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Squeeze announces new album, ‘Trixies’, featuring songs written 50 years ago

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Squeeze is getting ready to drop a new album, although the material in it isn’t new … to them.

The band will release Trixies, their first album in eight years, on March 6. The songs on it were the first tunes Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook ever wrote together back when they were teens.

The songs are described as a “collection of stories set in a fictional night club, Trixies.” They were written by the duo back in 1974 when recording was beyond their skill set.

“We fully committed ourselves to songwriting but this was three or four years before we even got to make our first record,” Difford shares. “Long story short, these were songs that we just didn’t have enough musical experience to record properly.”

Now, following the discovery of the original cassette, the band has finally turned the songs into an album, and they’ve just released the first song, “Trixies Pt.1,” to digital outlets.

“The songs that we wrote then astound me. I’m proud of them now, and I’m particularly proud that it was young us that did that,” Tilbrook says, adding, “The act of revisiting the Trixies songs had me in tears, partly because they’re so good, but also because I’m aware of all the stuff that I’ve still yet to hear and write.”

Difford notes, “It really fills me with joy that at my age we can discover that we wrote such great songs when we were teenagers. I’m very proud of that.”

Trixies is available for preorder now.

Ozzy Osbourne was hospitalized two weeks before Back to the Beginning concert, says family

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Ozzy Osbourne was hospitalized two weeks before his farewell performance at the Back to the Beginning concert on July 5, his family says.

“We had him in the hospital, and we were just terrified that people were going to find out,” Sharon Osbourne says in the newest episode of The Osbournes Podcast, the first since Ozzy’s death on July 22.

“We had all this security in the hospital, and the hospital was amazing, they really were,” Sharon adds.

Sharon also tells a story about someone coming to the hospital claiming to be the brother of a John Osbourne, which was Ozzy’s birth name. Concerned that the person was an imposter and was trying to finagle his way into seeing Ozzy, Sharon sent down security, only to find out there was another patient in the hospital whose name was also John Osbourne, and the visitor was there to see him.

Despite the hospitalization, Ozzy performed at the Back to the Beginning concert with his solo band and his original Black Sabbath bandmates. He’d already announced ahead of time that the show would mark his final live performance, a promise that he sadly fulfilled upon his passing just over two weeks later.

Radiohead, Iron Maiden & more sign open letter calling for cap on resale ticket prices

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Artists including Radiohead and Iron Maiden have signed an open letter calling for the U.K. government to put a cap on the price of which concert tickets can be resold on secondary market sites.

The letter, published by the U.K. consumer rights organization Which?, requests governmental protections to “help fix elements of the extortionate and pernicious secondary ticketing market that serve the interests of touts [resellers], whose exploitative practices are preventing genuine fans from accessing the music, theatre and sports they love.”

“For too long certain resale platforms have allowed touts to bulk buy and then resell tickets at inflated prices, forcing fans to either pay above the odds or miss out entirely,” the statement reads. “This erodes trust in the live events sector and undermines the efforts of artists and organizers to make shows accessible and affordable.”

It continues, “Introducing a cap will restore faith in the ticketing system, help democratize public access to the arts in line with the Government’s agenda and make it easier for fans to spot illegal behavior, such as ticketing fraud.”

Other artists who signed include Coldplay, The Cure‘s Robert Smith, Sam Fender, PJ Harvey, Mark Knopfler, New Order, Bastille, Johnny Marr, Keane and alt-J.

You can read the letter via Which.co.uk.

Riley Green, Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton & more to play 59th CMAs

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

You can add Kelsea Ballerini, Brandi Carlile, Kenny Chesney, Riley Green, Miranda Lambert, Patty Loveless, Old Dominion, The Red Clay Strays and Chris Stapleton to the list of performers who’ll take the stage at the 59th Annual CMA Awards.

Kelsea will debut her new song, “I Sit in Parks,” while Riley will deliver his #1, “Worst Way.”

Old Dominion will perform a medley of their hits, including “Break Up With Him,” “Memory Lane,” “One Man Band,” “Hotel Key” and “Snapback.”

Miranda and Chris will have “A Song to Sing,” while Chris will also offer a solo performance of “Bad as I Used to Be” from F1: The Movie. The Red Clay Strays will do “People Hatin’.”

