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You make a grown droid cry: Watch remake of Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up” video starring robots

October 29, 2021 by WDNY Radio

The Rolling Stones have teamed up with the Boston Dynamics robotics company on a unique remake of the band’s “Start Me Up” music video, which features robots recreating the band members’ moves from the original clip, released 40 years ago this month.

The video, which you can watch at Boston Dynamics’ YouTube channel, features the original video side-by-side with the robotic re-creation. The new clip features the company’s dinosaur-like “Spot” robots displaying moves like Mick Jagger, as well as like Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts.

The new clip has been rechristened “Spot Me Up.”

“Start Me Up” appeared on The Rolling Stones’ 1981 album Tattoo You. The song and album peaked at #2, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts. An expanded, 40th anniversary Tattoo You reissue was released earlier this month.

Meanwhile, The Stones continue their 2021 No Filter Tour of U.S. with a concert tonight in Tampa, Florida.

Joywave announces new album, ’Cleanse’

October 29, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Joywave has announced a new album called Cleanse.

The fourth studio effort from the “Destruction” outfit will arrive February 11. It’s the follow-up to 2020’s Possession, which spawned the singles “Obsession” and “Half Your Age.”

Cleanse includes the previously released single “Every Window Is a Mirror,” as well as the songs “After Coffee” and “The Inversion.” A fourth album cut, “Cyn City 2000,” is out today via digital outlets.

Joywave will launch a U.S. headlining tour in support of Cleanse next year, starting February 26 in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. Tickets go on sale next Thursday, November 4, at 10 a.m. local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit JoywaveMusic.com.

Here’s the Cleanse track list:

“Pray for the Reboot”
“Buy American”
“Every Window Is a Mirror”
“Cyn City 2000”
“After Coffee”
“We Are All We Need”
“Goodbye Tommy”
“The Inversion”
“Why Would You Want to Be Young Again?”
“Have You Ever Lit a Year on Fire?”

Avatar welcomes Halloween with new song “So Sang the Hollow”

October 29, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Credit: Johan Carlén

Avatar has a last-minute addition to your Halloween playlist.

The Swedish metallers have dropped a new song called “So Sang the Hollow,” which frontman Johannes Eckerström describes as “what Simon and Garfunkel would’ve sounded like if they grew up listening to Black Sabbath.”

“‘So Sang the Hollow’ lives between a dream and our waking nightmares,” Eckerström says. “It’s like a seance with ghosts of your own creation.”

You can download “So Sang the Hollow” now via digital outlets.

Avatar just released two new singles, “Going Hunting” and “Barren Cloth Mother,” in September. The band’s most recent album is 2020’s Hunter Gatherer.

In other news, Avatar has rescheduled a group of tour dates that were postponed this month after Eckerström tested positive for COVID-19. The shows will now take place in January and February 2022.

Goo Goo Dolls add holiday cheer to ‘It’s Christmas All Over’ with deluxe edition

October 29, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Goo Goo Dolls are getting into the holiday spirit with the deluxe edition of It’s Christmas All Over.

Following the release of their debut Christmas album in 2020, the legendary rock band is expanding on the effort with a deluxe edition that includes a pair of new tracks: the original “One Last Song About Christmas” and a cover of Dean Martin‘s “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” featuring opera-turned-alt-rock singer Kudisan Kai.

“Raise a glass/ And cheers to the season/ We don’t need a reason/ To love one another again,” the group sings over a melancholy melody in “One Last Song About Christmas,” co-produced by frontman John Rzeznik.

The new tracks join holiday classics including “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “Christmas Don’t Be Late.”

The It’s Christmas All Over deluxe edition will be released on November 5.

Journey’s Jonathan Cain releases new six-track Christian-music EP, ‘Oh Lord Lead Us’

October 29, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Journey keyboardist and songwriter Jonathan Cain has just released a new EP titled Oh Lord Lead Us, the latest in a series of Christian music projects he’s put out in recent years.

The six-track collection includes the title track, which was issued as a single in July, and a tune called “Blue Thunder” that was inspired by Cain watching a storm roll by while at his home in Florida.

“It just hit me that there was a powerful conversation that God was having with the whole neighborhood,” Cain explains to American Songwriter. “The lightning hits and the thunder comes right after it; and the way it rolls, it feels like the sound waves roll, really, across the land. You can feel the earth kind of shake.”

A lyric video for “Blue Thunder” got its premiere at AmericanSongwriter.com.

The EP also features “Something Greater,” a song named after and inspired by a book by his wife, pastor Paula White-Cain.

Cain is planning to release a new full-length solo album soon.

Meanwhile, Jonathan’s song “Oh Lord Lead Us” will serve as the theme song for a new series Rockin on Heaven’s Door that will debut in December on the Pure Flix faith-based network. Cain also will appear on the debut episode of the series, which will feature various musicians discussing their spiritual beliefs.

Cain also is planning a songwriting event and a Christmas concert, with details to be announced soon.

As previously reported, Journey will be performing a series of Las Vegas concerts in December, including a six-show residency at The Theater at Virgin Hotels, a special symphonic performance on December 18 in Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

Here’s the EP’s full track list:

“Oh Lord Lead Us”
“Pray to the Father”
“Worship Our Way”
“Beautiful Thunder”
“Something Greater”
“No One but You Jesus”

New Music Friday: Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, A$AP Rocky and Lil Uzi Vert

October 29, 2021 by WDNY Radio

As Jay-Z prepares to be inducted into the Rock & Roll of Fame on Saturday in Cleveland, he dropped two new tracks on Friday.

