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Spin Doctors, Lenny Kravitz, Blues Traveler featured on ‘NOW’ compilation focusing on ’90s alt-rock

July 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

A new compilation from the NOW That’s What I Call Music folks — which focuses specifically on popular alternative-rock songs from the 1990s — will be released on August 5.

NOW That’s What I Call ’90s Alternative Rock! is an 18-track collection that will be available on CD and digital formats.

The album consists of memorable tunes from many rock acts that emerged in the 1990s, including Spin Doctors‘ “Two Princes,” Lenny Kravitz‘s “Are You Gonna Go My Way,” Blues Traveler‘s “Run Around,” Gin Blossoms‘ “Hey Jealousy” and Blind Melon‘s “No Rain.”

The compilation also features hits from Toad the Wet Sprocket, Third Eye Blind, Sublime, Cake, Len, Tonic, Vertical Horizon, 311 and more.

NOW That’s What I Call ’90s Alternative Rock! can be pre-ordered now.

Here’s the complete track list:

“Are You Gonna Go My Way” — Lenny Kravitz
“My Own Worst Enemy (No S*** Mix)” — Lit
“Inside Out” — Eve 6
“Everything You Want – Vertical Horizon
“If You Could Only See” — Tonic
“Lightning Crashes” — Live
“Interstate Love Song” — Stone Temple Pilots
“No Rain” — Blind Melon
“All I Want” — Toad the Wet Sprocket
“Hey Jealousy” — Gin Blossoms
“Run Around” — Blues Traveler
“The Way” — Fastball
“The Distance” — Cake
“Semi-Charmed Live” (Radio Edit) — Third Eye Blind
“Down” — 311
“Steal My Sunshine” (Single Version) — Len
“Two Princes” — Spin Doctors
“What I Got” — Sublime

Tool’s Justin Chancellor premieres new song with MTVoid project

July 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Tool bassist Justin Chancellor has premiered “Scanner Void,” a new song with his MTVoid side project, which also features Peter Mohamed of the Polish band Sweet Noise.

“Scanner Void” is available now via digital outlets. It’s first single off the duo’s next album, the sophomore follow-up to 2013’s Nothing’s Matter, which is due out later this summer.

“Peter and I really push each other,” Chancellor says. “My playing is a reaction to what he creates. He’ll hit me with a beat, and I’ll spend days recording to it — almost in stream of consciousness. I’ll respond to him, and I’m always excited at what he pulls out from my response. It’s all cause and effect.”

“There is a means to this end, though; we’re both trying to write a song we would like to listen to,” he adds. “There’s a genuine momentum to it.”

Chancellor recently got off the road with Tool touring behind their 2019 album, Fear Inoculum.

Harry Styles’ “As It Was” officially the best bet for ‘Billboard’ Song of the Summer

July 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Billboard‘s Songs of the Summer chart runs from Memorial Day through Labor Day, and now, at the official halfway mark, it’s probably a safe bet to predict that Harry Styles will capture the title.

The 20-position chart combines streaming, airplay and sales data from the Billboard Hot 100 chart to determine the most popular songs in the land. At the end of the season, the song of the summer will be revealed. And so far, Harry’s hit “As It Was” has been #1 on all seven weeks that the chart has been active this summer.

Other songs in the top five include Kate Bush’s “Running Up that Hill,” Jack Harlow’s “First Class,” Future‘s “Wait for U” and Lizzo‘s “About Damn Time.” And three songs on the chart are so popular that they’re still hanging around after making LAST year’s Song of the Summer chart: Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves,” “Stay” by Justin Bieber, and The Kid LAROI and Ed Sheeran‘s “Bad Habits.”

Over on the Hot 100, “As It Was” has been #1 for 10 weeks. In the more than 50-year history of that chart, which includes more than 1,100 #1s, only 41 other songs have ruled for 10 weeks or more.

Last year’s song of the summer was “Butter” by BTS.

Parker McCollum teases new song, “Handle on You”

July 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Parker McCollum has a new song in the works, and he’s giving fans a taste.

On socials, Parker has been teasing that he has a new song coming out. On Monday, he finally gave fans a listen in by sharing a snippet of the chorus of the track, called “Handle on You.” The countrified number finds him singing about a long lost lover who still plagues his mind, no matter how hard he tries to forget her.

