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‘All My Exes’: Lauren Alaina’s hit duet was inspired by a fight on Broadway

April 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Lauren Alaina currently has her biggest hit on the radio since 2021’s “Getting Over Him” with Jon Pardi.

If there’s any downside to her new duet with Chase Matthew, it’s that the song Lauren co-wrote was, in fact, ripped from the pages of her own life.

“I wrote ‘All My Exes’ about a relationship I had that was, let’s just say not my best relationship,” she reveals. “And we were fighting down on Broadway, actually. Everybody’s had a fight down on Broadway, right? If you’ve been to Nashville, you have.”

“I basically wrote this song about things that he was, like, yelling at me and saying about me,” Lauren continues. “And I was like, ‘Well, you know, I’ve heard this before. I’m not saying you’re right, but you are not the first to say this to me.’ It’s the classic, ‘it’s not you, it’s me’ song.”

Another interesting twist to “All My Exes”? It was Lauren’s husband, Cam Arnold, who loved the song so much that he secretly played it for Chase while on tour, because he believed the two of them could make it a hit.

Reelin’ in the (Golden) Years: Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen is retired, making music with family members

April 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Donald Fagen last played under the name Steely Dan in March 2024. So what’s he been doing since then? According to his stepdaughter, he’s “enjoying his retirement,” though he’s still making music and performing occasionally.

Fagen’s stepdaughter Amy Helm — daughter of Fagen’s late wife Libby Titus and the late Levon Helm of The Band — tells Vulture that Fagen is “doing fantastic,” adding that he’s living in Woodstock, New York, where she and her family are based, “full time.”

“We’ve been playing a lot of music. He’s enjoying his retirement,” adds Helm, a singer and songwriter who organizes the ongoing series of concerts known as the Helm Family Midnight Ramble.

“He’s playing piano and singing the occasional rock-and-roll cover with our family band at the Midnight Ramble, and we’re having a great time,” she says. “He’s working on music with my son as well. They’re working on an album, and that’s been fun. So it’s a nice time for the family.”

Helm says that Fagen has no plans to perform with Steely Dan, explaining, “Right now he’s really enjoying being retired and not having any expectations or pressure. We drive around, we listen to music, and he picks fun covers for us to try at the Midnight Ramble. He’s just enjoying the downtime, but I guess you never know.”

Helm gave Vulture the update after some Instagram videos she posted to promote the Midnight Ramble went viral simply because Fagen was seen in the background.

“All of a sudden friends were texting me and letting me know that it was really resonating with Steely Dan fans,” Helm tells Vulture. She adds, “Someone asked him what he thought about having a viral moment, and he said, ‘We must really have our finger on the pulse of the nation.’”

Sabrina Carpenter says Coachella set will be ‘most ambitious show I’ve ever done’

April 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Sabrina Carpenter will headline Coachella for the first time on Friday, and she says fans should get ready for something special.

“It’s the most ambitious show I’ve ever done,” Sabrina tells Perfect magazine in a chat with designer Marc Jacobs. “It’s probably the most time I’ve ever had to actually just sit down and talk about a show as I’m building it.”

“Most of the time, you’re really quickly thrust into physical rehearsals, but this time around we started this process around seven months ago. So it’s been a long journey,” she adds. “It will be very special.”

Sabrina’s current phase of global pop domination technically began at Coachella two years ago, when she played the main stage at sunset and sang what was then a brand-new song live for the first time: “Espresso.”

“That was a really special day for me … and now, two years later, we’re back,” she adds. “And I think that’s what makes this show feel really, really surreal: getting to celebrate all the songs that have come after it, and just how many lives they’ve lived since they’ve come out.”

But while “Espresso” helped shoot her to stardom, Sabrina tells Jacobs that the song didn’t have as big an impact on her life as did her Short n’ Sweet tour, which wrapped up in November 2025.

