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Gorillaz announces US tour behind new album, ’The Mountain’

March 3, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Gorillaz has announced a U.S. tour in support of their new album, The Mountain.

The headlining trek kicks off Sept. 17 in Orlando, Florida, and will conclude Halloween night, Oct. 31, in Seattle. Openers include rapper Little Simz and hip-hop trio Deltron 3030, the latter of which features Gorillaz’s “Clint Eastwood” collaborator, Del the Funky Homosapien.

Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on March 9 at 10 a.m. local time.

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

The Mountain, the follow-up to 2023’s Cracker Island, dropped on Friday. It includes the single “The Happy Dictator.”

In throwback Gorillaz news, the Recording Academy has uploaded the band’s hologram performance of “Feel Good Inc.” on the 2006 Grammys, which turned into a mashup with Madonna and her song “Hung Up.” You can watch that streaming now on YouTube.

Justin Timberlake sues to stop release of 2024 bodycam arrest footage

March 3, 2026 by WDNY Radio

It didn’t end up ruining the tour, but Justin Timberlake is afraid that the bodycam footage of his 2024 drunk driving arrest might ruin his reputation.

Justin filed suit against the Village of Sag Harbor in Long Island, New York, as well as the village’s police department and police chief, to prevent the footage from being released. In the court filing, obtained by ABC News, Justin’s attorney asks the court to “permanently enjoin” the footage from being released in response to a request for it under the Freedom of Information Law.

According to the filing, the footage lasts around eight hours and “encroaches upon areas of [Timberlake’s] life and emotional state that have no relevance at all to [his] arrest.”

Furthermore, the filing argues that releasing the footage would “constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy because it reveals intimate, highly personal, and sensitive details concerning [Timberlake] and his family, and includes information of medical, familial, otherwise confidential nature.”

“The harm from public exposure … is immediate and irreparable,” the filing adds.

The filing goes on to say that the footage depicts Justin “in an acutely vulnerable state” during his traffic stop, sobriety test, arrest and confinement.

“Public dissemination of this footage would cause severe and irreparable harm to [Timberlake’s] personal and professional reputation, subject [him] to public ridicule and harassment, and serve no legitimate public interest in understanding the operations of government,” it goes on to say.

Justin was stopped June 18, 2024 in Sag Harbor after running a stop sign and subsequently “performed poorly” on field sobriety tests. He pled guilty to driving while ability impaired by alcohol and was sentenced to 25 hours of community service and fined $500.

Sag Harbor mayor Thomas Gardella told Newsday that the village will wait on the court’s ruling.

Organizer hoping for ‘special guests’ at The Music of Billy Joel tribute concert

March 3, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Billy Joel is the subject of this year’s Music Of concert put on by New York entrepreneur Michael Dorf.

This is Dorf’s 21st Music Of charity concert, and he tells Rolling Stone it was the rocker’s documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, that finally pushed him to make the Piano Man this year’s honoree.

“I think there’s a lot of love for Billy, and a desire to hear his music,” Dorf says.

This year’s show will be held March 12 at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The lineup includes Joel’s daughter Alexa Ray Joel, Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas, Train’s Pat Monahan and others, with Joel’s eight-piece touring band serving as the house band.

“The fact that it is his band, that’s exciting for people,” Dorf says. “We sold out without a single artist mentioned who’s performing, and we got a great lineup, as people trusted. Fingers crossed, let’s see if we have any special guests.”

Of course fans would love for one of those special guests to be Joel, who canceled his 2025 tour in May after being diagnosed with a brain condition. The only time he’s performed since then was a surprise appearance with a Billy Joel cover band in Wellington, Florida, in January.

Dorf will only say that like all previous honorees, Joel has been invited to the concert.

“There’s a box for the band, and if we’re lucky and they want to jump on stage, great,” he tells the mag. “But it’s really for them as much as it is anybody.”

Money raised from the concert benefits music education programs. Previous concerts celebrated the music of Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M., Paul McCartney, Van Morrison and The Who.

Master! Master! Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ turns 40

March 3, 2026 by WDNY Radio

It may seem like time itself is crawling faster now that Metallica’s Master of Puppets is officially 40 years old.

The metal legends’ third studio effort was first released on March 3, 1986. The album continued to push the boundaries of thrash on its way to becoming one of the most seminal and influential albums in heavy metal music history, as evidenced by its octuple-Platinum RIAA certification and its induction into the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2015.

Master of Puppets is centered around its epic 8 1/2-minute title track. Frontman James Hetfield’s meditation of drug addiction is intensified by fiery down-picking and dueling guitar solos.

Today, the song “Master of Puppets” is Metallica’s most-played song live, and its legacy continues to live on in new ways. In 2022, “Master of Puppets” made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 after its use in the season 4 finale of Stranger Things. Metallica’s also named their upcoming Life Burns Faster residency at the high-tech Sphere venue in Las Vegas after a lyric from “Master of Puppets.”

