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Graham Nash shares the “magic” of working with David Crosby

January 31, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Graham Nash is once again looking back fondly on his musical partnership with the late David Crosby, who passed away earlier this month at the age of 81.

Nash shared a classic photo of him and Crosby recording in the studio, writing, “I’ve been hesitant to share photos of us in the past. People leave such nasty comments sometimes that belittle the complexities of a long-term friendship and musical partnership.”

He adds, “But here is a photo of David and I recording in 1971. There was real magic between us. That much I know.”

And their Crosby, Stills & Nash singing partner Stephen Stills agrees, commenting on the photo, “Magic, indeed.” Nash responded, “You’re such a big part of that magic, Stephen.”

Nash has paid tribute to Crosby several times since his bandmate’s death, previously sharing he was “grateful to have sung with him, played with him, butted heads with him, and for going through so much together,” adding, “It’s his beautiful music that will live forever in all of our hearts. I’m just lucky to have known him.”

Wyn Starks on the impact of “Who I Am”: “It reminds me why I do this”

January 31, 2023 by WDNY Radio

While TikTok can give older songs new life, that’s not the reason Minneapolis native Wyn Starks is seeing his 2020 song “Who I Am” climbing the radio airplay charts now. While it’s had a slow and steady build, Wyn says it’s connecting with people in 2023 because he sang it on America’s Got Talent last year.

“Of course, when you write music, you want it to have an impact, y’know? But I had no idea it would have this kind of impact,” he tells ABC Audio. “And one thing I also didn’t realize is how it would help people through grief.”

When Wyn sang it on AGT, he connected it to the passing of his twin brother.

“It was one of my twin brother’s favorite songs of mine. And so when I sang it on AGT to honor him … I had no idea the new life that it would take on,” Wyn says. “I’m having so many people hit me up, saying how it’s helping them get through … losing a loved one.”

Wyn, who did his first headlining tour last year, says his audience was made up of people who saw him on AGT; people who were already aware of him and his 2021 album, Black Is Gold; and people who’ve simply heard “Who I Am” on the radio.

“Then they go to the AGT audition, so they get to hear more of the story behind it,” he says.

Wyn actually wrote the song about his “journey in becoming … the artist I am, the person I am.” He says fans “who are just coming into theirselves” are finding it helpful, too.

As he says, “To hear those stories … it’s healing for me and then it reminds me why I do this.”

Slipknot’s ‘Iowa’ helped original Papa Roach drummer discover Bell’s palsy diagnosis

January 31, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Not only is Slipknot‘s Iowa considered one of the biggest and most influential albums of the 2000s metal scene, apparently it can also help identify certain medical conditions.

Speaking with Revolver, Knot turntablist Sid Wilson recalls when he played Iowa for Papa Roach‘s original drummer, Dave Buckner, before it first came out. Upon listening to it, Buckner had a reaction that Wilson was very much not expecting.

“[Buckner] comes up on the bus and I think we were into maybe the third track,” Wilson remembers. “And I just watched his face and he started getting uneasy, and he’s looking around at the ground and stuff. And then he looks up and I’m looking at him, and his face collapses. One whole side of his face. And it drooped out like when you have a seizure.”

Wilson adds that Buckner’s “whole face collapsed and it just stayed down there.”

“His eye, everything,” Wilson shares. “The music collapsed his face.”

Upon seeing Wilson’s interview, Buckner reached out to Revolver to explain what had really happened to him.

“[Slipknot] played us the album in the mixing room with the volume cranked to 11,” Buckner says. “I left the room with my ears ringing, and when I woke up the next day and the left side of my face was hanging off my skull, totally paralyzed! I thought I had a stroke during the night!”

During an emergency visit to the doctor, Buckner found out he had Bell’s palsy, a nerve disorder that can cause paralysis in the face.

“Causes can include blunt force trauma, extremely loud noise, and, apparently, Slipknot!” Buckner says. “Slipknot music literally melts faces.”

What’s Fall Out Boy teasing with “overcast on the horizon” tweet?

January 30, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Fall Out Boy‘s new album, So Much (for) Stardust, has officially been announced, but that doesn’t mean the mysterious teasers are over.

The “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” outfit hinted at more news coming in a tweet Monday: “Things are looking overcast on the horizon. Check back tomorrow to see if weather conditions improve.” The post also includes an image of a white umbrella against a black background.