“I’ve been fighting with your memory/I hate the way it hits me/I wake up every day black and blue/After all this back and forth/A fifth won’t do/Yeah I finally got a handle on you,” he croons.

“Soon…,” he hints in the caption of the TikTok video where the song is playing over a live performance.

And it seems the song is coming sooner rather than later, as he posted on Twitter Monday, “2 week till song come out.”

Kane and Katelyn Brown hilariously partake in tortilla challenge

July 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Kane Brown and his wife, Katelyn, participated in the tortilla challenge, and the results are hilarious.

The country couple hopped on the ongoing TikTok trend wherein two people play rounds of rock, paper, scissor while holding water in their mouths. When one person loses the round, the other slaps them across the face with a tortilla, the goal being not to laugh and keep the water in your mouth. Whoever spits the water out first loses.

The results of the game are as humorous as the concept, as the two stand outside their Nashville home with their cheeks filled with water and a loose tortilla prepared in hand. The video opens with Katelyn slapping her husband in the face with the tortilla, both of them laughing while still managing to hold the water in.

The second round gets a little trickier, as Katelyn’s rock defeats Kane’s scissor, the two cackling after she slaps him. Katelyn almost loses it on the fourth round, but manages to hold it together, until they both lose control on round five when Kane slaps her upside the head with the tortilla, eliminating themselves by spitting out the water as they laugh out loud. Their 2-year-old daughter, Kingsley, makes an appearance at the end, watching the madness from the porch.

“#tortillachallenge who won?” Katelyn asks in the comments, with one fan replying, “y’all win the entire trend to be honest” with a laughing emoji.

Killswitch Engage headlining 40th anniversary Metal Blade Records show in Las Vegas

July 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Killswitch Engage are headlining an upcoming concert celebrating the 40th anniversary of the label Metal Blade Records.

The show will take place October 5 in Las Vegas and will also include Fit for an Autopsy and Visigoth on the bill. Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 22 at 10 a.m. PT.

Founded by Brian Slagel, Metal Blade Records made its debut in 1982 with the Metal Massacre compilation, which featured a then-unknown Metallica. The label would go on to release albums from metal heavyweights, including Slayer, Cannibal Corpse and GWAR. Killswitch Engage released their latest album, 2019’s Atonement, on Metal Blade.

“I can’t imagine where music or my journey as a musician would be with out Metal Blade Records,” says KsE frontman Jesse Leach. “I can speak for the band when I say we are stoked and absolutely honored to be apart of the 40th anniversary celebration! Killer lineup and a legendary milestone for metal music around the world! Massive respect and love to Brian Slagel for all he has done for music and for Killswitch!”

Adele escapes sweltering UK heat, travels to Italian island with boyfriend Rich Paul

July 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

As temperatures in her hometown of London soar to 104 degrees, Adele has escaped the heat by decamping to Italy.

The British paper The Daily Mail has photos of the singer, some friends and her boyfriend, Rich Paul, on a boat in Sardinia Tuesday. The paper gleefully detailed how much it believes Adele’s ensemble and purse cost — as though a multimillionaire pop star wouldn’t be wearing designer clothes and carrying a status bag.

And Adele has earned the break, having recently put on two critically acclaimed shows at London’s Hyde Park. She wrote on Instagram, “See you really soon” — as opposed to the five years she made fans wait since the last time she sang in her hometown.

British tabloids have reported that the success of those two shows has now given Adele the drive to reschedule her Las Vegas residency for this December and that she plans to announce the details shortly — but it’s the British tabloids, so take that report with a grain of salt.

More pop stars recently spotted on Italian islands include Katy Perry, who was in Capri over the weekend filming a new commercial for Dolce & Gabbana, and Mariah Carey, who’s in Capri now, splashing around in the water while wearing a black sequined gown. Because she’s Mariah, obviously.

Simple Minds reach major music-rights deal with BMG

July 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Veteran Scottish rockers Simple Minds have sold much of their key music interests to BMG.

