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Pharrell Williams to kick off MLB 2025 World Series with exclusive performance

October 23, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Pharrell is helping kick off the Major League Baseball 2025 World Series with an exclusive live performance. He’ll take the field Friday alongside Bishop Ezekiel and the Voices of Fire orchestra for a six-minute show. Emmy winner Jesse Collins, whose credits include the Super Bowl halftime shows, will be producing the performance.

Pharrell’s upcoming performance continues his partnership with MLB and brings to life their previous “October Hits Different” campaign, which also featured Voices of Fire, as well as students from the University of Miami. The ad had launched the MLB postseason and included clips of MLB stars Aaron Judge, Kyle Schwarber and Cal Raleigh.

“Virginia taught me the power of music and community,” Pharrell said at the time. “Bringing Voices of Fire to the Postseason stage shows how those same forces of unity can come alive through sport.”

The first game of the World Series, with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays facing off in Toronto, airs Friday on Fox.

Biffy Clyro announces intimate US tour

October 23, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Biffy Clyro has announced a run of intimate U.S. tour dates, beginning Dec. 2 in Los Angeles. The shows will be held in smaller rooms than what the Scottish rockers usually play stateside, let alone compared to the arenas they headline across the pond.

“I feel really lucky that we’ve made a lot of good friends and fans over the years, and the people that listen to our band over here I feel really get it,” frontman Simon Neil tells ABC Audio.

In addition to sweating in clubs with their most passionate American fans, the upcoming U.S. shows will celebrate Biffy Clyro’s new album, Futique, which was released in September.

“Even on our 10th record we’re still looking forward, we still think that this next record is the best thing we’re ever gonna do,” Neil says.

Tickets to the tour are on presale now and will go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time. If you miss out on tickets, don’t worry — more Biffy Clyro U.S. plans are in the works.

“We’re currently putting together a really long tour for springtime next year just before summer,” Neil says. “So we’ll be playing plenty of shows over here.”

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit BiffyClyro.com.

‘Heavens to Betsy,’ was Jackson Dean haunted by his grandad’s ghost?

October 23, 2025 by WDNY Radio

As Halloween approaches, we don’t know if Jackson Dean will find himself haunted by ghosts and goblins, but he does remember having a very spooky experience once — in a graveyard, of all places.

Jackson says he, his mother and his aunt went to visit his grandfather’s grave at Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery in his home state of Maryland.

“He used to have a saying before he died that, if he ever did anything for you, ‘Now, that’ll be 25 cents.’ And it was just like something to make him chuckle,” Jackson recalls of his grandad.

Jackson says when he went to the graveyard, “I took a quarter [with me]. And those military graves are flat into the ground, so I took that quarter, and put it in between the stone and the grass.”

Then, something weird happened.

“I stood up, and I swear to God, we were all standing there looking at it, and it shot down into the ground,” he says of the quarter. “And it was just one of the craziest things I’d ever seen, and we all looked at each other. I dug down 6 inches in front of his gravestone. Never found the quarter. It was pretty wild.”

Jackson, who just completed a run of shows in Australia, has been teasing a brand-new song on Instagram lately; no release date yet.

Talk about a great pumpkin: Taylor Swift honored on 735-pound gourd

October 23, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Taylor Swift fans show their love for the singer in a whole host of ways, and one woman in Ohio is doing so with a pumpkin.

The Columbus Dispatch reports that Jeanette Paras, of Dublin, Ohio, has turned a 735-pound pumpkin into a Swift tribute, which she’s dubbed Taylor Swiftkin 2.0.

The decorated gourd features a painting of Taylor’s face with headphones, an homage to the singer’s August appearance on fiancé Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast, where she announced her album The Life of a Showgirl.

Paras has a history of using huge pumpkins as a canvas for celebrity paintings, and as the name of this year’s pumpkin suggests, it isn’t the first time Taylor has been the subject. The original Taylor Swiftkin was a 399-pound pumpkin that Paras painted in 2023.

Taylor Swiftkin 2.0 is currently on display on Paras’ front porch. As a two-time breast cancer survivor, Paras hopes it will raise awareness for the disease.

“My pumpkins now have a purpose,” she said, noting she hopes to raise $10,000 for the Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research.

She’s also hoping there’s a chance it may catch Taylor’s eye.

“Maybe her people might see a 735-pound pumpkin,” Paras said. “That would be pretty cool.”

Britney Spears biopic director says movie will examine the ‘cost’ of her ‘freedom’

October 22, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Jon M. Chu is ready to unleash Wicked: For Good on the world, but waiting in the wings is the Britney Spears biopic that he’s signed on to direct. While there are no details about the movie yet — including who will play Britney — Chu says he wants to do the singer justice.

Esquire reports that reading Britney’s 2023 book, The Woman in Me, was “profound” for Chu, and he’s “desperate to tell her story.”

“She did what she had to do to survive,” Chu tells Esquire. “She deserves a story that honors that. Now that she has her freedom, what does freedom actually cost? And what does that look like? What can we do most to encourage her to be free and not try to turn her into whatever we want her to be?”

While there have been plenty of rumors as to who might play Britney — with names like Millie Bobbie Brown, Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande being thrown around — Chu denied in March that any of that was true, writing on X, “Sounds exciting but have not had one conversation about casting this movie yet. We are way too early in development. Sorry.”

