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Nicki Minaj can’t believe Lil Wayne’s birthday gifts for her one-year-old son

October 6, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Nicki Minaj just celebrated the first birthday of her baby boy with a huge party, and she was amazed by the gifts from her mentor, Lil Wayne.

Weezy sent over a dozen presents, and Minaj was nearly speechless. On her Instagram Story, as captured by The Shade Room, Minaj highlighted her son’s room full of gifts and was in disbelief. She tagged her longtime friend and wrote, “I just opened the bags & I’m shock… this is insane. I love you so much. This is A LOT OF STUFF. OMG.”

Last week, Wayne celebrated his 39th birthday in Miami, and surprisingly, Nicki was not invited. Young Money Entertainment president Mack Maine quickly apologized to the “Motorsport” rapper for the oversight.

Minaj posted her party photos Tuesday on Instagram, saying to her son, “Mama is so proud of you, PapaBear. You’re the best boy in the whole wide world. I don’t know what I did to deserve you, but God bless you, son. Mommy & Daddy will never stop loving you. #KungFuPanda”

Meanwhile, Brandy wrote, “Thank you for inviting us. Wish we could have been there. Happy Birthday Papa Bear.”

The party was a child’s fantasy come true, with a bouncy house, face painting, a photo booth, water slides, and many more activities. Nicki and her family were having so much, they didn’t realize that they forgot to cut the cake until their guests had left.

“I had to bring my baby out in his pajamas. Boy u gon get this bday song whether u like it or not,” she commented. “To everyone who sent a gift, he hasn’t opened gifts yet but thank you, love you. Happy 1st bday My world, my everything.”

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James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich reflect on Jason Newsted leaving Metallica: “We weren’t equipped”

October 6, 2021 by WDNY Radio

James Heftfield and Lars Ulrich feel they “weren’t equipped” to handle bassist Jason Newsted leaving Metallica.

Newsted, of course, exited the legendary metal outfit in 2001 in part to work on other projects. His departure was a sore spot for Hetfield and Ulrich, who felt Newsted releasing his own music was a betrayal of Metallica. The bad blood was explored in great detail in the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster.

In an interview Wednesday with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Hetfield and Ulrich expressed regret about how they handled Newsted leaving.

“Jason is the only member of Metallica who has ever left willingly,” Ulrich says. “That in itself is a statistic. And the resentment from James and I was just so…You can’t do that. You can only leave if we want you to leave. And then we weren’t equipped at the time to do a deep dive into why he was leaving.”

The drummer continued, “You can see 20 years later, it makes complete sense. We write the songs. We make the decisions. We do all of it. You have no creative outlet in this band. You have no creative voice. Then when you go and do something that gives you satisfaction in a way for you to express yourself to the rest of the world, then we get p***ed at you. Then that resentment then goes to you leaving the band.”

If something similar happened with Metallica today, Hetfield feels he’d handle it differently.

“If it was like that right now, say, [current bassist] Robert [Trujillo] comes and says, ‘Hey, I’m done here’…I would fight for him,” he said. “I didn’t know about the fight back then.”

Camila Cabello on how Shawn Mendes supports her mental health: “We’re very transparent with each other”

October 6, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes have both been open about their struggles with mental health and anxiety, and they say that kind of honesty is what keeps their relationship going strong.

In a new cover story with Glamour, Camila talks about how the two both go to therapy separately and how they are both supportive of each other’s mental health journey.

“For better, for worse, we’re very transparent with each other. I think that’s why we can trust each other so much, because it’s a very 3D human relationship,” she says, adding, “I think even just the language of being like, ‘Hey, I’m sorry that I’ve been distant with you or snappy with you. I’m just struggling and I’m feeling kind of anxious.’ That level of transparency really helps a lot.”

Shawn agrees, telling the mag via email, “Camila and I give each other an extreme amount of patience and understanding. I think the truth is that when you’re struggling with mental health, it turns you sometimes into the version of yourself that you don’t like to be — and kind of loving and accepting your person through that, and being there for them through that, is life-changing.”

Camila admits that when she gets anxious, she tends to eat a lot — or “zombie-eat,” as she calls it. When she found herself doing that at a recent VMAs party, Shawn helped her get through it.

“It’s important to be on top of not just what’s making you sad or anxious, but also what’s giving you joy,” she says. “I want to be happy and enjoy my life. That’s kind of it.”

Mickey Guyton admits making an album while pregnant was tough, but “God gives you exactly what you need”

October 6, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Recording an album is difficult enough on its own, but Mickey Guyton made her full-length studio debut, Remember Her Name, while simultaneously at work on another creative process: She was pregnant with her first child, a son named Grayson.

