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Dua Lipa sued for allegedly stealing “Levitating” from reggae band

March 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

A new lawsuit is accusing Dua Lipa of stealing her hit song “Levitating.”

According to documents obtained by TMZ, the Florida reggae band Artikal Sound System is suing the British pop star for copyright infringement. They claim the uber successful song was ripped off from their lesser-known 2017 track “Live Your Life.”

Others, including Dua’s label Warner Records, are also included in the suit, in which Artikal claims that those working with Dua heard “Live Your Life” and then proceeded to make a dupe.

As noted by TMZ, “the two songs do sound awfully similar, especially the chorus,” and although they have “different lyrics, obviously, the beat comes across as damn near the same.”

“Levitating” was released in October 2020 and is from her second studio album Future Nostalgia, which was released that same year. The track peaked at number two and spent 68 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the longest-running top 10 song by a female artist on the chart.

Artikal is asking for profits made from “Levitating” as well as damages.

Report: Dua Lipa sued for allegedly stealing “Levitating” from reggae band

March 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

A new lawsuit is accusing Dua Lipa of stealing her hit song “Levitating.”

According to documents obtained by TMZ, the Florida reggae band Artikal Sound System is suing the British pop star for copyright infringement. They claim the uber-successful song was ripped off from their lesser-known 2017 track, “Live Your Life.”

Others, including Dua’s label Warner Records, are also included in the suit, in which Artikal claims that those working with Dua heard “Live Your Life” and then proceeded to make a duplicate.

As noted by TMZ, “the two songs do sound awfully similar, especially the chorus,” and although they have “different lyrics, obviously, the beat comes across as damn near the same.”

Artikal is reportedly asking for profits made from “Levitating,” as well as damages.

Who says you can’t grow old?! Jon Bon Jovi celebrates his 60th birthday today

March 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Here’s wishing Jon Bon Jovi a very Happy 60th Birthday.

Born on March 2, 1962, the New Jersey native formed Bon Jovi during the early 1980s. The band self-titled debut was released in 1984, and featured the single “Runaway,” which reached #39 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Bon Jovi’s career exploded with its third album, 1986’s Slippery When Wet, which featured not one but two chart-topping hits — “You Give Love a Band Name” and “Livin’ on a Prayer” — along with the #7 single “Wanted Dead or Alive.” The album spent eight weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200, and has gone on to sell over 12 million copies in the U.S.

The band continued its multi-platinum success with 1988’s New Jersey, which spent four weeks at #1, and yielded five top-10 hits — chart-toppers “Bad Medicine” and “I’ll Be There for You,” as well as “Born to Be My Baby,” “Lay Your Hands on Me” and “Living in Sin.”

Four other Bon Jovi albums also topped the Billboard 200 — 2007’s Lost Highway, 2009’s The Circle, 2013’s What About Now and 2016’s This House Is Not for Sale.

The group’s other notable pop hits include “Bed of Roses,” “Always” and “It’s My Life.”

In 2006, Bon Jovi scored a #1 country hit with “Who Says You Can’t Go Home,” a duet with Sugarland‘s Jennifer Nettles.

In 2018, Jon was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Bon Jovi. Outside of music, Jon has acted in various films and TV shows, and has been noted for his philanthropy, particularly through his Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation and the JBJ Soul Kitchen community restaurants.

Next up for Jon and his band, a U.S. tour kicking off April 1.

You give aging a bad name: Happy 60th birthday, Jon Bon Jovi!

March 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

It’s his life, so let’s celebrate it: Jon Bon Jovi turns 60 years old today. The Bon Jovi frontman, sometime solo artist, philanthropist and occasional actor has had a pretty busy year leading up to this milestone birthday…and he’s about to get even busier.

After releasing the critically acclaimed Bon Jovi album 2020 in October of that year, Jon ended the first year of the pandemic by hitting the campaign trail for Joe Biden. He was part of the Celebrate America virtual inauguration concert in January 2021, following Biden’s victory.

As 2021 went on, Jon had a highway rest stop named after him on the Garden State Parkway in his native New Jersey, and his famous band won Pollstar‘s Rock Touring Artist of the Decade award. Jon and former band mate Richie Sambora even jointly received a prestigious U.K. songwriting award.