As for what exactly that means, fans in the replies have offered a couple theories. One is the return of Fall Out Boy’s fan club, which was called the Overcast Kids, while another is some kind of collaboration with Bring Me the Horizon. Not only does Fall Out Boy’s tweet pointedly use the word “horizon,” but the accompanying image is quite similar to the cover of BMTH’s 2015 album, That’s the Spirit, which also features a white umbrella against a black background.

Adding credence to the Bring Me the Horizon theory is that frontman Oli Sykes received one of the seashells Fall Out Boy sent out in the mail leading up to the So Much (for) Stardust reveal.

Stay tuned Tuesday to see if all is revealed.

Along with whatever is on the “horizon,” Fall Out Boy has been teasing a tour announcement.

So Much (for) Stardust arrives March 24, and includes the singles “Love from the Other Side” and “Heartbreak Feels So Good.”

KISS manager says End of the Road tour will definitely end this year

January 30, 2023 by WDNY Radio

KISS fans have been wondering when their End of the Road tour will finally end, and now the band’s manager is confirming it will definitely happen this year, although he didn’t reveal a specific date.

The band’s longtime manager, Doc McGhee, said on Podcast Rock City that the last show will “be finalized in the next few days, and we’ll be making an announcement probably in the next 10 days.”

“One thing about KISS, we’ve always been that band that went to places where most bands didn’t go,” he says. “So we play everybody’s town … You name it, we’ve played there. So we always go where the people are anyways.”

McGhee says the pandemic is the main reason the tour is still going on, but adds, “We had to end it at some time, which will be this year.”

As for the future of KISS, and whether it can go on without Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, McGhee noted, “There’s a lot of talk about everything. And nobody knows what’s gonna happen in the future.”

He adds that Simmons and Stanley are definitely “hanging their hats up after the (final) show, which is gonna be very, very difficult and very emotional for them after 50 years of doing this,” especially because “they love it.”

Phil Collins gets birthday shoutout from daughter Lily Collins

January 30, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Phil Collins turned 72 on Monday and his daughter, Emily in Paris star Lily Collins, paid tribute to him with a sweet post on Instagram.

Lily shared a carousel of pictures showing just how much she and the Genesis frontman are alike, including photos of them both posing in a bathtub, wearing tuxedos and rocking overalls.

“Like father, like daughter. Happy birthday, dad,” she wrote. “Thank you for being a constant inspiration, constant laugh, and constant legend. I love you so much and am celebrating you big time today!”

Surprisingly, several of Lily’s fans seem to have been unaware that the rocker is her dad. As one noted, “Am I the only one just learning This is her dad ?! Doh.”

It’s official: Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour is the highest-grossing tour of all time

January 30, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Ed Sheeran‘s Divide tour was the highest-grossing tour of all time — until now. Billboard reports that Ed’s pal Elton John has just taken over the world record.

Billboard reports that Elton’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road has taken in $817.9 million across 278 shows — and the tour isn’t done yet. Billboard says it’s the first tour in its archives to earn more than $800 million. By comparison, Ed’s tour took in $776.4 million.

According to Billboard, it was Elton’s run of shows from January 8 through January 24 in Australia and New Zealand that allowed him to cross the finish line to the record-breaking milestone. Billboard notes that by the time the entire tour wraps up this summer in Europe, he’ll likely cross the $900 million mark.

Right now, Elton’s career total when it comes to concerts stands at $1.863 billion grossed and 19.9 million tickets sold. That’s the highest for any solo artist in Billboard Boxscore history.

The one record Elton doesn’t currently hold is most tickets sold for one tour. That record is still held by Ed’s Divide tour, with 8.9 million tickets, followed by tours by The Rolling Stones, Coldplay and Guns N’ Roses. Elton’s tour has sold 5.3 million tickets so far. While he probably won’t catch up to Ed by the time the tour is done, Elton might end up passing Coldplay and Guns N’ Roses.

Morgan Wallen’s 36-track ‘One Thing at a Time’ is coming March 3

January 30, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Morgan Wallen‘s third album, One Thing at a Time, will arrive March 3, but you don’t have to wait that long for a preview. Three tracks — “Last Night,” “Everything I Love” and “I Wrote the Book” — will arrive Monday night.

