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CBS to air Paul Simon Grammy tribute

December 14, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Earlier this year, 16-time Grammy winner Paul Simon was honored with a special Grammy tribute concert in Los Angeles, and now the public is finally going see what went down. Homeward Bound: A GRAMMY Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon is set to air Wednesday, December 21, at 9 p.m. ET on CBS.

The two-hour concert, filmed back in April at the Hollywood Pantages Theater, has a whole host of artists performing Simon’s tunes, including Sting, Dave Matthews, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, Stevie Wonder, The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs, Jonas Brothers, Brad Paisley, Eric Church and Billy Porter. Simon also performed at the tribute and was introduced to the crowd by Oprah Winfrey.

In addition to Oprah, the two-hour concert features special appearances by Elton John, Sofia Carson, Herbie Hancock, Woody Harrelson and Dustin Hoffman.

Kendrick Lamar named headliner of Montreal’s Osheaga Festival

December 14, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Kendrick Lamar‘s secured another headlining performance for 2023. The rapper is now slated to perform on the final night of Montreal’s Osheaga Festival.

The three-day event will go down on August 4-6 at Parc Jean-Drapeau. Australian group Rüfüs Du Sol will headline the first night, and Billie Eilish will take the stage the following night.

This will be the second time Kendrick headlines the event. He’s also expected to headline Rolling Loud Rotterdam 2023, the Primavera Sound festival and the Open’er Festival next year.

Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot & Pantera headlining 2023 Welcome to Rockville festival

December 14, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot and the reformed Pantera will headline the 2023 Welcome to Rockville festival, taking place May 18-21 in Daytona Beach, Florida.

The bill also includes Deftones, Godsmack, Evanescence, Rob Zombie, Queens of the Stone Age, Alice Cooper, Incubus, The Mars Volta, Chevelle, I Prevail, Puscifer, Trivium, Motionless in White, Alter Bridge and Coheed and Cambria, among many others.

“We are so excited to be bringing this fantastic lineup to Welcome to Rockville,” says Danny Wimmer, founder of festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents. “Our fans have been wanting Pantera and along with one of Avenged Sevenfold’s first live shows in five years, crowd favorite Slipknot, AND one of the greatest rock bands of all time, Tool, we are delivering a jam-packed weekend to the ‘The World Center of Rock.'”

For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit WelcometoRockville.com.

Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop” is officially certified Diamond

December 14, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Lil Wayne‘s “Lollipop” is officially in the Diamond club.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, the single featuring Static Major has earned 10 million sales and streaming equivalents, becoming the rapper’s first Diamond song to date.

“Lollipop” released in 2008 and was one of 16 tracks on Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III album. It sat atop the Billboard Hot 100 for five nonconsecutive weeks following its release and won a Grammy for Best Rap Song in 2009.

Recently, the hit resurfaced on TikTok, peaking at #1 on the U.S. Top Tracks and #2 on the Viral chart.

Iman doesn’t want you calling David Bowie her “late” husband

December 14, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NOTE LANGUAGE) David Bowie’s wife, supermodel Iman, graces the cover of January’s British Vogue and while the rocker died of cancer in 2016, Iman cautions anyone from referring to him as her late husband.

“He is not my ‘late husband.’ He is my husband,” she tells the mag. “I don’t mind at all being referred to as ‘David Bowie’s wife.’” But, Iman says she and the rocker made it a point to remind people she was more than just married to him. “He never introduced me by saying, ‘Meet my wife.’ He’d always say, ‘Meet Iman, my wife,'” she says. “So we both already had our own identity. We were separate but together.”

Iman shares that it was hard to grieve the loss of her husband because of all the media attention surrounding Bowie’s death. She noted she and her daughter were very private and it all got to be “too much,” so they eventually had to leave their New York home “because the public were always at the front door.”

She says that while she understood all the attention his death received, “there was a point where it was like: ‘OK, go home now.’” Iman explains, “You had people who would take your picture, sell it and then come to you and say, ‘I feel your pain,’” adding, “And, I’m like, ‘No, b****, you don’t feel my pain, get away from me.’”

K. Michelle announces tour supporting final R&B album

December 14, 2022 by WDNY Radio

K. Michelle wants to celebrate the release of her final R&B album with fans across the U.S., so she’s hitting the road with her just-announced trek.

Titled the I’m the Problem Tour, the outing will see the singer traverse to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, her native Memphis and some not-yet-announced cities, where she’ll sing songs off her album. Concertgoers will also be treated to an introduction to her alter-ego, Puddin’, who will entertain fans with performances of her unreleased country music.

K. Michelle’s I’m the Problem Tour is named after the R&B album it supports. The project, she explains in a statement, will give fans “the K Michelle that they remember and grew to love to the one now.”

“It shows growth, but it shows the same honesty,” she continued, “and it shows the topics and things that they come to me for as an artist. I have to be honest.”

