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How Meghan Trainor avoided the biggest workplace hazard on ‘Top Chef: Family Style’

September 21, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Top Chef‘s Padma Lakshmi has been open about the fact that she gains 10 to 15 pounds while taping each season of the show. So of course, Meghan Trainor was concerned about the issue when she signed on to host the new Peacock cooking competition Top Chef: Family Style. But as Meghan tells ABC Audio, she wasn’t going to let it happen to her.

Meghan started out with two strikes against her: Not only was she required to eat delicious and fattening food every episode, but when she started hosting the show, her son Riley was just two months old. “I was [also] trying to lose my baby weight,” she tells ABC Audio. “So I was on a mission!”

“I worked out every single day before that show — and after that show, sometimes,” she reveals. “But I was the only person — I think I’m the only person in history, dare I say — to lose weight on Top Chef!

Yes, believe it or not, through diligent workouts and a nutrition plan, Meghan was able to avoid packing on the pounds while shooting the series.

“I was very excited. I kept coming in each week telling people, like, ‘We’re another pound down!'” she laughs. “So I worked very hard, and it showed me, too, like, you don’t have to be afraid of carbs and all the treats. Because if you balance it out, you can still lose weight. So I did very well!”

Top Chef: Family Style, which features kids and their relatives competing in teams, will be about halfway through its first season when Meghan’s other show, Clash of the Cover Bands, premieres on E! on October 13. She’s also working on a new album.

Lil Nas X teams up with Jean Paul Gaultier for limited edition $400 shirt

September 21, 2021 by WDNY Radio

If you didn’t get your hands on Lil Nas X’s infamous Satan Shoes, he’s got another exclusive piece of clothing for you.

This time, the singer has teamed up with French designer Jean Paul Gaultier for a limited edition shirt in celebration of his new album, Montero.

The unisex long-sleeved mesh top is decorated with an ornate image featuring a shirtless Lil Nas with angel wings surrounded by tiny winged devils. It’s design was inspired by one of Jean Paul Gaultier’s iconic ‘90s prints.

Much like the controversial Satan Shoes collab with design company MSCHF, only 666 of the Jean Paul Gaultier x Lil Nas X shirts were made. The shirt will set you back nearly $400 and is available for pre-order now.

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Shinedown’s Smith & Myers announce tour dates

September 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Shinedown‘s Brent Smith and Zach Myers have announced a tour with their Smith & Myers side project.

The run will kick off November 30 in Memphis, Tennessee, and will wrap up December 18 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Tickets go on sale this Friday, September 24, at 10 a.m. local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit SmithandMyersMusic.com.

Smith & Myers released two albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2, last year. Both records included a mix of covers and original work.

Shinedown, meanwhile, will continue their current tour this Tuesday in Bonner Springs, Kansas. The group’s headlining run is scheduled to wrap up in October.

New Journey album is “our old sound” with a “different strut,” say Neal Schon & Jonathan Cain

September 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Journey’s Jonathan Cain, Neal Schon & Arnel Pineda; Courtesy of Journey

Journey is putting the finishing touches on their first album of new original material since 2011’s Eclipse, and according to band members Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain, the project’s got that classic Journey sound — but with a new twist.

Speaking to Cleveland.com, Schon says of the new music, “We’re moving forward…It still sounds like Journey, but there is definitely a different strut in the rhythm section with Randy and Narada” — referring to the band’s returning bass player Randy Jackson and new drummer Narada Michael Walden, respectively.

“It’s bombastic. It’s rocking. It’s majestic, and it’s soulful,” adds Schon.

The album is being worked on remotely by Schon and Walden on the West Coast, and Cain in Nashville and Florida, the band explains. “It’s typical Journey, I think,” Cain says. “We’re back to our old sound, but it’s got a little bit more on the bottom end.”

“It’s got fire. It’s just a little bit more edge to it. Neal’s playing his butt off, and it’s very driven, very cool. The songs came very interestingly. I like it a lot,” he adds.

One way the new album — which doesn’t have a release date yet — will pay tribute to Journey’s legacy is via the artwork: The package is being designed by Jim Welch, who worked on the classic Infinity, Departure and Escape albums.

The first single from the album, “The Way We Used to Be,” came out in June.

Making GNR’s ‘Use Your Illusion’ two different albums was Axl Rose’s “genius moment,” says Matt Sorum

September 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Last week, Guns N’ Roses‘ albums Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 marked their 30th anniversaries. While former GNR drummer Matt Sorum told ABC Audio that it was Axl Rose‘s idea to release two albums simultaneously, he’s now explained to Rolling Stone exactly why Rose came up with the idea, which he calls “genius.”

As Sorum explains, the band had about 32 songs, and he assumed they would record 20 and then pick the best 12 or 13 for an album. Then, Axl insisted that they release all the songs, and came up with the concept of two albums with the same name, but different-colored covers.

