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On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’, Kathy Griffin talks Taylor and Kelce, jabs the “Free Britney” movement

October 4, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Kathy Griffin appeared on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, and right out of the gate, she was ready to rumble — all to protect her “queen,” Taylor Swift.

The Emmy-winning comic began by explaining her voice, which is now pitched higher due to her 2021 battle with lung cancer. She had to have a lung removed, leaving her with an axe to grind against everyone in the “two-lung community,” she joked.

Still, Griffin insisted, she is funnier with the new voice, and more importantly, cancer-free.

Griffin quickly took aim at sports, calling them “the gateway drug to all things bad,” especially now that the world of sports and the world of Taylor Swift have collided in “Traylor” — the entanglement between Taylor and Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce.

Griffin warned sports fans not to go after Taylor if the Chiefs lose a game. “You sports people don’t stand a chance against the Swifties,” she declared.

“If there’s any threat to her or perceived threat, they will dox your kid’s teacher’s family. They will find out where they live. And they shoot to kill. Because she is our queen,” she riffed.

Kimmel agreed, explaining he lives with a Swiftie: his daughter.

Griffin also had a lot to say about a recent video that showed Britney Spears dancing around with a pair of knives, which resulted in the local sheriff’s department performing a wellness check.

In fact, Kathy had posted to Instagram a bikini video of her own, imitating Brit’s moves — but with a knife and spatula.

“I fear the #FreeBritney people, I do, but sometimes, a person can be too free,” the comic said, adding, “All I’m saying is, I love you gays and I love you #FreeBritney people, but you didn’t have a plan.”

Genesis’ Steve Hackett launches Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights tour in North America

October 4, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett just launched his Genesis Revisited: Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights tour in North America, which sees him playing Genesis’ 1972 classic album, Foxtrot, in its entirety, as well as some of his solo material.

The album is a big favorite among Genesis fans, and Hackett believes it’s because of one particular song, though he says some “call it indulgent”: the over 20-minute classic “Supper’s Ready.”

“Somebody I was talking to earlier said it was like a suite of pieces all put together and more classical music in that sense,” he tells ABC Audio. “It’s a little bit like a mini musical.”

When performing the tune, Hackett says he doesn’t get too creative although he does like to “branch away and go off” at times, which can be an issue.

He jokes, “Sometimes that 23 minute song can end up being 25 minutes long and the band are all hoping that the guitarist, i.e. me, is going to finish his guitar solo soon so that they can all go home for supper themselves.”

In the end, Hackett says he does his best to perform authentic versions of both Genesis songs and his own solo material so fans will be able to recognize the tracks they love. He compared his approach to the Queen stage musical, We Will Rock You.

He explains, “We know on stage it’s not the same people, but the power of the music and the fact that it’s authentically done, that’s important.”

Hackett’s Genesis Revisited: Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights tour hits Toronto, Canada, on October 5, with the first U.S. show happening October 6 in Ithaca, New York. A complete list of dates can be found at hackettsongs.com.

Report: Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner to start mediation today

October 4, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are going to try to work out their differences amid their impending divorce. People reports the couple is set to begin a four-day mediation Wednesday, October 4, to, among other things, sort out custody of their two daughters and develop a parenting plan.

During a hearing on Tuesday, the judge set a January 2 trial date, but the mediation is designed to work out the custody issues involving Willa, 3, and Delphine, 14 months. At the hearing, People reports, Sophie’s lawyer said Joe is asking for 50-50 joint custody.

“The parties are both seeing their children, which is what we all want,” the lawyer later added. The judge said the mediation should run parallel to the divorce proceedings.

Last month, Sophie sued Joe for wrongful retention, claiming that he’d withheld the girls’ passports so she couldn’t take them back to England with her. Joe disputed those claims and said he was under the impression that the two had come to an understanding as far as co-parenting goes.

A few days later, the two reached a temporary agreement to keep the kids in the New York City area.

