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The Weeknd reacts to “Blinding Lights” chart feat: “Forever grateful”

August 17, 2021 by WDNY Radio

The Weeknd‘s “Blinding Lights” set the all-time record Monday for most weeks spent on the Billboard Hot 100: a total of 88. Now, the Canadian star has taken to Instagram to share his feelings about the milestone.

“Forever grateful to be able to experiment with sounds, try new things with my voice and create music with the people I truly love and respect,” he writes. “For the last decade every song has been a journey and to be able to continue this journey has been nothing short of a blessing. It’s the only gift I could ever ask for.”

“I’ll be doing it for as long as I can breathe. I love my fans and wouldn’t be here without you,” he continues. “Big day for blinding lights. Multiple songs in the top 20. [My second mixtape] Thursday turns 10. [My dog] Caesar turned 4 and the f**king dawn is coming. LET’S GO.”

“The dawn is coming” is, of course, what Weeknd’s been saying for several months now when talking about his next musical era. In his post, he included a variation on the popular Batman-slapping-Robin meme: It’s a cartoon of himself in his After Hours red jacket, singing “Oooh, I’m blinded b…” being slapped by himself in the present day, saying, “The dawn is coming!!!!”

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Bob Dylan accused of sexually abusing a minor in 1965

August 17, 2021 by WDNY Radio

A woman who claims she was groomed and sexually assaulted by Bob Dylan when she was a minor has filed suit against the music icon.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court, identifies the now 68-year-old alleged victim only as J.C.

The woman claims that the alleged abuse happened in 1965 when she was 12 years old, saying Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, took advantage of her at his Chelsea Hotel apartment 56 years ago. J.C. claims Dylan used his fame to gain her trust and began to groom her “as part of his plan to sexually molest and abuse,” according to the legal documents.

“Bob Dylan (‘Dylan’), over a six-week period between April and May of 1965 befriended and established an emotional connection with the plaintiff, J.C., to lower her inhibitions with the object of sexually abusing her, which he did, coupled with the provision of drugs, alcohol and, threats of physical violence, leaving her emotionally scarred and psychologically damaged to this day,” the suit claims.

J.C. claims she was sexually abused several times by the singer, which has led her to allegedly grapple with “permanent” anxiety, depression and humiliation over the years. She claims to have sought medical treatment because the mental toll had “incapacitated plaintiff from attending her regular activities.”

Speaking to The New York Post, J.C.’s attorney, Daniel W. Isaacs, said of the lawsuit, “She provided a lot of detailed information regarding the time in question that leaves no doubt that she was with him in the apartment during the time in question.”

J.C. is requesting a jury trial and seeks unspecified damages.

A representative for Dylan, 80, denies the account and told The New York Post, “This 56-year-old claim is untrue and will be vigorously defended.”

‘Love You, Little Lady’: Brett Young reveals his best “dad-ing” superpower

August 17, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Now that Brett Young and his wife Taylor are parents to both their toddler, Presley, and their youngest daughter Rowan, who was born in July, it’s safe to say the two have their hands full. But Brett admits he’s perfected a dad superpower or two he hopes makes things a little easier.

“I think what I’ve realized is like the best “dad-ing” is to be able to identify mom’s needs without her having to tell you,” he explains. “Because [the mothers are] gonna take the brunt of it, especially at this age, like the baby needs mom all the time.”

“And so trying to figure out where you can insert yourself,” he continues, “and help without getting to the point where she’s like, ‘Ahh, help me!'”

“So I think at the beginning it was like taking out the trash,” Brett says, “or doing the dishes or things that I would normally do, but just making sure they were never — like there wasn’t ever a dish in the sink. The trash never got half full or things like that.”

With Presley about to turn two in October, Brett has had some time to perfect his technique.

“I think I’ve been able to watch Taylor be a mom long enough to know what she needs before she needs it,” he reflects. “And so I think that the skill set that I’ve kind of honed in on the most in the last year-and-a-half is being able to read Taylor and make sure she has what she needs from me before she has to ask me for it.”

Brett’s new children’s book, Love You, Little Lady, inspired by being a parent, comes out August 24.

Beartooth wants you to “get every dollar’s worth” from live show

August 17, 2021 by WDNY Radio

If you catch Beartooth on their current tour in support of their new album, Below, then you’ll finally be listening to it in its intended environment.

“Musically, it was truly designed for a live show,” frontman Caleb Shomo tells ABC Audio of Below. “The whole record, front-to-back.”

