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The Smashing Pumpkins announce new 33-track, three-act “rock opera” album, ‘Atum’

September 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The Smashing Pumpkins are coming back in a big way.

The alt-rock vets — now consisting of original members Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin, plus longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder — have announced a new album called Atum, a 33-track, three-act “rock opera” described as the sequel to the Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and Machina/Machine of God albums.

Your first preview of Atum is the song “Beguiled,” which is available now via digital outlets. The “Beguiled” video premieres Tuesday at 12:33 p.m. ET on YouTube, and you can catch the Pumpkins perform the track on NBC’s The Tonight Show this Friday.

Atum, the follow-up to 2020’s Cyr, will be released in three parts, with Act 1 dropping November 15. Acts 2 and 3 will follow in 2023 on January 31 and April 21, respectively.

Along the way, Corgan will be breaking down each song off of Atum on his new podcast, Thirty-Three with William Patrick Corgan. The first two episodes are out now.

If that’s not enough Smashing Pumpkins for you, a vinyl box set edition of Atum will be available on April 21 with 10 more bonus tracks.

Meanwhile, you can also catch The Smashing Pumpkins on the road on their Spirits on Fire tour alongside Jane’s Addiction. The outing launches October 2 in Dallas, Texas.

Taylor Swift gets her own Spotify “Written By” page — but without songs from early albums

September 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Taylor Swift has been honored with her own “Written by Taylor Swift” Songwriter page on Spotify, but some of her most popular songs are missing.

As Billboard notes, the albums that Taylor hasn’t re-recorded yet aren’t included on the playlist. So while you’ll get the “Taylor’s Version” of songs from Red and Fearless, plus all the songs from Lover, evermore and folklore, there aren’t any songs on there — yet — from albums like Speak Now, 1989 or Reputation.

On the other hand, the playlist gathers some of the songs that Taylor wrote for other artists and for movie soundtracks in one place. Those include “Babe,”recorded by the country duo Sugarland; “Renegade,” recorded by the duo Big Red Machine; “Crazier” and “You’ll Always Find Your Way Back Home” from Hannah Montana: The Movie; “Sweeter than Fiction” from One Chance; “Eyes Open” from The Hunger Games; “Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing and “Only the Young” from her documentary Miss Americana.

However, the playlist doesn’t feature Taylor’s other Hunger Games song “Safe & Sound” nor does it include “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” from 50 Shades Darker or “Beautiful Ghosts” from CATS.

Taylor’s one of several stars who have their own “Written By” pages on Spotify. Others include Mariah Carey, Elton John, Sia, Carole King, Bruce Springsteen, Meghan Trainor, Joni Mitchell and Pharrell Wiliams.

Tuesday, Taylor will be honored as Songwriter/Artist of the Decade by the Nashville Songwriters Association International in Nashville, TN.

GAYLE cancels Avoiding College fall tour, is “still learning how to be an adult”

September 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

GAYLE is Avoiding Touring.

The teen singer has canceled her Avoiding College fall tour, which was to have kicked off October 8. On her Instagram Story, she wrote, “Hey everyone, I am cancelling my tour that starts next month. Thank you to everyone that bought tickets. It really does mean the world to me. You’ll get a refund and I hope to see you at these shows next year.”

As for why she’s calling off the tour, the “abcdefu” singer wrote, “I’m learning how to be an adult and how best to do this new life. I love it so much and I’m trying to do it the best way I can.”

GAYLE notes that she’ll still play the festivals for which she’s already booked, which include Austin City Limits on October 7 and the Breakaway Festival in North Carolina on October 1. She also and teases that she’s “working on new music.”

She ends her message by saying, “I’m still definitely not going to college :).”

The singer’s new EP, A Study of the Human Experience Volume Two, is due out October 7.

Gabby Barrett and husband Cade Foehner jet off to the Bahamas

September 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Gabby Barrett and husband Cade Foehner recently got some rest and relaxation in the Bahamas.

The couple jetted off to the tropical location for a babymoon, with the singer posting photos of a white sandy beach with turquoise blue water, along with a snap of the couple all smiles after a day at the beach.

