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Lizzo shows off her buns in a tease for her new single, “About Damn Time”

April 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Lizzo’s cheeks are out…again, this time to help promote her upcoming single, “About Damn Time.”

The “Good as Hell” singer shared a snippet of the new song on Instagram on Sunday, where she’s seen sporting an all-black cut-out look in the video, that as a surprise factor revealed her entire backside.

“SONG OF THE SUMMER DROPPING 4/14! ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME” Lizzo wrote in her caption, alerting fans of the song’s pre-save link in her bio.

In the 12-second clip, Lizzo is first seen in the back seat of a black SUV as she rolls the window down slowly. She then exits the vehicle and heads toward a jet that seems to be waiting for her, and up the plane steps. The camera, which first caught Lizzo walking from the front, moves to her backside, showcasing the large cut-outs that reveal her full bottom. She pauses, giving a second for viewers to take in the scene, then proceeds up the stairs.

“Love her energy!” a fan wrote on Instagram with a bunch of heart and crown emojis. “She’s amazing I feel good every time I see her no matter what mood I’m in,” said another.

Lizzo shared the same cheeky video on her Instagram Story with the note, “Heard y’all was lookin’ for the song of the summer.”

The Black Crowes celebrating the music of 1972 with new six-song covers EP due out in May

April 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The Black Crowes will release a six-track EP titled 1972 that finds the band celebrating the 50th anniversary of some of their favorite songs.

The EP, which you can pre-order now, will be available digitally exclusively via Amazon Music on May 4, and will get a wide release on CD and vinyl on May 6.

1972 includes covers of six tunes selected by the band in collaboration with Amazon Music. The songs, which were recorded this past January at Los Angeles’ historic Sunset Sound studio, are renditions of The Rolling Stones‘ “Rocks Off,” T. Rex‘s “The Slider,” Rod Stewart‘s “You Wear It Well,” Little Feat‘s “Easy to Slip,” David Bowie‘s “Moonage Daydream,” and The Temptations‘ “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone.”

The “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” was released as an advance digital single today via Amazon Music.

“The year 1972 was a watershed moment, some of the greatest rock and roll songs ever made came out of that year,” Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson says. “To get our band back together in the studio, it had to be a celebration of rock and roll. This record is about love and devotion to something that makes us feel good. We hope that it makes fans around the world feel the same.”

The Black Crowes will celebrate the EP’s release with a special performance taking place May 4 at 10 p.m. ET at the famed LA-area club the Whiskey a Go-Go that will be livestreamed at Amazon Music’s channel on Twitch.

During the streaming event, physical copies of the 1972 EP and exclusive merchandise will be available for purchase.

Meanwhile, a behind-the-scenes video focusing on the 1972 sessions has been posted at The Black Crowes’ YouTube channel.

(Video includes uncensored profanity.)

Red Hot Chili Peppers earn best-selling rock album in over a year with ’Unlimited Love’

April 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Unlimited Love is the best-selling rock album in over a year.

The record debuts at number one on the Billboard 200 with a total of 97,500 equivalent album units, 82,500 of which were traditional album sales. The last rock artist to beat that figure was Beatles legend Paul McCartney, whose 2020 solo effort McCartney III moved 107,000 units — 104,000 of which were album sales — upon its chart debut in January 2021.

Surprisingly, Unlimited Love is only the second RHCP album to top the Billboard 200. The first was 2006’s Stadium Arcadium, which was notably the last album to feature guitarist John Frusciante before he left the Peppers in 2009. Unlimited Love marks the band’s first album with Frusciante back in the fold since he returned in late 2019.

Red Hot Chili Peppers will launch a global stadium tour in support of Unlimited Love beginning with a European run in June, followed by a U.S. leg kicking off in July.

Stevie Nicks to headline Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival in Southern California this fall

April 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Stevie Nicks is among the artists who will headline the 2022 edition of the Ohana Festival, founded by Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder.

Nicks will be the headliner for the first day of the three-day event, which takes place from September 30 to October 2 at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, California.

Vedder and ex-White Stripes frontman Jack White will headline the second day of the fest, while pop superstar Pink will close things out on October 2.

