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Harry Styles’ Pleasing brand announces products that, um, really live up to its name

July 24, 2025 by WDNY Radio

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With a name like Pleasing, it’s perhaps surprising that it’s taken this long for Harry Styles‘ gender-neutral lifestyle brand to move into the sexual wellness space.

The brand has just announced two new products under the name Pleasing Yourself: a branded sex toy that costs $68 and a personal lubricant that costs $25. A three-day New York City immersive pop-up shop — no pun intended — will begin selling the items on Friday; they’ll also be available online at Pleasing.com. You can only go to the shop if you’re over 18, however.

According to WWD, Pleasing is also collaborating with Planned Parenthood to release a series of educational videos about sexual health and special-edition condoms with the tag line, “I’m for Planned Parenthood.”

WWD also quotes Pleasing’s creative director, Harry Lambert, as saying in a press release, “The idea of Pleasing Yourself is at the heart of the Pleasing brand. … This next step in the Pleasing world felt like such a natural progression, especially as something our community has been asking for from the get-go.”

A promotional video on Pleasing’s Instagram shows a guy from the arms down — presumably Harry — answering a phone call, putting down the receiver and writing a note, which then flies out the window. We then hear Harry’s voice saying what’s written on the note: “Please yourself like you mean it.”

Pleasing also sells makeup, nail polish, clothing and accessories.

Nashville notes: Jordan Davis’ ‘Truck’ + Blake Shelton’s BTS

July 24, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Nashville songwriter Ben Johnson stars in the new Netflix docuseries Hitmakers. He’s written 11 number ones, including HARDY‘s “Truck Bed” and Parmalee‘s “Take My Name.”

Jordan Davis‘ new track, “Turn This Truck Around,” arrives Friday. It’s the latest preview of his new album, Learn the Hard Way, which drops Aug. 15.

Blake Shelton takes you behind the scenes of the making of his video for “Stay Country or Die Tryin'” in a new YouTube feature.

Slipknot announces 25th anniversary reissue of self-titled debut album

July 24, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Slipknot has announced a deluxe reissue of their 1999 self-titled album in honor of its 25th anniversary.

The expanded set is due out Sept. 5 on vinyl, CD and digital platforms, and includes various demos and alternate mixes. The vinyl edition, which consists of six “blood splattered” LPs, also includes recordings from Slipknot’s early Indigo Ranch sessions, as well as live tracks recorded in 1999 and 2000.

You can listen to the demo version of the song “Prosthetics” now.

Slipknot also celebrated their debut’s 25th anniversary with a tour in 2024.

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The Opry will celebrate its 100th birthday at Carnegie Hall

July 24, 2025 by WDNY Radio

The Grand Ole Opry will relocate to New York’s Carnegie Hall on March 20, 2026, as part of the celebration of the country music institution’s 100th birthday.

The show, titled “An Evening with the Grand Ole Opry,” is also part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival.

Single tickets go on sale Aug. 11, but the show can be added to subscription packages now. The lineup of talent will be announced later.

This will be the fourth time the Opry’s taken over Carnegie Hall, with previous performances in 1947, 1961 and 2005.

Tyler Hubbard, Zach John King and more join Luke Bryan for his Midwest Farm Tour

July 24, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Luke Bryan is heading to the Midwest for his 2025 Farm Tour, and we now know who’ll be joining him.

Tyler Hubbard, Zach John King, the Peach Pickers and DJ Rock are all on board for the fall dates.

The shows kick off Sept. 18 at Klondike Farms in Brooklyn, Wisconsin, before heading to Berning Family Farms in Prairie Grove, Illinois, on Sept. 19. They’ll wrap Sept. 20 at Kubiak Farm in Fowlerville, Michigan.

Luke started his Farm Tour in 2009 to raise money for college scholarships for children from farming families. So far, he’s been able to send 87 kids to college through his annual trek.

Actor Paul Walter Hauser’s surprising connection to Bruce Springsteen

July 24, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Actor Paul Walter Hauser has a role in the upcoming Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, and it turns out he also has a surprising connection to the New Jersey rocker.

Hauser plays Springsteen’s guitar tech Mike Batlan, who helped engineer 1982’s Nebraska. While appearing on The Rich Eisen Show, Hauser said he once lived in a home previously owned by Springsteen.

“What’s crazy is I lived in his old house without knowing it,” Hauser said. “I lived there for six months.”

He said that after living there a week, his brother-in-law informed him that The Boss had owned the place for about 25 years.

Asked whether Springsteen left anything behind, Hauser suggested it’s possible some ghosts, sharing, “The speaker system in the home randomly played ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ and none of us had it on our Spotify or Apple Music or anything.”

Hauser said he has happy memories of the house, because he and his wife conceived their second child there.

“So when I met Bruce, I said, ‘I used to live in your old house.’ He goes, ‘I heard,'” Hauser said. “And I was like, ‘I conceived a child in your old bedroom.’ He goes, ‘So did I.'”

Hauser added, “And we hugged it out. It was insane. It was the funniest, like, first conversation to have with an icon.”

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White as The Boss, hits theaters Oct. 24.

