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On This Day, Feb. 19, 1985: Mick Jagger releases debut solo album

February 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

On The Feb. 19, 1985…

The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger released his debut solo album, She’s The Boss.

The album was produced by Jagger, Nile Rodgers and others, and featured contributions from The Who’s Pete Townshend, guitarist Jeff Beck, Herbie Hancock and Sly and Robbie.

It later caused some friction between Jagger and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, who felt Jagger’s priority should be the band.

She’s The Boss peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album’s lead single “Just Another Night,” which featured Beck on guitar, went on to peak at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached #1 on the Mainstream Rock charts. The follow-up single, “Lucky in Love,” was a top-40 hit.

Jagger went on to release three more solo albums, his last being 2001’s Goddess in the Doorway.

Walking a 14-mile mail route made newcomer Preston Cooper ‘Weak’

February 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Preston Cooper currently has his first top-30 hit with his debut single, “Weak.”

It’s a big change for the 22-year-old, who came up with the melody while walking a 14-mile mail route as a postman in Fredricktown, Ohio.

“’Weak’ was a song that came very natural to us when we wrote this song,” he says. “I made it up before I came to Nashville, and it just felt right.”

“It just had this emotional blues feeling,” he continues, “and that’s what I grew up listening to was blues, like Stevie Ray Vaughan and [Chris] Stapleton, and I just felt natural. It just felt good. It was fun to sing. It’s one of my favorite songs to sing.”

“Weak” is from Preston’s debut album, Toledo Talkin’, which came out in August.

The Doors’ Playing for Change video shows ‘Jim, Robby and John are still in sync,’ says producer

February 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The Doors’ John Densmore and Robby Krieger recently teamed with Playing for Change, the multimedia project connecting the world through music, for a new version of The Doors’ classic “Riders on the Storm.” It features artists from eight countries, including Don Was, Lukas Nelson and Foo Fighters’ Rami Jaffee, and also incorporates the original vocals of late Doors frontman Jim Morrison — something one of the project’s creators feels was “clearly meant to be.”

“We filmed Robby and John, and they just played it like they’ve played it all their lives,” Playing for Change partner and producer Sebastian Robertson tells ABC Audio of the video.

“And as we were going and adding more people and traveling around the world, it started to get so exciting that The Doors management said, ‘Why don’t we give you Jim’s original vocal and see what happens?’ And, like the mystical ways of The Doors, it was the exact right tempo and it just fit in.”

“It was an honor. And it was breathtaking to hear [Jim’s vocals] isolated,” he says. “It just worked. It was clearly meant to be. And I think Jim and Robby and John are still in sync, and I think Jim approves.”

The video’s since racked up over 2 million views and raised thousands of dollars for the Playing for Change Foundation’s music program for indigenous artists in South Dakota. It was chosen due to John’s support of indigenous arts and rights, and Sebastian’s own Mohawk heritage via his late father, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Robbie Robertson.

Sebastian says of the video’s success, “This is a very important song for a lot of people. And I think we treated it that way in the video.”

The next Playing for Change video, Sebastian teases, will “take place ‘on a dark desert highway.'”

JID says he was ‘overly honored’ to work with Jill Scott on ‘To Whom This May Concern’

February 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

To Whom This May Concern, JID is one of the features on Jill Scott’s newly released album. He appears on the song “To B Honest,” which he says was an honor — but a surprise opportunity.

“It was amazing working with her. I was overly honored. I was shocked that it was happening,” he told ABC Audio. “So many feelings wrapped up in working with somebody of that stature, her legacy and everything that she has contributed to music in itself. So I put my best foot forward.”

He says he “sent the song [back] like overly fast” because he was “not letting this moment pass.”

“It holds a special place in my heart, being able to work with Miss Jill Scott,” JID says. “I’m kind of still processing it.”

He adds that he and Jill are still in touch and have “even worked on more music.”

While JID guests on Jill’s To Whom This May Concern, fans noticed his absence on J. Cole’s The Fall-Off, an album he’s happy has finally been released.

“Me being a part of it is … that is neither here nor there because me and my dog work all the time,” JID says.

Of Cole and the album, he adds, “It’s like super amazing to see somebody with his trajectory. … Being around it is like super inspiring.”

JID released his last album, the Grammy-nominated God Does Like Ugly, in August. With the help of his son, he also recently reimagined the Frosted Flakes jingle “Hey Tony.”

“It’s not something that happens every day or to anybody. So I take it with honor,” he says of recreating the jingle. “I’m happy that I got a chance to do it.”

Don’t tell Noah Kahan that ‘Stick Season’ ‘changed your life’

February 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Noah Kahan will release his new album, The Great Divide, in April, but he says that creating it — or, at least, starting to create it — was “the worst professional thing I’ve gone through.”

While Noah is aware that he shouldn’t complain about being creative or being a musician, he admitted during an appearance on Mythical Kitchen’s Last Meal that the pressure to follow up Stick Season left him in despair.

“I mean, as a creative person, getting asked, ‘What are you gonna do next?’ just creates a pit in your stomach, where you’re like, ‘Oh s***, like, I gotta follow this up,’” he tells host Josh Scherer.

“The pressure of having all the sold-out shows and the song on the radio and people being like, ‘This album changed my life.’ … I started to see them all as negatives,” he explains. “Because I was like, ‘It just means that when I disappoint you with my next thing, it’s gonna be that much harder for me to bear.'”

“So I started to hate when people told me they loved [the album], because it made me feel like, ‘That’s just another person whose face is gonna fall when they hear how bad my next thing is.'”

“It was the worst professional thing I’ve gone through, having to look at that blank piece of paper after four years and be like, ‘I gotta start,’” he shares. And when he finally did, he says, it was a struggle.

