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The Weeknd taps the Olympics to announce new single “Take My Breath,” due out August 6

August 3, 2021 by WDNY Radio

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After sharing a cryptic two-minute teaser the other day about an upcoming single, The Weeknd confirmed on Monday that his next music era is finally here.

Taking to Instagram, the “Blinding Lights” singer announced fans will hear his brand new song “Take My Breath” this Friday, August 6.

The Weeknd tapped the Tokyo Olympics to share the track and release info in an official promo, which focused on the U.S. Women’s Track & Field team through the eyes of runners Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad, Gabby Thomas and Athing Mu.

The promo features joyous moments the four celebrated at the finish line in past races before revealing the song’s title and teasing the next crop of Olympic track and field events that Team USA is primed to dominate.

The Weeknd, also feeling the gold medal vibes, captioned his comeback, “8.6.21 new single [gold medal emoji].”

No word yet on when that new album is supposed to come out, but fans are buzzing that an announcement is on the horizon.

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Jennifer Hudson recalls final phone call with Aretha Franklin

August 3, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Jennifer Hudson stars as the legendary Aretha Franklin in the upcoming biopic Aretha, out August 13. Unfortunately, the iconic soul singer died in 2018, but Hudson still remembers the last conversation she had with her.

“I definitely remember our last call,” Hudson told E!’s Daily Pop. “I miss hearing from her.”

“The last thing we spoke about was what she’d been eating and I was telling her about my son cooking. And he’s like, ‘Mother, is that Aretha Franklin on the phone?!’ I was so glad he was there to share that moment,” she expressed.

Hudson also recalled being hand-picked by the “Natural Woman” songstress for the leading role in Aretha, which she says gave her the “encouragement to get through it.”

“But it’s still adds pressure because you don’t want to let her down. It’s personal to me, for that reason,” she explained. “One minute it’s like, ‘oh my gosh, I’m so excited,’ and the next second it’s a bunch of anxiety.”

On Monday, the Oscar winner shared a throwback photo of herself visiting Franklin’s childhood home with some of the singer’s family members, Diamond Franklin, Victorie Franklin, Tonja Franklin, Edward Franklin, Kecalf Franklin, Jordan Franklin and Grace Franklin.

“I enjoyed all of Detroit but my favorite moment was sitting on Aretha’s childhood porch with her beautiful family,” she wrote alongside a picture of the group. “As we reflected on the Queen, we listened to her grandbaby sing “Ain’t No Way” with her beautiful voice. The world needs to hear more from the Franklin family. I will never forget this sweet moment together!”

That time Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley accidentally ate St. Vincent’s dinner on tour

August 3, 2021 by WDNY Radio

As touring begins to open up again, bands are remembering what they missed about being back on the road. For Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley, though, there’s one tour memory he’d prefer to forget.

Speaking with ABC Audio, Bayley recalls when he accidentally ate Annie Clark‘s dinner while Glass Animals was opening for St. Vincent in 2014.

“Oh my god, I remember that!” exclaims drummer Joe Seaward. “You were in so much trouble!”

“I was really hungry!” Bayley laughs. “It was really delicious, I remember you telling me how much you’d enjoyed it,” Seaward adds.

As Bayley explains, the whole thing was just a simple mistake. He’d seen the food sitting out with no one around to claim it, and figured it had been marked for the trash.

“I assumed someone had left it, or…I don’t know what I thought! ” Bayley says.

“You were hungry, Dave, you weren’t thinking,” Seaward consoles, to which Bayley admits, “When I’m hungry I can’t think.”

“Then I was there stuffing it into my face,” Bayley recalls. “And St. Vincent’s tour manager came around the corner and just looked…I’ve never seen anyone go more pasty so quickly in my life. He looked absolutely destroyed.”

If Bayley’s is looking to make it up to Clark, both Glass Animals and St. Vincent are playing the Life Is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas next month.

Meanwhile, Glass Animals will launch a headlining tour in support of their new album Dreamland August 30 in Lewiston, New York.

Adam Levine shows off massive leg tattoo that took 13 hours

August 3, 2021 by WDNY Radio

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Adam Levine is getting a leg up on completely covering his body in tattoos.

The singer posted a video of himself getting a massive new tattoo that covers his entire leg. The ink, done by tattoo artist Bill Canales, took 13 hours to complete.

“13 hours later…,” Adam captioned the video.

The full design covers the leg from ankle to upper thigh and appears to depict a dragon. It was done over the course of two days, according to Canales’ Instagram page.

“Two days 13 hours on @adamlevine a true warrior to say the least and hell of a guy,” Canales captioned another video of the process.

