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“I’ve got to do the things that matter”: What Cody Johnson learned from his song, “‘Til You Can’t”

April 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Sure, Cody Johnson owes a whole lot of success to his song, “‘Til You Can’t” — the song was a number-one country radio hit, and earned him one of his two trophies at the 2022 CMT Awards. But it might have had an even greater impact on who he is as a person.

“It gave me a new perspective of, I’m only here for a little while,” Cody explains to People about the song’s significance. “I’ve got to do the things that matter. Spend time with your wife, spend time with your kids, push your career, do it while you’re here. Don’t wait for the next chapter. Make it the next chapter.”

Cody was living out those words of wisdom at this week’s CMT Awards, soaking up the milestones as he claimed his trophies for Male Video of the Year and CMT Digital-First Performance of the Year.

The night out also doubled as date night: Cody brought his wife, Brandi, to the show with him.

Men at Work teaming up with Rick Springfield and John Waite for US summer tour

April 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Fans of ’80s pop rock have a treat in store this summer, as Men at Work, Rick Springfield and John Waite will be hitting the road together for an 18-city U.S. tour.

The cross-country trek gets underway August 5 in St. Augustine, Florida, and is mapped out through a September 3 concert in Las Vegas.

The tour will celebrate the 40th anniversaries of Men at Work’s chart-topping debut album Business as Usual and Springfield’s RIAA-Platinum-certified Working Class Dog.

To check out a full list of shows and to purchase tickets, visit ColinHay.com/MenatWork.

The trek with Springfield and Waite as just part of what’s shaping up to be an extremely busy year for Men at Work frontman Colin Hay. He’s currently playing a series of U.S. headlining shows in support of his recently released solo album, Now and the Evermore, that’s scheduled through a May 12 performance in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Then, starting June 2 in Boston, Colin heads out on tour as a member of Ringo Starr‘s All Starr Band. That trek’s first leg currently is plotted out through a June 26 performance in Clearwater, Florida, while a just-announced second leg is scheduled from a September 23 concert in Bridgeport, Connecticut, through an October 19-20 stand in Mexico City.

Britney Spears worries about being a good mom: “The media destroyed me when I first became a mother”

April 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Britney Spears is both excited and nervous to welcome her third child, and in a new Instagram post, admitted she’s worried about how the media will critique her parenting.

“With a baby on the way my thought this morning was ‘I’m so scared to make a mistake … will I be thoughtful enough ??? Will I be instinctive enough???'” she wrote Wednesday. “God knows I’m no saint but the media destroyed me when I first became a mother.”

This will be the third child for the singer, who shares sons Sean, 16, and Jayden, 15, with ex-husband Kevin Federline. The singer was sometimes portrayed as an unfit mother in 2007, headlines that were recently revisited by the New York Times for its Framing Britney Spears documentary on Hulu.

Britney explained of the nasty coverage, “I got pregnant at 24 … I thought about it last night … I was a baby raising 2 babies.”

“I didn’t know how to play the game !!! I was clueless and I wasn’t the brightest bulb on the tree either !!! I know that’s no excuse but it is what it is,” she continued, adding she is well aware of what was being said about her at the time. “The media has always been EXTREMELY rude to me.”

“I don’t want to be an angry pregnant person eating donuts every morning … then I thought about it … It’s going to be ok !!! Just be me and stop trying so hard !!! So I reeled it in [and] came back to reality,” Britney wrote.

The singer also flirted with the idea of doing a podcast about her pregnancy, and shouted out Ariana Grande for sending in some of her “awesome” r.e.m. beauty products. “Thank you Ariana for this amazing gift,” Britney raved, adding, “I needed eyeshadow !!! How did you know ???”

Garth Brooks hints that he may be revealing the name of his bar in Nashville

April 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Is Garth Brooks going to soon reveal the name of his new Nashville bar?