Shomo started writing the music to what became Below while on tour in early 2020, but the lyrics didn’t come until the world was plunged into the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is an album full of devastatingly dark lyrics set to energetic, driving riffs that explode into giant choruses bursting with emotion. In other words, it’s perfect for the Beartooth live experience.

“I think about what do I love when I go to a live show,” Shomo explains. “I love jumping around and going nuts to riffs, and I love singing until my voice is gone. I just try and curate an environment [where] that’s possible.”

Overall, Beartooth’s goal is for “every single person who buys a ticket gets every dollar’s worth out of that thing.”

“We wanna play more songs than we’ve ever played,” Shomo says. “We wanna play louder, play harder, have a better light show, have better production elements, have more interaction throughout the whole event.”

Beartooth’s tour continues Tuesday night in Sacramento, California.

The Police’s Andy Summers says new documentary ‘Under the Volcano’ is “an ode” to late producer George Martin

August 17, 2021 by WDNY Radio

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Mari Under the Volcano, a new documentary about the state-of-the-art recording studio that late Beatles producer George Martin built on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, was released today via digital, streaming and video-on-demand platforms.

AIR Studios Montserrat opened in 1979 and was used by some of the world’s biggest music stars until the island was devastated by Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Then, in 1995, a volcanic eruption made most of Montserrat uninhabitable.

The film features new interviews with many artists who recorded at the facility, including The Police‘s three members, Dire Straits‘ Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Buffett and Duran Duran‘s Nick Rhodes.

Police guitarist Andy Summers, whose band recorded 1981’s Ghost in the Machine and 1983’s Synchronicity on Montserrat, tells ABC Audio that he considers Under the Volcano “an ode to…Martin.”

“[H]e had this vision to go and build this place on…this very funky island,” Summers says. “That kind of interested me, how he first went there and fell in love with it.”

Andy also notes that The Police felt like they’d really made it when they got to work on Montserrat, noting that it was “the ultimate rock star dream to go to the Caribbean” to record.

Summers recalls an incident during the Synchronicity sessions where the notoriously contentious band members decided to ask Sir George if he’d produce them to help resolve conflicts they were having.

Summers says he visited Martin at his home across the island, and, over a spot of tea, George told him, “I think you’re gonna sort this out. I don’t think I need to come over there.”

Andy says that after Martin’s “calming” words, the band “went through the rest of the album without a hitch.”

Visit UndertheVolcanoMovie.com for more info about the film.

Late Cars frontman Ric Ocasek’s art going on display and being sold at Wentworth Gallery locations

August 16, 2021 by WDNY Radio

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A collection of artwork created by late Cars frontman Ric Ocasek will go on display starting September 1 exclusively at all nine Wentworth Galleries, which are located in Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Ocasek’s pieces also will be available for purchase.

“Art is a way to release tension and to organize my thoughts,” the singer, guitarist and songwriter once explained. “It’s something I do while pondering an outcome. The drawings start with a shape and explode from there.”

Ric’s art was partly influenced and inspired by late pop-art legend Andy Warhol, who directed the music video for The Cars’ 1984 hit “Hello Again.”

Discussing Warhol’s work, Ocasek said that “his stuff I loved not only because it looked amazing, but it was different than everyone else’s and had an idea behind it.”

You can check out examples of Ric’s paintings and drawings at WentworthGallery.com.

“When I saw Ric’s art for the first time, I was struck with the emotion it captured,” notes Wentworth Gallery president Christian O’Mahony. “You can sense a part of Ric in the art. It really gives a snapshot into the mind of an artistic genius. I am honored to showcase and sell his art in my galleries.”

Ocasek died of natural causes on September 15, 2019. He was 75.

Here’s the full list of Wentworth Gallery locations:

Florida
Boca Raton — Town Center Mall, 6000 Glades Rd.
Fort Lauderdale — 819 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Hollywood — Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, 5804 Seminole Way

Georgia
Atlanta — Phipps Plaza, 3500 Peachtree Rd. NE

Maryland
Bethesda — Westfield Montgomery Mall, 7101 Democracy Blvd.

New Jersey
Atlantic City — Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, 1000 Boardwalk
Short Hills — The Mall at Short Hills, 1200 Morris Tpke.

Pennsylvania
King of Prussia — King of Prussia Mall, 690 West Dekalb Pike

Virginia
McLean — Tysons Galleria, 1807 U. International Drive

Iggy Azalea thinks record labels should hire psychologists to help their artists

August 16, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Many of today’s top artists have been open about the fact that they’re dealing with anxiety, depression or the pressure from social media. Iggy Azalea is now suggesting a solution: That artists’ record labels should provide them with mental health resources.

