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Carrie Underwood, Jimmie Allen & more country artists performing at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

November 1, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Country music fans watching the 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be thankful to see some of their favorites in the lineup, including Carrie Underwood and Jimmie Allen.

The retail giant unveiled the acts set to appear during the 95th annual broadcast on Monday, and among them are Jimmie, Chris Lane and Mickey Guyton, along with a special performance by Carrie.

The multi-Grammy winner will deliver a dose of holiday cheer with a performance of her original Christmas song, “Favorite Time of Year.” It’s featured as a Special Edition bonus track on her 2020 album, My Gift.

Jimmie will perform from the Green Giant’s Harvest in the Valley float, while Chris will helm the Mount Rushmore’s American Pride display and Mickey will be on Mass Mutual and the NHL’s hockey-themed float, Winning Winter Together.

The country stars will perform alongside multi-genre acts including Kim Petras, Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth, Rob Thomas and Nelly, the latter of whom recently dropped a country collaborations album, Heartland.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade takes over the streets of New York City and airs live on NBC from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on November 25.

Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson scheduled spoken word tour for 2022

November 1, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has announced a U.S. spoken word tour for 2022.

The outing is set to kick off January 17 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and will wrap up March 12 in Las Vegas, followed shortly thereafter by a run through Canada.

For the uninitiated, Dickinson’s spoken word performances find him “taking a humorous and often satirical look at the world from his own very personal perspective, treating the audience to private insights into his drive and ambition, peppered with plenty of Maiden anecdotes.” That will be followed by an audience Q&A session.

“The more left-field and quirky the question, the more interesting and compelling the response is likely to be!” a press release promises.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 5. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Dickinson’s website, ScreamforMe.com.

Maiden, meanwhile, will return to the road for a European tour in June 2022. The metal legends just released a new album, Senjutsu, in September, which is the highest-charting Billboard 200 album of the band’s career.

Fugees postpone reunion tour to 2022

November 1, 2021 by WDNY Radio

The Fugees long-awaited reunion tour has been postponed until 2022.

Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel announced on Instagram that the tour is being pushed back “to ensure the best chance that all cities on the tour are fully open so we can perform for as many fans as possible. With so much excitement around the reunion tour, we are also happy to announce that we will be adding more cities and dates!”

Following their first concert in 15 years on September 22 in New York City, the tour was set to kick off November 2 in Chicago. The trio was also scheduled to perform in Oakland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami, Newark, and Washington, D.C. They then planned travel abroad to Paris, London, Nigeria and Ghana.

The tour is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Fugees’ landmark 1996 album, The Score. When the group announced the tour in September, Hill explained why they were finally getting back together.

“I decided to honor this significant project, its anniversary, and the fans who appreciated the music by creating a peaceful platform where we could unite, perform the music we loved, and set an example of reconciliation for the world.”

Wyclef added, “As I celebrate 25 years with the Fugees, my first memory was that we vowed, from the gate, we would not just do music we would be a movement.”We would be a voice for the un-heard, and in these challenging times, I am grateful once again, that God has brought us together.”

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Radiohead unearths previously unreleased song, “Follow Me Around,” for upcoming ‘Kid A Mnesia’ reissue

November 1, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Radiohead has unearthed a previously unreleased song called “Follow Me Around.”

The track is one of several rarities included on Kid A Mnesia, an upcoming combined reissue of 2000’s Kid A and 2001’s Amnesiac.

“Follow Me Around” is accompanied by a video starring Memento and Iron Man 3 actor Guy Pearce. You can watch that streaming now on YouTube.

Kid A Mnesia will be released this Friday, November 5. It also includes the newly uncovered song “If You Say the Word.”

Elton John scores top-10 album with ‘The Lockdown Sessions’; launches his own line of eyewear

November 1, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Elton John has scored his 21st top-10 album on the Billboard 200 with his latest studio effort, The Lockdown Sessions, which debuted at #10 on the chart after earning 29,000 equivalent album units during its first week out. Seventeen thousand of that sum were for album sales.

The Lockdown Sessions boasts collaborations Elton recorded virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic with a wide variety of artists. The album includes the U.K. pop-rock legend’s latest top-40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” a duet with British pop star Dua Lipa that mashes up four of Elton’s earlier songs. The single reached #21 on the Hot 100 last week.

The album also features collaborating with Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj and many others.

Elton scored his first top-10 album back in January of 1971 with his self-titled 1970 record, which reached #4 on the tally. His most recent album to break into the top 10 was 2016’s Wonderful Crazy Night, which peaked at #8.

Meanwhile, over the past few days, Elton’s social media pages have featured several iconic photos of the performer without his signature glasses. Well, now we know why: He’s launching his own line of eyewear.

A video on Elton’s Instagram announces the news, with the caption, “I’m just not myself without my glasses. Which is why I’m very excited to finally announce my eyewear collaboration with @walmart and @samsclub. Designed by me to celebrate you!”

The video shows a wide range of specs in many shapes, sizes and colors, though none as quite elaborate as some of the ones Elton wore in the ’70s. As Elton notes, the proceeds will support his Elton John AIDS Foundation.

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Darius Rucker to play theaters across the US on 2022 tour

November 1, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Darius Rucker is stepping into new territory with an upcoming theater tour.

With Darius Rucker Live, the “Beers and Sunshine” hitmaker has booked a 12-city tour that visits theaters all around the country, including New York’s Beacon Theatre, the Chicago Theatre, Palace Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, Saenger Theatre in New Orleans and more.

