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Watch animated video for José Feliciano’s new holiday song, “Viva La Navidad”

December 9, 2022 by WDNY Radio

More than 50 years after he first wished the world “Feliz Navidad,” José Feliciano has a new holiday song, and you can watch the animated video for it now.

The upbeat song is called “Viva La Navidad (Long Live Christmas),” and you can find it on the Puerto Rican guitarist’s latest album, Love & Christmas. In the clip, an animated version of Feliciano, 77, is shown riding a sleigh across the world and sing along with a band of snowmen. It’s the first original Christmas song Feliciano has written since “Feliz Navidad.”

In addition to the new holiday song, Love & Christmas includes Feliciano’s takes on classics like Jimi Hendrix‘s “Purple Haze,” the Bee Gees‘ “To Love Somebody” and Michael Jackson‘s “Human Nature.”

Justin Bieber, Madonna, The Weeknd and more named in lawsuit against Bored Ape NFT maker

December 9, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Justin Bieber, Madonna, The Weekend and other big names might be heading to court over their Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs.

The value of these NFTs, which stands for non-fungible token, have crashed following the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, a top platform where users could buy and sell crypto. It filed for bankruptcy last month and NFT prices began to tank.

One example is Justin’s own Bored Ape NFT, which he bought for $1.3 million in January 2022. It is now worth $82,000.

Billboard reports that a lawsuit was launched against Yuga Labs, which created Bored Apes and the cryptocurrency ApeCoin, claiming they artificially inflated the price of their products by “discreetly” paying celebrities to hype them.

The lawsuit says these individuals, such as Justin and Madonna, acted as “a promoter for the Company and solicited sales of Yuga securities to the public.”

“Defendants’ promotional campaign was wildly successful, generating billions of dollars in sales and re-sales,” the lawsuit continues, adding that they used celebrities to trick “investors to purchase these losing investments at drastically inflated prices.”

The lawsuit was filed in a California district court.

Representatives for The Weeknd and Justin have not commented on the lawsuit.

This is just the latest legal filing against the cryptocurrency world following FTX’s collapse.

Gwen Stefani and Sheryl Crow will drink and throw axes on Monday night’s ‘Barmageddon’

December 9, 2022 by WDNY Radio

If you ever wondered what would happen if Gwen Stefani drank alcohol and threw axes with Sheryl Crow, you’ll find out during Monday night’s episode of Barmageddon.

A teaser was posted of the episode, which will see the two industry giants squaring off in a series of silly bar games. The featured clip shows Gwen and Sheryl competing in a game dubbed “Drunken Axe Hole,” but it appears only one of these ladies has any ax-throwing experience.

Hint: it’s not Gwen.

Gwen confesses to her lack of skill and sheepishly tells Sheryl while holding up an ax, “I feel like you’re probably more experienced with one of these than I am.”

“I’ve used one of those a couple of two, three times,” the ’90s icon shrugs.

Gwen also laughs at a joke she’s married to a “Drunken Axe Hole” aka Blake Shelton, who just so happens to be standing in the audience. Despite Blake being there for moral support, Gwen misses the target entirely.

That gives a needed confidence boost for Sheryl, who saunters up to the range and proclaims she’s “feeling pretty good.” Her first throw lands in the bull’s-eye.

“Something came out,” Sheryl says of her accuracy. “When I had the ax in my hand, just something came out. I think it was always in there!”

Find out how well Gwen and Sheryl stack up against each other when their episode of Barmageddon airs Monday at 11 p.m. ET on USA Network.

Listen to new songs from Atreyu & Zero 9:36

December 9, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Collaborators Atreyu and Zero 9:36 have both released new music Friday.

Atreyu has teamed up with DJ and producer Kayzo for a new track called “Depression Season.” It’s the second time the two artists have worked together, following 2020’s “Battle Drums.”

“Meeting and working with Kayzo was so effortless,” says Atreyu vocalist Brandon Saller. “Our first collaboration, ‘Battle Drums,’ then belonged to the world and did more organically than either camp had imagined. It only made sense for us to embark on Round 2. ‘Depression Season’ is completely a different and fresh take on what people might expect from an Atreyu and Kayzo mashup!”

You can listen to “Depression Season” now via digital outlets.

Meanwhile, Zero 9:36 has dropped a standalone single titled “Stuck in My Ways.”

“I think it’s important to keep moving, aiming high, while holding on to what you have and realizing you can change for the better at the same time,” the “Adrenaline” artist says.

“Stuck in My Ways” is also out now on digital outlets.

Atreyu and Zero 9:36 previously linked up this year on the song “Break” and on a 2021 remix of Atreyu’s Travis Barker collaboration “Warrior.”

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Terrence Howard reiterates plans to retire: “This is the end for me”

December 9, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Terrence Howard‘s starring role in The Best Man: The Final Chapters may possibly be his last hurrah in Hollywood.

During a red carpet event for the upcoming Peacock series, he told Entertainment Tonight that the show marks the end of his acting career. “This is the end for me. I don’t know if it’s the end for the rest of them,” he said. “I retired two years ago, for the most part. I was done. … I asked Sidney Poitier 10 years ago does he want to do any more work, and he said, ‘Why would I spend my last 10 years doing an impersonation of myself?’ And that’s what I’ve gotten to.”

“I’ve gotten to the point where now I’ve given the very best that I have as an actor,” Howard continued. “Now I’m enjoying watching other new talent come around, and I don’t want to do an impersonation of myself.”

