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Russell Dickerson teases a tequila-infused new song

October 19, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Russell Dickerson has written a banger, and he couldn’t wait to share it with fans.

Russell turned to TikTok to show off the chorus of an untitled track he’s penned, in which tequila and the music of John Denver set the tone for a romantic night at home with his wife.

“She likes it when I pour tequila/’Cause she knows that we about to/Have ourselves a little night/When I play John Denver/Through that little Bose speaker/And I start dimming those lights/And she knows by the way that I’m kissing on her/That we ‘gon take our time,” Russell sings in the chorus, poised in front of a microphone at a desk in his studio as he lip-syncs along to the hip-hop infused number.

“Yoooooooo! Just wrote this one!!! Somebody please put a verse on thissssss,” the singer excitedly writes in the caption.

“That sounds awesome dude!!” one fan cheered in the comments, with another raving, “Give it to us RD!!!!” accompanied by several fire emojis.

While he’s still putting the finishing touches on this new track, Russell is climbing the charts with his single “Home Sweet” that’s currently in the top 20 on country radio.

Vended, featuring sons of Slipknot members, announces debut EP

October 19, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Vended, the band featuring the sons of Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor and Shawn “Clown” Crahan, will release their debut EP next month.

The set is titled What Is It/Kill It, and will arrive on November 12. It’ll feature the previously released song “Asylum,” as well as the just-premiered tune “Burn My Misery.” Both tracks are available now for digital download.

Vended, which just performed at last month’s Knotfest Iowa festival, includes Griffin Taylor on lead vocals and Simon Crahan on drums. The five-piece lineup also features guitarists Cole Espeland and Connor Grodzicki, and bassist Jeremiah Pugh.

Slipknot, meanwhile, is currently touring the U.S. on the Knotfest Roadshow. The outing continues Tuesday in Tampa, Florida.

Paul McCartney recalls what happened after Bob Dylan hooked The Beatles up with some potent marijuana

October 19, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Paul McCartney is not shying away from retelling the highs and lows of his career — emphasis on the prior in his upcoming memoir The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, due out November 2.

He shared an excerpt with The Times of London on Sunday, which focused on the time Bob Dylan hooked The Beatles up with some potent marijuana.

“What happened is that we were in a hotel suite, maybe in New York around the summer of 1964, and Bob Dylan turned up with his roadie,” the excerpt begins — adding the event took place right after Dylan released his fourth studio album, Another Side of Bob Dylan.

McCartney continued, “We were just drinking, as usual, having a little party. We’d ordered drinks from room service — scotch and Coke and French wine were our thing back then — and Bob had disappeared into a back room.”

Apparently, band mate Ringo Starr left the room around the same time, only to return a while later “looking a bit strange,” according to Sir Paul. “He said, ‘I’ve just been with Bob, and he’s got some pot,’ or whatever you called it then.”

“And we said, ‘Oh, what’s it like?’ and he said, ‘Well, the ceiling is kind of moving; it’s sort of coming down.’ And that was enough,” McCartney who was in his early 20s at the time, continued. “After Ringo said that, the other three of us all leapt into the back room where Dylan was, and he gave us a puff on the joint.”

McCartney confessed that the band “were giggling, laughing at each other” and described a “hilarious” moment where he ran after George Harrison “like a cartoon chase.”

“We thought, ‘Wow, this is pretty amazing, this stuff,'” Paul reminisced, adding that night went on to become an inside joke with everyone involved.

Tom Morello writing ‘New York Times’ Opinion series

October 19, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Tom Morello is officially joining the Fourth Estate.

The Rage Against the Machine guitarist is writing a series of Opinion columns for The New York Times. In each piece, published weekly starting this Wednesday, October 20, Morello will “examine his own music, as well as the music of others, offering insight into the ideas and arguments shaping the world today,” a press release says.

“Through the lens of music, Morello will write substantive commentary based on his manifold experiences and interests, to help Times subscribers make sense of our current era,” the announcement reads.