“Pregnancy wasn’t in the plan!” Mickey admits during a recent CMT interview, adding that “God gives you exactly what you need at that exact moment.”

For Mickey, becoming a mom meant focusing less on the criticism and pressure she faced from the country music industry, not only as a new artist, but also as a Black woman. “I know that I needed this beautiful boy to take my mind off the industry’s pressure and put that energy into this precious human,” she explains.

In addition, the pregnancy brought logistical challenges to the album-making process. “Recording and singing with a baby in your belly is a lot!” the singer goes on to say. “When I first found out that I was pregnant, the first trimester was the hardest for recording.”

Early pregnancy symptoms like nausea made it difficult for Mickey to predict when she’d be able to work, and later on, as the baby grew, it became physically difficult for her to sing.

“Then, in the final trimester, I had to learn how to sing with a six-pound baby in my belly. While recording the song ‘All American,’ for instance, there was no room for my diaphragm, so I had to wait for certain times of the day to record,” she recounts. “If I had just eaten, I literally couldn’t sing ‘All American,’ because my voice couldn’t hit those notes…”

Also on the track list of Remember Her Name are songs like “Black Like Me” and “What Are You Gonna Tell Her?”

Deep Purple releasing first-ever covers album, ‘Turning to Crime,’ in November

October 6, 2021 by WDNY Radio

A little over a year after the release of their last studio effort, Whoosh!, Deep Purple has announced plans to put out a new album titled Turning to Crime on November 26.

The new collection, which was produced by the band’s frequent collaborator, Bob Ezrin, features the British hard-rock legends putting their own spin on 12 songs originally recorded by other artists.

Turning to Crime, which is Deep Purple’s first-ever covers album, includes versions of Fleetwood Mac‘s “Oh Well,” Bob Dylan‘s “Watching the River Flow,” Little Feat‘s “Dixie Chicken,” The Yardbirds‘ “Shapes of Things,” Cream‘s “White Room,” and more.

The final track is a medley titled “Caught in the Act” that features sections of songs by Booker T & the MG’s, The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, and The Spencer Davis Group.

According to a making-of video posted on the earMUSIC label’s YouTube channel, the album came together remotely while the band members were separated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each member chose songs they wanted to record and then the group voted on the final list of tunes.

In advance of Turning to Crime, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have released the album’s lead track, a prog-flavored version of Love‘s 1966 garage-rock classic “7 and 7 Is,” as a digital single.

Turning to Crime can be pre-ordered now, and will be available on CD, as a two-LP vinyl set, as a five-LP/DVD box set and digitally.

You can check out more details about the album at TurningToCrime.com. Fans who sign up for Deep Purple’s newsletter at the site will receive a free download of a non-album track on November 12.

Here’s the full Turning to Crime track list:

“7 and 7 Is”
“Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu”
“Oh Well”
“Jenny Take a Ride!”
“Watching the River Flow”
“Let the Good Times Roll”
“Dixie Chicken”
“Shapes of Things”
“The Battle of New Orleans”
“Lucifer”
“White Room”
“Caught in the Act” (Medley: “Going Down”/”Green Onions”/”Hot ‘Lanta”/”Dazed and Confused”/”Gimme Some Lovin'”)

Cage the Elephant reissuing ‘Melophobia’ and ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ on vinyl for RSD Essentials series

October 6, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Cage the Elephant‘s albums Melophobia and Tell Me I’m Pretty are being reissued on vinyl as part of Record Store Day’s RSD Essentials Series.

Both LPs will be available on limited-edition colored vinyl in independent record stores on October 29.

As the name suggests, RSD Essentials, which launched earlier this year, highlights different albums from various eras and genres that Record Store Day organizers feel are “essential.”

“We would be the first to advise that you ‘make every day a record store day’ and to that end, we’re working to make sure they have access to fantastic records all year long, not just on special release dates or days we single them out for celebrating,” RSD says. “Great records in great record stores.”

Cage the Elephant first released Melophobia and Tell Me I’m Pretty in 2013 and 2015, respectively. Melophobia was nominated for the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy, while Tell Me I’m Pretty won Best Rock Album.

Listen to Bruce Springsteen read from Steinbeck’s ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ in trailer for new documentary, ‘Ants’

October 6, 2021 by WDNY Radio

A recording of Bruce Springsteen recording a passage from John Steinbeck‘s classic book The Grapes of Wrath is featured in a new Italian documentary titled Ants, about the plight of African and Asia migrants trying to make their way to Europe to find a better life.

A segment of Springsteen’s spoken-word soliloquy can be heard in a new trailer for the film that got its exclusive premiere at Variety.com.