It’s not the first time the Maroon 5 frontman has shown some serious patience when it comes to getting inked. A design on his other leg took three days to finish back in March, and his large back tattoo took a whopping six months to complete back in 2016.

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Lindsey Buckingham says most of Fleetwood Mac “would love to see me come back” to the band

August 3, 2021 by WDNY Radio

In recent new episode of Marc Maron‘s WTF Podcast, Lindsey Buckingham says despite his firing from Fleetwood Mac in 2019, “pretty much everyone [in the band] would love to see me come back.”

Having said that, Buckingham admits that he’s not sure if returning to the group is “doable.”

Buckingham reveals that his conflicts with Fleetwood Mac began after he finished a tour with Christine McVie supporting their 2017 duo album when he asked if the band would delay its own planned trek so he could promote a solo album he was preparing.

“[I asked the band,] ‘I have this other album that I’m really proud of…and I’d love if you could give me an extra three months to just put it out and do some American dates before Fleetwood Mac goes out,'” Lindsey explains. “And there was certainly one person who did not want to bestow that on me.”

The “one person,” of course, was Stevie Nicks.

Buckingham adds, “To be fair, everyone was anxious to get on the road. But…we’ve all made time for each others things. You know, I’d been in the band for 43 years for God’s sake.”

Lindsey then notes that the touring issue “led to other things that kind of built up around that. And then it just got to the point where someone just didn’t want to work with me anymore, and other people were perhaps not feeling empowered enough to stand up for me when possibly they should have or could have.”

Buckingham said he feels his firing harmed the band’s legacy.”

Meanwhile, Lindsey reports that he’s still in touch with drummer Mick Fleetwood, noting, “we love each other and we reinforced each other’s sensibilities in the band.”

Buckingham’s new self-titled solo album will be released on September 17.

Listen to alternate versions of The Beach Boys’ “Surf’s Up” and “This Whole World” from Feel Flows box set

August 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

The Beach Boys have debuted two more advance tracks from the band’s forthcoming box set, Feel Flows: The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971, the release of which was recently pushed back from July 30 to August 27.

The tracks, an a cappella version of “Surf’s Up” and a newly created reimagined mix of “This Whole World,” are available now for download and via streaming services.

As previously reported, the Feel Flows collection, which you can pre-order now, features newly remastered versions of two of the band’s underappreciated albums — 1970’s Sunflower and 1971’s Surf’s Up — as well as 108 previously unreleased recordings from the sessions for those albums.

The harmony-laden “Surf’s Up” was the final song on The Beach Boys’ 1971 album of the same name, although the tune dates back to the band’s famously aborted late-1960s album, Shine.

“This Whole World” originally appeared on Sunflower, while the new mix features an alternate lead vocal by Carl Wilson, a lead vocal part from Brian Wilson on the bridge that wasn’t used on the original track, and an alternate ending previously only heard in an Eastern Airlines commercial that aired in 1971.

Feel Flows, which will be available as a five-CD set and digitally, features the aforementoned remastered versions of Sunflower and Surf’s Up, as well as rare live tracks, outtakes, alternate versions and mixes, radio promos, isolated backing tracks and a cappella renditions of songs, and more.

Abridged editions of the collection also will be released, including a two-CD package and a four-LP vinyl set available in standard black vinyl and limited-edition colored vinyl versions.

Check out the Feel Flows: The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 box set’s full track list, and more details, at uDiscoverMusic.com.

The Killers reveal ‘Pressure Machine’ track list, featuring Phoebe Bridgers

August 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

The Killers have revealed the track list for their upcoming studio album Pressure Machine, which is due out on August 13.

On Instagram, the band posted a message alongside the track list that reads, “11 days to go. 11 tracks on the record. Coincidence?” The list of song names includes a track called “Runaway Horses,” which features none other than Phoebe Bridgers.

The band also posted a teaser for the album on Instagram that shows Brandon Flowers, Ronnie Vannucci and returning guitarist Dave Keuning hanging out around a jukebox, which appears to be playing a snippet of new music.

The band’s new collaboration with Bruce Springsteen, “Dustland,” is not on the album. However, both acts are going to perform at New York City’s upcoming Homecoming Concert, taking place August 21 in Central Park. Perhaps they’ll get together onstage for a live rendition.