“I was the only Black kid in an all white town,” Morello says. “The only anarcho-syndicalist at a conservative high school, the only spandex clad heavy metal guitarist at Harvard University, and the only Star Trek loving Ivy League nerd rocking some of the world’s biggest stages and on off days dodging tear gas at the barricades.”

He adds, “I firmly believe that both the pen and the guitar can serve as a battering ram for justice.”

Meanwhile, Morello just dropped his new solo album, The Atlas Underground Fire, last Friday. It features guest spots from artists including Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen, Bring Me the Horizon, Phantogram and grandson.

Celine Dion delays opening of new Las Vegas residency due to “unforeseen medical symptoms”

October 19, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Celine Dion’s brand new Las Vegas residency at Resorts World Theatre has been delayed for medical reasons — but it has nothing to do with COVID-19.

The show was due to open November 5 and run through November 20, and then from January 19 to February 5, 2022, but all those performances have now been canceled. Celine is suffering from what’s described as “severe and persistent muscle spasms,” which have left her unable to perform or participate in rehearsals.

“I’m heartbroken by this,” Celine said in a statement. “My team and I have been working on our new show for the past eight months, and to not be able to open this November saddens me beyond words.”

“My partners at Resorts World Las Vegas and AEG have been working around the clock to get this brand-new state-of-the-art theatre ready, and it’s absolutely beautiful,” Celine continued. “I feel so bad that I’m letting them down, and I’m especially sorry for disappointing all the fans who’ve been making their plans to come to Las Vegas. Now, I have to focus on getting better…I want to get through this as soon as I can.”

The president of Resorts World said, “If there’s anything these trying times have taught us, it’s that nothing is more important than your well being…we wish [Celine] a speedy recovery and look forward to welcoming her to her new home when she feels ready and able to perform again.”

Fans who bought tickets to Celine’s residency via a credit card will get refunds automatically. Ticket holders will get first access to tickets for the rescheduled show dates when they are announced. Meanwhile, Celine still plans to resume her Courage World Tour in March of 2022.

Watch Coldplay and Selena Gomez debut their duet “Let Somebody Go” on ‘The Late Late Show’

October 19, 2021 by WDNY Radio

This week, Coldplay is doing a residency on The Late Late Show with James Corden, and they kicked it off Monday night with the first-ever performance of “Let Somebody Go,” their duet with Selena Gomez from their new album, Music of the Spheres.

Chris Martin and company began playing the tune on a darkened stage, before Selena stepped into the light to join them for the ballad, which is about either the end of a relationship or, perhaps, a life. “It hurts like so/to let somebody go,” they sang.

In addition to Selena, Coldplay also teamed up with BTS, Jacob Collier and the duo We Are King for Music of the Spheres. In 2022, they’ll kick off a stadium tour, which they promise will be powered by 100% renewable energy.

Darius Rucker can inspire a “Masterpiece,” but he “can’t play piano like Ray Charles”

October 19, 2021 by WDNY Radio

When Darius Rucker sings “I can’t play piano like Ray Charles” in his latest hit, “My Masterpiece,” he’s telling the absolute truth.

But it’s not for lack of trying.

“The one thing that I’m starting to do… is I’m learning to play piano,” he told reporters in August of 2020. “I got this big keyboard in my house…And so finally, I’m going online and taking probably, you know, an hour a day, four or five days a week, and trying to learn how to play that thing.”

By February of this year, however, Darius confessed he hadn’t exactly been keeping up with his piano lessons.

“Oh, of course, I didn’t stick with it, come on!” he laughs. “This is me. Come on! Of course, I didn’t. I took two lessons and haven’t been back on the piano since.”

The experience did inspire a line in his latest single, however.

“The funny thing is, one of the guys I write with saw an interview with me and he was talking about me playing the piano,” Darius explains, “And… one of the lines I used was, ‘I can’t play piano like Ray Charles.’ And now that’s like the big payoff in the song… because it was just so funny.”

Darius adds, joking, “I can’t play piano like, you know, David Charles right now. I’m awful! I didn’t even stick with it. I should have.”

Watch Adele test her knowledge of British foods for ‘British Vogue’

October 19, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Adele may be living in L.A. now, but she still knows her British foods.