After decades of playing arenas as a solo act and as part of Hootie & the Blowfish, Darius says these intimate theater performances have been on his bucket list.

“It’s been a dream of mine for a while to bring our show to these beautiful theaters. Some of my favorite venue memories over the years are at places like the Apollo in New York or the Royal Albert Hall in London, as it’s just a different experience when you’re that close,” he says in a statement. “I’ll just say that this tour will have a lot of firsts, even for me.”

The tour begins on February 17 at The Met in Philadelphia and wraps up on April 1 in New Orleans. Caylee Hammack joins as the opening act.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 11 a.m. ET. Visit Darius’ official website for the full list of tour dates.

Everybody loves you now: Billy Joel’s debut album was released 50 years ago today

November 1, 2021 by WDNY Radio

It’s Billy Joel‘s golden anniversary as an artist: 50 years ago, on November 1, 1971, his first album, Cold Spring Harbor, was released. Here are some things you may not know about the record that first introduced us to Billy’s talents:

–The album was named after a hamlet on the north shore of Long Island, New York, near where Billy grew up. The cover photo shows him standing on Harbor Road in Cold Spring Harbor.

—In 2011, Billy said he made Cold Spring Harbor because he wanted other artists to hear his songs and record them; he was advised the best way to do that was to make an album of them and then go on the road.

–One of the songs on the album, “Tomorrow Is Today,” was inspired by the depression Billy had gone through the year before, which culminated in him attempting suicide by drinking furniture polish, followed by a hospital stay to recover.

–Due to a technical error, the Cold Spring Harbor master tapes were transferred to vinyl at the wrong speed, making Billy sound, he said, “like a chipmunk.” It was finally remastered in 1983, but Billy still thinks he sounds like a chipmunk.

–Cold Spring Harbor flopped, but when Billy included a few of its songs on his 1981 live album Songs in the Attic, one of them, “She’s Got a Way,” became a top-40 hit — 10 years after he first recorded it.

–In 2011, when Billy’s catalog was reissued as a box set, he said of Cold Spring Harbor, “You don’t have to pay a lot of attention to this one. It’s the embryonic Billy Joel, I suppose.”

Here’s the full track list of Cold Spring Harbor:

“She’s Got a Way”
“You Can Make Me Free”
“Everybody Loves You Now”
“Why Judy Why”
“Falling of the Rain”
“Turn Around”
“You Look So Good to Me”
“Tomorrow Is Today”
“Nocturne”
“Got to Begin Again”

Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey smashes Halloween pumpkins and declares, “It’s time!”

November 1, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Halloween is officially over, and you know what that means: Mariah Carey is giving us all permission to start celebrating Christmas.

In a video posted to social media Monday, we see three pumpkins spelling out “It’s not time.” Then we see Mariah in a red sparkly dress armed with a candy cane striped baseball bat. As the clock strikes midnight on November 1 and her holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” starts to play, Mariah takes the bat and smashes the pumpkins.

“It’s time!” she says, as the video cuts to her decked out in full-on Christmas mode. We also see a flash of a present with “11/5” on it — a hint of something being released on that date, perhaps?

The clip ends with the message, “It’s time!!! To smash that pumpkin and treat it as pie…cause we still gotta get through Thanksgiving!!!”

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Watch footage from Mark Hoppus’ first post-cancer performance

November 1, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Mark Hoppus is back to rocking once more.

The Blink-182 bassist/vocalist performed during his band mate Travis Barker‘s House of Horrors Halloween streaming event last week, marking his first post-cancer set.

Hoppus, who was dressed as Batman, joined Barker for a trio of Blink songs alongside guest guitarist Kevin Gruft of Escape the Fate. You can watch captured footage from the performance streaming now on YouTube.

Hoppus revealed news of his cancer diagnosis in June. After months of chemotherapy, he announced this past September that he’s “cancer free.”

Along with Hoppus, other House of Horrors performers included Machine Gun Kelly, Avril Lavigne, jxdn, blackbear and iann dior.

Kenny Chesney adds Dan + Shay, Old Dominion & Carly Pearce to 2022 tour

November 1, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Kenny Chesney has an all-star lineup joining him on the 2022 Here and Now Tour.

The superstar has tapped three of the biggest modern acts in country music as his supporting acts: Dan + Shay, Old Dominion and Carly Pearce.

“No matter who you are — someone who’s been coming since the very beginning or is curious what the fuss is all about — I wanted to give No Shoes Nation the best lineup of music that’s gonna give them the kind of celebratory night we all deserve after waiting so long,” Kenny says.

“We’ve been going to this tour as fans for over a decade and it’s an absolute DREAM to be a part of it. look for us in the crowd every night singing every word to every song,” Dan + Shay reacted on Instagram.

“It has been a bucket list dream to one day get to tour with @kennychesney and it’s finally happening. See y’all on the road in 2022 on the #hereandnowtour!!!!!” raves Carly.

Originally supposed to take place in 2020, the Here and Now Tour, originally titled the Chillaxification Tour, has been postponed multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kenny will make his grand return to multiple stadiums across the country next year, beginning on April 23 at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Right now, the tour is scheduled to wrap up with a two-night stand at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts on August 26 and 27.

The “Knowing You” singer has added two new stops to the trek at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte on April 30 and the Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio on August 18. Tickets for the Charlotte show go on sale November 12. Details for the Columbus date will be announced soon.

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