“I feel like that really, really changed my life. That was my first arena tour. It was the first time anyone got to really live with these songs and hear how they sound out loud,” she explains. “It was really the tour – and the fans. It’s mostly what they’ve done to change my life, which is existing, showing up. I owe it to them.”

B5 says their ‘seasoned, clean set’ is being ‘received very well’ on Boys 4 Life tour

April 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

B5 has been busy performing as part of the Boys 4 Life tour — an opportunity they had just a few days to prepare for.

“We were asked to join, I’d say eight days prior for the tour,” Patrick tells ABC Audio. “So we did have to round up, get ourselves together pretty quickly. But you know what they say, when you stay ready, you don’t really have to get ready.”

The opportunity, he adds, was well worth it because of the love from their fans.

“Going to these cities and seeing these fans … in real time onstage … makes B5 feel great,” Patrick says. “It gives us just even more fuel to go out there each night and to just give it our all and leave nothing out there on the stage.”

The Boys 4 Life tour serves as a reunion of sorts. The group shares the lineup with Bow Wow, Omarion and Pretty Ricky — artists they toured with during the 2005 Scream IV Tour.

“It’s very nostalgic,” Carnell says, noting they get to see each other now as adults. “It’s a different vibe, it’s a different feeling.”

What’s also different is B5’s approach to performing.

“We were really wild back then,” Patrick says. “Nowadays … we’re seasoned, everything’s a little more controlled. Everything has intention behind it.”

Still, fans can expect high energy.

“Our set is pretty energetic. … We have a very good, seasoned, clean set,” says Dustin. “[We] hit you with the hits … and then, you know, kill them at the end with the ‘All I Do.'”

“The crowd goes crazy every time,” he adds of the crowd’s response. “The way [the set list] rolls out and flows is being received very well … so we definitely recognize that and we appreciate it.”

The tour wraps up on April 26.

Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka announces Q&A event at Gibson Garage Nashville

April 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Greta Van Fleet guitarist Jake Kiszka is taking part in a live Q&A event taking place April 23 at the Gibson Garage in Nashville.

The event starts at 3 p.m. CT, and is free and open to the public. Anyone hoping to attend is encouraged to arrive early.

“To mark the occasion, we’ll be unveiling something truly special,” the Gibson Garage Instagram teases.

Greta Van Fleet’s most recent album is 2023’s Starcatcher. Kiszka has since launched the band Mirador, which released their self-titled debut album in 2025.

Bleachers to headline ’Rolling Stone’ Rock Tour kickoff show

April 8, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Bleachers are headlining the first show of Rolling Stone magazine’s 2026 Rock Tour, taking place May 20 at the Fillmore in New Orleans.

Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. CT, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday at 10 a.m. CT.

The Rolling Stone Rock Tour aims to showcase “the most exciting artists shaping the future of rock” and highlight “emerging voices across indie, alternative, and genre-defying rock,” according to a press release. It will also make stops in Denver, San Diego, New York City, Chicago and Nashville; artists for those dates have yet to be announced.

Bleachers, meanwhile, will launch a full U.S. tour in June in support of their upcoming album, everyone for ten minutes, due out May 22.

Shinedown announces additional Dance, Kid, Dance Act II tour dates

April 7, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Shinedown has added four dates to their upcoming Dance, Kid, Dance Act II U.S. tour.

The newly announced shows take place July 26 in Charlotte, North Carolina; July 28 in Camdenton, Missouri; Sept. 5 in Grand Island, Nebraska; and Sept. 7 in St. Louis.

The bill will also include Skillet and From Ashes to New in Charlotte; From Ashes to New in Camdenton; Dexter and the Moonrocks in Grand Island; and Winona Fighter in St. Louis.

Presales begin Wednesday, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For all ticket info, visit Shinedown.com.

The Dance, Kid, Dance Act II tour, the sequel to 2025’s Dance, Kid, Dance tour, launches in May. It supports the upcoming new Shinedown album, EI8HT, due out May 29.

