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War premieres “Behind the Hits” animated video; releasing ‘Greatest Hits 2.0’ compilation in October

August 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

War has been celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and as part of the festivities, a new animated video looking at the stories behind some of the funk/rock/soul group’s biggest hits has debuted at the band’s official YouTube channel.

The “Behind the Hits” clip features commentary by founding singer/keyboardist Lonnie Jordan and producer/songwriter Jerry Goldstein, who helped put the band together with its original lead singer, Eric Burdon of The Animals.

The video briefly touches on the band’s formation and also looks at such classic songs as “Slippin’ into Darkness,” “The World Is a Ghetto,” “The Cisco Kid,” “Don’t Let No One Get You Down,” “Low Riders” and “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” The clip also notes that War songs have been heard in a variety of movies and TV shows, including Cheech & Chong‘s Up in Smoke, Gone in 60 Seconds, Dazed and Confused, Lethal Weapon 4, Friday, The Simpsons, and Mayans M.C.

The “Behind the Hits” video arrives in advance of a new War compilation titled Greatest Hits 2.0 that’s scheduled to be released on October 29 as a two-CD set, a two-LP vinyl collection, digitally and via streaming services. The 24-track album is a career-spanning sequel to the band’s platinum-certified 1976 Greatest Hits retrospective. You can pre-order Greatest Hits 2.0 now.

War currently is on tour and has more than a dozen 2021 dates on its schedule. Visit War.com for more information.

Here’s the Greatest Hits 2.0 track list:

Disc 1
“Spill the Wine” — Eric Burdon & War
“Tobacco Road” — Eric Burdon & War
“All Day Music”
“Get Down”
“Slippin’ into Darkness”
“The World Is a Ghetto”
“The Cisco Kid”
“Gypsy Man”
“Me and Baby Brother”
“Why Can’t We Be Friends?”
“Don’t Let No One Get You Down”
“Heartbeat”

Disc 2
“Low Rider”
“So”
“Smile Happy”
“Summer”
“L.A. Sunshine”
“Galaxy”
“Youngblood (Livin’ in the Streets)”
“Good, Good Feelin'”
“Cinco de Mayo”
“You Got the Power”
“Outlaw”
“Peace Sign”

New music Friday: Meek Mill, Megan Thee Stallion, Kash Doll, and Baby Keem with Kendrick Lamar

August 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Meek Mill collabos with Lil Baby and Lil Durk on “Sharing Locations,” which dropped Friday, featuring a video he directed.

They’re living the high life in the clip, cash overflowing, riding in a private jet and Rolls Royce and contemplating their next sexual adventure.

“Gave her a pill, they all get high, you ever had a foursome?” they rap. “This too much cash for me to hide, I had to give lil’ bro some”

Also, after Megan Thee Stallion fought in court to have her “Butter” remix with BTS released, the song dropped Friday. The Hot Girl Summer adds her Texas hip-hop flava to the track by the South Korean pop group.

“So smooth like the car I ride.” she raps. “Even ya best party planner couldn’t catch this vibe/
Big boss, and I make a hater stay on they job/ And I be on these girls necks like the back of they bobs.”

Kash Doll is feeling “Single & Happy” which is the title of her new single featuring Wale and Eric Bellinger. The Detroit rapper celebrates female empowerment and relying on a partner for validation in the follow-up to her previous single, “Like a Pro.”

Finally, Baby Keem released “Family Ties,” featuring his cousin, Kendrick Lamar on the track, and Normani in the video.

Lamar raps he’s been quiet since the beginning of the COVID-19 virus. “I been duckin’ the pandemic, I been, social gimmicks/ I been duckin’ the overnight activists, yeah/ I’m not a trending topic, I’m a prophet.”

The 13-time Grammy winner also gives props to Megan Thee Stallion, rapping, “I can multitask like Megan, brother/ 2021, I ain’t takin’ no prisoner/New flows comin’, be patient, brother.

The Stray Cats’ Brian Setzer releases latest solo album, ‘Gotta Have the Rumble,’ along with new single

August 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Are you ready to rumble? Well, Brian Setzer is! The Stray Cats frontman released his first new solo album in seven years, Gotta Have the Rumble, today on CD and digital formats.

The new collection features 11 original tunes written or co-written by Setzer. To coincide with the album’s arrival, Brian has debuted a third single from the project, the old-time country-flavored “Rockabilly Banjo,” along with a companion music video.

Setzer co-wrote the tune with Stephen “Dibbs” Preston, lead singer of the veteran rockabilly band The Rockats. The song, which combines country and rockabilly influences, features some impressive banjo picking by Brian, as well as the talents of lauded pedal-steel guitarist Paul Franklin.