During Monday night’s episode of Inside Studio G, the superstar hinted that he may be unveiling the name of his entertainment complex, which is currently under construction in downtown Nashville, during his two-night stay at Nissan Stadium this week.

“[Today] or Wednesday they’ll start to see the lower windows going in, but then the upper windows are the ones that have the name of the bar on it,” Garth shared. “So this should be fun!”

It was confirmed last week that Garth is the latest country star to open a bar on Broadway that he describes as a “classic honky-tonk that welcomes all and encourages love and kindness while playing the greatest music in the world in the home of Country Music!”

Garth will headline Nissan Stadium on April 15 and 16.

Watch Tom Morello explain the history of heavy metal in 60 seconds

April 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

If you have a minute to spare, perhaps you’d be interested in learning the history of metal, as told by Tom Morello.

In an Instagram post, the Rage Against the Machine guitarist tries to retell the annals of heavy music in just 60 seconds, starting with Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi injuring his fingers in a 1965 factory accident — leading him to create his signature playing style — up to last week’s release of the new film Metal Lords, which features Morello as the executive music producer.

Along the way, Morello mentions landmark albums from metal icons including AC/DC, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest and Guns N’ Roses, as well as when Twisted Sister‘s Dee Snider said “the word ‘motherf***er’ in Congress” and when Rob Halford came out as gay.

Metal Lords, which was written by Game of Thrones co-creator D.B. Weiss, is streaming now on Netflix.

Selena Gomez’s TV series ‘Only Murders in the Building’ nominated for a Peabody Award

April 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Selena Gomez‘s Hulu series Only Murders in the Building previously was nominated for Golden Globe, Screen Actors’ Guild and Critics’ Choice Awards, but now it’s up for an even more prestigious honor: a Peabody Award.

The Peabody Awards recognize the most “compelling and empowering stories” of 2021 in broadcasting and streaming media, including TV, podcasts, radio and online. Only Murders, which Selena executive-produces as well as stars in, is nominated in the Entertainment category, and its competition includes Hacks, Dopesick, Pen15, Station Eleven, Reservation Dogs, Bo Burnham: Inside, The Wonder Years, Yellowjackets and We Are Lady Parts.

The winners will be named during a “virtual celebration” running from June 6 through June 9 via the Peabody Awards’ social channels.

Only Murders in the Building, whose second season premieres June 28, stars Selena, Martin Short and Steve Martin as three residents of the same upscale New York City apartment building. All three are true-crime fans, and when a murder takes place in their building, they team up to create their own podcast…and solve the crime.

At the 2022 CMTs, Walker Hayes admitted feeling some “PTSD” about a 2018 family tragedy

April 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

As Walker Hayes soaked up the bright lights, fun and great music of the CMT Music Awards earlier this week, he admitted that there was something more somber in the back of his mind.

While he gave his debut performance on this year’s show, he was actually originally scheduled to play at the CMTs for the first time back in 2018. However, due to a devastating family tragedy, he never made it to the stage. The same day as the show — June 6 — he lost his newborn daughter, Oakleigh, who died in childbirth.

“Yeah, being here has that twinge of a little PTSD,” he told People on the carpet of this year’s CMTs, four years later. However, he added, “So much redemption has happened since then.”

The difficult birth that claimed Oakleigh’s life also nearly killed Walker’s wife, Laney, who suffered a ruptured uterus.

Fortunately, Laney has made a complete recovery, and she walked the CMTs carpet at her country superstar husband’s side in 2022. After the show, Walker tweeted out a snapshot of them together, writing, “Did you guys see Laney at the [CMT AWards] Monday night,” along with a “heart eyes” emoji.

“We lost a child, but Laney and I gained so much since then,” Walker told People, reflecting back on the years since Oakleigh’s death.

These days, Walker and his family — including Laney, their six children and their dogs — are out on the road together for the singer’s Fancy Like Tour.

Diablo Cody reminisces about working with Madonna on her biopic: “I’m profoundly grateful for the experience”

April 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody says she “still can’t believe” she worked with Madonna, telling ABC Audio it was “a dream come true” to co-write her idol’s biopic.

