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Neil Young being sued by luxury brand over band name Chrome Hearts

September 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

) Neil Young performs with his band the Chrome Hearts on the Pyramid stage during day four of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2025 in Glastonbury, England (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)

Neil Young is being sued over the name of his latest band, Chrome Hearts.

A luxury brand based out of Los Angeles, also named Chrome Hearts, is suing the rocker for trademark infringement in California federal court.

According to the suit, Young and the band’s “continued use of the confusingly similar name in commerce violates Chrome Hearts’ valuable intellectual property rights,” contending that the rockers have “intentionally and knowingly capitalized off of confusion between” the brand and the band.

Chrome Hearts, the brand, has been in business since 1988 selling Chrome Hearts-branded clothing items. The suit notes it has worked with several A-list celebrities, including Madonna, Rihanna, Lou Reed and Cher, and mentions that Timothée Chalamet even wore its clothes to the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

The suit claims the clothing company reached out to Young and the band in July about its trademark rights, asking them to stop using the Chrome Hearts name, but they are continuing to not only perform under the name, but sell merchandise with the name on it.

The brand is asking the court to order Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts to stop using the name, to award it financial damages and to reimburse it for legal expenses.

Young began touring with Chrome Hearts — organist Spooner Oldham, guitarist Micah Nelson, bassist Corey McCormick and drummer Anthony LoGerfo — in 2024. They released their first album together, Talking to the Trees, in June.

They wrap their Love Earth tour on Monday in Los Angeles and play Farm Aid on Saturday in Minneapolis.

Sombr’s ’I Barely Know Her’ reaches top 10 on ’Billboard’ 200

September 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Sombr may barely know her, but he’s getting quite familiar with the Billboard 200.

The “back to friends” artist’s debut album, I Barely Know Her, has reached #10 on the Billboard 200, giving him his first top-10 record on the all-genre chart.

I Barely Know Her initially debuted at #14 on the Billboard 200 following its release in August. Its jump up the chart follows sombr’s performance on the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, during which he also won the best alternative prize.

Sombr will launch a U.S. headlining tour Sept. 22 in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Hear Jeremy Allen White sing in new trailer for ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’

September 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Bruce Springsteen fans got their first preview of Jeremy Allen White singing as The Boss in a new trailer for the much-anticipated film Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.

The clip debuted during the Emmy Awards Sunday night, and in it you can hear White singing the “Atlantic City,” a track from Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska, the making of which is the central focus of the film.

“It’s a hard thing, realizing people aren’t who you want them to be,” White says in the opening of the trailer. “It feels different coming home; there’s a real emptiness.”

After Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau, played by Jeremy Strong, tells Bruce that the label wants the first top-10 hit from him, Springsteen pushes back.

“These new songs, they are different. But they’re the only thing making sense to me right now,” he says. “The only thing I can still believe in.” To which Landau replies, “Then we’ll get it. Whatever it takes.”

Later, when the label exec calls the album a “highly unorthodox career move,” Landau says, “That’s the point. He’s channeling something deeply personal,” adding, “but in this office, my office, we believe in Bruce Springsteen.”

“This film takes a couple years out of my life and looks at them very closely, a time when I made Nebraska and went through some personal difficulties,” Springsteen shares. “I’m so appreciative of Jeremy Allen White and the entire cast for their wonderful and moving performances—and (director) Scott Cooper, one of the most generous collaborators I’ve ever worked with.”

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere opens Oct. 24.

Eagles founder Bernie Leadon drops ‘Go On Down To Mobile’ from new album, ‘Too Late To Be Cool’

September 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Eagles founding member Bernie Leadon is getting ready to drop Too Late To Be Cool, his first solo album in 20 years, and he’s just shared another track from the record.

The latest single is “Go On Down To Mobile,” which Leadon describes as a song “about a clueless guy having a long-distance relationship” with a gal in Alabama.

This is the third track Leadon has released from Too Late To Be Cool, which is due out Oct. 10. He previously released the emotional song “Too Many Memories,” which Leadon says can be somewhat misunderstood.

While the video is sprinkled with archival footage of his time with the Eagles, Leadon tells ABC Audio the song is about more than just that period of his life.

“I mean, it’s about my entire life. I’ve done a lot of things that weren’t even music necessarily, including family and traveling all over the place,” he says. “And, you know, I’ve had a really wide, varied life.”

He adds, “That’s why the second verse talks about ‘I’ve lived many lifetimes in a single go.'”

Leadon also released the track “Just a Little,” a fun song about being angry, which he says he enjoyed writing.

“I tried to think of every single possible non-profane way to say I’ve been royally messed over,” he shares. “And so it was a lot of fun to do that.”