“It felt like someone had taken my power away,” he says. But eventually he was able to write The Great Divide, thanks to his wife, his mom and “all these people in my life that have been with me through these cycles I’ve gone on and helped me get through that s***.”

Rise Against spotlights fan community with The A.R.T. Project

February 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Rise Against has launched a new initiative called The A.R.T. Project, which stands for “All Rise Together.”

In an accompanying video, streaming on YouTube, the Rise Against members speak on the importance of community in the punk scene. In then transitions to footage of Rise Against fans meeting at a warehouse and creating artwork inspired by the band.

The video ends with Rise Against performing their song “Ricochet,” the title track off their latest album, in front of those fans.

“When you create art, you create communities,” Rise Against says. “The best people to tell our story are the people who truly connect with the music.”

Ricochet was released in 2025. It also includes the singles “Nod” and “I Want It All.”

Rise Against will launch a U.S. tour in March.

Listening party guests react to Harry Styles’ new album

February 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Harry Styles has invited fans to listening parties all over the world for his new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, and the first one took place on Wednesday. Some lucky fans checked the album out ahead of its release and left some positive reviews.

A fan who attended the listening party in Dublin, Ireland, told RTE News that the project was “the best album that I’ve ever listened to.” Another one gushed, “It was amazing. I actually have no words for it.”

“I can’t believe we have to wait three weeks now to hear it again,” said a third person. “Like, I’m actually fuming over that.”

Two other reviews provided some actual information about the album. One fan said, “It’s really good. It’s very different from what I expected it to sound like, very different from what Harry has released previously.”

Another revealed that the album has “a huge variety of songs,” including “some super-slow ballads” and “some rock-inspired songs.”

Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally arrives March 6. Listening parties have also been set for Mexico City, Paris, Tokyo, Toronto, Berlin, Madrid, Milan, London, Zurich and more. LA and Madison, Wisconsin, were the two U.S. cities chosen to host parties.

Billy Corgan welcomes Jack Osbourne on latest episode of ‘The Magnificent Others’

February 18, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has released the latest episode of his podcast, The Magnificent Others, featuring Jack Osbourne, son of the late Ozzy Osbourne, as the guest.

“[Jack] joins Corgan for a wide-ranging conversation about his upbringing in the spotlight, the realities of fame, paranormal experiences, and forging his own path,” a press release reads. “The two reflect on his father’s legacy, the lasting impact of Black Sabbath, and the power of rock music. [Jack] also discusses what lies ahead, including an upcoming biopic about his father.”

Corgan was among the performers at the 2025 Back to the Beginning concert, which marked the final performance of Black Sabbath’s original lineup and Ozzy’s last live show ever. Ozzy died just over two weeks after the concert.

Corgan previously interviewed Ozzy’s widow, Sharon Osbourne, on The Magnificent Others. The next episode’s guest will be Disturbed frontman David Draiman.

Music notes: Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera and more

February 18, 2026 by WDNY Radio

As Katy Perry’s song “Wide Awake” has become a popular TikTok trend — which she’s taken part in — her video for “Part of Me” has just hit 1 billion views on YouTube. It’s Katy’s ninth video to hit that milestone.

Twenty-four years after Christina Aguilera released her iconic hit “Beautiful,” the woman who wrote it is going to release her own take on the song. Linda Perry, who is a songwriter and the front woman of 4 Non Blondes, announced the news on Instagram. She wrote, “It feels strange covering your own song. The heartfelt performance Christina Aguilera delivered will forever remain timeless and powerful… so the question remains. How do you cover your own song when you already consider it perfect? My version of Beautiful comes out February 23rd.”

Alex Warren continues to tease his new track, “Fever Dream.” He hasn’t announced a release date, but in his latest Instagram post, he shared a video of himself sitting on a plane. He wrote on the video, “someone’s mom recognized me on this flight so I airdropped her the full song.” He added in the caption, “about to have WiFi someone convince me this song got leaked.”

Alessia Cara’s new album, Love or Lack Thereof, will arrive on March 20. The Canadian star has “revisited, reimagined, and reinvented” songs of love and heartbreak from her catalog as jazz and soul tracks, recorded with a group of Toronto-based jazz musicians. She wrote on Instagram, “wanted to do something special … pulled this together in just over 3 days thanks to a super talented group of people. can’t wait for you to hear it!”

Bono describes U2’s next album as ‘defiantly joyful’

February 18, 2026 by WDNY Radio

U2 frontman Bono has shared some insight into the band’s upcoming album, which is expected later this year.

In conjunction with the just-released EP U2 – Days of Ash, U2 released a special edition of their magazine Propaganda, and in an interview, Bono revealed that they have plenty of songs in the mix for the record.

“There’s a lot more than 25 songs in the works … but I’d say about 25 are worth considering for U2 projects in the next few years,” Bono says. He notes that songs being considered are “very different in mood” from the tracks on Days of Ash, which was written in response to current events.

“More songs of celebration than lamentation,” he said. “The LP/album we’ve been working on has a very different kind of musical mood and narrative, a more of a defiantly joyful kind of feel to take on these anxious times … almost a carnival vibe.”

Continuing to discuss the mood of the new record, Bono notes, “We’re going to try and make the light brighter real soon. … We’re going try finding it in each other and our fans.”

“We’re gonna try to find that carnival atmosphere in our audience, where hopefully we can both show each other not just where we are at but where we want to be at. … Serious fun is required,” he adds. “We can’t always be letting the bad news drown out the good news of just waking up in the morning and being together in the same place … we’re all much better live!!!”

So far a specific release date for U2’s next album has not been revealed. It will be their first album of new material since 2017’s Songs of Experience.

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