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Kenny Chesney doesn’t let onstage injury stop him from singing

June 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Kenny Chesney sustained an injury during a show, but he didn’t let that stop the music.

Over the weekend, Kenny was entertaining a crowd of more than 55,000 fans at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia when he cut his finger on stage during a performance of “American Kids.” But the multi-time CMA Entertainer of the Year continued to play even as his finger was being treated by one of his crew members.

Fan footage of the incident shows the crew member putting a bandage around the singer’s pinky finger, his hand covered in blood from the cut. Despite the chaos, Kenny continues to sing and doesn’t miss a word of the hit song, one hand on the mic while the other is being tended to.

In a statement shared after the show, Kenny says it was only a matter of getting the right tape on his finger to stop the bleeding.

“There was no way I was breaking the momentum of that song. We were in it, and I wasn’t going to stop,” he expresses. “We know how to roll with whatever happens.”

The superstar continues on his stadium-headlining Here and Now Tour through the end of August.

Beyoncé to drop new single, “Break My Soul,” at midnight

June 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Beyoncé‘s newest single, “Break My Heart,” is expected to drop at midnight ET, per the singer’s updated social media accounts.

News of the release comes after the Grammy-winning artist changed her Instagram and Twitter bios to read, “6. BREAK MY SOUL midnight ET,” and only a few days after she announced her forthcoming seventh studio album, Renaissance. The long-awaited projected, which is expected July 29, will feature both dance and country tracks, according to Variety, with contributions from Raphael Saadiq, who executive-produced Beyoncé’s sister Solange Knowles‘ 2016 album, A Seat at the Table, as well as Ryan Tedder who co-wrote Beyoncé’s 2008 hit, “Halo.”

Renaissance will be Beyoncé’s first solo studio album since her 2016 award-winning project, Lemonade. It also follows the critically acclaimed Homecoming, the live album of her 2018 Coachella headlining performance.

Upon the Renaissance announcement last Thursday, fans immediately speculated it would be a multi-part album, considering the information shown on her official website and merchandise which reads “act i.”

Bey also covers British Vogue, which got an early listen to the album. While there are no quotes from the star in the article posted online, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Edward Enninful, writes of Beyoncé, “The creation [of the album] has been a long process, she explains, with the pandemic giving her far longer to spend thinking and rethinking every decision. Just the way she likes it.”

Zombies members recovering from “relatively mild” COVID cases; band delays start of North American tour

June 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The Zombies have revealed that their two main members — co-founding singer Colin Blunstone and keyboardist Rod Argent — both contracted the COVID-19 virus about three weeks ago. The band has since decided to cancel the first two dates of its new North American summer tour.

The shows had been scheduled for June 21 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, and June 22 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

A note posted on The Zombies’ Facebook page explains, “[Blunstone’s and Argent’s] cases were relatively mild, and they were determined to recover in time for the tour. Frustratingly, although both felt well enough to go forward, Rod was still showing a faint positive the day before their flight from London to Toronto. Out of concern for everyone’s health and safety, we decided it was best to give them a few extra days recuperation at home, and delay the start of the tour.”

The new leg of the band’s 2022 Life Is a Merry-Go-Round Tour is now scheduled to begin with their concert this Friday, June 24 in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.

The message adds, “We are making every effort to reschedule the Ontario shows, and will announce more information soon. Refund requests can also be made at your point of purchase. Our thanks to all the fans in Ontario for your understanding.”

The trek is mapped out through a July 28-30 engagement in Park City, Utah. You can check out the British Invasion band’s full schedule at TheZombiesMusic.com.

Pennyroyal Flush: ’In Utero’ producer Steve Albini wins second World Series of Poker bracelet

June 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Steve Albini just added to his lifetime poker winnings in a big way.

The acclaimed producer and engineer, perhaps best known for his work on Nirvana‘s 1993 album, In Utero, won the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event at the 2022 World Series of Poker over the weekend.

The win, which as all WSoP events do, comes with a gold bracelet as well as a prize of roughly $196,000.

Albini now has two WSoP bracelets to his name following his win at the $1,500 Seven Card Stud tournament in 2018.

“The first one felt like a fluke,” Albini tells WSoP.com. “This one also felt like a fluke. I was all-in a million times in this tournament.”

“In the Stud tournament, the bracelet that I won in 2018, I was never all-in in that tournament,” he adds. “I was never short of chips. But it still felt like I kind of fluked it because I beat a table full of really great players that I didn’t expect to beat. This time it felt like a fluke because I was so short on chips so often, and I kept getting all in, and I kept surviving.”