Here’s the track list for Pressure Machine:

“West Hills”
“Quiet Town”
“Terrible Thing”
“Cody”
“Sleepwalker”
“Runaway Horses” (featuring Phoebe Bridgers)
“In the Car Outside”
“In Another Life”
“Desperate Things”
“Pressure Machine”
“The Getting By”

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Limp Bizkit debuts new song “Dad Vibes” to go along with Fred Durst’s new look

August 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

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It turns out that the new look Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has been sporting is thematically consistent with the band’s new music.

At the end of Limp Bizkit’s Lollapalooza set Saturday, Durst, who’s now sporting a white-blonde handlebar mustache and matching ’70s-style hair, introduced the band’s new tune, saying, “This song right here, it’s for you and only you…It’s a song off our new album called ‘Dad Vibes.’ I want to see everybody out there dancing right now.”

Durst, the band and crew then threw t-shirts out to the audience as “Dad Vibes” played over the PA system. It’s hard to make out the lyrics, but the Genius lyrics website lists them as, “Check out the dad with the swag on the flow/ Momma gon’ brag when I walk in the door.”

Another lyric is, “Hot dad ridin’ in on a rhino/ Got the rule on the rap with the dad vibes/ Now everybody bounce with the franchise.”

There’s still no word on when Limp Bizkit’s new album — the long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s Gold Cobra — will emerge. As previously reported, in June, guitarist Wes Borland said the band had somewhere around 35 songs recorded instrumentally, but that Durst was holding up the process by recording and then discarding his vocal tracks.

The nu-metallers are in the middle of their Limited Last Minute Post Pandemic Pop Up Party tour. The band also will be performing at several festivals in late August, September and October, including Rocklahoma and Aftershock.

Isaiah Rashad’s ‘The House Is Burning’ named one of the “Best Rap Albums of July”

August 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

July was an exciting month of new albums, including the long-awaited return of Isaiah Rashad with The House Is Burning and other releases from EST Gee, Dave, and more.

Rashad’s first album since 2016’s The Sun’s Tirade earned a spot on Brooklyn Vegan’s unranked list of the “7 Best Rap Albums of July.” The outlet called The House Is Burning “a great sounding album” and praised the project’s “laid-back production, airy R&B hooks, and deep, conversational lyricism from Rashad.”

Brooklyn Vegan complimented the “well-picked and well-executed” features on EST Gee’s Bigger Than Life or Death, such as Lil Baby, 42 Dugg, Rylo Rodriguez, Lil Durk, Future, Young Thug and more.

“EST Gee himself is on his way to the forefront of rap,” the outlet writes about the Louisville, KY rapper. “He’s got a cold, hard delivery, and he knows how to wrap his gritty storytelling in an accessible package without toning down the pure venom of his street rap roots.”

Other albums on the magazine’s list include Vince Staples‘ new self-titled album, Tkay Maidza‘s Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3, Bizzy Bank‘s Same Energy, Skepta‘s All In EP, and Dave‘s We’re All Alone In This Together. Meanwhile, Blxst & Bino Rideaux‘s latest collaboration album, Sixtape 2, and Dave East & Harry Fraud‘s Hoffa received honorable mentions.

Billy Gibbons says Dusty Hill recorded vocal tracks for new ZZ Top songs before his death

August 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

After the sudden and unexpected death of ZZ Top‘s Dusty Hill last week, the group’s frontman, Billy Gibbons, revealed that the late bassist had recorded several tracks, including some vocals, that likely will appear on the band’s next album.

In a recent interview with Variety, Gibbons noted that the recordings were “gonna require some completion work,” while adding that Hill luckily laid down vocal tracks for two tunes.

“I handed Dusty a couple of lyric sheets and I said, ‘Hey, see if you can make heads or tails out of this,'” Billy recalled. “He said, ‘Can I sing it?’ I said, ‘Dusty, you could sing the calendar if you wanted to — people would love it.’ He goes, ‘Hey, that’s not a bad idea. If we ever get back to go to work, can we add the calendar into the show? I know all the words.'”

Gibbons also told Variety that he wasn’t sure about Hill’s cause of death, while noting that in recent years Dusty had broken a shoulder and a hip, and also had suffered from ulcers. Dusty’s health issues prompted him to leave ZZ Top’s current tour after only a couple of shows, and the band tapped its longtime guitar tech, Elwood Francis, to step in for him. Sadly, just a few days later, Hill passed away in his sleep at his home in Houston.

Gibbons said it was a coincidence that Francis had decided to stop shaving during the pandemic, so that when ZZ Top enlisted him to fill in for Hill, he’d already grown a long beard.

“I was looking over the front row and everybody was kind of giving each other the elbow, and they were pointing up and said, ‘Look, the ZZ Top circus still rolls on,'” Billy noted. “‘There’s another freak up there.'”

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