SZA on the success of ‘SOS’: “I didn’t think I’d be Number One at all”

October 4, 2023 by WDNY Radio

SZA‘s SOS album has broken records previously held by Beyoncé, Janet Jackson, Adele, Usher and Whitney Houston, and it was all to her surprise. When she released the project, she didn’t think she had a chart-topper on her hands.

“I didn’t think I’d be Number One at all,” she says in her cover story for Rolling Stone. “I thought Taylor [Swift] was going to dust me. I don’t know what n***** wanna hear from me. I never know when things are going to be popular. I never know what songs people are going to attach to.”

Despite the lack of knowledge of what songs or albums may be a hit, SZA has ideas and she’s adamant about them. One idea was releasing the song “DTM,” which she teased in the “Snooze” music video, as a song on the deluxe edition of SOS. She says it’s the first song she remembers writing in the midst of a romance with someone she likes.

Of the deluxe, SZA says it will be called Lana, a name she’s now going by. It will include 10 new tracks, in addition to the previous SOS cuts, and she’s planning to drop it this fall.

Elsewhere in her cover story, SZA discusses her loss at the 2018 Grammys, her thoughts on failure and even the accusations against her friend Lizzo.

“Based on the values and the energy that I see in my friend, I just really think that she’s a beautiful person, and I just really pray that everybody recovers from this because everybody deserves to heal and feel safe and feel loved,” she says of the allegations Lizzo’s former dancers have made against the singer. “I just really hope that everybody ends up feeling like that when this is all said and done. Because that’s the bottom line.”

Metallica’s Lars Ulrich calls Power Trip lineup “awe-inspiring”: “I’m going to be there the whole weekend”

October 4, 2023 by WDNY Radio

The lineup for the much-hyped Power Trip festival — featuring Metallica, AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Tool — is basically a dream come true for metalheads, Lars Ulrich very much included.

“We love all five of the other bands,” the ‘Tallica drummer tells the Los Angeles Times. “I saw AC/DC back in Copenhagen in 1977 for the first time; we did a whole tour with them in Europe in 1991. I fell in love with Guns N’ Roses five seconds after I heard ‘Mr. Brownstone’ for the first time on [the radio] before [Appetite for Destruction] came out. We played shows with Iron Maiden in the ’80s. We played shows with Judas Priest. We played shows with Tool all over the place.”

“Obviously, AC/DC, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest were huge influences,” Ulrich continues. “Those three bands are a significant part of the reason that we wanted to be in a band. So to get everybody together in the same space is a bit awe-inspiring.”

Power Trip takes place October 6-8 in Indio, California, the same site of Coachella and the 2016 Desert Trip festival, which boasted The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters and The Who.

Ulrich, who was in attendance at Desert Trip, says the festival led to “some chatter about doing a hard rock version.”

“The offer finally came in six or nine months ago,” Ulrich says. “As a fan of hard rock, I’m going to be there the whole weekend and see every band.”

In related news, Power Trip has announced its food and drink lineup, which includes a pop-up dubbed Holy Dive Bar, in reference to the Dio classic.

Ally Brooke’s back in her pop music era and fans are thrilled: “I finally gave them ‘me’ again”

October 4, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Ally Brooke is starting a new era with her new track, “Gone to Bed.” The former Fifth Harmony member says it’s been a minute, but fans are glad to have her back where she belongs: making pop music.

“I haven’t put something out in over a year. So … they really have waited,” Ally tells ABC Audio. “And I finally gave them me again, pop again, English [language music] again, so they’re really loving it!”

Ally also has a new look to go along with her new era, also inspired by her fans.

“They’ve been asking me to dye my hair brunette … they literally for years and years and years have asked me, and I finally have done it!” she says.

“Gone to Bed” is the first taste of the new project Ally’s working on right now, and she says she loves the sound of it, as well as the story. “It really resonated with me,” she tells ABC Audio.

“It’s … about, you have a lover and you want to see him, but … it’s kind of dangerous, and you end up getting together and then you’re like, ‘Oh, I should have just gone to bed.’ I love that whole concept.”