Still, that’s barely a preview of the 36-song project that includes contributions from HARDY, Eric Church, Travis Denning, ERNEST, Miranda Lambert, Devin Dawson and Ryan Hurd, just to name a few. Morgan’s sister Ashlyne even sings harmony on the track “Outlook.”

“This record represents the last few years of my life, the highs and the lows,” Morgan says. “It also brings together the musical influences that have shaped me as an artist — country, alternative and hip-hop.”

“There are 36 songs on this album,” he explains, “because we just kept exploring with fresh lyrics, music and production ideas and these are the songs that felt right to me. It was a blast to create, and I was so grateful to be back in the studio to lay this out for my fans.”

It’s the follow-up to 2021’s Dangerous: The Double Album, which set an all-genre Billboard record as the longest-running top 10 album by a solo artist. So far, it’s at 104 weeks and counting.

Here’s the complete track listing for One Thing at a Time:

“Born with a Beer in My Hand”
“Last Night”
“Everything I Love”
“Man Made a Bar” (featuring Eric Church)
“Devil Don’t Know”
“One Thing at a Time”
“’98 Braves”
“Ain’t That Some”
“I Wrote the Book”
“Tennessee Numbers”
“Hope That’s True”
“Whiskey Friends”
“Sunrise”
“Keith Whitley”
“In the Bible” (featuring HARDY)
“You Proof”
“Thought You Should Know”
“F150-50”
“Neon Star (Country Boy Lullaby)”
“I Deserve a Drink”
“Wine into Water”
“Me + All Your Reasons”
“Tennessee Fan”
“Money on Me”
“Thinkin’ Bout Me”
“Single Than She Was”
“Days That End in Why”
“Last Drive Down Main”
“Me to Me”
“Don’t Think Jesus”
“180 (Lifestyle)”
“Had It”
“Cowgirls” (featuring ERNEST)
“Good Girl Gone Missin'”
“Outlook”
“Dying Man”

“I’m not having a breakdown”: Britney Spears reactivates Instagram

January 30, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Britney Spears has reactivated her Instagram and let fans know why she briefly deleted the app last week — because she can.

Fans called police to request a wellness check on her last week when the singer deleted her account, which is something she’s done multiple times before. Britney has since spoken out about the incident and asked fans to respect her privacy.

Britney returned to Instagram on Monday with a new message to fans that said in part, “I’m not having a breakdown.”

Sharing a picture of a pink rose, the hitmaker said in the caption, “Since everyone thinks they know my story. THINK AGAIN !!!”

Britney said she’s moving forward with her life and that she’s “never felt better.” The singer added she is exploring her newfound freedom after her 13-year conservatorship, which was terminated in late 2021.

“If you walked in my shoes, then maybe just maybe you could understand,” she penned, noting she is “still learning this no rules thing.”

She signed off by telling her followers, “PS yes I took my Instagram down and now it’s back up because I can !!!” The singer previously said on Twitter she left the platform again “because there were too many people saying I looked like an idiot dancing and that I looked crazy.”

Commenting has been disabled on Britney’s recent Instagram posts.

Gabriella Wilson says “it’s time for people to really get to know the person” behind H.E.R.

January 30, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Gone are the days when H.E.R. wore various shades to disguise her identity. The 25-year-old picked up roles as Gabriella Wilson in the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast and in The Color Purple musical film. In her cover of Vogue Philippines, she explains why she felt the need to be incognito.

“There were so many reasons why I wanted to be anonymous and why I wanted the music to shine,” Gabriella says. “I had been through so much stuff that a young woman goes through. I wanted people to hear the message and really understand what I’m saying and not be so focused on what I look like or who I’m dating or what I’m wearing and all those things that to me, we started to focus on more because of social media.”

With a few EPs and a debut album under her belt, Gabriella believes her fans know H.E.R and the music. She thinks “it’s time for people to really get to know the person.”

“Throughout these past few years with success and all the great things that have happened, I think I’ve been moving so quickly,” she says. “Now I’ve taken a second to be like, what do I want and who am I? I think that’s a coming of age moment.”

Part of that thinking’s also resulted in a change of style, as Gabriella’s donning “bolder” and “more assertive looks.”

“Being 25, the things that worked when I was 18 and 20 don’t work for me now and the things that I want are different,” she continues. “I know that’ll be forever changing, but I’m comfortable in that. I can’t tolerate anything or anyone that will try to take that away and try to make me something I’m not.”

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