Too Late To Be Cool is available for preorder now.

Even in America: Sleep Token set to launch sold-out North American tour

September 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Sleep Token will launch their much-anticipated U.S. arena tour Tuesday in Duluth, Georgia. The shows, which have been sold out for months, are set to bring to life the mysterious masked band’s #1-debuting new album, Even in Arcadia.

“As great as everything has been so far on the music rollout and the sort of lore and everything that’s been coming through, just wait until people see these shows,” John Fleckenstein, COO of Sleep Token’s label, RCA Records, tells ABC Audio. “The American arena tour coming up, it sold out on presale. That says a lot right there.”

The Sleep Token live experience was one of the first things that jumped out at Fleckenstein when RCA first began to work with the “Emergence” outfit.

“The perception is metal band, you’re gonna go to a metal show, and you’re gonna see a bunch of guys, right?” Fleckenstein says. “I was really blown away by the split between guys and gals at this show, and I was really blown away by the number of couples at this show.”

“I was really blown away at the level of intensity that every one of them, male and female, was singing every lyric,” he continues. “I’ve never seen that before.”

Fleckenstein feels that the live show is where the complete Sleep Token vision comes together.

“They have done a spectacular job of building that up,” Fleckenstein says. “The live component of who they are and what they are is such a big piece of this. It’s the moment where the physical representation of what they make on the art level comes into play, it’s the moment where the fanbase comes together with each other.”

Mya talks comeback singles ‘Face to Face’ and ‘Give It To Me’

September 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Mya has ushered in her new musical era with singles “Face to Face” and “Give It To Me.” The songs have different vibes, reflecting the different sides of the R&B star.

“[‘Face to Face’ is] just an extension of the way I write music these days,” she tells ABC Audio of the introspective lead single. “It is a deeper look into who Mya is as a person, which often you hear in interviews but you don’t hear musically as a single from me.”

“I’ve been an entertainer for so long — over 27 years — that, hey, people want to know. And it’s a closer look into my thought process, my alignment, my spirituality,” she continues. “’Face to Face’ is all about going within, and becoming aligned with your source and your higher self. Or getting there and having that conversation as well with self.”

“Give It To Me,” released in June, has more of an upbeat tempo, one that she says reminds her of the songs she listened to as a child.

“I heard [the beat] through the walls while I was working in a different session at the studio,” Mya recalls, noting she immediately asked who the beat was for. “It didn’t belong to anyone until I took it myself. And I wrote the song in 24 hours, recorded it, laid all the vocals down by myself.”

“It was a feeling that called me. And that feeling came from my childhood. And it made me smile,” she added, thinking back to why she was drawn to the beat. “I was dancing through the walls. So I knew that something special will come out of it.”

“Face to Face” and “Give It To Me” are teases of what’s to come on Mya’s upcoming 10th studio album.

Foo Fighters play first show with new drummer Ilan Rubin

September 14, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Foo Fighters returned to the stage Saturday for a show the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, California. It marked their first performance with new drummer Ilan Rubin, who previously played with Nine Inch Nails.

In video posted to the band’s Instagram Story, Grohl is seen introducing Rubin to the crowd.

“We get to say, who our f***** drummer is,” Grohl said. “Everybody else has said it. I finally get the opportunity to say, ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome the most bad*** mother*****, Ilan Rubin, is playing drums in the Foo Fighters right now.”

This was the Foo’s first show since August 2024, and the night kicked off with Grohl acknowledging their absence from the stage.

“Oh my f***** God,” Grohl said when he first came walked out. “It’s been a while. It’s f****** been a while, huh”

The band then treated the crowd to 25-song set, featuring Foo favorites like “All My Life,” “My Hero,” “Times Like These,” “Learn to Fly,” “The Pretender,” “This Is A Call,” “Stacked Actors” and “Monkey Wrench,” ending the night with the classic “Everlong.”

The Foos also performed several songs they haven’t played in a while, including “Have It All,” which, according to setlist.fm, was the first performance of the One by One track since 2015. They also revisited two songs from their 1995 debut album: “Alone + Easy Target” and “Exhausted,” last played since 2018 and 2014, respectively.

In addition, the night included a performance of “Winnebago” — which Grohl recorded under the pseudonym Late! — for the first time since 2014.

Saturday night’s concert, which was announced Friday, was the band’s first since Grohl’s 2024 infidelity scandal.

Foo Fighters are due to kick off a tour of Asia in October.

Ed Sheeran debuts ‘Play’ songs at Brooklyn TikTok LIVE show, announces 2026 stadium tour

September 14, 2025 by WDNY Radio

When Ed Sheeran first started posting teases for what became his new album, Play, he shot some of the visuals in Domino Park in Brooklyn, New York. He returned to that location Saturday night to perform a TikTok LIVE concert for a few hundred of his biggest fans in person — and millions more around the world.