“Guns Go Bang” featuring Kid Cudi, and “King Kong Riddim” featuring Jadakiss, Conway The Machine and British rapper BackRoad Gee, are both from the soundtrack of the new Netflix western The Harder They Fall. Hova co-produced the film, which stars Idris Elba, Regina King, LaKeith Stanfield and Zazie Beetz.

Alicia Keys serenades her husband, Swizz Beatz, in the video for “Best of Me,” which is the second single from her upcoming double album, KEYS. The 15-time Grammy winner also announced that she will drop KEYS on December 10. “Best of Me” follows “LA LA” featuring Swae Lee, which was released on September 9.

“My new album, KEYS, will have two types of songs,” she commented Tuesday in an Instagram video. The first album named, Originals, which Alicia produced, features “laid back piano vibes.’ The second disc, named Unlocked, which she produced with Mike WiLL Made-it, is described as “upbeat, drums, level up vibes.”

A$AP Rocky, who was a surprise guest during 50 Cent‘s Rolling Loud New York set Thursday, released a new track titled “Sandman.” The song was included on his 2011 mixtape, Live. Love. A$AP, which became available Friday on streaming platforms for the first time. The project was Rocky’s first release, and now he’s celebrating his 10th anniversary as a recording artist.

Finally, Lil Uzi Vert, who also performed Thursday during Rolling Loud New York event at Citi Field, has fans ready for Halloween with his latest track, “Demon High.” It’s his first solo single of the year. In May, he and Don Tolliver dropped “His & Her’s” featuring Gunna under the name Internet Money.

Little Big Town is joining The Eagles on tour: “What a bucket list dream come true”

October 29, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Little Big Town had a major piece of news to share on Friday: They’re the opening act for The Eagles’ upcoming 50th anniversary tour.

The five-stop stadium trek will take place over the month of June 2022, and will include four shows in the U.K. and one in the Netherlands. It will conclude with a set at London’s 10-day music festival BST Hyde Park.

“We’ve been DYING to share this news,” LBT wrote on social media. “What a bucket list dream come true. We’re headed to Europe, including HYDE PARK, with The Eagles!!!!”

As direct support for the legendary rockers, they won’t be the only country-contingent group onstage: The Eagles’ current lineup includes Vince Gill.

Tickets for the tour dates go on sale November 5.

We’ve been DYING to share this news. What a bucket list dream come true. We’re headed to Europe, including HYDE PARK, with The Eagles!!!! Tickets on sale Friday, 11/5. pic.twitter.com/bgnKeki5kZ

— Little Big Town (@littlebigtown) October 29, 2021

Billy Joel reveals he paid band members their full salary during the pandemic

October 29, 2021 by WDNY Radio

When a lot of people didn’t know where their next paycheck was coming from, Billy Joel made sure his band did.

During a recent interview, Joel revealed that he made sure the money kept flowing for his band members during the COVID-19 pandemic, even though live shows were shut down.

“I did pay them full salary for a year,” Joel told Howard Stern on Stern’s satellite radio show. “I have a great band, I’m so happy to have them on stage.”

The “Piano Man” went on to explain that he wanted to express his appreciation for the team that stuck by him through all these years, even when he had some financial issues of his own.

“I don’t do as many gigs as I used to do…back in the day when I had some money issues, I wasn’t able to take care of the band the same way I am now. I wasn’t able to compensate them…and I wanted to take care of the band,” said Joel.

Joel is set to kick off an 11-stop tour on November 5, starting in New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett light up the studio in “Night and Day” video

October 29, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett take to the studio for the video for “Night and Day.”

Much like “Love for Sale,” the title track of Gaga and Bennett’s most recent collaborations album, the dynamic duo take viewers inside the recording process of the song, which was penned by acclaimed Broadway songwriter Cole Porter, and was featured in the 1932 musical Gay Divorce.

Accompanied by session players, the two superstar singers step up to the mic, capturing the theatrical nature of “Night and Day,” taking notes and workshopping the song during the recording process. Throughout the session, Gaga can be seen adoringly looking at her duet partner, the performance ending with a double-cheek kiss.

Love for Sale reached #1 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart and landed inside the top 10 on the all-genre Billboard 200 after its September release.

It marks the final studio recording of Bennett’s career. It was revealed in February that the 95-year-old music legend has been living with Alzheimer’s since 2016.

Fetty Wap pleads not guilty to federal drug charges

October 29, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Fetty Wap pleaded not guilty to federal drug charges during an arraignment Friday in Central Islip federal court in Long Island, New York, ABC News confirms.

Federal prosecutors asked that the rapper be detained pre-trial, which the defense did not contest.

“This defendant is part of an organization that systematically distributed 100 kilograms of fentanyl and heroin across Long Island,” assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Wenzel said.

Prosecutors noted Fetty Wap, birth name William Junior Maxwell II, faces a minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

The rapper was arrested Thursday during the Rolling Loud music festival at Citi Field in Queens, New York. He was charged with five others, including a New Jersey corrections officer, with conspiring to distribute and possess controlled substances across Long Island and New Jersey.

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