Perhaps Albini will use his new earnings to produce that Dolly Parton rock album.

Taylor Swift’s latest awards show speech has some fans convinced re-recorded ‘1989’ is on the way

June 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Could Taylor Swift be readying the “Taylor’s Version” release of 1989?

The Grammy winner raised some eyebrows at the Las Culturistas Culture Awards on Saturday. The award show is hosted by comedians Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers and based on their comedy podcast of the same name.

Taylor made a surprise appearance at the ceremony when receiving the awards for “Best Taylor Swift” and “Best Tayla Swiff,” which Rogers explained is the terminology the podcast uses for her “vixen” alter ego. Taylor’s cookie baking won the first award, while her mashup of her songs “Wildest Dreams” and “Enchanted” during the 1989 Tour took home the second honor.

Pop Crave reports fans took notice of a peculiar message written on a chalkboard in Taylor’s first acceptance speech, which reads “1989 secret session Nashville” with four stars drawn on it. There were other Easter eggs hidden in the speech, with one fan pointing out on Twitter, “Blue vest, 1989 era bangs, obvious shorter hair (despite it being tied back), 1989 SS wall thing, lifting the tray out of the oven in the same way/filmed on the same angle as in the 1989 SS video, Wildest Dreams mention… 1989 TV is coming.”

Also during the pre-recorded speech, Taylor walks toward her oven to show off her latest batch of cookies. Noting she “worked hard on” them, she pulls out a glass of white wine and says she is “going to enjoy it now.”

In her second pre-recorded message, the “Willow” singer jokes, “Finally! Somebody spelled my name right, which is T-A-Y-L-A, S-W-I-F-F.”

It is unknown when or if 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is coming. Details about the Nashville secret session are also unknown at this time.

Brett Eldredge on healthy habits that keep mental health in check while on tour

June 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Brett Eldredge is heading out on tour this summer in support of his new album, Songs About You. But over the years, the singer has learned that stress and anxiety can impact his ability to perform.

“I’ve felt broken at time where I couldn’t even get on stage, hardly,” he tells Billboard. “I had to sit down on stage ‘cause I lost my breath or maybe I was having a panic attack in the middle of an interview.”

Over the years, Brett’s been open about his mental health journey, and he’s realized that he’s far from alone. For example, Brothers Osborne’s John Osborne recently spoke about a period of severe depression he went through before the duo put out their Skeletons album. In fact, that’s something that Brett says he and John have bonded over.

“He and I have talked about it through the years,” the singer says. “And I have talked about that in writing sessions, even with strangers.”

An important part of Brett’s mental health care regimen is therapy, and he says he’ll continue to do therapy sessions over Zoom while he’s on tour. Plus, he says, he’s set hard and fast rules about how he uses social media.

“I lock myself out. I can’t look at my phone until 9 o’clock in the morning, and I can’t be on it after 8:30 p.m.,” he continues. “And I only have social media for like an hour and a half, all platforms. So if I want to use those platforms to tell my story, I have to be mindful of how I use it.”

Tickets for Brett’s Songs About You Tour are on sale now.

Happy 80th Birthday to Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson!

June 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Here’s sending out good vibrations to founding Beach Boys singer and songwriter Brian Wilson, who celebrates his 80th birthday today (June 20).

Wilson wrote the music to nearly all of his famous band’s best-known songs, from the Southern California group’s early surf-rock classics to their complex, multilayered recordings of the mid-1960s and beyond.

Among The Beach Boys’ classic early hits are “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” “Surfer Girl,” “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “I Get Around,” “Help Me, Rhonda” and “California Girls.”

With his impressive gift for vocal harmonies and musical arrangements, Wilson helped craft one of the most celebrated albums of all time, The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, as well as the equally lauded follow-up single “Good Vibrations,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in December ’66.

In 1998, Pet Sounds was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and in 2020, it was ranked at #2 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”

Brian’s many career achievements include induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with The Beach Boys in 1988, induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000, being saluted as the MusiCares Person of the Year in 2005, and being recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007.

Wilson’s most recent album with The Beach Boys, That’s Why God Made the Radio, was released in 2012, coinciding with the band’s 50th anniversary. In recent years, he’s focused on his solo career. His latest studio album, At My Piano, was released in November 2021 and features solo piano versions of many classic Beach Boys songs.

