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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.

Taylor Swift belongs in Country Music Hall of Fame, says country legend

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Taylor Swift will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June, and she’s got five years to go before she’s eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. On Friday, her name just may come up as an inductee for the Country Music Hall of Fame, and she’s been heartily endorsed by one legend who’s already in there.

On the Rolling Stone Nashville Now podcast, Hall of Famer Vince Gill says, “I think they’ll put her in there. Why wouldn’t you?” Vince, who also performs with the Eagles, says that Taylor is one of the Country Music Hall of Fame’s biggest donors

“I’m crazy about her. I fully support that,” he adds.

Taylor, of course, was a country music superstar before she went full-on pop star with her album 1989. When this year’s inductees are announced, Taylor may appear in the “Modern Era” category because artists become eligible “twenty years after they first achieved national prominence,” according to the website. Her self-titled debut album, featuring the hit “Tim McGraw,” was released in 2006.

If Taylor does get inducted, she’d be the youngest person ever to get in. At age 36, she’s more than a decade younger than the youngest Hall of Famers Johnny Cash and Eddy Arnold, who were both 48 at the time of their inductions.

Trisha Yearwood will take over the Opry Sunday to raise money for breast cancer

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Trisha Yearwood is hosting her second Band As One Nashville Concert for the Cure on Sunday, and expectations are high for several reasons.

The first is the progress Trisha’s seen since losing her mother to breast cancer in 2011.

“I’ve watched friends in treatment [for the same cancer as my mother] take a drug … that helped them survive longer, that I know could’ve helped her, you know, and so I feel like everything that we can do to kind of keep that progress going forward, it’s so important,” Trisha tells ABC Audio.

The second is how successful the first year was.

“I loved how this community came together and raised so much more money than we were expecting last year,” she says. “Now I have big expectations for this year.”

Reba McEntire, Ashley McBryde, Charles Kelley, Hailey Whitters, Luke Nelson, The War & Treaty, The Band Loula and Rissi Palmer are all set to play the benefit, as it moves from the Ryman to the larger Grand Ole Opry House in 2026.

“It kinda reminds you of the Opry,” Trisha says, “because you have a house band and, you know, it’s not a heavy lift for anybody. You get to come out and do a couple songs and go home. … It’s like a who’s who … of artists that — I mean anybody who had the time in their schedule said yes, you know, I think because everybody’s affected by it.”

Tickets are on sale now, with proceeds going to Susan G. Komen, one of the leaders in the fight against breast cancer.

Lindsey Buckingham says reissue of ‘Buckingham Nicks’ was a ‘pleasant surprise’

March 19, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Back in September, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks reissued their only studio album as a duo, 1973’s Buckingham Nicks. In a new video, Buckingham explains why he felt the time was right for the rerelease.

In a video posted to Buckingham’s social media accounts, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer calls the reissue “a pleasant surprise on a number of levels.”

“We had talked about releasing it a couple of times earlier in maybe the 10 or so years previous and couldn’t really agree on anything,” he says. “But I think you have to look at the timing of it as something that perhaps was meant to be. That now, as we sort of have evolved into this point in our respective careers and lives, I think both Stevie and I are able to appreciate the arcs that we’ve both experienced individually and together for 50-something years.”

He says the reaction to it “was just a completion of the circle, a completion of the karma.”

“And there’s just a lot of good energy flying around anyway in both our lives, and even the way we’re beginning to interact again,” he says, referring to his previous estrangement from Nicks. “And so I think the timing of the release of Buckingham Nicks was right and seems to be resonant with what’s going on in our lives.”

While Buckingham Nicks wasn’t a commercial success, shortly after the release Mick Fleetwood heard a track from the album and was so impressed he invited Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham insisted his then-girlfriend Nicks come with him, and the pair officially joined the band on New Year’s Eve 1974.

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