The video, which you can watch on Setzer’s official YouTube channel, features a montage of vintage black-and-white footage of banjo players, including clips of legendary folk artist Pete Seeger.

Explaining how the song came together, Setzer notes, “Me and Dibbs were hanging around, and it was one of the few times ever that someone gives me a song that’s just the music and not the lyrics. And Dibbs said, ‘Hey, you play banjo, I love the way you play it.’ You know, banjo makes everybody smile and everybody’s after me to play more banjo.”

Setzer adds, “And Dibbs said, ‘Hey, I got a song, what do you think of this?’ and I thought ‘Wow! Let’s clean it up.’ So that’s the last track.”

“Rockabilly Banjo” follows Setzer’s two previous singles from Gotta Have the Rumble, “Checkered Flag” and “Smash Up on Highway One,” which also were released alongside companion videos.

A vinyl version of Gotta Have the Rumble is due out in the fall.

Here’s the album’s full track list:

“Checkered Flag”
“Smash Up on Highway One”
“Stack My Money”
“The Wrong Side of the Tracks”
“Drip Drop”
“The Cat with 9 Wives”
“Turn You On, Turn Me On”
“Rockabilly Riot”
“Off Your Rocker”
“One Bad Habit”
“Rockabilly Banjo”

New episode of ‘Queen The Greatest’ YouTube series profiles classic David Bowie collaboration “Under Pressure”

August 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Annie Lennox and David Bowie at Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, April 20, 1992; Neal Preston/© Queen Productions Ltd.

The latest episode of Queen‘s weekly YouTube video series Queen The Greatest premiered today, and it features profile a profile of the band’s memorable hit 1981 duet with David Bowie, “Under Pressure.”

The installment tells the story of how the track came together using interview footage with Bowie; Queen members Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor; and producer Reinhold Mack.

The episode begins by explaining how after Queen had purchased Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland, the band was working on new music there in 1981 when engineer David Richards made an impromptu phone call to Bowie.

Bowie notes in an archival interview clip, “[Richards] knew that I was in town, and phoned me up and asked me if I’d…like to go down and see what was happening. So I went down and…suddenly you’re writing something together and it was totally spontaneous. It certainly wasn’t planned.”

Taylor remembers that the band and Bowie were drunk and jamming on “all sorts of old songs,” and then David said, “Look, hang on a minute, why don’t we write one of our own?”

A separate interview clips, Taylor, May and Mack recalled how Queen bassist John Deacon came up with the catchy bass riff that really got the track going.

Roger added that it was Bowie idea to put in various clicks and claps, and the track just grew from there.

“Under Pressure” was released in October of 1981 and became Queen’s second #1 hit in the U.K., after “Bohemian Rhapsody,” while peaking at #22 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100.

After Mercury’s death in 1991, Bowie famously teamed up with Eurythmics‘ Annie Lennox and Queen’s surviving members to perform “Under Pressure” at the historic 1992 tribute concert for Freddie at London’s Wembley Stadium.

Nelly’s Heartland is his first full country project, but it was a decade-and-a-half in the making

August 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

On Friday, rapper Nelly did something he’s been hoping to do for about 16 or 17 years: He released a country-flavored album.

That’s his new project Heartland, a collaborations-packed collection of songs that the singer says he’s been wanting to make ever since he first dabbled in the country genre, releasing his 2004 duet with Tim McGraw.

“The idea of the project has been ever since ‘Over and Over’ — so since 2004, 2005, after seeing that success,” Nelly tells Billboard. “But the only reason I even thought that I could have success with ‘Over and Over’ was because, even when we dropped Country Grammar, we were getting so much love from this community.”

Released in 2000, Country Grammar is Nelly’s full-length studio debut. Though it was a hip hop album, the singer realized from the very start that his music was resonating with a country fan base, too.

But it took him a while to get around to formally venturing into country music, in part because he was “doing my homework,” Nelly explains. “To get more familiar with Nashville and everything. It became a lot easier to know how to navigate and create this project, to bring it to fruition.”

Heartland features duets with the likes of Kane Brown, Florida Georgia Line, Darius Rucker and Jimmie Allen. It’s leading single is Nelly’s FGL duet, “Lil Bit.”

Weezer shares live “All My Favorite Songs” video from Hella Mega tour

August 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Weezer has premiered a new live video for for “All My Favorite Songs,” filmed on the band’s ongoing Hella Mega tour with Green Day and Fall Out Boy.

