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Metallica’s Kirk Hammett & Robert Trujillo jam Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Crazy Train’ at intimate NY concert

August 29, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Metallica‘s intimate concert Thursday at the Stephen Talkhouse venue in Amagansett, New York, featured a nod to the late Ozzy Osbourne.

During the recurring “doodle” segment of the metal legends’ show, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo jammed the riff from the Prince of Darkness’ solo classic, “Crazy Train.”

Metallica was one of the many bands to play the massive Back to the Beginning concert, held July 5 in Birmingham, England, which was announced as Ozzy and the original Black Sabbath lineup’s final live performance. Ozzy died just over two weeks later, on July 22.

“It’s impossible to put into words what Ozzy Osbourne has meant to Metallica,” Metallica posted following Ozzy’s passing. “Hero, icon, pioneer, inspiration, mentor, and, most of all, friend are a few that come to mind.”

Trujillo, who also played in Ozzy’s solo band before joining Metallica, later posted, “Ozzy was the conduit for so many new relationships both creative collaborations and real, lasting friendships.”

It was a graveyard smash: Lady Gaga pops into ‘Wednesday’ event to confirm her new song

August 29, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Lady Gaga still hasn’t appeared on the Netflix show Wednesday, but on Thursday she was a surprise guest at a party celebrating the show’s second season — and her involvement in it.

The event, called the Graveyard Gala, took place in New York City and was attended by Wednesday star Jenna Ortega, along with Emma Myers and Joy Sunday, who play Enid and Bianca, respectively, on the show.

The graveyard-themed space featured ravens, gravestones, spiderwebs, fog and other spooky details. Gaga appeared to confirm the release of “The Dead Dance,” the song she’ll be contributing to the back half of the season. Fans could even go inside “coffins” to hear a snippet of the track.

“The inspiration for ‘The Dead Dance’ was a breakup, and it was all about the way that we sometimes feel when it’s over; how a relationship ending can kill our ability to feel hopeful about love,” Gaga said of the song.

“It’s got this really cool, funky beat underneath it. And that is when the song becomes not just about the relationship; it becomes about having fun with your friends when you’ve been through something tough and amazing. I can’t wait for people to listen to it.”

As previously reported, Gaga will play Rosaline Rotwood, a legendary teacher at Wednesday’s school, Nevermore. Jenna said of Gaga’s performance, “She’s unbelievable. She’s one of the few, rare instances of someone who is so clearly doing what they’re meant to be doing. Just being able to watch her and take her in is a surreal experience.”

“The Dead Dance” will be out Sept. 3, the same day that Wednesday season 2 part 2 debuts on Netflix.

Alabama Shakes begin ‘Another Life’ with first post-reunion song

August 29, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Alabama Shakes have released a new song called “Another Life,” marking the band’s first fresh material since reuniting.

“When we wrote ‘Another Life,’ I was thinking about all the lives we carry,” says frontwoman Brittany Howard. “The ones we’re living right now, the ones that slipped away because of different choices, the what ifs, the what wasn’t meant to be, the goodbyes, and the chance encounters that feel divine.”

“This song is about those threads and how they stretch across time and space, connecting every version of who we are,” she continues. “It’s about letting them come together, letting them harmonize, and realizing that goodbye isn’t really goodbye. It’s more like I’ll see you later. A collective story that never stops unfolding. I’m glad we opened this door into this reality of us making music together again.”

You can watch the “Another Life” lyric video on YouTube.

Alabama Shakes went on hiatus in 2018 following the release of their sophomore album, 2015’s Sound & Color. They staged a surprise reunion during a benefit concert in December 2024 before announcing a full comeback tour for 2025.

While Alabama Shakes were inactive, Howard launched a solo career and has put out two albums.

Start of passion play: Twenty One Pilots’ Josh Dun launches YouTube channel with Metallica drum cover

August 29, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Twenty One Pilots drummer Josh Dun has launched his own YouTube channel, starting with a full drum cover of the Metallica classic “Master of Puppets.”

“I enjoy sitting in my room and playing my drums,” Dun shares. “I often play whatever comes on Spotify — try and learn it and perform it all the way through. I decided to film some of these songs and put them on here. hope you enjoy – nothing too crazy just some play-throughs of songs I like.”

