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Cardi B previews ‘Am I the Drama?’ with ‘Imaginary Playerz,’ accompanying video

August 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Cardi B has released “Imaginary Playerz,” the second single from her upcoming album, Am I the Drama? Named after Jay-Z‘s “Imaginary Player,” which it samples, the song finds Cardi boasting about her accomplishments and luxurious lifestyle.

“Now I spit that other s***, pretty motherf***** s***/ Cardi B, every song Platinum, I’m not the other b****,” Cardi raps.

She later adds, “Their money my stocks and share money/ Your booking fee is my makeup and hair money.”

The song is coupled with a music video she directed with Patience Foster. In it, Cardi flexes her opulence, wearing a sequined red gown to take a private jet from New York to Mykonos, Greece, where she enjoys lobster, the beach and time on a yacht. She then makes her way to France to get a pedicure with her feet dipped in champagne and have a solo dinner at a nice restaurant.

Cardi will celebrate the release of the song with an hour of her curated programming on Apple Music Radio.

“Imaginary Playerz” is now on streaming services, with the video available on YouTube. Fans can purchase “Imaginary Playerz” limited merch box sets at CardiB.com.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

The double meaning of Russell Dickerson’s ‘Famous Back Home’

August 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

A week ahead of the release of his fourth studio album, Russell Dickerson‘s releasing the title track, “Famous Back Home.”

“Growing up in my small Tennessee town, I dreamed, ‘I’m going to make it out of here. I’m going to make it big. Everyone will know my name,’” he explains. “I’ve been truly blessed to live out that dream. But as my journey continued, I realized that winning the world wasn’t the real goal — it’s being famous back home, within the four walls of my own house.”

“This song has become so meaningful to me because it’s a reminder that the truest kind of ‘famous’ comes from the people who’ve known you all along and making those closest to me proud,” he adds.

Famous Back Home‘s current radio single, “Happen to Me,” is now in the top 10, as Russell prepares to host the 18th ACM Honors Aug. 20 in Nashville with Carly Pearce.

Teddy Swims gets to sing with ‘the first band I fell so deeply in love with’

August 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Teddy Swims is having a full circle moment right now: He’s gotten to sing with the first band he ever really loved.

Acceptance is a punk pop band from Seattle that formed in 1998, broke up in 2006, but then got back together in 2015. It didn’t do much on the charts, but it apparently made a huge impact on young Teddy. Now, he’s singing with them on a remix of their 2005 song “So Contagious.” The song is out now, and will also appear on a 20th anniversary “reimagined” edition of their 2005 album Phantoms, which is coming out next month.

Teddy wrote on Instagram, “Acceptance is the first band I fell so deeply in love with! I remember hearing ‘In Too Far’ on NFL Street 2 and unchecking every song on the playlist so that song would play over and over! I then changed my entire MySpace layout to songs and videos of this band and this album Phantoms.”

“I used to go to my dads and watch their aol acoustic sessions over and over again every day hoping to one day be as amazing as [their singer] Jason Vena!” he continues. “I used to sing this song ‘So Contagious’ to my first girlfriend every night to bed over the phone!”

“This album, this band, this song shaped everything I am!” he concludes. “Thank you so much for having me on this 20th anniversary @acceptanceband. I love you guys so much.”

In the comments, the band wrote, “Absolutely no words, man… We love you and are just so, so honored to bring this one out with you. Thank you for putting your heart into this with us.”

In addition to Teddy, the reimagined album, called Phantoms/Twenty, features guest vocalists on every track, including members of Boys Like Girls, All Time Low and Pentatonix. It’s out Sept. 12.

38 Special releases ‘Slightly Controversial’ new single, featuring Train

August 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

38 Special is sharing another preview of their upcoming album, Milestone, due out Sept. 19.

The band, best known for songs like “Hold on Loosely” and “Caught up in You,” just dropped the new single, “Slightly Controversial,” featuring a guest appearance by the band Train. It is the second song they’ve released from the album following “All I Haven’t Said.”

“This song is wrapped around a mystery woman who’s been through a few things in her life,” frontman and co-founder Don Barnes shares. “She wants to keep people guessing and talking about her every move and they just can’t seem to figure her out. Her choice to be an enigma is for her own emotional protection.”

Barnes calls the tune a “powerful guitar banger,” noting that Train’s Pat Monahan “absolutely crushed it.”

“Slightly Controversial” is available now via digital outlets.

Milestone is the first new music from 38 Special since their 2004 release, Drivetrain. In addition to Monahan, the album features songs co-written by Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Randy Bachman and the band’s longtime collaborator Jim Peterik, who also co-produced the record.

Milestone is available for preorder now.

38 Special is currently on the road. Their next show is happening Friday in Aberdeen, South Dakota. A complete list of dates can be found at 38special.com.

I Prevail premieres new ’Violent Nature’ song, ‘Annihilate Me’

August 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

I Prevail has premiered a new song called “Annihilate Me,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Violent Nature.

“Annihilate Me” marks the fourth cut released from Violent Nature, following “Into Hell,” “Rain” and the title track. The album will arrive in full on Sept. 19.

Violent Nature marks the first I Prevail album to follow the departure of vocalist Brian Burkheiser, who’d sung alongside Eric Vanlerberghe since the band was formed in 2013. I Prevail announced in May that they’d parted ways with Burkheiser, and that Vanlerberghe would be their lead vocalist going forward.

Burkheiser later said “there is no beef” between him and his former bandmates, though he feels he “didn’t deserve how things went down.”

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

On This Day, Aug. 15, 1991: Paul Simon headlines a free concert at New York’s Central Park

August 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

On This Day, Aug. 15, 1991…

Paul Simon headlined a free concert at New York’s Central Park, as part of his Born at the Right Time tour.