In November, Jon received the Intrepid Lifetime Achievement Award from New York City’s Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum for his charity work, and played several benefit shows throughout the year. The only bad part of 2021 for Jon came in October: He got COVID and had to cancel a solo appearance in Miami.

But 2022 kicked off with the best news of all: Bon Jovi is hitting the road again on a 15-stop tour that begins April 1 in Omaha, Nebraska.

Desmond Child, who co-wrote “Livin’ on a Prayer,” “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Bad Medicine” and many other Bon Jovi songs, recorded a special birthday message for Jon, who’s the godfather of his twin sons.

“Jon Bon Jovi, you are one of the most significant people in my life, you’re a friend, you’re a brilliant collaborator,” Child said, adding with a laugh, “And it’s great to have a godfather in New Jersey, right?”

Shinedown hoped to deliver a “banger” with latest number-one single, “Planet Zero”

March 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Shinedown‘s Brent Smith has often said that his band only has one boss: the collective Shinedown fan base. When it came time to prep the group’s next album, the boss had only one request: “Give us a banger.”

“Like, a real banger,” Smith tells ABC Audio. “Give us something that is going to give us confidence, give us something that is going to charge us up, that’s going to get us, like, ‘Hell yeah, man, let’s go!'”

Shinedown hoped to deliver on that request with “Planet Zero,” the forceful lead single and title track off their upcoming seventh studio album.

“Sonically, we worked really hard on that,” Smith says. “On the whole record, not just the first single, like, the whole record.

So far, so good: “Planet Zero” has hit number-one on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, once again giving Smith and company the record for the most leaders in the ranking’s 40-year history.

Smith describes the album Planet Zero as “massively emotional” and full of “peaks and valleys,” which requires an appropriately intense sound.

“It’s necessary,” Smith says of the record’s hard-hitting direction. “You can’t dance around it. You can’t go halfway, if that makes any sense. If you’re going to go to this level, then you’re going to need to go all the way.”

Planet Zero will be released April 22. The “Planet Zero” video premieres this Thursday, March 3.

Priscilla Block “cried” when she found out about her ACM Award nomination: “It’s such an honor”

March 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Priscilla Block couldn’t be more excited about her first nomination at the ACM Awards. “I can’t even think about it,” she expresses with enthusiasm. “It’s such an honor to even be nominated.”

Priscilla became a breakout star on TikTok after her breakup anthem “Just About Over You” went viral on the platform. It later scored her a record deal and crossed over onto the mainstream country charts, hitting the top 20 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.

“I was in Vegas, it was the day that my album came out. I had my alarm set, I think I set it for p.m. instead of a.m., and I wake up in a panic,” she recalls about the day she got the news about her nomination for New Female Artist of the Year. “I have a lot of texts on my phone, so I know that people are either saying, ‘It’s OK. Next year,’ or they’re gonna say, ‘Congrats.’ I’m not even looking at the text…and I went online and saw it, and it was just so special. I cried…just soaking it in. It’s crazy.”

And while the North Carolina native is known for being authentic in her music, she plans to honor her authenticity with her ACM Awards outfit, hinting that she’s going for a non-traditional look.

“I’m not much of a dress girl, but I also know that I probably shouldn’t show up in my jeans that I wear every day,” she jokes. “So I’ve decided that I’m gonna try really hard and go all over the top. But I can say that it’s not a dress.”

The ACM Awards air live from Las Vegas on March 7 at 8 p.m. ET, streaming commercial-free on Amazon Prime Video.

Jhené Aiko, Missy Elliott, Wizkid set to headline new NYC festival

March 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Letsgetfr.ee, a diverse movement created by and for people of color, announced its inaugural festival kicking off on August 20 this year, to be held in Queens, New York.

Jhené Aiko, Missy Elliott, Wizkid and Anderson .Paak are among the stars set to perform during the two-day event.

“Get ready for a real diverse lineup and show that breaks the mold,” the organization said in the announcement on its Instagram account on Tuesday.

Letsgetfr.ee is the brainchild of Afropunk festival’s Matthew Morgan, partner Jocelyn Cooper, and creative agency Anomaly.

The organization’s overall mission is “to drastically shift the way the entertainment industry operates — by empowering the advancement of the next generation of fr.ee thinkers, artists, activists and innovators.”