During the livestream, Ed played the songs he’d previously released as singles from Play — “Azizam,” “Sapphire,” “The Old Phone,” “A Little More” and “Camera” — but played several more live in front of an audience for the first time ever. He also noted he was happy his fans seemed to be embracing the new album “instantly,” whereas, he said, previous albums took a while to grow on them.

Ed also included two past hits — “Perfect” and “Shape of You” — noting that “Perfect” is one of those songs that he just can’t get away with not playing. Before starting “Shape of You,” he said he appreciated all the TikTok memes people have created around the song.

At the end of the one-hour show, Ed announced that in the next few days, he’d be revealing full details of a 2026 U.S. stadium tour, which will run through next spring, summer and fall.

You can catch the TikTok LIVE concert rebroadcast on TikTok on Sunday, Sept. 14 at 3 p.m. ET.

Here’s the set list:

“Sapphire”
“A Little More”
“Old Phone”
“Camera”
“Slowly” [live debut]
“Symmetry” [live debut]
“The Vow” [live debut]
“Perfect”
“Shape of You”
“Azizam”

Could Taylor Swift be deposed in the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni legal battle?

September 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Justin Baldoni‘s legal team is seeking to depose Taylor Swift in his legal battle with Blake Lively.

According to a letter submitted Sept. 11 by Baldoni’s legal team, led by Bryan Freedman, to Lewis J. Liman, the U.S. District Judge overseeing the case, his team said that Taylor “agreed to appear for deposition, which will be taken sometime between Oct. 20 and 25 due to ‘preexisting professional obligations.'”

The singer will be releasing her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Oct. 3.

While Baldoni’s team says that Swift agreed to appear for a deposition in that time frame, Douglas Baldridge, an attorney for Swift, clarified in a letter that Swift “did not agree to a deposition.”

“As counsel for the parties know, since the inception of this matter we have consistently maintained that my client has no material role in this action,” Baldridge said in a letter obtained by ABC News.

“Further, my client did not agree to a deposition, but if she is forced into a deposition, we advised (after first hearing about the deposition just three days ago) that her schedule would accommodate the time required during the week of October 20 if the parties were able to work out their disputes. We take no role in those disputes.”

Baldoni’s letter was also met with criticism by Lively’s counsel, in part because the deposition would fall after the discovery cut-off date, which is slated for the end of September.

A letter filed on Friday by Lively’s counsel, Michael J. Gottlieb accused Baldoni of requesting an “extension of the discovery schedule for the sole purpose of taking the deposition of third-party Taylor Swift.”

Lively’s counsel also called Baldoni’s tactic of bringing Taylor into the legal battle once again a “relentless media strategy” and added that Baldoni’s “request should be denied.”

Baldoni’s representative declined to comment to ABC News. ABC News has reached out to a representative for Lively.

Lively and Baldoni, who both starred in the 2024 film It Ends With Us, have been embroiled in a legal battle since December 2024.

In May, Taylor, who has been a longtime friend of Lively’s, was subpoenaed as a witness by Bryan Freedman. In response, a spokesperson for the singer at the time said she wasn’t involved in the film except to license her song, “My Tears Ricochet,” and was never on set.

By the end of May, sources with direct knowledge told ABC News at the time that Taylor was no longer facing a subpoena from Baldoni, adding that it was no longer needed because the necessary information had been obtained.

Foo Fighters to play surprise show in San Luis Obispo, California on Saturday

September 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Foo Fighters are returning to the stage, and some lucky fans in California won’t have to wait very long to see them.

Dave Grohl and the gang announced on social media that they’ll be playing a surprise show Saturday at the historic Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo, California.

Tickets for the show will be sold at the box office only, with a two-ticket limit per person. Sales begin at about 8 a.m. PT, with doors opening for the show at 7 p.m. PT.

The news comes about a week after Foo Fighters teased some upcoming news on social media, telling fans “Make sure you’re subscribed to the newsletter for info you won’t want to miss… just sayin’…” They also posted several pictures from the studio.

The Fremont show will be the band’s first with their new drummer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, sitting behind the drum kit will be Ilan Rubin, who previously played with Nine Inch Nails, but that hasn’t been confirmed by the Foos.

The previous Foo Fighters drummer, Josh Freese, was let go from the band in May and has since rejoined NIN, with whom he played from 2005 to 2008. The concert will also be the band’s first since Grohl’s 2024 infidelity scandal.

So far, the San Luis Obispo concert is the only U.S. show on the Foo’s schedule for 2025. They are due to kick off a tour of Asia in October.

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