Along with the title track, Master of Puppets includes the ripping opener, “Battery,” and the instrumental “Orion,” which was written primarily by bassist Cliff Burton. “Orion” would turn out to be something of a swan song for the 24-year-old Burton, who was killed in a bus accident during Metallica’s tour in support of Master of Puppets in September 1986.

Burton was replaced by Jason Newsted, who was then replaced by current Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo.

Mumford & Sons’ ’Prizefighter’ debuts in top 10 on ’Billboard’ 200

March 3, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Mumford & Sons’ new album, Prizefighter, has debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard 200.

The record lands at #10 with a total of 44,000 equivalent album units. It marks the “Little Lion Man” outfit’s sixth top-10 record on the Billboard 200.

As previously reported, Prizefighter debuted at #1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart, giving them two-straight #1 albums in their home country in less than a year, following 2025’s Rushmere.

Mumford & Sons have hit #1 on the Billboard 200 three times, with 2012’s Babel, 2015’s Wilder Mind and 2018’s Delta.

Mumford & Sons performed two songs off Prizefighter over the weekend on Saturday Night Live, including the single “Rubber Band Man” with Hozier. They’ll launch a North American tour in June.

Shinedown’s ’Billboard’ record grows with ‘Searchlight’ single

March 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Stop of us if you’ve heard this perhaps 21 times before, but Shinedown is once again sitting at the top of the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

Brent Smith and company’s single “Searchlight” has hit #1 on the ranking, giving them a total of 22 Mainstream Rock Airplay leaders.

The ascension of “Searchlight” extends Shinedown’s previously set record for the most number ones in the history of Mainstream Rock Airplay, which first launched in 1981. Three Days Grace sits in second place, with 20.

“Searchlight” appears on Shinedown’s upcoming album, EI8HT, due out May 29. It also includes the singles “Three Six Five,” “Dance, Kid, Dance” and “Killing Fields.”

Shinedown will launch a U.S. tour in May.

Music notes: Alex Warren, Harry Styles and more

March 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” has just set another Billboard chart record. The song has now spent 33 weeks in the top three of the Billboard Hot 100, the most time ever spent in that region of the chart. The previous record of 32 weeks was held by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Ten of those 33 weeks were spent at #1.

In other Alex Warren news, he’s apparently mortified by what he said to a certain superstar he met at the BRIT Awards Saturday. He wrote on Instagram, “can someone please train me before I see @harrystyles again? ‘I didn’t know you had moves like that’ should NOT have been the first words out of my mouth when I met him.”

And speaking of Harry Styles, you’ll be able to watch his sit-down interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on Wednesday. In an advance clip, Harry tells Zane that because many of his friends are married with kids, he doesn’t have anyone to go to clubs with.

“Silent Treatment” singer Freya Skye will be returning to the franchise where she got her start. Disney+ and Disney Channel have greenlit season 5 of Zombies, and Freya will return as Nova, opposite Malachi Barton’s Victor. Filming starts this spring in New Zealand. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

Jay-Z releases ‘Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life’ cut on vinyl

March 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Jay-Z has added to his list of collectibles, releasing his song “N**** What, N**** Who (Originator 99)” featuring Big Jaz and Amil on 12-inch vinyl. It includes the clean and explicit versions of The Black Album single “Dirt Off Your Shoulder,” as well as a few songs from his discography.

“N**** What, N**** Who (Originator 99),” which was produced by Timbaland and appeared on Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life, is now available on streaming services as well.

Links to the vinyl and streaming options are on Hov’s new website page, jayz30.com, which fans think teases his potential return for the 30th anniversary of his debut album, Reasonable Doubt.

Other hints include the recent release of Reasonable Doubt‘s single “Dead Presidents” on DSPs; the change on streaming platforms from Jay-Z to JAŸ-Z — which was used early in his career; and the shirt he wore at this year’s Super Bowl. The shirt read, “The Game needs me,” a lyric from Jay’s song “Izzo (H.O.V.A.),” on which he rapped, “Can’t leave rap alone, the game needs me/ Haters want me clapped in chrome, it ain’t easy.”

Nashville notes: Cody Johnson says ‘Blame Texas’ + Morgan Wallen’s new radio single

March 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Lone Star State native Cody Johnson released his new song, “Blame Texas,” on Monday to coincide with Texas Independence Day.

Drake Milligan’s added fall dates in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom to his Tumbleweed World Tour. His new album, also named Tumbleweed, drops March 13.

Morgan Wallen’s follow-up radio single to his current #1, “20 Cigarettes,” is the I’m the Problem track “Don’t We.”

Kittie announces 30th anniversary Legacy of Fire tour

March 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Kittie has announced a North American tour celebrating the band’s 30th anniversary.

The trek, dubbed the Legacy of Fire tour, kicks off June 6 in St. Louis and concludes June 27 in Montreal. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, check out Kittie’s Facebook page.

Kittie first formed 30 years ago in 1996. They went on hiatus in 2017 before reforming in 2022.

Kittie released a new album, Fire, in 2024. They also put out an EP in 2025 featuring rerecorded versions of songs from their 2000 debut album, Spit.

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