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Jason Aldean’s two young kids are inseparable in sweet video of them saying goodbye

September 29, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Jason Aldean shares two toddlers with his wife, Brittany Aldean, and the kids aren’t just close in age — they’re also best friends.

Brittany, who frequently shares glimpses into her family life on social media, proved how inseparable the siblings really are in a video of them going off to spend the night with separate grandparents.

“This is the first time ever spending the night away from each other,” the singer’s wife wrote in the caption.

In the clip, 3-year-old Navy goes over to hug her big brother — 4-year-old Memphis — as he prepares to leave. “I’ll miss you, Memphy,” she says. “Then I’ll call you,” he replies. “Love you Memphy,” she says, as her older brother takes his grandparent’s hand to leave. “Love you, sissy,” he replies.

After Memphis leaves, Navy looks a little sad and tells her off-camera parents that she misses her brother.

Brittany assures fans that overall, the kids are having a great time with their grandparents.

“They are having the best time but the goodbyes were harder than expected,” she writes.

Cher wears spandex catsuit while walking in finale of Balmain fashion show in Paris

September 29, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Most 76-year-old women wouldn’t feel “Strong Enough” to walk around in public in a spandex catsuit — but Cher’s not your average 76-year-old.

The entertainment icon walked in the finale of the Balmain fashion show Wednesday night during Paris Fashion Week, taking the stage arm-in-arm with designer Olivier Rousteing as her song “Strong Enough” blared from the sound system. She wore a marbled spandex bodysuit with a plunging neck, and platform wedges.

“JUST HAD BEST TIME, ON STAGE…FELT GREAT,” Cher tweeted afterwards. “SHOW WAS PROBABLY BEST FASHION SHOW ‘EVER.’ MODELS WERE BEAUTY FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE. CLOTHES 2 DIE 4…OLIVIER 2 DIE 4.”

She added, “STAGE WAS CALLING ME cher…..oh cher….come Home….I HEAR YOU.”

It’s not surprising that Cher felt comfortable on that stage: As Billboard notes, the Balmain show took place in a massive stadium, with more than 10,000 tickets made available to fans in exchange for a charity donation.

(Cher’s entrance comes at 39:58 into the video below)

Cardi B loses “multi-million dollar” deal, tells fans to “think twice” about “quick decisions”

September 29, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Cardi B is hoping fans learn from her mistakes.

Taking to Twitter, the “Up” rapper said that she lost out on a very lucrative deal due to her recent legal woes.

“My stupid decisions from the past caused me to miss out on money now,” Cardi tweeted on Tuesday. “I had a multi-million dollar Call of Duty deal on the table that I couldn’t take because of court.”

“Guys think twice about those quick decisions! Lesson learned,” she added.

In a later tweet, Cardi explained, “I couldn’t make it cause of court couple weeks ago …I wasn’t able to do the shoot on time.”

Cardi, 29, recently resolved a criminal assault case that stemmed from two fights at New York City clubs. After pleading guilty she was sentenced to 15 days of community service.

Shania Twain isn’t worried about catching flak for her topless single cover art: “You can’t please everybody”

September 29, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Shania Twain gets back to the basics of fun, day-seizing, life-affirming joy in her peppy new single, “Waking Up Dreaming.” The song, which came out last Friday, is Shania’s first new release in five years and the start of a new album chapter, she tells The Sun.

The country legend has been famous for striking visual statements since the start of his career, and with “Waking Up Dreaming,” she’s as creative as ever. This time around, she chose a tasteful, conservative topless photo for the single’s cover art.

“I styled that photograph myself,” says Shania, who wears stiletto boots and a cowboy hat in the image.

“It was all about taking off the bra, taking off the shirt, tying the shirt around my waist,” she continues. “This is a statement of being comfortable in my own skin and just being really myself.”

And if some of her fans get upset by her choice to bear a little more skin, well, Shania says that’s just fine.

“I never really get angry with criticism,” she adds. “You can’t please everybody, that’s normal.”

Shania’s not the only woman in country music who’s shown some skin — and caught flak for it. In 2019, the genre’s more conservative fans were scandalized by Maren Morris’ decision to pose for Playboy. But there was a precedent for Maren’s feature in the magazine: Who could forget Dolly Parton’s iconic Playboy spread from 1978?

Dolly recently recreated her Playboy look — complete with bunny ears and bowtie — for her husband Carl Dean’s birthday.