“This one was all one take so not perfection, but fun,” he adds of the “Master of Puppets” cover.

You can also hear Dun’s drumming on the upcoming Twenty One Pilots album, Breach, due out Sept. 12. The record includes the lead single “The Contract,” as well as the track “Drum Show,” which Dun sings on.

Twenty One Pilots will launch a U.S. tour Sept. 18 in Cincinnati.

Sabrina Carpenter drops album, taps Colman Domingo for ‘Rocky Horror’-inspired ‘Tears’ video

August 29, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Sabrina Carpenter‘s new era has arrived: Her new album Man’s Best Friend is out now.

On Instagram, she writes, “how special to make something out of pure inspiration and zero pressure. I don’t think I’ve had greater memories making something before … and if i could turn back time and relive these memories i would. God d*** we had so much fun! and you can hear it!”

She continues, “It’s a real party for heartbreak, a celebration of disappointment! It’s laughing at yourself and your poor choices as everything is falling apart, it’s wondering how loyalty and love always gets you back to third wheeling, spoken sarcastically like a true 25 year old!”

Sabrina also advises, “I encourage you to listen loud, in order, top to bottom, with friends or by yourself! this is sonically and lyrically my favorite way to experience this album!”

Sabrina’s also dropped a video for one of her new songs, “Tears,” which is about how she gets turned on by a guy being responsible. It’s a takeoff on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with Sabrina waking up from a car crash and making her way to a spooky house, where she encounters Colman Domingo as the leader of a troupe of drag queens and assorted oddballs.

Stripped down to her lingerie, Sabrina parties with them, until she’s ejected from the house — only to be greeted by the boyfriend she thought perished in the car crash.

“You died earlier, I thought,” she says, annoyed.

“No, babe, what are you talking about?” he says, confused.

“It’s a thing. Someone has to die every video,” she explains. “Sorry. We’ll always remember you, though.”

She then removes her high-heeled shoe and throws it at him, impaling him in the chest and killing him. “He was a nice one too,” she says regretfully. “You have to give the people what they want.”

(Video contains suggestive language.)

That time Carrie Underwood worked two jobs, like a boss

August 29, 2025 by WDNY Radio

With the Labor Day weekend ahead, lots of Americans will be enjoying some time off and perhaps reminiscing about their journeys in the world of work.

That includes superstar Carrie Underwood, who even before winning American Idol was paying her own way.

“I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad job. I’ve had hard jobs,” she reflects. “I’ve had jobs that, you know, [made you work] random hours. My first job was at a gas station and that was a lot of fun actually. And while I was working at the gas station, I took on another job at a hotel down the street.”

Carrie admits that proved to be a little more difficult.

“There was nobody else working there,” she recalls. “I had one day of training, and then the next day I came in and the lady that had worked there the longest and was training me just didn’t show. So on my second day of work, I was now in charge because I was now the senior member. So I feel like that one was really challenging to try and figure my way through it, but I did.”

Of course, Carrie still has multiple jobs these days, having just started work on her second season of American Idol, in addition to her own recording career, and being mom to 10-year-old Isaiah Fisher and 6-year-old Jacob Fisher.

Bryan Adams says new LP ‘Roll With the Punches’ is a cross between two of his classic albums

August 29, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Bryan Adams‘ new album, Roll With the Punches, is out now, and he thinks it rocks, if he does so say himself.

“It’s predominantly pretty much a rock record,” he told ABC Audio. “What can I tell you? It’s the best songs I could have come up with in a year. I’ll tell you that!”

“If you like anything that I’ve done before and you like the themes that I sort of hark to, then it’s very much in that bag,” he continued, before describing some of the album’s songs.

“‘Roll With the Punches‘ is about getting up after you’ve been knocked down and just starting over. ‘Make Up Your Mind‘ is about the possibility of getting back with your ex, but your ex actually has somebody else,” he explained. “So it’s all those kind of themes.”

“I’ve got a song that’s about veterans coming back from war. I’ve got a beautiful love song on there,” he added. In fact, Bryan said he feels Roll With the Punches echoes two of his classic albums.

“It’s kind of a cross between, maybe, Waking Up the Neighbours and Into the Fire,” he says of his 1991 release and his 1987 project.