The concert, attended by an estimated 48,500 people, aired live on HBO.

Simon’s set included solo songs like “Kodachrome,” “Me and Julio Down by the School Yard,” “Graceland,” “Still Crazy After All These Years” and more, with his performance of “You Can Call Me Al,” featuring a guest appearance by comedian Chevy Chase.

He also performed several Simon & Garfunkel tunes, including “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “The Boxer,” “America” and “The Sound of Silence.”

A live album of the concert, Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park, was released in November of 1991.

This wasn’t the first time Simon played a Central Park concert. He and his former musical partner Art Garfunkel headlined a free benefit concert on the Great Lawn in September 1981.

Stephen Bishop has his fans in mind with final album, ‘THIMK’

August 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Stephen Bishop, best known for such songs as “On and On” and the Tootsie theme “It Might Be You,” is set to release his 20th and final album, THIMK, on Friday. The 73-year-old musician tells ABC Audio his decision to retire was a personal one.

“My wife just had a baby last year,” he says. “I didn’t get to spend much time with my dad when I was a kid, so I want to spend time with him.”

The album includes a new take on “It Might Be You,” featuring 91-year-old pianist Dave Grusin. It also features guest appearances by some of Bishop’s famous friends, like Sting, Eric Clapton, Kenny Loggins, Art Garfunkel, Michael McDonald, Graham Nash and more. Bishop says it wasn’t hard to get them to sign on.

“I just called them up, you know, just, ‘Hello. How are you doing? Would you mind playing or singing on my album?'” he explains. “And they all said yes. And it worked out really great.”

Bishop says THIMK is a “special album for my fans,” which is why he included a special recorded message to them on it.

“I hope they appreciate that fact that I geared it just for them,” he says. “I want them to enjoy it and play it all the time.”

After almost 50 years in the business, Bishop may be ready to say goodbye to his recording career, but he says there are some things he’ll miss, including “the contact with all these great friends of mine.”

“It was great to be able to work with them and have them be on the album,” he says. “I think I’ll miss that. I’ll miss, you, know, just hanging out with them.”

Girl dad, reporting for duty: ‘Softie’ Cole Swindell is all in

August 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Cole Swindell‘s just finished up his first week as a father, after the arrival of Rainey Gail Swindell on Aug. 7.

So how does he feel about being a girl dad?

Well, being a self-described “softie” who’s “emotional and feel[s] things deeper,” he already suspects he may be in trouble.

“One of my brothers, he has a [daughter] and he just gave her away at her wedding,” he says. “I remember seeing pictures and he’s just, you know, tears flowing. He’s like, ‘You just wait. You just wait.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m not saying I won’t be [doing the same thing someday].'”

Cole got a preview of his daughter’s impact the first time his wife, Courtney Little Swindell, suspected they might be able to hear her heartbeat.

“She found out that if you put your ear to her stomach, you may be able to hear the heartbeat,” he tells ABC Audio. “I’m like, ‘Nah.’ And I did, and no kidding, I just laid there for five minutes, I think. It’s just a wild thing.”

Fortunately, the new dad has plenty of people to lean on.

“I’m excited and I’ve got plenty of friends with babies and especially girls,” he says. “So I think I got some good advice coming my way.”

You can check out “some favorite moments from the best day of our lives” in a new post on Courtney’s Instagram.

Billy Idol on The Who’s final tour: ‘I hate to think about that because I love those guys’

August 15, 2025 by WDNY Radio

It’s time for The Who to say goodbye to North America, and Billy Idol has some feelings about it.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are set to kick off The Song Is Over North American Farewell tour in Sunrise, Florida, on Saturday. Idol is the support act for the tour’s final show on Sept. 28 in Las Vegas. He tells ABC Audio he has mixed feelings about opening, saying it’s “gonna be a great day and it’s gonna be a terrible day.”

“I hate to think about that because I love those guys,” he says. He notes that even if he wasn’t opening the show he “was gonna come anyway” and that he told Roger Daltrey he was coming “by hook or by crook.”

Daltrey first suggested that Idol perform a song from Quadrophenia, as Idol previously performed with The Who on their 1996-1997 Quadrophenia tour. In the end, Daltrey and Pete Townshend decided to offer Idol a slot as opener.

“So that’s gonna be fantastic, and I’ll be able to commiserate with The Who fans,” he says. “We’ll all be feeling the same way.”

The Who announced in May they would embark on what they say will be their final tour of North America.

Daltrey said during a press conference, “It’s not easy to end the big part of my life that touring with The Who has been.” Townshend noted that “all good things must come to an end.”

He added, “This tour will be about fond memories, love and laughter.”

In addition to Idol, opening acts on the tour include Candlebox, Billy Bob Thornton and his band The Boxmasters, The Joe Perry Project, Booker T. Jones, Joe Bonamassa, Tom Cochoran and ZZ Ward.

A complete list of The Who tour dates can be found at TheWho.com.

Dropout Kings announce physical release of ‘Yokai’ album

August 14, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Dropout Kings have announced the physical release of their new album, Yokai.

The record will be available on vinyl and CD Nov. 7. It was previously released on digital outlets Aug. 8.

Yokai pays tribute to late Dropout Kings vocalist Adam Ramey, who died in May at age 32. Ramey had completed his parts for the album shortly before his death.

“We ask that you to listen, enjoy and join us in the mission of not just uplifting and remembering the spirit of one of the best men we’ll ever know, but in creating a better world so that those like you, him and us can LIVE better and with brighter futures ahead,” Dropout Kings say.

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