Brian also was the subject of the 2021 documentary Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, which features new interviews with Wilson as well as with Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, co-founding Beach Boys member Al Jardine, pop star Nick Jonas and more.

Wilson continues to tour with his solo band, which features Jardine and one-time Beach Boys singer/guitarist Blondie Chaplin. They recently launched a co-headlining trek with Chicago.

A headlining Tim McGraw set, fireworks + more: Looking ahead to the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix

June 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The Big Machine Music City Grand Prix will once again descend upon Nashville this August, bringing with it lots of opportunities for country fans to enjoy summer fun.

Tim McGraw is playing a headlining set on Friday, with the event’s Freedom Friday concert warming things up the day before. Plus, the Grand Ole Opry is once again mounting a post-race showcase, which will take place in downtown Nashville on August 7.

In addition to all the racing fun, fans will be able to cool off with the Pro WaterCross Tour. The first-ever Nashville Invitational will bring jet skis to the city’s Cumberland River, reaching speeds of up to 85 mph during the race.

An array of Super Trucks will also be featured during the event, and the Saturday night festivities will conclude with an epic fireworks display.

Tickets to the weekend festivities — including a three-day pass — are on sale now. The Big Machine Music City Grand Prix runs from August 5-7.

New Def Leppard coffee-table book, ‘Definitely,’ due out soon; band posts recap video of tour kickoff

June 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

A new Def Leppard coffee-table book titled Definitely: The Official Story of Def Leppard is expected to be released in the coming months by Genesis Publications.

According to a synopsis posted at Genesis-Publications.com, the book will offer “the most personal and comprehensive record of Def Leppard’s history to date,” and will feature personal recollections from the band’s members as well as rare photos and memorabilia from Def Leppard’s archives.

Among the interesting ephemera featured in the book will be handwritten letters, rare vinyl discs, tour memorabilia, press clippings, music video storyboards and more.

Definitely will be available as a signed, limited-edition book-and-album set from Genesis Publications. You can register at the publishing company’s website to receive more information.

In other news, Def Leppard has posted a video on its YouTube channel featuring a recap of the band’s first gig on The Stadium Tour with Mötley Crüe, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, which took place Thursday, June 16, in Atlanta.

The clip featured footage from the rain-drenched show and post-gig comments from singer Joe Elliott and guitarist Phil Collen.

In the video, Elliot described the concert as “the wettest gig” his band has done since 1986.

“It rained all night long, but the crowd stuck with us,” Joe notes. “Nobody left, nobody moaned.

Collen adds, “Amazing! Everything that could have gone wrong did. We had kind of like a hurricane storm…coming through. It was just drenched. The drums went off at one point, we carried on like nothing had happened.”

The tour has since stopped in the Miami area on Saturday and Orlando, Florida, on Sunday. The next show is scheduled for Wednesday, June 22, in Washington, D.C.

Ex-Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter releases debut solo album, ‘Speed of Heat’

June 17, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Former Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter released his first solo album, Speed of Heat, Friday.

The 12-track collection features a mix of original tunes and select covers. Among the latter are versions of the Steely Dan classics “My Old School” and “Do It Again,” and of the 1960 instrumental “Apache” that was popularized by The Shadows.

The album features Baxter singing lead on some tracks, as well as some guest vocalists and musicians, including his one-time Doobie Brothers bandmate Michael McDonald, country star Clint Black and blues rocker Jonny Lang.

Baxter’s main collaborator on Speed of Heat was veteran producer, composer and keyboardist CJ Vanston.

Toto‘s David Paich contributes keyboards to Jeff’s cover of “My Old School.” Speed of Heat also includes a song called “My Place in the Sun” that Baxter co-wrote with Vanston and McDonald, and features Michael on vocals. Lang co-write, sings and plays guitar on a tune titled “I Can Do Without,” while Black sings on and co-wrote the song “Bad Move.”

“This is something very new for me, never having focused time and energy on creating a solo project before,” says Baxter about Speed of Heat. “It was a lot of fun and very satisfying to be doing something for myself, as opposed to being a hired gun, (not that I don’t enjoy studio work, producing and playing live with other folks. That will never change!).”

Meanwhile, Baxter is planning to announce a West Coast tour in support of the album soon.

Here’s the full Speed of Heat track list:

“Ladies from Hell”
“My Old School”
“Juliet”
“I Can Do Without”
“Do It Again”
“Apache”
“My Place in the Sun”
“The Rose”
“Bad Move”
“Giselle”
“Insecurity”
“Speed of Heat”

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