He added that he’s ready to hand over the reins to the next generation, which includes “better actors out there that can do things that I was never able to do.” “I want to applaud them. I want to be excited about what they do,” he said.

As Howard mentioned, he previously announced his plans to retire in 2019. Back then, he said he’d done his time and was “running away as quickly as possible” following the series finale of Empire.

He’s since appeared in projects including the 2021 drama Triumph, 2022’s The Walk and, of course, the forthcoming Best Man series.

Parker McCollum’s got new music on the way — but he’s still workshopping album titles

December 9, 2022 by WDNY Radio

With the release of his latest song, “Stoned,” Parker McCollum is kicking off a new musical chapter, but he says he’s still figuring out some of the key details.

For example, the title of his next record is a big question mark, he explains in a new interview with Today’s Country Radio With Kelleigh Bannen on Apple Music Country.

“I honestly haven’t even thought of a title for the record,” Parker says, “which is something that’s been bugging me a lot lately. I was wanting to name the whole tour next year after the record and they were announcing the tour.”

But when it came time to make that announcement, Parker’s next album was still nameless. “I’m like, ‘I don’t know, just call it the Spring Tour, the Summer Tour, the Fall Tour,’” he adds.

In fact, Parker’s still in the early stages of putting together a track list.

“I have two sets of track listings right now,” he says. “This order of songs, I’m down to two, and I haven’t even sat down and listened to those two and felt what they feel like top to bottom.”

Tickets for Parker’s headlining tour, set to kick off early in 2023, are on sale now.

New R. Kelly album released, later removed from streaming services

December 9, 2022 by WDNY Radio

A new R. Kelly album appeared on streaming services Friday, but was removed shortly after its release, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The project, titled I Admit It, included songs that date back to 2018. It’s gone viral for the title track, in which he seemingly comes cleans about his sexcapades, blames the parents of his alleged victims and questions why people say he doesn’t respect women.

It’s unclear who dropped the album, which was temporarily available on Spotify and Apple Music. Legacy Recordings, the Sony label listed on the digital platforms for the album, had no comment for The Hollywood Reporter or the New York Post, while a Sony Music insider claims the project that dropped was a bootleg version.

R. Kelly is currently behind bars at the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center on federal sex crimes. He’s serving a 30-year sentence after a New York court convicted him of racketeering and sex trafficking. He was also convicted of child pornography charges in Chicago.

For those about to read: AC/DC book coming to mark band’s 50th anniversary in 2023

December 9, 2022 by WDNY Radio

AC/DC will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2023, and in honor of the occasion, an officially licensed book on the band is on its way.

AC/DC: 50 Years Of High Voltage Rock ‘N’ Roll will arrive at some point next year from Rufus Publications. Right now there’s only a teaser video for the book, so it’s not clear if it’ll be a band biography, a photo collection or both. The company describes it only as “something very special.”

AC/DC was formed in November 1973 by Malcom and Angus Young, bass player Larry Van Kriedt, singer Dave Evans and drummer Collin Burgess. In 1974, Bon Scott replaced Evans as vocalist and they released their first album, High Voltage. The band’s big U.S. breakthrough didn’t come until 1980’s Back In Black, released with new singer Brian Johnson following Scott’s death, became their all-time best-selling album.

AC/DC’s most recent album, 2020’s Power Up, hit number one on the Billboard 200 album chart and earned the band three Grammys.

Mod Sun releases new song “SEXOXO” off upcoming ‘God Save the Teen’ album

December 9, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Mod Sun has released a new song called “SEXOXO,” a track off his upcoming album, God Save the Teen.

“SEXOXO” features guest vocals by Charlotte Sands, who’s previously collaborated with artists including Taking Back Sunday, The Maine, Sleeping with Sirens and Underoath.

“For me, every great song has a haunting quality,” Mod says. “A place where past and present can live together. The lyrics of ‘SEXOXO’ are just that…moving on, starting again, happiness, sadness, fear, and excitement. It’s all there.”

You can listen to “SEXOXO” now via digital outlets.

God Save the Teen, which also features the previously released songs “Perfectly Imperfect,” “Rich Kids Ruin Everything” and “Battle Scars,” arrives February 3. It’s the follow-up to 2021’s Internet Killed the Rockstar, which spawned the hit Avril Lavigne collaboration, “Flames.”

Mod will launch a U.S. tour in support of God Save the Teen in February.

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Steppenwolf box set ‘The Epic Years 1974-1976’ due in January

December 9, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Steppenwolf was formed in 1967 and after scoring massive hits like “Born to Be Wild,” “Magic Carpet Ride” and “Rock Me,” broke up in 1972. The band reformed in 1974 and then split again two years later — and it’s that second era that is now being collected in a new box set slated for release on January 27.

The Epic Years 1974-1976 gathers together the three albums Steppenwolf recorded for the Epic label: Slow Flux, Hour of the Wolf and Skullduggery. 1974′s Slow Flux contained Steppenwolf’s final U.S. top-40 hit, “Straight Shootin’ Woman.”

When the 1975 follow-up, Hour of the Wolf, barely made the charts, frontman John Kay tried to break up the group, but the label demanded the band fulfill its contractual obligation with one more album. Skullduggery came out in 1976, and later that year, Kay announced on TV that the band was splitting up.

In addition to those three albums, the box set also includes two rare bonus tracks: a mono promotional single mix of “Caroline (Are You Ready for the Outlaw World),” from Hour of the Wolf, and that single’s B-side, “Angeldrawers.”

You can preorder the box set now at Cherryred.co.uk.

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