“I was like, ‘Why? Why do we have to make them separate records?’” Sorum recalls. But, as he explains, it was due to Axl’s experience working at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard in L.A.

“In those days, if you had a double record, you had to put it behind the cash register. It was over 20 bucks,” Sorum says. “He wanted the records to be in the bin where you could actually hold them, pick them up.”

“When Axl came in and decided it should be a double record, it was a genius moment for him,” Sorum adds.

Sorum spoke to Rolling Stone to promote his upcoming autobiography, Double Talkin’ Jive, which Rolling Stone says has been indefinitely delayed. In the book, he describes being on tour with Slash and Duff in 2016 and hearing a rumor that GNR was going to reunite…without him.

While it hurt at the time, Sorum now says he’s “come to terms with the fact that they’re doing their own thing, and I’m doing mine,” and adds, “I feel really good about my time in the band.”

Shawn Mendes teases tour announcement this week

September 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Shawn Mendes is getting ready to hit the road again.

The singer revealed Monday that he’ll be embarking on his Wonder world tour in 2022. He promised to unveil more details later this week.

“Can’t wait to get out there and see you all again guys,” Shawn wrote on social media, and posted a short video teasing his return to the stage.

He encouraged fans to head to WondertheTour.com to sign up to be “the first to hear about tour dates and presale info.”

Shawn released Wonder, his fourth studio album, in December 2020.

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How the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Scotty McCreery’s approach on ’Same Truck’

September 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Scotty McCreery had most of his new album, Same Truck, completed before the COVID-19 pandemic altered life in 2020. But the forced downtime allowed him to see the project from a new vantage point.

In an interview with People, the American Idol winner shares that the album previously consisted of songs penned by other songwriters. But being at home allowed him to tap into his own well of songwriting, with 10 of the 12 songs co-written by him, including current single, “You Time.”

“I had a lot of outside cuts actually the first time around. But then the world shut down and I had nothing but time to sit there and pick up a guitar and strum ideas and write songs,” he explains. “Faith is something I lean on daily. I’ve definitely had to lean on it a lot in the last year and a half, with the craziness of the world.”

“You Time,” inspired by Scotty’s wife, Gabi,” is inching its way toward the #1 spot on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.

Video for Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ 40th anniversary track, “Living in the Heart of Love,” coming Wednesday

September 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

The Rolling Stones may have just lost their legendary drummer, Charlie Watts, but they’re moving forward. On Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET, they’re apparently releasing a video for “Living in the Heart of Love,” one of the previously unreleased tracks that will appear on the 40th Anniversary Edition of Tattoo You.

The band announced the video on social media, adding the tagline, “Charlie is my darling.” That’s the title of a 1966 documentary about the Stones that was never released, due to legal issues and the fact that all the prints of the film were stolen from their then-manager Andrew Loog Oldham‘s office. In 2012, a new film with restored footage called Charlie Is My Darling — Ireland 1965 was released.

The Stones posted a black-and-white clip of the video, which incorporates archival footage of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Watts in the Tattoo You era, along with new shots of young people dancing and making out, as well as a Stones record spinning on a turntable.

The video clip ends with the words “Charlie is my darling.”

The Stones’ tour kicks off September 26 in St. Louis, MO.

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Elton John scores 40th top 10 on AC radio airplay chart with “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)”

September 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Elton John has landed his 40th top-10 hit on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary radio airplay chart.

His hit collab with Dua Lipa, “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” rose from number 11 to number 10 on the chart this week, marking Elton’s first time in the chart’s top 10 since 2005.

“Cold Heart” extends his record for most top 10s on the Adult Contemporary radio airplay chart. He’s followed by Neil Diamond with 38 and Barbra Streisand, with 35.

Following the song’s release last month, it became Elton’s first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 since 2000 and his first entry on the Pop Airplay chart since 1998.

Hear four more tracks from the upcoming Super Deluxe version of The Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’

September 20, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Ahead of the October 15 release of the Special Edition packages of The Beatles‘ Let It Be, four more tracks have been released digitally for your streaming pleasure.

They include “Get Back (Take 8),” “One After 909 (Take 3),” the “1970 Glyn Johns mix” of George Harrison’s “I Me Mine,” and the “2021 Mix” of “Across the Universe.”

Each track is taken from a different CD from the five-CD/Blu-ray Super Deluxe edition of the album. “Across the Universe” is from the new stereo mix of the original album; “One After 909” is from the CD called Get Back — Apple Sessions; “Get Back” is from the CD called Get Back — Rehearsals and Apple Jam; and “I Me Mine” is from the CD titled Let It Be EP.

These four tracks follow the three that dropped when the project was first announced in August: “Let It Be (2021 Stereo Mix),” “Don’t Let Me Down (first rooftop performance),’ and “For You Blue (Get Back LP Mix)”.

As previously reported, the new three-part documentary The Beatles: Get Back, created by director Peter Jackson from unseen footage shot during the Let It Be sessions, will premiere on Disney+ on November 25, 26 and 27.

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