Music Notes: Kehlani, Isaiah Rashad and more

April 7, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Kehlani is set to perform as the latest guest on Amazon Music Presents: In the Paint, “which brings basketball and music together by reimagining artists’ most essential songs in a cinematic, courtside setting,” as per a press release. Her episode premieres Thursday and will air during the NBA on Prime Video postgame show, NBA Nightcap, after its New York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics livestream. It arrives ahead of her self-titled album, due out April 24.

It’s Been Awful for Isaiah Rashad, and he’s planning to explain how. His new album, his first in five years, is set to release May 1. He announced the news via a cinematic trailer, which shows the rapper with open, bloody wounds as he limps across a field after seemingly being beaten. It ends with him lying on the ground as two people stand over him. It’s Been Awful will serve as the follow-up to 2021’s The House is Burning. Its single, Same Sh!T, is now available for presave. A snippet of an instrumental can be heard on the website.

Al Green, Patti LaBelle and Public Enemy are on the lineup for the Stern Grove Festival, a set of free concerts taking place in San Francisco this summer. Patti is scheduled to play on Aug. 9, and Public Enemy will take the stage on Aug. 15. Al’s performance will follow on Aug. 16.

Beyoncé’s Lemonade is the latest album to get the Rockabye Baby treatment. The songs have been reimagined as instrumental lullabies and compiled on an album titled Lullaby Renditions of Beyoncé’s Lemonade. It arrives on Friday and follows the 2017 release Lullaby Renditions of Beyoncé. The animation for “Hold Up” is available to watch on YouTube.

Music notes: BTS, Teddy Swims and more

April 7, 2026 by WDNY Radio

BTS has dropped the third visual from their new album, ARIRANG. This one is for “Hooligan,” and it’s a futuristic scenario where the guys perform with a crew of masked dancers, attend what looks like a goth cocktail party, dance on a red platform and sing in dark room as people fly above them. There’s also a black-and-white sequence where a masked woman twirls swords around, and a scene where RM raps into a microphone that looks like it was made out of human bones and power cables. “Hooligan” follows the videos for “SWIM” and “2.0.”

Teddy Swims has revealed when we can hear his new song: “Mr. Know-It-All” arrives Thursday at 6 p.m. ET. It’s not clear if it’s a standalone single, or the first taste of a new album.

Want to live in the mansion that Sabrina Carpenter robbed in her video for “House Tour”? According to Wallpaper, the 13,000-square-foot home in the Hollywood Hills is on the market for $36.8 million. If you’d prefer to rent, it’s just $165,000 per month. That does get you an infinity pool, a basement nightclub, a firepit, an outdoor kitchen, six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms.

Starting Wednesday on YouTube, you can watch a video series documenting the recent concerts that Freya Skye played in London. Called Freya Skye Stars Align Tour: Live from London, it premieres at 4 p.m. ET on Freya’s YouTube channel. Meanwhile, Freya’s hit “silent treatment” just became her first to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.

Peter Frampton’s new album, ‘Carry the Light’, celebrated with autographed turntable

April 7, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Peter Frampton is releasing a brand-new album, Carry the Light, on May 15, and the release will be celebrated with a unique piece of memorabilia.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer announced that a limited-edition turntable will be released alongside the album. The hand-decoupaged item will feature the Carry the Light album cover artwork, will be hand autographed by Frampton and will be covered in a gloss finish.

In addition to vinyl, the turntable has the ability to stream smartphone audio through built-in Bluetooth speakers. It also features a headphone jack for personal listening.

Only 100 turntables are available for purchase and can be preordered now.

Carry the Light will be Frampton’s first album of all-new material in 16 years. The album features guest appearances by such artists as Sheryl Crow, Graham Nash, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ keyboardist Benmont Tench, Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello, H.E.R. and saxophonist Bill Evans.

Carry the Light is available for preorder now.

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