The mission of the festival is to close the equity gap for Black, Brown, Asian, and other underrepresented people in the entertainment industry, with the aim of achieving a diversified workforce across all levels in the industry by 2030. To help achieve the mission, Letgetfr.ee says the organization will only work with brands and companies who commit to long-term systemic change.

Other musical artists slated to perform include Major Lazer, Jorja Smith, Ozuna, Kali Uchis, Flatbush Zombies, Beenie Man, Tems and more.

Tickets for the first-ever “conscious carnival” go on sale to the general public on March 9 via the ticket service DICE. Residents of Queens, NY can register to purchase tickets in advance.

You can finally win Doja Cat’s heart — thanks to this suggestive video game

March 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Doja Cat is getting a digital makeover and will become the latest character in the popular but raunchy video game, House Party. The “Say So” singer is crashing the cast of romance-able characters and you can try your luck at winning her heart.

Doja is lending her voice to the House Party universe for her very own side story that’s filled with drama, jokes, thrills and more. According to the official press release, “Players will navigate through an unpredictable night filled with outrageous party goers as they help Doja carry out a master plan to track down a masked dancing sensation who is taking the online world by storm.”

Players will be able to interact with Doja in hopes of befriending or romancing the “Kiss Me More” singer. Her character will come equipped with three outfit changes, one of which is a “steamy hot tub bikini.” If you play your cards right, you’ll even get to help Doja create her next music video.

The Grammy nominee says she’s “so excited that I’m going to be a video game character,” and promises that her inclusion in the game means House Party is “about to get even better.” Her DLC — or downloadable content — drops this summer.

House Party, which was released in 2017, is available to play on Steam and PC with a console launch coming soon. Doja is the latest — and biggest — celebrity to be included in the game. Previous celeb additions include the Game Grumps duo Arin Hanson and Dan Avidan, as well as YouTube personality Lety.

Stevie Nicks pens letter to Vladimir Putin: “I hope you never sleep again”

March 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Whenever there’s some kind of crisis in the world, Stevie Nicks turns to her journal — and then she shares her words with her fans. What’s inspired her latest missive is the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

On her socials, the two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has posted a “letter” to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, which is actually more of a poem. It begins, “Are you lonely, Mr. Putin? Is that why you sit at your long, long marble table alone in the night and through the day/and talk to ghosts[?]”

“Because you really have no friends — everyone is afraid of you; afraid to even offer up good advice, because great emperors don’t listen to anyone but ghosts,” she writes.

Stevie then goes on to tell Putin that he “will never be forgiven,” adding, “Your ghosts will haunt you night and day. They will shake their heads and say, ‘This time, Vladimir, you went to[o] far.”

“I hope you never sleep again,” she writes. “I hope you sit at that long, ugly, lonely table for the rest of your life. I hope your ghosts surround you until you are old and grey and miserable. I hope the history books in your country cease to ever write another word about you — I hope you turn to dust.”

“I hope you become invisible. I hope you become ‘the forgotten one,'” she adds, concluding, “The ghosts are coming Mr. Putin. They’re coming for you. Perhaps, they’re already here.”

It remains to be seen if Stevie will turn her thoughts into a song. Her letter follows another post she wrote four days ago, in which she described Putin’s actions as “Hitler coming back to haunt us.”

Ex-GN’R drummer Matt Sorum’s memoir, ‘Double Talkin’ Jive,’ now due out in May

March 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

After its original September 2021 publication date was postponed, former Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum‘s memoir, Double Talkin’ Jive: True Rock ‘n’ Roll Stories, is finally scheduled to be released on May 10.

As previously reported, Double Talkin’ Jive features Sorum candidly looking back at his eventful life and music career. The rocker recounts his dramatic and dangerous early years as a drug dealer, his many adventures during his 1990-1997 stint with Guns N’ Roses, and his work and exploits with many other rock artists, including the supergroups Velvet Revolver and Kings of Chaos, plus The Cult, Alice Cooper and ZZ Top‘s Billy Gibbons.

Double Talkin’ Jive also finds Sorum opening up on his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, and reflecting on the perils and pitfalls of rock stardom.

The book features a foreword penned by Gibbons, whose 2021 solo album, Hardware, was co-produced and co-written by Sorum, and featured Matt playing drums on all the tracks.

Double Talkin’ Jive can be pre-ordered now at various online book sellers. Signed copies can be pre-ordered at RareBirdLit.com.

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