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‘New York Times’: Taylor and Travis’ alleged MSG blowout to be preceded by ‘intimate gathering’

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The New York Times is on full Taylor Swift wedding watch, with even more details to share about the reported upcoming nuptials, which are rumored to be taking place at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

The paper reported Thursday that an entertainment industry executive said that Taylor has indeed rented out the arena. That same executive and one other person “with knowledge of the matter” offered more details on how the celebration would reportedly progress: On July 2, an “intimate gathering” of about 100 people is expected at the Garden, followed by a July 3 celebration with “about 1,000” guests and “possible stage appearances.”

The paper reported Wednesday that the police officers who patrol the Amtrak train station beneath the arena have been told that Taylor and Travis Kelce will get married that weekend. It also reported that several members of the Kansas City Chiefs had booked rooms around those dates at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square.

Meanwhile, ABC News has confirmed that an event company has filed a permit requesting the closure of West 31st Street near the Garden from July 2 through July 4. In addition, city officials told ABC News that the company has also requested permission for an “exterior canopy” to be set up outside the arena to conceal the comings and goings for the event.

Reunited Sugar releases new song, ‘Keep Looping’

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The reunited ’90s alt rock band Sugar has released a new song called “Keep Looping.”

“Living in [San Francisco], I have a love/hate relationship with AI,” frontman Bob Mould says of the inspiration behind “Keep Looping.” “It’s bringing my City back to life, but at what cost to society and the environment? And do we trust the current regime to do the right thing with this new tech?”

He adds, “The new song has more snarl, and the lyrics say it all: A touch of dopamine. The steady beat of the drum. Get used to the constant hum of the Lie.”

“Keep Looping” marks the third new track from Sugar since they announced their return in October. It follows “House of Dead Memories” and “Long Live Love.”

Sugar played their first live shows in over 30 years in May in New York City. They’ll kick off a full U.S. reunion tour in August.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

On This Day, June 25, 2022: Paul McCartney headlined the UK’s Glastonbury Festival

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

On This Day, June 25, 2022…

Paul McCartney headlined the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, performing a 38-song set on the Pyramid Stage.

The concert took place one week after McCartney turned 80, making him the oldest solo headliner ever to play the festival.

McCartney’s set opened with The Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love” and was filled with Beatles and Wings tracks, as well as solo material.

It also included a special guest appearance by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, who joined him on “I Saw Her Standing There” and “Band on the Run.”

Bruce Springsteen also made a surprise appearance, performing his Born in the U.S.A. hit “Glory Days” with McCartney. They also teamed up for The Beatles’ “I Wanna Be Your Man.”

Both Springsteen and Grohl came out at the end of the set to help McCartney close the show with The Beatles’ “The End.”

New Joy Division live box set ’Eternal’ announced

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

A new Joy Division box set, described as the band’s “first-ever official collection of live concert recordings,” has been announced.

The compilation, titled Eternal, is due out Sept. 25. It consists of 192 tracks sourced from 16 live performances, including the final Joy Division concert in 1980, spread over 14 CDs. The package also includes two DVDs featuring two-and-a-half hours of live footage.

You can listen to a rendition of the song “Transmission,” recorded in Paris in December 1979, out now.

Joy Division was active from 1976 to 1980 and released just two albums during their brief but incredibly influential run. Beyond their significant musical impact, the cover artwork for their 1979 album, Unknown Pleasures, has become an iconic image in alternative music.

Joy Division disbanded in 1980 following the death of frontman Ian Curtis, who was 23. The rest of the band — guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris — then founded New Order alongside keyboardist Gillian Gilbert.

Joy Division and New Order will be inducted together into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of its 2026 class.

Dolly Parton cuts the ribbon on her Tennessean Travel Stop

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Dolly Parton made a surprise appearance Wednesday at the grand opening of her new venture, a gas station and restaurant called Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop.