“I REALLY WISH record labels would all agree to make it mandatory to hire at least ONE psychologist per label,” the Australian rapper tweeted on Monday. “Almost EVERY artist in recent times has expressed struggling with the level of hate & pressure. Sports teams do it for their athletes, why not music labels?”

“Also yes it may seem like ‘But there’s so many labels!’ There’s actually only about 4 guys running the entire music business,” Iggy explained. “So it would be pretty easy to hold them accountable and make them implement a change across their businesses.”

She specifically mentioned the head of Universal Music Group, Lucian Grainge, and the head of Sony Music Entertainment, Rob Stringer, as two of those “guys” who could make that change.

“Between these two guys that’s literally like 85% coverage across the labels. See what I’m saying?” Iggy went on to write. “It’s not hard to actually do this. Why won’t they do it?”

“A weekly mental health check in being normalized would take away the fear factor of having to approach often older people in power positions for help which can feel like exposing a weakness,” Iggy explained. She added, “trust me, I lived it.”

When a fan suggested that even if offered, artists wouldn’t use the resource, Iggy disagreed.

“As an artist who knows a lot of artists and has had this conversation in studios a million times, I can confidently say If they had built in access it would be utilized,” she declared.

I REALLY WISH record labels would all agree to make it mandatory to hire at least ONE
psychologist per label.

Almost EVERY artist in recent times has expressed struggling with the level of hate & pressure.

Sports teams do it for their athletes, why not music labels?

— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) August 16, 2021

Eagles add second Seattle concert to 2021 ‘Hotel California’ tour

August 16, 2021 by WDNY Radio

After recently announcing a November 5 concert at Seattle’s new Climate Pledge Arena, the Eagles have now added a second and final show at the venue on the following day.

As with the November 5 event, fans age 12 and older attending the November 6 concert will need to be fully vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination in order to gain entry. Children under the age of 12 will be allowed to attend if they provide proof of a negative PCR COVID-19 test within 48 hours of the show.

Tickets for the Eagles’ November 6 Seattle gig go on sale to the general public this Friday, this Friday, August 20 at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.com. A limited number of VIP packages will be available starting Thursday, August 19, at 10 a.m. PT. Visit ClimatePledgeArena.com for info about the concert.

The newly announced Seattle show is now the final scheduled concert on the Eagles’ Hotel California 2021 Tour. As previously reported, the trek, which kicks off August 22 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, will feature the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers performing their classic 1976 album Hotel California in full, accompanied by an orchestra and a choir, followed by a set of the band’s greatest hits.

Visit Eagles.com to check out the band’s full tour schedule.

Alessia Cara gives love advice on first episode of ‘Get Him Back or Get Him Back’

August 16, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Alessia Cara has released the first installment of her new dating advice game show, Get Him Back or Get Him Back.

The debut episode, now on YouTube, is a tie-in to Alessia’s new song, “Shapeshifter,” which includes the lyric, “Don’t know if I wanna get you back or get you back someday.”

In the clip, Alessia plays the host, Gianna Vitali, a gum-chewing cynic with a New York accent who starts the show by announcing, “All of you sent in your love advice questions, I’m gonna answer them. Am I single? Yes. Am I in any way qualified? No. Let’s get started.”

When one question asks if she believes in finding “The One,” Alessia admits she doesn’t believe in love at all but thinks there are multiple people out there for you so “try ‘em all.”

She also gives her advice on whether opposites attract, what red flags to look for, if someone who broke your heart deserves to have a song written about them, and more.

Episode two of Get Him Back or Get Him Back will be out next week.

Jay-Z bidding to open New York sportsbook

August 16, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Jay-Z’s Roc Nation represents over 100 pro stars, including Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets. Now Hova hopes to expand his sports influence by opening a sportsbook in New York.

The billionaire mogul is partnering with the Fanatics sports merchandise company to bring mobile sports betting to the Empire State next year, according to Page Six.

Last week, Roc Nation became an investor in Fanatics, and together, they’re creating the Fanatics Betting and Betting company. The firm is now bidding for a sportsbook license, and their competition includes FanDuel, DraftKings, Bally’s, BetMGM, and Caesars Sportsbook.

In addition to representing professional athletes, Roc Nation partnered last year with the NFL as a consultant on the league’s major music events, including the Super Bowl halftime show. Roc Nation artist Shakira performed with Jennifer Lopez at halftime of the 2020 championship game on February 2 in Miami.

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