The clip begins with a shot of Rivers Cuomo strumming a Flying V guitar and sporting a Billy-in-Stranger-Things mullet, suggesting that the live version is a bit different from the original, which appears on Weezer’s new, orchestral-driven album, OK Human. Indeed, the onstage rendition is much more guitar heavy than the studio recording, and would probably fit right in on Weezer’s other new album, the shredding Van Weezer.

You can watch the live “All My Favorite Songs” video streaming now on YouTube.

The Hella Mega tour continues Friday in San Francisco.

Ashley McBryde brings Eric Church to the stage for an unforgettable surprise at her sold-out show in Nashville

August 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Ashley McBryde is currently one night into her three-night headlining stand at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, and on Thursday night, she kicked those shows off with a bang, inviting none other than Eric Church to join her onstage.

To a country audience, the Heart & Soul hitmaker needs no introduction, and Ashley simply introduced him to her sold-out crowd as “Eric f***ing Church.” The two performers then jammed out on a rendition of the Allman Brothers’ 1971 classic, “Midnight Rider.”

Longtime followers of Ashley’s career will recognize that the special surprise appearance was a full-circle moment. Back in 2017, when Ashley was just starting to gain traction in the music business, Eric invited her onstage for a performance of her “Bible and a .44.”

“Midnight Rider” wasn’t the only cover song on Ashley’s set list, nor was it the only duet on her agenda. She also brought opening act Lainey Wilson back out onstage during her set, and the pair sang “When Will I Be Loved,” an Everly Brothers classic that’s also been a hit for Linda Ronstadt, and Vince Gillhas covered it, too.

Ashley’s three nights at the Ryman are part of her This Town Talks Tour, which is slated to run through January 2022.

Listen to Chad Gray cover Beck’s “Loser” with Violent Idols

August 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Chad Gray is channeling his inner perdedor with a cover of Beck‘s “Loser.”

The Mudvayne and HELLYEAH vocalist sings on a version of the ’90s slacker classic recorded by the band Violent Idols.

“This thing was so much fun,” Gray says of the cover. “We have a little tempo and a little teeth and I’m super happy with it.”

“Don’t take this too seriously as I didn’t,” he adds. “Just having some fun with good friends for good people!”

You can listen to the “Loser” cover now via digital outlets.

Gray, meanwhile, is preparing to return to the stage for Mudvayne’s reunion tour, kicking off in September at the Inkcarceration festival in Mansfield, Ohio.

H.E.R. announces ‘Back of My Mind’ tour

August 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

H.E.R. is hitting the road this fall with her eight-city ‘Back of My Mind’ tour.

‘”Shows are back and better than ever,” she posted on Instagram with the tour dates and a photo of her performing in concert. “You coming to see me?”

The Oscar and Grammy winner will kick off the tour October 10 in Franklin, TN, and wrap up October 28 in Detroit. Tone Stith will be her opening act. This will be the “Come Through” singer’s third headlining tour, following the “Lights on Tour” in 2017, and the “I Used to Know Her Tour” in 2018.

H.E.R is also hosting her annual “Lights On Festival” with two-day events in Concord, California and Brooklyn, New York. The Concord festival on September 18-19 features Erykah Badu, Bryson Tiller, Ari Lennox, Keyshia Cole and more. Maxwell, SWV and Skip Marley are among the artists performing at the festival on October 21-22 in Brooklyn.

Tickets for all the show are now available on Ticketmaster.com.

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Diane Warren reveals Cher “hated” “If I Could Turn Back Time” at first

August 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

“If I Could Turn Back Time” has become one of Cher‘s signature songs — but not without some convincing from songwriter Diane Warren.

Looking back on one of the many timeless hits she’s written, Diane recalls how she had to beg the icon to record the song, which became a worldwide hit and marked a resurgence in Cher’s career.

“She hated it,” Diane shares with People. “I went to the studio and literally got on my knees and said, ‘I’ll pay for it. If you don’t like it, don’t use it.’ She agreed. I remember looking at her in the booth and the look on her face when she sang the opening line like, ‘You b****, you were right.'”

The multi-hit songwriter adds that she had a similar experience with Toni Braxton, who was initially hesitant to record “Un-Break My Heart.” The song turned into a multi-platinum hit and won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 1997 Grammy Awards.

“She didn’t want to do the song. I told her, ‘You’re going to win a Grammy for this vocal,’ and she did. People should listen. I know what I’m talking about!” Diane expresses.

After spending nearly four decades penning a multitude of hits, Diane is stepping into the spotlight with her debut album, The Cave Session Vol. 1, available now, featuring collaborations with Celine Dion, Carlos Santana, John Legend, Maren Morris and more.

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