The legendary singer-songwriter, author and businesswoman, now 80, cut the ribbon in a grand opening ceremony for the travel stop and welcomed guests in a pink-and-blue fringe outfit, complete with a “Dolly” name tag and stiletto heels.

“I’m sure some of you are wondering why I wanted a truck stop. Well, I couldn’t leave it to beavers,” the “9 to 5” singer said in remarks at the ceremony, referring to popular gas station chain Buc-ee’s, whose mascot is a bucktoothed beaver named Buc-ee.

The new one-stop travel center is located off exit 22 on I-65 in Cornersville, Tennessee, about an hour south of Nashville, Tennessee, and an hour northwest of Huntsville, Alabama.

In addition to the usual fuel station, general store, coffee shop and restaurant, Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop also features a tour bus, mural, lounge, dog park, electric vehicle charging stations and event space.

Parton’s appearance on Wednesday comes almost two months after she canceled her Las Vegas residency amid ongoing health issues. The singer had previously postponed her Vegas shows back in September citing “health challenges” before announcing their cancellation in May this year.

In a May 4 Instagram post, Parton said she was responding well to medications but needed more time to get better and “up to stage performance level.”

“My immune system and my digestive system got all out of whack over the past couple, three years, and they’re working real hard on rebuilding [and] strengthening those, and hopefully I’ll be up to snuff again soon,” Parton said in part in a video at the time.

Blood, Sweat & Tears singer David Clayton-Thomas dead at 84

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

David Clayton-Thomas, lead singer and songwriter of the jazz rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears, died Wednesday at 84, the singer’s publicist confirms to ABC News.

According to the publicist, Clayton-Thomas “died peacefully” at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.

Born David Henry Thomsett in Surrey, England, on September 13, 1941, Clayton-Thomas joined Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968, following the departure of the band’s original frontman Al Kooper. He landed the gig after folk singer Judy Collins heard him performing and told Blood, Sweat & Tears drummer Bobby Colomby about him.

With Clayton-Thomas singing lead, Blood, Sweat & Tears’ 1968 self-titled sophomore album became a huge hit, spending seven weeks on top of the Billboard Albums chart and winning the Grammy for album of the year in 1970, beating The Beatles’ Abbey Road.

The album spawned three hits: “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” “Spinning Wheel” and “And When I Die.” All three songs peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 13 weeks in that position.

In 1970, following the album’s success, the band went on the State Department-sponsored Iron Curtain tour visiting countries Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland, which drew criticism from fans. The tour was the subject of a 2023 documentary, What The Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?

The band continued to release hit albums, including 1970’s Blood, Sweat & Tears 3, which spent two weeks on top of the Billboard 200, and 1971’s Blood, Sweat & Tears 4, which was a top-10 hit.

Clayton-Thomas left the group in 1972 to pursue a solo career, releasing his self-titled solo debut that year. He went on to release nearly a dozen solo albums over the course of his career, his last being 2020’s Say Somethin’.

Clayton-Thomas was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996, and Blood, Sweat & Tears’ iconic track “Spinning Wheel” was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007. Clayton-Thomas also received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2010.

Clayton-Thomas’ life and music will be celebrated with a memorial concert at a later date. Proceeds will benefit Peacebuilders Canada.

Lionel Richie cuts opening night set short after feeling ‘dizzy’ and ‘strange’

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Lionel Richie was not ‘Dancing on the Ceiling’ during the opening night of his tour in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday: He was sitting on the stage.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer cut his set short on the Sing a Song All Night Long Tour with Earth, Wind & Fire after telling the audience he was feeling “dizzy” and “strange,” reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. While he began singing “Dancing on the Ceiling” standing up, he then stopped and perched on a step on the stage to complete the song. He told fans, “When you’re feeling dizzy, sit your a** down.”

But about 55 minutes into his performance, after sitting behind the piano to sing “Three Times a Lady,” he announced an intermission and left the stage. Forty minutes later, one of Lionel’s bandmembers appeared onstage and said, “Unfortunately, Lionel is not feeling well. He won’t be able to continue. Additional information will be available.”