They join previously announced performers BigXThaPlug, Luke Combs, Ella Langley, Megan Moroney, Shaboozey, Zach Top, Tucker Wetmore, host Lainey Wilson and Stephen Wilson Jr.

You can tune in to watch Country Music’s Biggest Night live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

Taylor Swift smooches Travis Kelce, hangs with Ed Sheeran & Sabrina Carpenter in new docuseries trailer

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

In the new trailer for her Disney+ docuseries, Taylor Swift says she created the Eras Tour so she could “overserve” her fans — and in it, you can definitely see her doing the most.

The six-episode series The End of an Era debuts with two episodes on Dec. 12 on Disney+ and as promised, it takes fans behind-the-scenes of the Eras Tour, which Taylor reveals she conceived two years before it actually started.

You see Taylor rehearsing choreography, planning the set list, getting into the famous “cleaning cart” that took her to the stage unseen every night, changing outfits at lightning speed and riding a trolley underneath the stage with her now fiancé Travis Kelce while kissing him. “He brings a lot of happiness,” says Taylor’s mom.

You can also see Taylor with some of her special guests, including Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine, and rehearsing the moment when Travis carried her onstage in London during The Tortured Poets Department segment of the show.

“This was a seismic, momentous period of time in my life and in the lives of anyone this tour touched,” says Taylor.

Also on Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. ET, ABC will air a preview event featuring episode 1 of The End of an Era, and a one-hour version of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show, the full version of which also debuts on Disney+ that same day.

On Instagram, Taylor wrote of the series, “Honestly can’t think of a better way to celebrate my (almost) birthday than to relive the Eras Tour with you!” Her birthday is Dec. 13.

Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

Rascal Flatts’ Jay DeMarcus has a mantle full of CMA trophies

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

While some country stars prefer to keep their awards away from their family life, others take inspiration from seeing their accolades on display in everyday life.

For Rascal Flatts‘ Jay DeMarcus, his trophies are front and center, though that has a lot to do with the decorating choices of his wife, Allison DeMarcus.

“When we bought the house that we’re in right now, we have a big fireplace in our living room in the center of the room,” Jay says. “It’s a stone fireplace, which is really cool.”

“And on either side of it are these glass shelves that are lighted that my wife was so sweet to put all of my awards on either side of this fireplace,” he continues. “So, they’re in our living room there.”

Jay has quite a collection: Rascal Flatts won their first CMA trophy for new artist in 2002 and went on to win vocal group of the year six consecutive times, from 2003 to 2008.

They’re nominated once again this year at the 59th CMA Awards, which air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

Sting bringing reworked musical ‘The Last Ship’ back to NYC — and he’s starring in it

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Sting‘s musical The Last Ship closed on Broadway in January of 2015, but now it’s sailing back to New York City — just a little further uptown.

A reworked version of the Tony-nominated musical, inspired by Sting’s own childhood in Wallsend, a shipbuilding town in the north of England, will play at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House for nine performances. The musical, running from June 9 to 14, 2026, features a new book and new and revised songs by Sting.

The former Police frontman will star in the production as shipyard foreman Jackie White, while his frequent musical collaborator Shaggy will also appear, playing the role of the ferryman.

Previewing the new production for reporters at the Met on Wednesday, Sting explained that as a kid, he watched “thousands of men” go to work in the shipyard each morning.

“It was dark. It was dangerous. It was noisy and I would think, as I kid, ‘Is this what I’m supposed to do when I grow up?'” he recalled. “So I did everything in my power to escape that destiny.”

But after he found success, Sting said, “I realized I had a debt to pay. And the debt was to my community, the community that made me who I am. And the debt would be paid in the form of a story: to tell a story about my community.”

On Wednesday, Sting performed several songs from the musical on the Met stage, accompanied by just guitar and piano. He will release an expanded edition of his 2013 album The Last Ship on Dec. 5. It includes five brand-new, never-released recordings.

Tickets for The Last Ship go on sale Nov. 13 at 12 p.m. ET at metopera.org/thelastship.

Meghan Trainor wrote new single after being ‘confused and sad’ about her socials’ ‘dark turn’

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Meghan Trainor‘s new single “Still Don’t Care” is her remedy for online hate, and now she wants her fans to believe it as much as she does.