The release date for I’m the Problem is currently unknown. As for the tour, tickets for the Q&A VIP experience and Standard Meet & Greet are available on kmichellevip.com/

Elton John named StubHub’s Top Global Touring Artist of 2022

December 14, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Well, there’s no doubt Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour is one of the hottest shows out there, and it’s earned Elton yet another honor.

StubHub is out with its 2022 Year In Live Experiences report and, thanks to the tour, which wrapped in the U.S. in November, Elton earns the honor of Top Global Touring Artist of the Year. He beats out Harry Styles for the top spot, with a third British act, Coldplay, landing at three. The rankings are based on cumulative ticket sales on StubHub North America and Viagogo international marketplaces over the past year.

Bad Bunny lands in the number four spot, with veteran rockers Mötley Crüe rounding out the top 5, thanks to their big stadium tour with Def Leppard.

StubHub’s Top Global Touring Artists of 2022

Elton John
Harry Styles
Coldplay
Bad Bunny
Mötley Crüe
Morgan Wallen
Billie Eilish
Garth Brooks
Adele
Justin Bieber

Taylor Swift spends birthday in the studio: “I wouldn’t have it any other way”

December 14, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Taylor Swift took to Instagram to thank her fans for remembering her birthday, which was Tuesday, December 13.

Taylor posted a photo of herself and her musical collaborator Jack Antonoff in a room surrounded by various musical instruments, including a double bass across her lap. She captioned the pic, “Thanks for all the beautiful wishes today!! I spent my 33rd birthday in the studio of course. Wouldn’t have it any other way. Love you!”

Does the fact that Taylor is in the studio mean that even more music is coming from the increasingly prolific artist? She recently told Variety, “I’m making more albums at a more rapid pace than I ever did before, because I think the more art you create, hopefully the less pressure you put on yourself. I’m happier when I’m making things more often.”

Meanwhile, New York City’s iconic Empire State Building saluted Taylor on its TikTok page, creating a montage of videos showing the building lit up in different colors, each one soundtracked to a different Taylor song from each of her albums. For example, Speak Now was purple, Red was, of course, red, 1989 was blue, Reputation was green, Lover was pink and folklore was white.

The caption reads, “Happy Birthday to the Music Industry herself.” In the comments, the “building” wrote, “‘Welcome to New York’ was actually written about me.”

Sheryl Crow releases live performance to mark 10 years since Sandy Hook shooting

December 14, 2022 by WDNY Radio

In 2017, Sheryl Crow released a song called “The Dreaming Kind” to benefit Sandy Hook Promise, a charity that was established after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Sheryl has just released another song benefiting the charity to mark the 10th anniversary of the shooting.

Sheryl recorded the track, a live version of “I Shall Believe,” from her debut album, at a benefit in Nashville last month with the Promise Band, led by Mark Barden, the co-CEO of Sandy Hook Promise. The charity educates and empowers youth and adults to prevent violence in schools, homes and communities.

The Nashville performance will be part of a 2023 documentary called A Father’s Promise, which is about how Barden co-founded Sandy Hook Promise after losing his son Daniel in the shooting and how he rediscovered his passion for music.

Sheryl has also teamed up with the social giving app Cauze, which has offered to match the first $50,000 in donations to Sandy Hook Promise. You can donate online now.

On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twenty were students between the ages of 6 and 7; six were adult staff members. It was the deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school in U.S. history.

Megan Thee Stallion testifies about alleged shooting in Tory Lanez trial: “I felt shocked”

December 14, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Megan Thee Stallion took the witness stand in a Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday, where the hip-hop star recounted the events that led up to the night when she was allegedly shot and injured by rapper Tory Lanez in the Hollywood Hills.

The Grammy-winning artist, whose birth name is Megan Pete, testified that on the night of July 12, 2020, she got out of a car following an argument with Lanez and as she walked away, she turned her head and saw him with a gun, according to a reporter with Los Angeles ABC station KABC, who was in the courtroom.

“He was holding the gun pointing at me,” Megan said, and claimed that he said “dance b****” and fired his gun, injuring both her feet.

“I froze…I felt shocked,” she said. “I wasn’t really sure if this was happening…I looked at the ground and saw the blood…everyone was shocked.”

Megan also alleged that Lanez offered her money to stay quiet, claiming that he apologized to her as police arrived on the scene and said, “Please don’t say anything, I’ll give you $1 million.”

Lanez’s attorneys did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment following Megan’s testimony.

Lanez, born Daystar Peterson, was initially charged in October 2020 with one felony count each of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle, according to charging documents obtained by ABC News.

Lanez was charged last week with an additional felony count of discharging a firearm with gross negligence, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office confirmed to ABC News.

Lanez pleaded not guilty to all three felony counts in the case.

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