The Tottenham native sat down at “Adele’s Cafe” with British Vogue for a blind taste test of some traditional British dishes. She was asked to guess classic meals like a full English breakfast and fish and chips, desserts including Banoffee Pie and Eton Mess, and some lesser known fare like Spotted Dick — which, in spite of its cheeky name, is a steamed pudding with dried fruit.

As the “Easy on Me” singer tested her food knowledge, she shared memories connected with certain dishes. She reminisced about working in a cafe when she was younger and how she learned to cook with Jamie Oliver recipes. Her specialties include spicy pasta and Sunday roast, which she makes for her son, Angelo.

Adele also revealed her obsession with Heinz ketchup. “I carry little sachets of Heinz ketchup everywhere with me,” she says. “Beyonce has hot sauce in her bag, I have Heinz ketchup.”

In the end, she successfully guessed eight out of the 12 dishes.

“I mean, it’s food! Just because I lost weight, I know everything there is to know about food,” Adele joked. “I eat so much food still.”

Ed Sheeran’s next album will be out “before the end of 2024,” says manager

October 19, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Ed Sheeran‘s new album = (Equals) isn’t even out yet, but the “Bad Habits” star is already planning the release of his next one. In fact, his manager says he keeps having to tell Ed to back off and wait a bit longer before he releases it.

Speaking to Music Week, Ed’s manager Stuart Camp explains, “He doesn’t like sitting on songs. They’ve either got to be given to someone else or they’ve got to be released, otherwise it just gets on his nerves that they’re there.” According to Camp, there are at least 60 to 70 songs left over from = (Equals) that are good enough to be on a future album.

“He keeps me telling me tentative dates [that he wants to release the next album] that are far too soon!” Camp complains. “So I’m like, ‘Let’s let this one live for a bit, shall we?'”

However, Camp is certain that if Ed’s upcoming world tour “goes on as long as people expect it to,” then the next record — which is expected to be called – (Minus) — will come out “well before the end of it.” In fact, Camp declares that the album will out “before the end of 2024…for sure.”

Camp promises “a few more surprises coming from Ed later this year, on top of the album” — one of which might be the Christmas single that Ed has said he and Elton John are putting out.

As for whether or not he and Ed expect = (Equals) to be as successful as ÷ (Divide) was, Camp says, “We know the market’s a different place, there are a lot more demands on people’s time and music is consumed in a different way…I think as long as he’s number one, he’ll be happy.”

Matt Sorum honored to work on latest solo album by ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons: “Billy’s the coolest there is”

October 19, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Matt Sorum played an integral role in the making of ZZ Top frontman and guitarist Billy Gibbons recently released solo album, Hardware, as the ex-Guns N’ Roses member co-wrote, co-produced and played drums on the entire record.

Sorum tells ABC Audio that he’s honored to have had the opportunity to work on the project with Gibbons, and is proud of the album, which they recorded with second guitarist Austin Hanks last year at a studio in California’s High Desert region.

“Billy’s the coolest there is,” Matt declares. “He looks cool, but he is cool.”

Sorum says the project came together after he and Gibbons teamed up early on during the COVID-19 pandemic to work on some new material, and after recording a couple of tracks at Matt’s studio, Billy said suggested they make a full album.

“The pandemic was happening, we were all off the road, so we went up to Pioneertown, California, and we lived at this old ranch, about 140 acres,” Sorum notes. “And it was the coolest thing.”

Matt says the desert setting had a major influence on the songs they wrote and the sound of the album, noting, “I really felt that the record came out great because of that energy around the environment we were in.”

As an example, Sorum shares how one of the tracks, the atmospheric, spoken-word tune “Desert High” came about after he explained to Gibbons that country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons — who was pals with The Rolling Stones‘ Keith Richards — had died at a motel room down the road from the studio.

“So Billy goes, ‘He died in Room 8 and left it all to Keith?'” Sorum recalls. “And I went, ‘That’s the line!’ And we put it in [the song].”

Hardware is available now.

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