episode, The Man on The Run, expands on the recent McCartney documentary Man on the Run, which covers his post-Beatles career, including the formation of Wings. The Audible episode is centered around interviews between McCartney and the film’s director, Morgan Neville. It also features musical performances.

“I don’t normally spend a lot of time looking back but I was flattered when Morgan said he was interested in this period,” says McCartney. “The first bit of Wings was quite hard work and not very rewarding, but eventually we got some songs under our belts that were hits.”

He adds, “Morgan got me to think about stuff I hadn’t thought about for a long time. He was asking all the right questions and I was happy to be transported back.”

In a clip posted on Instagram, McCartney talks about rekindling his relationship with John Lennon following the breakup of The Beatles, noting they started talking again after Lennon welcomed son Sean Lennon, with the conversations centered around every day things like kids and even baking bread.

“The things that we had in common were just ordinary, little domestic things,” McCartney says. “So, somehow that was peaceful. It was nice that we had that in common. And we weren’t fighting anymore.”

The three-hour The Man on the Run installment is available now. The Man on the Run documentary is currently streaming on Prime Video.

Previous installments of the Words + Music series featured such artists as James Taylor, Elvis Costello, Eddie Vedder, Alanis Morissette and Sting.

Ryan Gosling says Harry Styles flew to NY just to appear during his ‘SNL’ monologue

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The week before Harry Styles hosted Saturday Night Live, he popped up in the audience during host Ryan Gosling’s monologue, and that became the entire bit. Ryan has since revealed that he randomly reached out and asked Harry to be there.

While promoting his film Hail Mary on London’s KISS Radio, Ryan said, “It was just so strange that Harry was hosting after me because he’s such a big part of this film.” Harry’s song “Sign of the Times” is heavily featured in the movie.

“Yeah, it was kind of a Hail Mary ask, ’cause I don’t know him,” Ryan continued. “But I was like, ‘Is there any way he’d wanna be in the monologue?’ And then he got on a plane just to be there, so it was very cool.”

Asked what it was like to sing “Sign of the Times” in front of Harry, which Ryan did during the monologue, he told KISS, “Nobody wanted that.”

Niall Horan reflects on bandmate Liam Payne’s death: ‘I didn’t think it was real’

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Niall Horan’s new album Dinner Party is coming out in June, and one of the songs, “End of an Era,” was inspired by the death of his bandmate Liam Payne, who died at 31 following a fall from his hotel balcony in Argentina on Oct. 16, 2024.

Speaking to GQ, Niall recalls that he and Liam met up in Buenos Aires earlier that October when he was on a South American tour. “It was great,” recalls Niall. “[Liam] seemed in good form and we had a good laugh, good reminisce.” Liam stayed in Buenos Aires while Niall resumed his tour, which ended Oct. 9. Niall got the news of Liam’s passing just days after he got home.

“I just remember getting a message. And I was just like, What?… I just didn’t think it was real,” Niall tells GQ. “Someone so young, you’re not expecting to hear that they’ve passed, especially someone that you’ve just seen. I just went back from shock to sadness to anger.”

Niall tells GQ some of his fondest Liam memories, including when they shared a room during the bootcamp part of The X Factor.

“I just got to know him a little bit and then we ended up doing what we did together,” he recalls. “Memories that only he and I can share ’cause you have a team and you have people around all the time, but we always said that only us have that experience, no one else has that.”

According to GQ, on “End of an Era,” Niall sings, “We had it/ Pure magic/ Remember what it was like/ Time passes/ So fast and/ I couldn’t tell you goodbye.”

Dinner Party is due out on June 5.

Hear new Afghan Whigs song, ‘House of I’

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The Afghan Whigs have premiered a new song called “House of I.”

“Laid this one down in New Orleans last summer,” says frontman Greg Dulli in a statement. “Was looking for an up tempo banger and feel like we found one here.”

“House of I” marks the first new Afghan Whigs material to follow their 2022 album, How Do You Burn? A new record is expected to be released later in 2026.

The Afghan Whigs will launch a U.S. tour in April celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary.

On This Day, March 19, 2005: Paul Rodgers makes public debut as Queen’s lead singer

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

On This Day, March 19, 2005 …

Queen and Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers performed together at Nelson Mandela’s 46664 charity concert in George, South Africa.

While the two acts had previously collaborated for Queen’s October 2004 induction into the U.K. Music Hall of Fame, the Mandela concert marked the public debut of what was dubbed Queen + Paul Rodgers.

They performed Queen classics “We Are The Champions,” “We Will Rock You,” “Crazy Little Thing Called Love and “Radio Gaga,” as well as the Bad Company tracks “Can’t Get Enough,” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” as well as “All Right Now,” by Rodgers’ former band, Free.

That same year, Queen + Paul Rodgers launched a world tour, which hit North America in 2006.

Queen released one album with Rodgers, The Cosmos Rocks, in 2008, followed by the Rock The Cosmos tour.

The collaboration between Queen and Rodgers ended in 2009, when Rodgers left to reunite with Bad Company.

Sleeping with Sirens premieres new single, ‘An Ending in Itself’

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Sleeping with Sirens has premiered a new single called “An Ending in Itself.”

“‘An Ending in Itself’ is the band returning to form, getting back in a room together, creating without expectation, which is why we started doing this in the first place,” frontman Kellin Quinn tells Kerrang! “I haven’t felt this way about our music since [the 2011 album] Let’s Cheers to This. Oddly enough this feels more like a beginning than an end…”

You can watch the video for “An Ending in Itself” streaming now on YouTube.

“An Ending in Itself” follows Sleeping with Sirens’ 2022 album, Complete Collapse.

You can catch Sleeping with Sirens live at a number of upcoming festivals, including Welcome to Rockville, Inkcarceration, Louder than Life, Aftershock and select Warped Tour dates.

Lorde’s contract with Universal ends

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Lorde and Universal are no longer on each other’s “Team.”

The “Royals” artist has revealed in a voice memo to fans, as captured by the fan account @lordecontent, that her contract with her long term label has come to an end.

“I have been in that contract for a very, very long time, in some form of that contract since I was 12-years-old, when I signed my first development deal with Universal,” the now 29-year-old Lorde says.

Lorde adds that she had an “amazing experience” with Universal but notes, “The truth is a 12-year-old girl pre-signed her, pre-sold her creative output before she knew what it would be like and before she knew what she was signing away.”

“I’m sure I’ll have a deal again, could well be with Universal,” Lorde continues. “But I knew that I needed to take a second to have nothing being bought or sold that comes from me.”

Lorde released four albums with Universal: 2013’s Pure Heroine, 2017’s Melodrama, 2021’s Solar Power and 2025’s Virgin.

Billy Corgan named to board of directors of Chicago’s Lyric opera house

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Billy Corgan has been named to the board of directors of Chicago’s Lyric opera house.

“Thank you to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for the great honour and distinction of being invited to join Lyric’s Board of Directors,” the Smashing Pumpkins frontman writes in an Instagram post. “I personally aim to make the Lyric, our great opera house of Chicago, the most exciting and dynamic opera house in the world.”

Corgan previously performed at the Lyric in 2025 with a series of shows celebrating the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Pumpkins album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. In a video accompanying his post, Corgan calls his shows at the Lyric “one of the most exciting moments of my life.”

Also in the video, Corgan mentions a “fine young actor” who “sort of attacked the arts obliquely, saying nobody cared,” presumably referring to Timothée Chalamet’s recent comments about the opera and ballet.

“But if want to be part of the change, if you want to be part of the restoration of the arts in America, then you have to lean in, and of course you have to support,” Corgan says.

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