“Gone to Bed” also reunites Ally with the same A&R executive who was responsible for all the Fifth Harmony hits, but he’s not the only person from her past she’s reconnected with. In August, she saw her former group mate Dinah Jane for the first time in five years.

“It was so amazing to see her again … I just love her so much. I adore her and I know she adores me,” Ally raves. “We have that eternal love with each other. I couldn’t be more grateful to to have her in my life again … I mean, that’s something that’s powerful.”

Nate Smith on hearing his single play on the radio: “It’s been a dream of my whole life”

October 4, 2023 by WDNY Radio

As “World on Fire” ascends the country charts, Nate Smith is taking time to recount a special moment he experienced recently.

The singer was out on the road when all of a sudden he heard his single come on the radio. That surprise left Nate beaming with excitement.

“You know, I don’t get to catch my songs on the radio as much as I’d like to, because we’re usually running around like crazy and stuff. But I did get to hear ‘World on Fire’ last week pop up on the radio and I was with my bus driver, and we just were screaming at the top of our lungs,” Nate recalls.

“It was pretty cool. So we just turned it up and just rocked out,” he shares. “It’s so special to hear that happen. It’s been a dream of my whole life.”

“World on Fire” is currently approaching the top 20 on the country charts. The song serves as the second single off Nate’s self-titled debut record and follows the project’s chart-topping lead single, “Whiskey on You.”

The Head and the Heart announces Rivers and Roads Foundation benefit concert

October 4, 2023 by WDNY Radio

The Head and the Heart has announced a benefit concert in support of the band’s Rivers and Roads Foundation.

The show will take place on November 30 in the “All We Ever Knew” outfit’s hometown of Seattle. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 6, at 10 a.m. PT.

For all ticket info, visit TheHeadandtheHeart.com.

The Rivers and Roads Foundation raises money for youth music education programs in Seattle and mental health resources for musicians.

Meanwhile, The Head and the Heart will launch a fall tour in continued support of their 2022 album, Every Shade of Blue, on October 18 in St. Augustine, Florida.

The Gaslight Anthem releases new ’History Books’ song, “Autumn”

October 3, 2023 by WDNY Radio

The Gaslight Anthem has released a new song called “Autumn,” a track off the band’s upcoming comeback album, History Books.

“I wrote this song on a really beautiful fall day, looking out the window and thinking, ‘How many days like this do we get to see?'” frontman Brian Fallon says of the seasonally appropriate tune. “So much of life is just trying to get by, but every now and then you have those moments where you can really feel grateful for the small things.”

You can listen to “Autumn” now via digital outlets.

History Books, the follow-up to 2014’s Get Hurt and the first Gaslight record since the group announced they were “returning to full time status as a band” in 2022, arrives October 27. It also includes the previously released single “Positive Charge” and the Bruce Springsteen-featuring title track.

Gaslight is currently touring the U.S. and will play a series of shows in their home state of New Jersey starting October 27 to celebrate the release of History Books.

The Hu premieres animated video for “Sell the World”

October 3, 2023 by WDNY Radio

The Hu has premiered the video for “Sell the World,” a track off the band’s latest album, Rumble of Thunder.

The clip, which marks the Mongolian rockers’ first animated video, finds a butcher harvesting the organs of woman to auction off to the wealthy — a metaphor for how humanity treats nature.

“It’s our way of expressing the love we have for our earth,” says The Hu producer Dashka. “From the name of the song to the content of the video, we use sarcasm and exaggeration to show the unpleasantness of the world. It was easier to use the graphics and 3Ds to create visuals for the exaggerated message that the song has in its lyrics.”

You can watch the “Sell the World” video streaming now on YouTube.

Rumble of Thunder, The Hu’s sophomore album, was released in 2022. A deluxe version, featuring collaborations with Alice in Chains‘ William DuVall and System of a Down‘s Serj Tankian, dropped in June.

The Hu is currently on tour with Asking Alexandria, and it wraps October 8 in Los Angeles. They’ll then launch their own headlining run October 9 in San Francisco.

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