Serena Williams says mom mode is why she didn’t want her daughter at her tennis matches

September 29, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Serena Williams says the reason she’d rather her 5-year-old daughter, Olympia, stay home during her tennis matches was so she wouldn’t be distracted.

She means it in a loving way, of course, afraid that she’d naturally hop into mom mode if her daughter was present and might worry about what was happening off the court versus on it.

“Well, I just was worried I’d get distracted because I would be like, ‘Wait, is she drinking? Is she doing this?'” Williams explains to host Drew Barrymore in a clip from The Drew Barrymore Show.

“She came to a match once, like super brief, and I was like, ‘Oh my god, is she wearing sun cream?’ It’s nuts. So, I would get stressed out and be like, ‘Wait a minute, oh my goodness, I’ve got to serve. This makes no sense.'”

The tennis legend says she didn’t have her daughter at matches until this summer, when Olympia rooted for her mama from the stands at what may have been Williams’ final U.S. Open.

The toddler paid homage to her mother by rocking her hair in braids with white beads, similar to how Williams had her hair styled when she won her first U.S. Open in 1999. Olympia also matched her mom’s outfit, wearing an all black Nike dress.

“Apparently she was saying like, ‘Go Mama, I’m so proud of you,’ and I was like, ‘What?’” Williams recalls to Barrymore.

“So then she comes back after I had lost in Cincinnati, she came back and she’s like, ‘It’s OK, Mama, you just have to do what you feel,’ and I literally wanted to cry. It was like, ‘Do what you feel. Do what your heart tells you.’ It was the sweetest thing ever,” Williams said.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Bridges to Babylon’ album celebrates 25th anniversary today

September 29, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Today, September 29, marks the 25th anniversary of the release of The Rolling Stones‘ 23rd U.S. studio album, Bridges to Babylon, which peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200.

While the 13-track collection yielded no U.S. pop hits, three singles from the record broke into the top 20 of Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock chart — “Anybody Seen My Baby?,” “Saint of Me” and “Flip the Switch,” which reached #3, #13 and #14, respectively.

While The Stones were recording “Anybody Seen My Baby?,” guitarist Keith Richards‘ daughter Angela pointed out to him that the melody of the chorus was similar to that of Canadian singer k.d. lang‘s 1992 hit “Constant Craving,” so lang and her co-writer Ben Mink were given songwriting credits on the Stones tune alongside Richards and Mick Jagger.

The music video for “Anybody Seen My Baby?” features Angelina Jolie.

Bridges to Babylon was recorded at Ocean Way Recording studio in Los Angeles, and in addition to The Stones’ core members — Jagger, Richards, guitarist Ronnie Wood and drummer Charlie Watts — a variety of guest musicians and singers contributed to the sessions.

Among them were longtime Stones touring member Darryl Jones, Me’Shell Ndegeocello, Living Colour‘s Doug Wimbish and album co-producer Don Was on bass; guitarist Waddy Wachtel; keyboardists Billy Preston and Benmont Tench; jazz sax great Wayne Shorter; rapper Biz Markie; ex-Beach Boy Blondie Chaplin on multiple instruments and backing vocals; and famed session drummer Jim Keltner on percussion.

To support Bridges to Babylon, The Rolling Stones mounted a major tour that featured 108 dates and ran from September 1997 to September 1998.

The album has been certified Platinum for sales of over 1 million copies in the U.S.

Here’s the full track list of Bridges to Babylon:

“Flip the Switch”
“Anybody Seen My Baby?”
“Low Down”
“Already Over Me”
“Gunface”
“You Don’t Have to Mean It”
“Out of Control”
“Saint of Me”
“Might as Well Get Juiced”
“Always Suffering”
“Too Tight”
“Thief in the Night”
“How Can I Stop”

Coolio, “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper, dead at 59

September 28, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Coolio, the Grammy-winning rapper, record producer and actor best known for his 1995 hit “Gangsta’s Paradise,” has died at the age of 59.

His longtime manager, Jarez Posey, confirmed to ABC News that Coolio died at a friend’s house on Wednesday evening. A cause of death has not yet been determined.

Coolio, born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., rose to prominence as a member of the hip hop group WC and the Maad Circle alongside WC and his brother, Crazy Toones, and achieved mainstream success with his albums It Takes a Thief, released in 1994, and Gangsta’s Paradise and My Soul, released in 1995.