The lineup also includes founding Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and his current band The Dirty Knobs, who will be performing on October 1. Other artists on the bill include St. Vincent, Britanny Howard, Grouplove, St. Paul & the Broken Bones and Billy Strings.

A pre-sale starts Wednesday, April 13, at 10 a.m. PT for fans who sign up for early access at OhanaFest.com. Any tickets left over go on sale to the general public on April 14 at 10 a.m. PT. Options include single day or weekend passes, and there are VIP options available as well. The website has all the information.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Doheny State Beach Foundation and the San Onofre Parks Foundation.

Ohana is the latest in a series of U.S. festivals at which Nicks will be performing this year. She’s also confirmed to appear on May 7 at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; on June 19 at Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee; in early September at the JAS Aspen Snowmass event in Snowmass, Colorado; on September 17 at the Sea.Hear.Now Festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey; and on September 24 at the inaugural Sound on Sound festival in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Check out her full schedule at StevieNicksOfficial.com.

Achy Breaky Hearts: Miley Cyrus’ parents reportedly file for divorce for a third time

April 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Miley Cyrus‘ parents, Tish and Billy Ray Cyrus, are moving to end their nearly 30-year marriage, again. This marks the third time the couple has filed for divorce.

TMZ reports Tish was the one who initiated the divorce, filing the necessary documents in Tennessee and requesting their assets be divided equally. She has cited “irreconcilable differences” as cause for the separation.

In addition, the outlet states Billy Ray and Tish have stopped living together and have resided in separate homes for more than two years. This aligns with fans’ theories, as they noticed the two haven’t appeared together in Miley’s Instagram — even for family holiday photos — in recent months. In addition, neither Tish nor Billy Ray have been seen together in public since 2020.

The former couple have twice before filed for divorce, with Billy Ray first pulling the plug in 2010 before reconciling. Three years later, Tish filed for divorce in 2013 but the two again reconciled.

The former couple tied the knot in 1993 and share five children together.

LANY teams with Surfaces for multi-date tour

April 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The summer concert season is heating up, with LANY unveiling their 34-date North American tour that kicks off in August.

The “ex i never had” singers have named their trek the Summer Forever Tour and tapped Surfaces as their opening act. The duo will get things started on August 3 with their first concert taking place at The Chrysalis at Merriweather Park in Columbia, Maryland. They’ll hit the U.S. and Canada’s major cities, including Houston, Philadelphia, Toronto, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Vancouver and more.

The multi-date trek wraps September 24 with a pit stop at Lumen Field – Muckleshoot Plaza in Seattle, Washington. A full list of dates can be found on their official website.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 15, starting at 10 a.m. local on Ticketmaster.com.

Watch Julian Lennon perform his father’s peace anthem “Imagine” as part of Stand Up for Ukraine campaign

April 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Julian Lennon, the older son of John Lennon, has shared his first-ever public performance of his late father’s classic song “Imagine” as part of the Global Citizen organization’s recently launched Stand Up for Ukraine campaign.

On Friday, Julian posted a video on his official YouTube channel of him singing the 1971 peace anthem, with Extreme‘s Nuno Bettencourt joining him on acoustic guitar and backing vocals.

In a message accompanying the video, Julian writes, “The War on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy…As a human, and as an artist, I felt compelled to respond in the most significant way I could. So…for the first time ever, I publicly performed my Dad’s song, IMAGINE.”

He continues, “Why now, after all these years? — I had always said, that the only time I would ever consider singing ‘IMAGINE’ would be if it was the ‘End of the World’…But also because his lyrics reflect our collective desire for peace worldwide. Because within this song, we’re transported to a space, where love and togetherness become our reality, if but for a moment in time…The song reflects the light at the end of the tunnel, that we are all hoping for…”

Julian concludes, “As a result of the ongoing murderous violence, millions of innocent families, have been forced to leave the comfort of their homes, to seek asylum elsewhere. I’m calling on world leaders and everyone who believes in the sentiment of IMAGINE, to stand up for refugees everywhere! Please advocate and donate from the heart. #StandUpForUkraine”

As previously reported, Global Citizen’s Stand Up for Ukraine saw a wide variety of music stars taking to social media on Friday and directing their attention to Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s ongoing military invasion of the country.