“Took a little trip to the Bahamas. What a beautiful place! Clearest water I’ve ever seen, and some of the kindest people!” the “I Hope” hitmaker writes. “We definitely got crispy out in the sun..But headed home with full hearts & praising God for beautiful creation we get to witness everyday.”

The couple is expecting their second child, a boy, this year. They welcomed daughter Baylah in January 2021.

Kravis forever: Travis Barker & Kourtney Kardashian call themselves by couple nickname

September 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian are officially fans of their celebrity couple name.

Speaking with E! News, the reality star says she “love[s] the name Kravis,” which fans have been using to refer to her and the Blink-182 drummer since they publicly announced their relationship in 2021.

“We refer to each other as Kravis sometimes,” Kardashian shares.

Kardashian does add that she’s confused about why she and Barker were dubbed Kravis instead of her younger sister Kylie Jenner and rapper Travis Scott, who started dating before them.

“Travis said to me the other day, ‘Is Kylie and Travis’ name Kravis also?'” Kardashian shares. “And I’m like, ‘No …’ But why wasn’t it? ‘Cause they were before us.”

She adds, “There will never be another Kravis.”

Barker and Kardashian got married earlier this year across multiple ceremonies. The honeymoon period was briefly interrupted when Barker was hospitalized in July with “severe, life-threatening pancreatitis.” Barker has since been released from the hospital and is back to performing, including playing alongside Foo Fighters at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert earlier this month.

Usher remembers how Janet Jackson taught him “how to be a great headliner”

September 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Usher celebrated the 25th anniversary of his seven-times Platinum My Way album on Friday by releasing a special edition that includes “reimagined versions” of the album’s three monster hits: “My Way,” “Nice & Slow” and “You Make Me Wanna…”

As the eight-time Grammy winner reminisced about the phenomenal success of the original album in 1997, he remembered it led to him opening for Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope tour in 1998 and ’99.

“[She] taught me how to be a great headliner,” Usher told Complex of the ”Rhythm Nation” superstar.
“Anything I wanted to have onstage she made sure that I had, she didn’t cut my sound short, which a lot of times, you know, artists will do that. They won’t give you the full range of the entire speaker system, because they save it for themselves,” the “U Remind Me” singer continued.

“She showed me that, yo, if the show is great, people gonna remember the whole experience. People, ‘til this day, come to me and say, ‘Yo man, it was one of the greatest performances that I ever saw and I didn’t even know who you were. I’m there waiting to see Janet Jackson, and here you go walk out on this stage … This kid who really made me a fan,’” Usher fondly remembered. “That’s what makes me happy when I know I can earn it.”

Usher has taken what he learned from Janet and is “earning it” during his Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM, which he recently extended through July 2023.

Neal Schon reveals Journey’s 2023 tour plans with Toto, talks potential shows with Santana

September 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Journey guitarist Neal Schon recently shared some details about his band’s concrete and potential touring plans for 2023 and beyond during pro wrestler/rock singer Chris Jericho‘s Talk Is Jericho podcast and in a separate interview with ABC Audio.

In July, Journey announced that four North American concerts that were postponed earlier this year had been moved to March 2023 and that their Freedom Tour 2022 support act Toto would be opening the rescheduled shows.

Schon revealed to Jericho that the makeup shows will be part of a full 2023 tour leg featuring Toto that will kick off in February and will include about 40 dates.

“[W]e’re gonna do the secondary markets in the United States and do some of the main markets that we didn’t hit this last time,” Neal explained.

He added that, after taking “a little break,” Journey and Toto will head to Europe and Japan, noting that Journey would open for Toto in Europe, where the latter group is more popular.

Meanwhile, Schon revealed to ABC Audio that he hoped to schedule a series of U.S. stadium shows in late 2023 that would feature Journey, Toto and Santana.

Neal, who was a member of Santana from 1971 to 1972, noted that with 2023 marking the 50th anniversary of Journey’s formation, “it makes total sense to do something with Carlos [Santana] … because that’s where I came from before I started Journey.”