The Queen of Pop announced in September 2020 that she would be directing her own biopic, and tapped Cody to co-write the script with her. According to Madge, the movie is a “happy, sad, mad, crazy, good, bad and ugly” story of her rise to stardom.

“I still can’t believe that’s how I was able to spend my summer,” Cody said of the experience. “She’s incredible! I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody with a work ethic like that before.”

“Madonna is just on another level,” the Juno writer continued. “I can’t really say that much about [the movie] but I can say that I’m profoundly grateful for the experience.”

Cody also said the collaboration was a bucket-list experience, explaining, “If you had told me when I was in the fifth grade that some day I would get to hang out with Madonna and breathe the same air as Madonna and sit at her knee as she shared the stories of her life? I would never have believed you.”

Madonna isn’t the only pop star the screenwriter’s worked with recently. Cody teamed with Alanis Morissette to transform her breakthrough Jagged Little Pill album into a two-time Tony Award-winning musical, which has been adapted into a young adult novel.

As for which star Cody hopes to work with next, she tells ABC Audio that Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson is her “favorite,” adding, “Brian Wilson is my hero…To collaborate creatively with him would be the dream.”

And while she admits she doesn’t “know if I’ll ever get the chance” to work with Wilson, Cody says there’s no harm in putting that energy “out there.”

Red Hot Chili Peppers songs added to Fender Play guitar instruction app

April 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

If the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album has you itching to shred yourself, Fender is here to help.

The famed guitar company has announced the addition of Chili Peppers songs to its Fender Play guitar instruction app, which allows users of all levels to play along to hits from some of the biggest names in rock.

Among the RHCP tunes now available in Fender Play include “Suck My Kiss,” “Under the Bridge,” “Californication,” “Scar Tissue” and “Can’t Stop,” as well as “Black Summer,” the lead single off the aforementioned new album, Unlimited Love.

For more info, visit Fender.com/play.

Judging by its first week of sales, a whole lot of people have been jamming along to Unlimited Love. The record debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with the best sales week for any rock album since Paul McCartney‘s 2020 solo effort, McCartney III.

“Black Summer,” meanwhile, is the number-one song on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart, and number two on Mainstream Rock Airplay.

Olivia Rodrigo’s early set list earns thumbs-up from Kevin and Joe Jonas

April 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Olivia Rodrigo is currently embarking on her sold-out SOUR world tour, but on Wednesday, the 19-year-old singer revealed she’s been dreaming of set lists since she was a tot.

Sharing a small update about how things are currently going, writing, “Tour is going gr8,” OIlivia also enclosed a few throwback photos, and one of them earned a thumbs up from the Jonas Brothers.

In the first snap, a very young Olivia is seen singing into a microphone and standing next to a set list, which is just a a white board with several songs that were popular in the late aughts. Among the titles are three JoBros songs — “Year 3000,” “When You Look Me in the Eyes” and “S.O.S.”

The white board also features Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas’ “This Is Me” collaboration.

Joe and Kevin Jonas jumped into the comments to rave about the adorable throwback. Remarked Kevin, “Solid set list,” while Joe used a fire emoji and marveled, “Set list!”

Other songs appearing on little Olivia’s white board are Taylor Swift‘s “Love Story” and “Picture to Burn,” as well as Girl Authority‘s cover of Gwen Stefani‘s “Hollaback Girl,” Corbin Bleu and Zac Efron‘s “The Boys Are Back,” and Billy Ray Cyrus‘ “Ready, Set, Don’t Go.”

That wasn’t the only throwback treat the Grammy winner shared with fans on Wednesday. Olivia also enclosed a photo of her old Twilight earbuds, which featured Robert Pattinson‘s Edward Cullen front and center — showing she was Team Edward when the franchise was all the rage.

Another slide enclosed a recent video of her fans belting out “drivers license” at a show.

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