Speaking to People, Meghan explained that she wrote the song after her socials were flooded with negative comments. “My page is usually a friendly, happy, mom-loving place, but it took a dark turn,” she says. “People started commenting about my body, saying I’m too thin, and that they don’t recognize me anymore. And I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve just been focusing so hard on my health and my fitness that I’ve never felt better.'”

“So, I was confused and sad and was like, ‘Oh, it’s almost worse now.’ I don’t know what happened,” says Meghan, who admits she would cry over the cruel comments.

However, she eventually learned in therapy to stop giving “strangers” so much “power” over her. In the song, she sings, “Oh, let me take a moment, think it over/ Does it touch me at all?/ Nope, I still don’t care.”

“I’m rewiring my brain to finally believe this. And I know when I sing it a hundred times, I will,” Meghan says of her upcoming tour. “So, I recommend playing the song every morning and learning every word and screaming it as loud as you can until you start believing it, because that’s what it takes. It takes a lot of work.”

“I believe in it so much and I love it so much,” Trainor says of the song. “I think it’s so important, especially now more than ever, the world’s a very dark, hateful place. If this is a little bit of light in the world, that’d be sick.”

“Still Don’t Care” is from Meghan’s upcoming album Toy With Me, due out April 24.

Tom Petersson on Cheap Trick’s new album, ‘All Washed Up’: ‘We just want to do what we think sounds good’

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Cheap Trick will release their 21st studio album, All Washed Up, on Friday, and bassist Tom Petersson says their approach to making records today is the same as it was when they first started out over 50 years ago.

“We just are making songs that we like, would like to hear ourselves,” he tells ABC Audio. “So it’s like we’re making it for ourselves and our friends, and then the rest, it’s like having a lottery ticket.”

Songs on the album range from fast rockers like “The Riff That Won’t Quit” to ballads like “The Best Thing,” but Petersson says they don’t go into the studio with a plan to have specific types of songs on an album.

“If one person doesn’t like it we won’t do it,” he says of the songs they record, noting they won’t include a ballad on a record just because someone tells them to.

“If somebody writes a ballad, then we go, ‘Hey, that is a good one. OK, let’s do that,’” he explains. “Now we just basically do it for our own enjoyment because that’s probably all anybody’s gonna get out of it is their own enjoyment.”

“We want to do something we’re not embarrassed to play for people,” he says, explaining that they wouldn’t want to record something they don’t like even if it could sell 10 million copies.

He adds, “We just want to do what we think sounds good.”

All Washed Up is Cheap Trick’s first album since 2021’s In Another World. It will be released digitally, on CD and on black vinyl. There will also be an orange marble variant, limited to 1,000 copies, sold through the band’s website.

Eddie Murphy reveals his Netflix documentary started off as a standup special

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Eddie Murphy reflects on his 50-year career in his new documentary, Being Eddie, but that originally wasn’t his intention. Speaking to Extra, he reveals he had just wanted to document his return to standup.

“I was going to do standup again. … And it was like, ‘Okay, let’s document it. Let’s do a documentary and show the whole process of getting the act together,’” he says. “And so we started doing that and then the pandemic hit.”

“After the pandemic was over, I was like, ‘Oh, I’m not going out there and telling no jokes. You can catch COVID. … But we had all of this footage,” he continues. “And it was like let’s just keep it going.”

The timing, Eddie adds, “worked out perfect because this is about to be my 50th year in show business.”

Being Eddie finds Eddie opening up for the first time about his journey, which includes “the only thing that might have been traumatic” for him in his life: the death of his brother Charlie Murphy. The documentary also features appearances from Arsenio Hall, Jamie Foxx, Tracee Ellis Ross, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle, who discuss Eddie’s impact and influence in Hollywood.

“To know that you had some impact on the people that came after you that they look at you a certain way … that’s always a good feeling,” Eddie says, noting he’s open to returning to the stage as a standup comedian.

“If it ever struck me that I could have some fun doing it, I’d get up there and do it again,” he said. “But it has to be fun for me. … If I’m having fun, it’s going to work and it’s going to be funny.”

Being Eddie is now available on Netflix.

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