Backstreet Boys’ 30th anniversary plans will make fans “lose their f***ing minds”

April 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Backstreet Boys just relaunched their DNA tour at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in on Friday, and they’ll play two more shows at the Las Vegas venue before continuing the tour in earnest on June 4 in Chula Vista, California. But the group is already thinking ahead to 2023, which is when they’ll be celebrating their — gasp! — 30th anniversary.

“We have some interesting tricks up our sleeve,” AJ McLean tells the U.K.’s Official Charts Company. “I’ll say this: If these things come to light, our fans are literally going to lose their f***ing minds.”

AJ declined to go into detail about the mind-blowing plans, but he did tease, “We have some really incredible things in the works that will probably take all the way up to our 30th to plan; there are lots of moving parts. We definitely have a couple of big, big, big things — probably the biggest we’ve done in years — planned. It’s gonna be awesome.”

He notes, “30’s a big one, so we have to do something massive.”

Before that happens, though, AJ says he’ll release a solo EP with “a couple of feature[d artists] on there that are more in the millennial world.” Later this year, Backstreet Boys will release a Christmas album and will reportedly do a holiday residency in Las Vegas.

AJ also points out that even though people think Harry Styles is pushing the boundaries of fashion by wearing nail polish, he’s “been doing it for 25 years,” and has his own nail polish line. What’s more, AJ says he was inspired to do it by someone several generations before him: Aerosmith‘s Steven Tyler.

Pink and Stevie Nicks to headline Ohana Festival in California

April 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Pink and Stevie Nicks will headline the sixth annual Ohana Festival, founded by Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder.

Vedder will also be one of the headliners at the event, which takes place from September 30 to October 2 at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, CA. Most of the other artists performing are alternative rock stars like St. Vincent, Jack White, Grouplove and The Revivalists.

Pink is also scheduled to headline California’s BottleRock Napa Festival on May 29, while Stevie has a whole bunch of festival dates on her schedule: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Tennessee’s Bonnaroo, Colorado’s Jazz Aspen Snowmass festival, Asbury Park, NJ’s Sea.Hear.Now Festival and Connecticut’s Sound on Sound Festival.

A pre-sale starts Wednesday, April 13 at 10 a.m. PT for fans who sign up for early access at OhanaFest.com. Any tickets left over go on sale to the general public on April 14 at 10 a.m. PT. Options include Single Day or Weekend, and there are VIP options available as well. The website has all the information.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Doheny State Beach Foundation and the San Onofre Parks Foundation.

Jessie James Decker tells her story of accidentally “harassing” Kelsea Ballerini after a CMT Awards show

April 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Jessie James Decker is among the artists performing from the RAM Trucks Side Stage of the 2022 CMT Music Awards tonight, but it’s not her first time attending the ceremony: She’s got a hilarious story about a wine-fueled mishap that happened backstage during a previous CMT Awards.

That year, Jessie was at the show to present an award, and when she’d finished, she spent some time hanging out with her fellow country artists and enjoying the backstage bar.

“So I have a third glass of wine, and I’m feeling good. I ran into an artist named Clare Dunn,” Jessie recounts on a new episode of CMT’s I Probably Shouldn’t Tell You This series.

Jessie had long been a fan of Clare, so the two made plans to co-write and exchanged numbers. Then, later on that same evening, Jessie ran into Kelsea Ballerini.

“I said, ‘Hey, we should catch up and hang out.’ She was like, ‘You know what, take down my number and let’s get together soon,’” Jessie recalls.

The next morning, Jessie decided to firm up her plans with Clare, and texted her asking for song pitches, though she was a little surprised not to hear back until the end of the day. After several hours — and a few reminder texts — the songs finally came through, but Jessie was confused to see that all the songs had Kelsea’s voice on the demo.

That’s when things clicked: She’d gotten the numbers switched. “I was like, ‘OMG, I thought I was texting Clare Dunn.’ It was so fine — she just wrote a bunch of ‘ha-has’…I ended up saving their numbers correctly,” Jessie sums up.

Still, no CMT Awards will ever go by without Jessie remembering the one she spent “harassing Kelsea Ballerini,” the singer adds.

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