Nashville Notes: Chris Young on ‘Kelly & Mark,’ Trace Adkins’ trailer and more

October 22, 2025 by WDNY Radio

In case you missed it, Chris Young performed on Live with Kelly & Mark on Tuesday, singing “Boots on the Ground” from his new album, I Didn’t Come Here to Leave. You can watch it online now.

Trace Adkins reprises his role as MercyMe‘s manager Scott Brickell in I Can Only Imagine 2, the sequel to the 2018 film I Can Only Imagine. Trace and his distinctive voice are front and center in the trailer for the film, which also stars John Michael Finley, Dennis Quaid and Milo Ventimiglia. The film arrives in theaters Feb. 20, 2026.

Reba McEntire is 70, but has no plans to retire anytime soon. She tells People, “Dolly [Parton] and I talked about that an awful lot when she did the Reba show, and I said, ‘Are you going to retire?’ She said, ‘Why would I? What in the world could I do and have as much fun as what I’m doing in this job right now?’ I agree with her a hundred percent. Slow down, maybe, but no plans of retiring.”

MC50 tour live album ’10 More’ due out in December

October 22, 2025 by WDNY Radio

A new live album called 10 More recorded during the 2018 MC50 tour will be released on Dec. 5.

The MC50 tour celebrated the 50th anniversary of the seminal MC5 album Kick Out the Jams. It featured founding MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer playing alongside musicians including Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron of Soundgarden, Faith No More‘s Billy Gould and Fugazi‘s Brendan Canty.

10 More marks the second live album produced from the MC50 tour, following February’s 10xMC5 Live.

Kramer died in February 2024. A final MC5 studio album, Heavy Lifting, was released in October 2024.

Rocket Man: Benson Boone to headline show at Kennedy Space Center

October 22, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Benson Boone‘s career took off like a rocket, and now he’ll be performing in surroundings that truly reflect his rise to the top.

In partnership with Visa and NASA, Benson will perform at the Rocket Garden at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 29. The event, called Visa Live at the Rocket Garden, will stream live on TikTok. The Rocket Garden features rockets representing the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space exploration eras, creating what’s described as a “stunning and unforgettable landscape.”

Benson says, “This show is going to be so insanely sick and one I’ll remember forever. I hope everyone likes my outfit as much as I do.”

But what we want to know is, will they be serving “moonbeam ice cream” at the concession stand?

Music Notes: Megan Thee Stallion, Ari Lennox, Kehlani and more

October 22, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Megan Thee Stallion has revealed the title and release date for the song she’s been teasing on social media. “Lover Girl” is slated to come out on Friday, Meg announced, alongside artwork that sees her hand holding a heart-shaped lollipop with Friday’s date. In a follow-up post, you see her physique and dance moves through a translucent screen. The song, as fans have heard in previous teasers, samples Total‘s 1996 song “Kissin’ You.”

The Alchemist and Hit-Boy unveiled the track list for their upcoming joint album, Goldfish. The project, recorded in LA and New York, features 15 tracks, with appearances from Mobb Deep‘s Havoc, Conway The Machine, Boldy James, Jay Worthy, multi-instrumentalist Johnathan Hulett and Hit-Boy’s father, Big Hit. Goldfish is set to arrive on Friday.

Kehlani has announced the Homage Pack, featuring remixes of her song “Folded” by celebrities who put their spin on the song. Brandy, JoJo, Mario, Ne-Yo, Tank and Toni Braxton are on the Homage Pack, dropping on Friday.

Four weeks after releasing her song “Vacancy,” Ari Lennox has another track for her fans. “Under The Moon” comes out on Thursday, she announced in a social media post; the single is currently available to presave.

Raphael Saadiq has been added to the lineup for the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, taking place Nov. 8 in LA.

Bono and The Edge accept Woody Guthrie Prize with surprise performance

October 22, 2025 by WDNY Radio

U2 was honored with the Woody Guthrie Prize Tuesday at a ceremony in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hosted by the Woody Guthrie Center.

Bono and The Edge were on hand to accept the award, named after the late folk icon, which recognizes “a recipient who embodies the spirit of Woody Guthrie’s social consciousness and musical legacy.” The event was held at Cain’s Ballroom, a venue U2 headlined in 1981 on their Boy tour.

The pair took part in a conversation about art and activism, with Bono crediting Bob Dylan with introducing him to Guthrie. He noted that Dylan “really did bring us to the place where the song was an instrument to open up worlds.”

“Our favorite protest songs always had a sense of vision, something to aim for … you don’t talk about the darkness, you make the light brighter,” The Edge added. “I believe music can actually change the mood of the room and actually shift a culture.”

The rockers also treated the audience to a surprise performance of six songs: “Running to Stand Still,” which included a bit of Guthrie’s “Bound for Glory”; “Mothers of the Disappeared”; “Sunday Bloody Sunday”; “One”; “Pride (In The Name of Love),” which also featured a bit of Guthrie’s “Jesus Christ”; and “Yahweh.”

Bono also gave fans a preview of what’s on the way for U2, sharing lyrics to a song he’s working on about the killing of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, a consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land who was killed in July by an Israeli settler.

The lyrics include: “One father shot/ three children crying/ if there is no law/ is there no crime/ if there is no hope/ what’s there to rhyme/ history is written/ one life at a time/ ONE LIFE AT A TIME.”

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