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Heart to perform at 2026 Grammy Hall of Fame Gala

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Heart has been added to the 2026 Grammy Hall of Fame Gala, taking place May 8 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

The event celebrates recordings being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame this year, including Heart’s 1975 debut album, Dreamboat Annie.

Other additions to the lineup include George Clinton, celebrating the induction of Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain; Lucinda Williams, whose album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is also being inducted; and Take 6.

They join previously announced performer Norah Jones, who will be honored at the event with the Ray Charles Architect of Sound Award.

Overall, nine albums and five songs have been chosen for induction into the Grammy Hall of Fame this year, including recordings from Janet Jackson, Radiohead, 2Pac and Nick Drake.

Released in September 1975, Dreamboat Annie was a top-10 hit for Heart, peaking at #7 on the Billboard 200. It features two songs that would go on to become Heart classics: “Magic Man,” which was their first top-10 single, and “Crazy on You,” a top-40 hit.

J. Cole to make return to professional basketball

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

With his album The Fall-Off now in fans’ possession, J. Cole is nurturing another one of his loves. ESPN’s Shams Charania has reported that Cole is making a return to basketball and will be playing for the Chinese Basketball Association.

“J. Cole has signed a contract to play in the Chinese Basketball Association with the Nanjing Monkey Kings,” he writes. “The multi-time Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum artist had committed to playing a few games for the Chinese team last year, and now follows through.”

Footage of Cole warming up with the team has also been posted on social media.

Cole, who is minority owner of the Charlotte Hornets, has been open about his desire to play for the NBA. His professional run includes a few games as a member of the Rwanda Patriots in the Basketball Africa League in 2021 and with the Scarborough Shooting Stars in the Canadian Elite Basketball League in 2022.

He’s set to go on tour in July in support of The Fall-Off.

‘Stop f****** asking me’ about Taylor Swift’s wedding, says her future sister-in-law

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Kylie Kelce is Not Gonna Lie: she’s sick and tired of people trying to milk her for information about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding.

On the new episode of her podcast, Not Gonna Lie, Kylie, wife of Travis’ brother, Jason Kelce, announced, “I just want to say to literally everybody, I know it usually comes from a good place — not always — but quit asking me and my mother-in-law about upcoming nuptials.”

“Nobody’s f****** telling you anything,” she continued. “I don’t have any details. I don’t have any details. I don’t have any details. I have no details. I have none. … Stop f****** asking me. Stop f****** asking my mother-in-law.”

“TMZ, f****** being creeps in the f****** airport. Ew,” Kylie went on, referring to the fact that her mother-in-law, Donna Kelce, was recently pressed for information about the wedding at LAX.

“Here’s the deal,” Kylie said to the camera. “Even if I did have any information, I’m not f****** telling you. That’s private information, if I had it, private information between family. So, A and B, ‘C’ your way out. You see what I did there?”

“And while we’re talking about A and B and C and letters — TMZ, SMA. How about that? For anyone who’s confused about that, suck my a**.”

“Great, perfect. I feel like we appropriately nailed that,” Kylie concluded.

But then she went on say, “You know what? Keep f****** asking. You know what my answer’s gonna be? ‘I know nothing. Suck my a**.'”

Taylor and Travis haven’t confirmed any details about their wedding. There have been multiple reports that it’s going to be held June 13, as well as reports that it’s going to take place in Rhode Island. However, all of this is simply speculation.

Poison’s Bret Michaels to perform at 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Pittsburgh native Bret Michaels is part of the entertainment for the upcoming 2026 NFL Draft in his home city.

The Poison frontman and rapper Wiz Khalifa, a fellow Pittsburgh native, are set to perform at the Draft Theater next to Acrisure Stadium ahead of draft rounds two and three on April 24. Country star Kane Brown will play the finale on April 25.

“I cannot be more honored, excited and fired up to be asked to perform at the Pittsburgh 2026 Draft on Friday night,” says Michaels. “As a Pittsburgh native and a diehard fan of the Steelers, the NFL and all things Pittsburgh, this is a dream come true.”

All performances are free, although fans are advised to arrive early as standing room spots will go on a first-come, first-served basis. You can find out more at NFL.com.

The 2026 NFL Draft kicks off April 23 on NFL Network, NFL+, NFL Channel, ABC and ESPN.

Disney is the parent company of ABC News and ESPN.

All roads lead to Coachella — with a Sabrina Carpenter-themed pit stop

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Sabrina Carpenter is headlining Coachella on April 10, and she’s arranged something special for fans who are heading there to see her.

Sabrina has teamed up with Airbnb to create a “Pit Stop” in Indio, California, just off Route 111. It will be open to the public April 10 from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. PT; April 11 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. PT; and April 12 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. PT. It features photo ops with “sparkly vintage cars”; a “refuel” station with “custom slushie concoctions”; candy-inspired art; and limited-edition merch.

Limited one-hour “experiences” were offered, but unfortunately have all sold out.