Schon told ABC Audio that he talks to Carlos multiple times a week, and revealed that Santana wants to play shows with Journey, and that the guitarists have also discussed getting together to collaborate on some new music.

“[There’s] a lot of musical history there,” Neal said. “And of course … we love playing together too.”

Keith Urban formed a deep connection with “Brown Eyes Baby” the first time he heard it

September 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Keith Urban feels an undeniable connection to his new single, “Brown Eyes Baby.”

In order for Keith to record a song that he didn’t write, he has to feel a personal connection to it, like he did the first time he heard “Brown Eyes,” which was co-penned by Morgan Wallen, Josh Thompson, Rodney Clawson and William Bundy.

“If I’m looking for a song that I haven’t written, it’s going to be having a reaction to it that I feel. I know the song, I know this person, I know the scene. [If] the song feels like me, that’s it,” Keith describes of his selection process.

The superstar heard “Brown Eyes Baby” for the first time in January; the song evoked a feeling he couldn’t deny and he instantly “fell in love.”

“It was one of those visceral reactions to a song that sometimes it’s more about the way I feel hearing it than anything else,” he says. “I’m not really analyzing why I like the song, I just loved it. Once I heard it a lot more, I realized it’s everything: it’s the lyric, it’s the melody, it’s the way the song is written. It just connected. It made a connection with me.”

“Brown Eyes Baby” is the third single off Keith’s upcoming album. It’s climbing up the top 40 on U.S. country radio and has peaked inside the top five in his native Australia.

Why Michael Bublé wants everyone to see his tour: “It’s the best show on Earth”

September 20, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Michael Bublé‘s having such a good time on his Higher tour that he’s extended it into the new year: he’ll be visiting Europe starting in January. But it’s no wonder Michael wants everyone to see the tour, since he believes it’s “the best show on Earth.”

“It was always really important for me to give people value for their money. And I really wanted people to have an amazing experience,” Michael tells ABC Audio. “And I wanted people to know that they were going to come and see something that was ambitious and unique and brand new and special.”

That’s why, Michael says, he spent the 2 1/2 years the pandemic sidelined him by going to bed every night and “imagining, thinking, trying to creatively come up with how to take this to another level.”

The result of all that planning? Michael says, “I mean, I don’t know how else to say it without sounding like an egotistical fool — it’s the best show on Earth. I mean, I have the greatest musicians on Earth.”

“It’s a rock show,” he adds. “I mean, it’s like going to see an old-school entertainer but with all the bells and whistles. I mean, it is pyro and confetti and musicianship and explosive drama!”

Michael’s giving fans a chance to win tickets to his Montreal concert on October 18 by teaming up with the charity site Propeller. If you donate at the site, the money will go toward protecting LGBTQ rights through the Human Rights Campaign, The Trevor Project and The Ally Coalition — and the more you donate, the more chances you’ll have to win tickets, plus airfare and hotel.

Daryl Hall adds run of US fall shows to 2022 tour with Todd Rundgren

September 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Daryl Hall has lined up a new series of fall U.S. tour dates with support act Todd Rundgren, with whom the Hall & Oates singer has been playing concerts on and off throughout 2022.

The eight-show run kicks off November 19 in Syracuse, New York, and then heads to the Midwest for concerts mapped out through a December 3 performance in Evansville, Illinois.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, September 23, at 10 a.m. ET, while presale tickets will be available starting Tuesday, September 20, at 10 a.m. local time.

Hall and Rundgren have a previously announced show scheduled for October 1 in Brookville, New York. Tickets for that event are already on sale.

Hall’s dates with Rundgren have been in support of Daryl’s first solo compilation, Before After, which was released in April.

Daryl also has four Hall & Oates concerts scheduled for next month — October 7 in Atlantic City, New Jersey; October 9 in Uncasville, Connecticut; October 20 in Sparks, Nevada; and October 22 in Laughlin, Nevada.

Meanwhile, as previously reported, Rundgren will be taking part in the 2022 Celebrating David Bowie tribute tour, which runs from an October 6 show in San Diego through a November 13 concert in Phoenix. In addition, Todd will release his long-delayed, collaboration-packed album Space Force on October 14.

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