Music – Page 305 – 105.7 WDNY

Alice Cooper recruits new guitarist Anna Cara to fill in for Nita Strauss on tour

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Alice Cooper has announced that guitarist Anna Cara will be joining the shock-rocker’s live band for his upcoming tour.

The 22-year-old Cara will be filling in for Nita Strauss, who is expecting her first child.

“Nita found a brilliant British female guitarist to fill in for her while she is on maternity leave,” Cooper says in a statement. “Anna Cara is a beautiful dynamic shredder in the vein of Nita but with a style of her own. She will fit in with our gang perfectly while Nita is away and we can’t wait for the sick things to meet her. Welcome to the show, Anna!”

“This is like a dream come true, to join Alice and his great band,” Cara adds. “Back when I started playing guitar at 14, I was watching Alice Cooper live shows on YouTube dreaming of joining one day! Nita Strauss is a tough act to follow, and she’s been so encouraging to me this past month, so I am looking forward to showing everyone who I am and what I can do.”

Cooper’s tour launches Thursday in Las Vegas.

On This Day, April 2, 1991: Lenny Kravitz releases his sophomore album, ‘Mama Said’

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

On This Day, April 2, 1991 …

Lenny Kravitz released his sophomore album, Mama Said, the follow up to his 1989 debut, Let Love Rule.

Mama Said, which peaked at #39 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, featured the hit single “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over,” which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, making it Kravitz’s first top-10 single, and the highest charting single of his career.

The album also featured the song “Always on the Run,” co-written by Guns ‘N Roses guitarist Slash, who also played on the tune. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

On This Day, April 2, 1991: Lenny Kravitz releases his sophomore album, ‘Mama Said’

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

On This Day, April 2, 1991 …

Lenny Kravitz released his sophomore album, Mama Said, the follow up to his 1989 debut, Let Love Rule.

The album also featured the song “Always on the Run,” co-written by Guns ‘N Roses guitarist Slash, who also played on the tune. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Courtney Love wants Dave Grohl to ‘come out with it and say we’re cool’

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Courtney Love and Dave Grohl have certainly had their issues in the past, but the Hole frontwoman says that they’re now good. Still, she wishes Grohl would say that, too.

“Grohl, come out with it and just say we’re cool,” Love says on the latest episode of Billy Corgan’s The Magnificent Others podcast. “Be man enough to man up.”

She continues, “We’re cool, but you won’t say it because you’re afraid you’ll lose your audience, you’re afraid it’ll affect your relationship with literal Paul McCartney?”

“Dave, it would really behoove me if the straight white males that are your base, if you will, stop picking on me,” Love adds.

Love, of course, was married to Grohl’s Nirvana bandmate, the late Kurt Cobain. Following Cobain’s death in 1994, Love was involved in a legal battle with Grohl and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic over plans to put out unreleased Nirvana music.

Donald Trump responds to Bruce Springsteen, calls for MAGA boycott

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Bruce Springsteen had some choice words for President Donald Trump and his administration during the opening night of his Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour in Minneapolis Tuesday, and now Trump has responded.

During the concert, The Boss noted that America “is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous administration,” asking the audience to choose “hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law over lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption, resistance over complacency, unity over division, and peace over war.”

In his response, Trump took aim at Springsteen’s looks and called for a boycott of his concerts.

“Bad, and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon, has long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS,” Trump wrote on social media Thursday.

He then added, “MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. AMERICA IS BACK!!!”

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band’s Land of Hope and Dreams American tour hits Portland, Oregon, on Friday. It wraps with an outdoor show on May 27 at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. A complete list of dates can be found at BruceSpringsteen.net.

Alleged stalker accused of throwing substance on Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac: Sources

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

A woman who has allegedly been stalking former Fleetwood Mac member Lindsey Buckingham is believed to have thrown an unknown substance on the singer-guitarist before running off, sources told ABC News.

The incident unfolded on Wednesday as Buckingham arrived at an appointment in Santa Monica, California, sources told ABC News.

While Santa Monica police are not commenting, sources said the woman is known to law enforcement from previous incidents.

The Los Angeles Police Department’s Threat Management Unit is taking the lead on the case. The LAPD said in a statement, “To protect the integrity of the open and ongoing investigation, no further comment will be provided, at this time.”

Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac with his then-girlfriend Stevie Nicks in 1975, and the couple became part of Fleetwood’s best-known lineup, along with drummer Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie and singer-keyboardist Christine McVie. Buckingham was a member of the group from 1975 to 1987 and from 1996 to 2018.

‘Say So’ is just the beginning of ‘a lot of new music’ from Dan + Shay

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

If you’ve wondered what’s become of Dan + Shay since they were largely absent from the public eye in 2025, the answer will start to appear Thursday at 11 p.m. CT.

That’s when their new single, “Say So,” arrives.

“We’ve been working on a lot of new music,” Shay Mooney tells ABC Audio. “This is the first time in our entire career that we haven’t done a full tour. You know, we did some private stuff and things like that, but for the most part, we got to spend all of our time in the studio, which is kinda why we forgot to post on social media. We were just kinda working.”

“It was never the intent to fully go away,” he continues. “People were like, ‘Did Dan + Shay, did they break up this time? What happened?’ But we’ve just been in the studio.”

“We’re having more fun than we ever have. And a lot of new music [is] coming out.”

“Say So” is presumably the first taste of the duo’s sixth studio album, the follow-up to 2023’s Bigger Houses. Of course, Shay and Dan Smyers also put out their holiday collection, It’s Officially Christmas: The Double Album, in 2024.

The Temper Trap announces first new album in 10 years, ‘Sungazer’

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The Temper Trap has announced the details of the band’s first album in 10 years.

The “Sweet Disposition” outfit’s long-awaited fourth studio effort, the follow-up to 2016’s Thick as Thieves, is called Sungazer and is due out July 10.

“With time apart and much personal growth from us all, Sungazer feels like it’s captured the most pure
collection of music we’ve ever made,” The Temper Trap says in a statement. “We had more fun making this record and in the writing room than on any of the previous records we’ve done.”

“We’re in a great place creatively and in our friendships, we’re closer than ever,” the band adds. “Being back into the studio together really felt like coming home.”

Sungazer includes the single “Giving Up Air,” which is currently charting on the Billboard Alternative Airplay tally, as well as the released songs “Into the Wild” and “Lucky Dimes.” The title track is also out now.

You can catch The Temper Trap live opening for Muse starting in July.

Shinedown teases upcoming ’EI8HT’ song for Friday

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Shinedown is teasing another new song from the band’s upcoming album, EI8HT.

In a video posted to Facebook, frontman Brent Smith mouths along to a track in which he sings, “Where is the outlaw in you?” Indeed, the EI8HT track list includes a song called “Outlaw.”

The post also includes Friday’s date, April 3.

EI8HT, the follow-up to 2022’s Planet Zero, is due out May 29. It also includes the singles “Dance, Kid, Dance,” “Three Six Five,” “Searchlight,” “Killing Fields,” and “Safe and Sound.”

Shinedown will launch a U.S. tour in May.

Woman credits Harry Styles for funding therapy sessions for complete strangers

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Did you know that Harry Styles has helped send strangers to therapy? Well, sort of.

As People reports, a woman named Elena Kilgore started a line of charity merch in 2021 called Other People Fund, with the goal of using proceeds to pay for therapy sessions for those who can’t afford them. The name comes from the slogan printed on the t-shirts and totes: “I think we should see other people — and by other people, I mean therapists.”

So what does that have to do with Harry? Elena told People that when she was designing the merch with a graphic designer, she described her vision as, “I want it to be something Harry Styles would wear.” That led her to contact his stylist, Harry Lambert, to share the designs, noting the singer has always been pro-therapy.

Soon after, she heard back.

“I had a DM, a message on my website, an email, all of these message,” she said. “It was Harry Lambert and he said, ‘Do you ship to the U.K.? I want to buy a shirt. How do we get a shirt? This is awesome.'”

Elena sent him two shirts and a tote, which Harry was later spotted carrying, bringing attention to the brand. As a result, Elena said, sales went through the roof.

“We did around $40,000 in sales, so Harry like is singularly responsible for hundreds of people being able to go to therapy,” she explained.

According to Elena, all proceeds go toward funding therapy through her nonprofit, Support for the Psyche. Most applicants receive an average of three therapy sessions.

So far, she said the initiative has funded 1,300 sessions through merch sales.

+ More