“This is a full circle moment for me. I wouldn’t be here without my fans so I wanted to create something special just for them. It’s not your typical pit stop – I wanted it to feel like a surrealist fantasy land of mine,” Sabrina says in a statement.

The address is 82338 CA-111, Indio, California, 92201, for your Google Mapping or Waze-ing pleasure.

French Montana, Max B announce Wave Gods US tour

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The Wave Gods are headed on the road. Following the January release of their joint album, Coke Wave 3:5 Narcos, French Montana and Max B have announced the Wave Gods tour.

The outing will kick off May 24 in Albany, New York, and wrap in New York City on a date still to be announced. The rappers also have shows scheduled in Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, New Orleans, Detroit and more. Tour info is posted on French Montana and Max B’s social media.

Tickets go on sale Friday.

Maggie Rogers celebrates 10th anniversary of ‘Alaska’ with ‘Colbert’ performance

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Maggie Rogers performed her breakout single “Alaska” Wednesday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to celebrate the 2016 song’s 10th anniversary.

Rogers famously played a recording of “Alaska” for Pharrell Williams while he was visiting her music class at New York University. Footage of Williams’ stunned, impressed reaction to the song — “I have zero notes for that,” he said — helped “Alaska” go viral.

You can watch Rogers’ Colbert performance on YouTube. She also played a cover of the standard “One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)” during the show.

Rogers announced in March she was launching a foundation and scholarship at NYU to mark the “Alaska” anniversary.

Peter Gabriel drops new ‘o/i’ track, ‘Till Your Mind Is Shining’

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Peter Gabriel has released the fourth track from his upcoming album, o/i.

The latest is “Till Your Mind Is Shining,” with Gabriel noting, “To my ears it’s the closest I get to a pop song on this record.”

“It takes me back to my schooldays, in some ways, because before there was Genesis we were effectively trying to be songwriters more than musicians – pop songs or soul / R&B songs,” he adds. “I think this song connects me back to some of those roots and the sort of thing that I was working on then and trying to master.”

As for the themes of the song, Gabriel notes, “In some ways it’s about opening up the mind and stepping inside to understand a little more of ourselves and the world we live in with the hope that we respond a little more responsibly and compassionately.”

As he did with his last album, 2023’s i/o, Gabriel plans to release a new song from the album with each full moon of the year. The entire album will be released by the end of 2026, along with Dark-Side and Bright-Side mixes handled by Tchad Blake and Mark “Spike” Stent, respectively.

“Till Your Mind Is Shining (Dark-Side Mix)” is available now via digital outlets.

Jordan Davis, Parker McCollum and more kick off CMA Fest with softball

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

A longstanding CMA Fest tradition continues in 2026, as celebs trade in the stage for the field to kick off the week with a charity softball game.

The Rock ‘N Jock Celebrity Softball Game will take place Monday, June 1, at Nashville’s First Horizon Park.

So far, Jordan Davis, Parker McCollum, HARDY, Zach Top, Priscilla Block, Zach John King and RaeLynn are among those confirmed to play. There will be some real athletes on hand as well, with former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler and former MLB pitcher Roger “Rocket” Clemens already on the roster.

Look for more names to be announced in the days to come. Tickets go on sale Friday.

In 2025, more than 8,000 spectators turned out to help raise more than $670,000 for Folds of Honor Tennessee. Since 2007, the organization’s given nearly 73,000 scholarships worth $340 million to spouses and children of service members and first responders, according to a release.

Former Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert arrested on attempted murder charge

April 2, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Former Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert has been arrested for attempted murder after allegedly running over the father of frontman Brendan Yates with his car.

The Maryland Judiciary database lists a 33-year-old Brady O’Brien Ebert, of Silver Spring, Maryland, as facing a charge of attempted second degree murder, as well as assault in the first degree.

Ebert was an original member of Turnstile, which formed in Baltimore in 2010. He played the band’s first three albums, including 2021’s GLOW ON, which spawned the Grammy-nominated songs “HOLIDAY” and “BLACKOUT,” before parting ways with the group in 2022.

In a statement to ABC Audio, Turnstile says they “cut ties with Brady Ebert in 2022 in response to a consistent pattern of harmful behavior affecting himself, the band, and the community.”

“After exhausting every available resource to support his access to help and recovery, a boundary ultimately had to be set when healthy communication was no longer possible and he began threatening violence,” Turnstile says. “In the years since, his baseless tirades have continued in public. We never addressed it. We chose to protect his privacy and the circumstances around his departure, even when he did nothing to be deserving of that protection. Over the past few months, his threats only escalated further.”

“This past week, that violence led to a physical attack when Brady went to the house of Brendan’s parents and used his vehicle to run over Brendan’s father, causing severe physical trauma,” the statement continues. “We are grateful that Mr. Yates survived, has successfully undergone surgery, and we’re hoping for the best possible outcome in his recovery.”

Turnstile concludes, “We have no language left for Brady. Please respect our privacy in this time.”

Ebert’s listed attorney had no comment when contacted by ABC Audio.

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