Roll With the Punches is an independent release on Bryan’s own label, BAD Records. “It didn’t take much to convince me to do it,” he says. “Because what we did was we sort of tested the waters.”

Specifically, a few years ago Bryan teamed with the record label BMG to released a box set documenting some shows he’d recorded at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Then, last year, he put out a similar box set on BAD.

“We did as good if not better on our own than we did with BMG,” he laughs. “So, might as well do it ourselves.”

Here they went again, 20 years later: OK Go reflects on legacy of viral breakout hit

August 29, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Before it soundtracked its viral treadmill video, OK Go‘s “Here It Goes Again” was just a song. That song first appeared on OK Go’s 2005 album, Oh No, which was released 20 years ago Saturday.

The video was originally supposed to be set to a song called “A Good Idea at the Time,” which turned out to be a bad idea.

“It just didn’t work,” frontman Damian Kulash tells ABC Audio. “So we’re like, ‘Well, let’s try some other songs,’ and we played other songs off the record, and this is the one that fit.”

Since “Here It Goes Again,” OK Go has become known for their elaborate videos. Nowadays, OK Go plans their videos to be more explicitly tied with its song as opposed to the see-what-sticks approach they took with “Here It Goes Again,” which led to the song unintentionally being tied to treadmills forever.

“We’re lucky to have this thing that has carved out a different part of the music industry for us, and we get to do these art projects that nobody else gets to do, and I could not be more thankful for it,” Kulash says. “They’re the, like, the ship that takes our songs off into the world.”

“But,” he continues. “There is a thing where it’s, like, ‘Here It Goes Again,’ you have to actively shut off your mental picture of us jumping around on treadmills to hear that song a different way now.”

While OK Go is at peace with how the world sees “Here It Goes Again,” some longtime fans make it known they got it pre-viral fame.

“Go look at any of our YouTube comments,” Kulash says. “Like, two to six percent of them are someone being like, ‘Been a fan since before the treadmills!'”

Richard Ashcroft shares title track off upcoming solo album, ’Lovin’ You’

August 28, 2025 by WDNY Radio

The Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft has released a new song called “Lovin’ You,” the title track off his upcoming solo album.

“Lovin’ You” includes a recording of the 1968 Mason Williams instrumental track “Classical Gas.” It follows the lead single, “Lover,” which interpolates the Joan Armatrading song “Love and Affection.”

The album Lovin’ You drops Oct. 10. It’s Ashcroft’s first original solo effort since 2018’s Natural Rebel, though he did put out a compilation in 2021 featuring rerecorded versions of songs from throughout his solo career and The Verve’s discography, including “Bitter Sweet Symphony.”

In addition to putting out new tunes, Ashcroft is fresh off opening the U.K. and Irish leg of Oasis‘ reunion tour.

Mötley Crüe, Guns N’ Roses, Ozzy, Poison artifacts going on display at GRAMMY Museum Mississippi

August 28, 2025 by WDNY Radio

In the 1980s, popular music encompassed multiple genres, from rap and pop to heartland rock and dance. But one genre that is overwhelmingly associated with that decade is metal — specifically, hair metal and glam metal. Now it’s being examined at a new exhibit at GRAMMY Museum Mississippi.

The exhibit, ’80s Rock: The Wildest Decade in Music, explores why those genres became so popular during that time and why the bands who played that kind of music continue to attract millions of loyal fans. Members of Twisted Sister will be on hand for a special conversation at the museum’s preopening event on Sept. 25, ahead of its official Sept. 26 opening.

As part of the exhibit, many artifacts from that time will be on display, including Mötley Crüe’s drum kit, an Ozzy Osbourne stage costume, a Def Leppard bass guitar, autographed guitars and memorabilia from Poison, a guitar played by Ratt, a smashed-up bass and Appetite for Destruction lithograph from Guns N’ Roses, a pink bodice worn by Heart‘s Nancy Wilson, a drumhead from Warrant, and a guitar and stage outfit from Lita Ford.

Photos from the era will also be on display. Fans can have their photo taken in front of a replica of the Whisky a Go Go, the LA club on the Sunset Strip that was ground zero for hair metal.

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