In the clip, interspersed with scenes of various migrants in the midst of their journeys, we hear The Boss read, “The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line…On the highways the people moved like ants and searched for work, for food. And the anger began to ferment.”

Ants producer Davide Azzolini tells Variety that he reached out to Springsteen via his manager, David Landau, to see if Bruce would do the reading, which he felt would give the film a “more universal” appeal.

The Grapes of Wrath, of course, was written during the Great Depression and focuses on people who left their homes in the Dust Bowl region of the U.S. to travel to California seeking a better future. Springsteen’s song “The Ghost of Tom Joad” was inspired by the novel’s main character.

Azzolini says he wasn’t hopeful about Springsteen agreeing to the request, but a few weeks later, he was informed that Bruce “would tape [the reading] in his studio.”

A few days later, Azzolini says he was emailed “two different takes of his recordings.”

Ants, which was directed by Italian journalist and filmmaker Valerio Nicolosi, features footage shot on rescue vessels, in crowded migrant camps on the Greek island of Lesbos, and in the Balkans. The movie currently is being submitted to international film festivals.

Wolfgang Van Halen shares post honoring one-year anniversary of dad Eddie’s death

October 6, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Wolfgang Van Halen has shared a post honoring his father, Eddie Van Halen, on the one-year anniversary of the iconic guitarist’s death.

“You fought so hard for so long, but you were still taken away,” Wolf writes alongside a photo of him and Eddie smiling and playing music together. “It’s just so unfair.”

He continues, “I’m not OK. I don’t think I’ll ever be OK. There’s so much I wish I could show you. So many things I wish I could share with you. I wish I could laugh with you again. I wish I could hug you again. I miss you so much it hurts.”

Wolf adds that he’s “trying to do my best here without you, but it’s really f***ing hard.”

“I hope you’re still proud,” he says. “I love you with all of my heart, Pop. Watch over me.”

Eddie died October 6, 2020, following a battle with cancer. He was 65.

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Tim McGraw recalls the day Faith Hill agreed to marry him: “It was the best day of my life, that’s for sure”

October 6, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Wednesday marks Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s 25th wedding anniversary, and Tim marked the occasion on social media by recounting the day they got engaged.

That day was actually the last in a string of several marriage proposals he gave to his fellow country superstar wife, Tim reveals: He’d asked Faith to marry him several times in the past, but she kept saying no.

“She said, ‘I’m not gonna get involved with another country singer. It’s just not gonna work out,’” he recalls. But something was different on that fateful day, when the couple were at an outdoor country festival in a trailer, and Tim was getting ready for his set.

“I had this…case that had this big mirror in it,” he explains. “She’s standing there, and we’re talking, and I said, ‘Look, let’s get married.’ And she says, ‘You’re asking me to marry you at a country music festival in a trailer house.’ I said, ‘Well, it’s pretty apropos, if you think about it.’”

Faith didn’t give Tim an answer then, and he went off to play his set. But when he returned to his trailer, he realized she’d finally accepted his proposal.

“Faith wasn’t there, but I looked at the mirror, and in lipstick, it said, ‘Yes! I’m gonna be your wife,’” he continued. “And we still have that mirror. It was the best day of my life, that’s for sure.”

Faith and Tim made it official on October 6, 1996, and have been inseparable ever since. The country superstar couple have since become parents to three daughters: Audrey, Maggie and Gracie.

25 years later and it’s still the best day of my life. Thanks for going on this journey with me. Love you @FaithHill ❤️ pic.twitter.com/DmxXCDnOH3

— Tim McGraw (@TheTimMcGraw) October 6, 2021

Ed Sheeran and Elton John to release a joint Christmas single

October 6, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Ed Sheeran and Elton John have collaborated onstage, but never on record — until now.

The U.K.’s Official Charts Company reports that while speaking to NPO Radio 2, Ed revealed the news that he and Elton, whose company used to manage him, are teaming up for a Christmas single.

Ed explained that Elton called him up last December 25 to say Merry Christmas, but also to say that he wanted Ed to join him to do another holiday song, because his festive classic “Step Into Christmas” had returned to the British top 10.

No word yet on what the song’s title is, or when it will be released. However, the race to have the so-called “Christmas number one” — the song that’s at the top of the charts on December 25 — is a big deal in the U.K., and Official Charts now predicts that this song, whatever it is, will be a strong contender for the title.

Elton is set to release his album of collaborations, The Lockdown Sessions, on October 22, while Ed is putting out his new album, = (Equals), on October 29. While this Christmas single hasn’t appeared on either of those projects’ track listings, perhaps it’ll be added to the digital version of the releases.

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