The agreement, which was struck by the band’s core co-founding members — singer Jim Kerr and guitarist/keyboardist Charlie Burchill — encompasses the publishing rights to over 240 songs, as well as the neighboring rights and royalties to the group’s entire catalog of recorded music.

Simple Minds already had a long relationship with BMG, which previously served as administrator of the band’s music publishing and released the group’s latest studio album, 2018’s Walk Between Worlds. Simple Minds’ recently announced next album, Direction of the Heart, also will be issued by the label on October 21.

Among the noteworthy songs that are part of the publishing deal are “Love Song,” “Promised You a Miracle,” “Glittering Prize,” “Waterfront,” “Someone Somewhere in Summertime” and “Alive and Kicking.” The group’s biggest U.S. hit, the chart-topping “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” was written by an outside songwriter, Keith Forsey, and therefore doesn’t fall under the publishing agreement, although recorded and neighboring rights royalties generated by the track will be collected by BMG.

“There are few bands who can claim to have changed music, but over a period of 45 years Simple Minds have done precisely that,” says BMG executive Alistair Norbury. “We are thrilled that BMG is now the musical home of Simple Minds, past, present and future.”

Adds Kerr, “We are very pleased to have struck this deal. It feels like the right time for us and our families. We look forward to working with everyone at BMG.”

Simple Minds recently returned to the road for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The band is currently in the middle of a lengthy European tour.

ACM Awards will take place in Dallas at Ford Center in 2023

July 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The Academy of Country Music announced today that the 2023 ACM Awards will take on May 11 at Ford Center in Frisco, TX, just outside of Dallas.

It will stream on Amazon Prime for the second year in a row, making the ACMs the first major awards show to be live-streamed globally.

The ACMs typically take place in Las Vegas but were moved to Nashville for the 2020 and 2021 installments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The awards show returned to Sin City in 2022 and was held at Allegiant Stadium.

The Ford Center is home to the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys; This marks the first time an awards show will be hosted at the venue. The ACM Awards were previously held in Texas in 2015 — during the 50th annual event at Arlington’s AT&T Stadium.

“The Academy is proud to extend our relationship with Amazon to once again deliver the ACM Awards live to a global audience on Prime Video,” Academy of Country Music CEO Damon Whiteside says in a statement. “The March 2022 show was a defining moment for the ACM and a huge step forward for country music, allowing audiences around the world to see their favorite artists perform live and be recognized for their excellence. We can’t wait to take the show to a new level for fans with an exciting new venue and integrated partnership with the Dallas Cowboys.”

As fans wait for the ACMs, the 15th annual ACM Honors will take place August 24 in Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Carly Pearce will host; Chris Stapleton, Miranda Lambert and Shania Twain are among the honorees.

Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ sets new UK sales milestone

July 19, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Queen‘s 1981 Greatest Hits compilation has long been the best-selling album in U.K. history, and now, the collection has reached a new milestone in the band’s home country.

According to the Official Charts Company, Greatest Hits has become the first album ever to reach the seven-million mark in sales in the U.K. The record-breaking sales figure includes physical sales, downloads and streams.

The album has amassed a whopping 1.26 billion total streams in the U.K. with “Bohemian Rhapsody” being the most-streamed track, notching over 240 million. Greatest Hits also has spent more than 1,000 weeks on the Official Albums Chart, making Queen the first British artists ever to achieve this feat.

In celebration of the sales milestone, Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor recorded a video thanking fans.

“We’re here to bring you the joyous news that Queen’s Greatest Hits album has sold 7 million copies, which nobody has ever done before,” says May in the clip that’s been posted on OfficialCharts.com. “No album has done this before in history. Thank you, we appreciate it.”

Adds Taylor, “The British public in their infinitely great taste have made this the biggest-selling album in history. Thank you very much; we’re humbled and honored. We salute you!”

In other Queen news, today is May’s 75th birthday. He has continued to lead the band alongside Taylor since the 1991 death of frontman Freddie Mercury and is responsible for many of the group’s major hits. May wrote six songs on Greatest Hits, including “Fat Bottomed Girls,” “Save Me,” “Now I’m Here,” “Flash” and “We Will Rock You.”

Queen and singer Adam Lambert currently are on tour in Europe. The band’s next show takes place Wednesday, July 20 in Stockholm, Sweden.

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