Trivium’s Matt Heafy undergoes knee surgery: ‘Already on the mend’

July 24, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Trivium frontman Matt Heafy underwent knee surgery Wednesday to repair a torn meniscus.

“Last Thursday my left knee gave out,” Heafy writes in a July 24 Instagram post, adding that he “kept the injury quiet to not alarm anyone.”

Heafy says that the operation was a “big success,” and Trivium’s upcoming European tour is still set to kick off in August as scheduled.

“Nothing can stop us!” Heafy writes. “My knee is already on the mend … not even a shredded meniscus can prevent us from sticking with our word, for our shogunate.”

Trivium is set to return to the U.S. in September to play the Louder than Life festival.

Chuck Mangione, ‘Feels So Good’ musician and bandleader, dead at 84

July 24, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Chuck Mangione, the Grammy-winning jazz bandleader and musician who scored an unlikely top-five hit in 1978 with the jazz instrumental “Feels So Good,” has died at age 84, according to a note on his official website.

Born in Rochester, New York, on Nov. 29, 1940, Mangione early on performed and recorded as the Mangione Brothers with his brother, keyboardist Gaspare “Gap” Mangione. After graduating from the prestigious Eastman School of Music in his hometown, he played trumpet with famed bandleader Art Blakey‘s Jazz Messengers, as well as with various other ensembles, including recording the album Friends & Love…A Chuck Mangione Concert with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in 1970.

Mangione’s notoriety grew with subsequent recordings of his compositions, including the 1975 RIAA-certified Gold album Chase the Clouds Away, the title track from which was used in coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics, and the Grammy-winning Bellavia in 1977.

But it was Mangione’s 1977 album Feels So Good and its pop radio title track hit that made him a household name. Featuring Mangione playing the flugelhorn and backed by his longtime quartet of guitarist Grant Geissman, bassist Charles Meeks, multi-instrumentalist Chris Vadala and James Bradley Jr. on percussion, the single reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, while the album peaked in the #2 position on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart – second only to the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever by the Bee Gees. Feels So Good ultimately was RIAA-certified double-Platinum for sales of more than 2 million units.

Mangione’s follow-up albums included the 1978 Gold-selling soundtrack to the Anthony Quinn film Children of Sanchez, the title track from which earned Mangione his second of two career Grammy Awards. His 1979 album Fun and Games, which also was certified Gold, featured the single “Give It All You Got,” which was used in ABC’s coverage of the 1980 Winter Olympics and scored two Grammy nominations; Mangione earned 13 lifetime Grammy nods, including his two wins.

Mangione recorded some 30 albums during his career, the last of which was the 2000 release Everything for Love. His general popularity waned following his 1970s heyday but he remained a pop culture touchstone well into the 2000s, sending up his image with a recurring voice role in the animated TV comedy King of the Hill, playing an exaggerated version of himself as he appeared on the cover of the Feels So Good album.

Daniel Caesar returns with new single Friday: ‘I almost feel like I’m starting again — and I love it’

July 24, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Daniel Caesar is kicking off this chapter of his life with his new single “Have a Baby (With Me).” Arriving on Friday, the song is the lead to his upcoming album, Son of Spergy.

“I feel like we’re picking up where we left off,” he tells Billboard. “I almost feel like I’m starting again — and I love it.”

Daniel’s career started off strong with 2014’s Praise Break EP, 2015’s Pilgrim’s Paradise EP and his 2017 debut album, Freudian, before drama and controversy knocked him off his path. He was canceled for his defense of YesJulz, who’d been accused of cultural appropriation and making negative comments about Black women, and later experienced other downs in the music industry.

Through it all, Daniel felt protected. He says he’s been thinking about faith, as well as the life lessons he learned from his parents, topics he visits on his upcoming album.

“It’s about religion, but more importantly, it’s about my father,” he says of Son of Spergy; Spergy is his father’s nickname. “In your childhood, your father is a lot like God. He’s the person you fear the most on earth and also the person whose love and respect you desire more than anyone else on earth. It’s the source from where all your blessings come.”

Daniel adds the album was two years in the making and is filled with lots of gospel influence. He says it arrives at a time in his life when he’s in a purer place.

“Starting was the best part. It feels like a hobby. Then it becomes your job and it’s corrupted by commerce. That’s not why I started making music,” he says. “I started because I had something to say. I had feelings I needed to process. Now it just feels pure.”

Daniel’s last album was 2023’s Never Enough.

Margaret Qualley debuts Lace Manhattan music project, produced by Jack Antonoff

July 24, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Actress Margaret Qualley has launched a new music project called Lace Manhattan, produced by her husband, Jack Antonoff.

The first two Lace Manhattan tracks are called “ODDWADD” and “In the Sun She Lies,” and were both co-written by the Bleachers frontman. The sounds range from electro-pop to acoustic ballad.

Qualley recorded the songs for the soundtrack to the upcoming movie Honey Don’t!, in which she stars. The film, directed by Ethan Coen, premieres in theaters Aug. 22.

Qualley and Antonoff married in 2023; she’s acted in several Bleachers videos.

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