After the announcement, John Paris, drummer for Earth, Wind & Fire, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that Lionel was “a little dehydrated,” but there weren’t any indications prior to the show the he was feeling ill.

ABC News has reached out to Lionel’s rep.

K Camp announces Us Over Dem tour with Jacquees

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

K Camp is hitting a few cities across the United States on his Us Over Dem tour. He’s teaming up with Jacquees for the seven-show run, which kicks off Aug. 14 in Phoenix and wraps Sept. 4 in Atlanta, with stops in Dallas, New Orleans, Houston, Birmingham and Memphis.

The announcement arrives following the release of Giant, his project with fellow Atlanta native Zaytoven, a collaboration he says came together organically. After returning from tour last year, his mother asked why he and Zay hadn’t released a joint project despite years of knowing and working with each other.

“I thought about it [and] I was down, that would be a vibe for the city,” he says. “So I reached out to Zay and Zay was 1,000% with it. As soon as I said it to him, he was like s***, what we doing? So when I realized Zay was deada**, I was like, OK, I can’t just text a n**** and say let’s do something and [then] don’t do it.”

Together, they created a 10-track project that sits right in his wheelhouse.

“I love short projects, especially if … it’s themed out and it makes sense and they all flow. I think that’s the perfect, perfect little batch for an album,” K Camp says.

With the tour on the way, he plans to bring the album to life onstage, while mixing it with some older tracks.

“I do, like, 60 to 120 minutes onstage. I got a lot of songs, and all of them jam when I’m on tour. They rock out,” he says. “It’s like a little science to it.

Tickets are available on the Live Nation website.

For Riley Green, CMA Fest 2026 was beers, tears and an unexpected hosting gig on ABC

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Riley Green marks a career highlight on Thursday, as he hosts ABC’s annual CMA Fest special alongside Good Morning America‘s Lara Spencer.

“Performing at the CMA Fest is such a big deal, and obviously getting to play at Nissan [Stadium] and, you know, [it’s] something you grow up dreaming about doing,” he said backstage earlier this month. “I don’t think I ever grew up dreaming about hosting.”

“I hope I didn’t bite off more than I can chew,” he adds, “but [I’m] excited about being able to have a part in the festival and being able to interview some of the other artists I’m friends with and fans of, and it’ll be a good time.”

Of course, the “Change My Mind” hitmaker also played his own set at the festival, and he can instantly tell how it’s affecting the crowd.

“Well, there should be a lot of beers up in the air and, you know, maybe some tears,” he reveals. “I think that’s always a [way to] judge for me is if I can have people holding their beer up and crying in the same show, it’s a good set.”

The long list of talent in the three-hour special include Bailey Zimmerman, Blake Shelton, The Band Perry, Brothers Osborne, Carly Pearce, Cody Johnson, Deana Carter, Ella Langley, Fetty Wap, Florida Georgia Line, Gretchen Wilson, HARDY, Jason Aldean, Jelly Roll, Jordan Davis, Keith Urban, Lainey Wilson, Luke Bryan, Michael McDonald, Molly Tuttle, The Red Clay Strays, Ricky Skaggs, Russell Dickerson, Shaboozey, Shay Morgan, Stephen Wilson Jr., Tim McGraw, Tucker Wetmore and Zach Top.

Tune in to see Riley’s hosting debut starting at 8 p.m. ET Thursday on ABC, before CMA Fest premieres on Hulu Friday.

For Riley Green, CMA Fest 2026 was beers, tears and an unexpected hosting gig on ABC

June 25, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Riley Green marks a career highlight on Thursday, as he hosts ABC’s annual CMA Fest special alongside Good Morning America‘s Lara Spencer.

Of course, the “Change My Mind” hitmaker also played his own set at the festival, and he can instantly tell how it’s affecting the crowd.

Tune in to see Riley’s hosting debut starting at 8 p.m. ET Thursday on ABC, before CMA Fest premieres on Hulu Friday.

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