Coolio’s single, “Gangsta’s Paradise,” recorded for the 1995 film Dangerous Minds, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, became one of the most popular rap songs of all time, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks and ending 1995 as the #1 single in the United States that year.

The song was later parodied by Weird Al Yankovic as “Amish Paradise.” Though Coolio said he didn’t give Weird Al permission to do so, he later said that the two had made amends.

Coolio had several other hits including 1994’s “Fantastic Voyage,” which peaked at #3 on Billboard‘s Hot 100, as well as “1,2,3,4 (Sumpin’ New)” and “It’s All the Way Live (Now).” He also provided the opening track “Aw, Here It Goes!” for the 1996 Nickelodeon television series Kenan & Kel.

Beyond music, Coolio voiced the character Kwanzaa-bot on Futurama, and appeared in such movies as Dear God, Batman & Robin, Submerged and Stealing Candy.

Watch video for rare Joe Strummer solo tune “Fantastic,” featuring Eddie Vedder cameo

September 28, 2022 by WDNY Radio

A music video for “Fantastic,” a previously unheard solo Joe Strummer song featured on Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years box set, has debuted on the late Clash frontman’s official YouTube channel.

The clip features a montage of photos and candid archival footage of Strummer, and includes a brief cameo appearance by Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder. The video begins with an emotional spoken-word recording of Strummer encouraging people to get along with each other.

The clip was directed by Lance Bangs, whose credits include videos for songs by R.E.M., Green Day and George Harrison.

“Fantastic” was one of Strummer’s last recordings and includes vocals he recorded at the famous Rockfield Studios in Wales in December 2002, the same month that he died.

Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years features remastered versions of the three studio albums Strummer made with his backing band, The Mescaleros — 1999’s Rock Art and the X-Ray Style, 2001’s Global a Go-Go and 2003’s posthumous Streetcore — as well as a disc titled Vibes Compass that boasts 15 rare and previously unreleased tracks.

Vibes Compass includes “Fantastic,” as well as some of the first demos Strummer made for The Mescaleros, outtakes of several later tracks by the group and a song called “Ocean of Dreams” that features contributions from Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones.

The collection was curated by Strummer’s widow, Lucinda Tait, and is available as a four-CD set, a seven-LP vinyl package and digitally.

The physical versions of the box set come with books featuring exclusive new interviews with Strummer’s friends, collaborators and Mescaleros bandmates, as well as previously unseen handwritten notes, lyrics and drawings from Joe’s archives.

AWOLNATION livestreaming show on upcoming fall tour

September 28, 2022 by WDNY Radio

AWOLNATION is gearing up to launch a tour for the first time in over three years, and you can get in on the fun from the comfort of your own home.

The outing’s stop in Philadelphia on October 25 will stream live. You can tune in via the streaming platform Veeps starting at 7:30 p.m. ET.

In addition to AWOLNATION’s headlining performance, the show’s support set from Badflower, which is opening throughout the tour, will also be streamed.

For more info, visit AWOLNATION.Veeps.com.

AWOLNATION’s tour launches October 6 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and concludes November 18 in Seattle. The band released a new song called “Freaking Me Out” last week, and they dropped a covers album, My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me, earlier this year.

Music notes: Olivia Rodrigo, Pink, Meghan Trainor and Rihanna

September 28, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Olivia Rodrigo broke a major streaming record on Spotify. Her team confirmed to ABC Audio that she is the first female artist on the platform to have three solo songs off the same album hit 1 billion streams. Her song “deja vu” joins hits “drivers license” and “good 4 u” in Spotify’s billion streams club.

Pink says she has found “Somebody to Love” and shared a photo of her hanging out with Queen‘s Brian May and Roger Taylor. The trio met up at the Foo Fighters‘ tribute concert for late drummer Taylor Hawkins. Adam Lambert, who sings with Queen, commented with six red heart emojis. Pink also hung out with Nancy Wilson of Heart and captioned it “Ooooh Barracuda.”

Remember that viral photo of Meghan Trainor and husband Daryl Sabara visiting a sex shop? Well, she finally explained what she was doing there in a TikTok video and said “it’s not what you think.” She was there to pick up a few things for a friend who was too shy to go in there herself — so Meghan was simply being a brave friend.

TMZ is now reporting Rihanna has not picked a guest to assist her at the Super Bowl halftime show. Apparently her team has compiled a list of 50 potential names, but the “Umbrella” singer could choose to do the entire set solo.

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