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Styx shares official video for Circling From Above track ‘Forgive’

August 11, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Styx has debuted a new video for the track “Forgive,” from their recently released album Circling From Above.

The video kicks off with a child drawing figures of a man and a woman with black marker on white paper, when the images suddenly begin moving. The clip then uses animated drawings to tell several stories of forgiveness, including a couple on the brink of a split, friends who get into a fight, and soldiers during battle, the latter featuring the faces of the members of Styx.

“Forgive” is the second track Styx has released from Circling From Above, their first album of new material since 2021’s Crash the Crown. They previously released the tune “Build and Destroy.”

Styx are currently on their Brotherhood of Rock tour with REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin and Don Felder, which hits Saratoga Springs, New York, on Tuesday. A complete list of dates can be found at StyxWorld.com.

Want to know what song Badflower meant to sample on ‘Snuff’? Go see them live

August 11, 2025 by WDNY Radio

In the middle of Badflower‘s song “Snuff,” a track off their new album, No Place Like Home, the music suddenly stops and a voice-over informs you that the band wanted to sample a “popular song from the 1990s” at that moment, but were unable to get it cleared.

“Rather than risk litigation, they decided to remove the sample and insert this, instead,” the voice-over continues before the rest of the song kicks back into gear.

Speaking with ABC Audio, frontman Josh Katz shares that he came up with the idea for the voice-over as a way to express his frustration over his inability to use the sample.

“When we got our final, like, ‘No, it’s not gonna happen,’ I was just so mad, and I wouldn’t accept doing something different [or] having that spot be blank,” Katz explains. “I couldn’t sleep at night if I did that. So I had to put my final little, like, f*** you in there.”

The rest of Badflower, however, wasn’t thrilled with Katz’s workaround solution.

“I sent it in, and my band hated it,” Katz says. “And they still do. But I just told them, like, ‘I’m sorry, I have final say on this one. I can’t accept anything less than this.'”

“Like, everybody has to know that I’m mad,” he smiles. “This is how I show my anger.”

If you want to know what song Badflower had intended to sample, they do use it when they perform “Snuff” live.

“We do it the way that it’s meant to be done, that it was always meant to be done,” Katz says.

You can catch Badflower live currently on tour with 311.

No Place Like Home is out now. It also includes the singles “Paws” and “Detroit.”

Craig David says new album dropping one week before debut’s 25th anniversary is ‘very divine’

August 11, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Craig David has two reasons to celebrate: the release of his new album, Commitment, and the 25th anniversary of his debut album, Born to Do It. Commitment arrives nearly one week before the milestone anniversary, something Craig said wasn’t intentionally planned.

“It was very divine,” Craig tells Rolling Stone UK. “I knew it was the 25th anniversary of Born to Do It, but I didn’t know it was on [August 14th]. And [Commitment] was gonna be a month earlier, and then it got pushed back to this new date. I was like, ‘No, you can’t make this up.’

“It’s very synonymous, because I feel like the way I wrote this album was very much in the same way that I did Born to Do It, where I didn’t have any, sort of, pressures of having to hit a date to finish the songs or make sure that we’re in the mix and in the know with what is the current trend that you need to be on,” he continues.

Commitment marks Craig’s ninth studio album, and he says he feels “like I’m back in that bag again.”

Despite having already spent 25 years in the music business, he shares he has more he’d like to do and share.

“We’ve got the songs to feel like we’re good, but the musician, hungry. I always wanna just be a student in the game. It’s always like, ‘OK, these are great, these accolades are great, the respect is great, the hits are great, but what did you do today?’” Craig shares. “And at that point you have to question yourself and you’re like, ‘Well, I haven’t written “7 Days” today, so I guess I need to get in the studio!’ And then the game begins.”

Commitment is now available on streaming services.

Go-Go’s singer appears to criticize Dua Lipa for being ‘so sexualized’

August 11, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Belinda Carlisle‘s lips aren’t sealed when it comes the criticizing the current crop of female performers.

The Go-Go’s frontwoman and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer did an interview with The iPaper in which she decried the fact that today’s pop stars are trying too hard to be sexual onstage. “These days, young women in the music industry are just so sexualized. Like, what happened? I don’t get it,” she’s quoted as saying.

When it’s pointed out to Carlisle that many women believe that taking control of their own sexuality is empowering, she responds, “It’s not empowering. It’s embarrassing. Yes, you will get attention, but not the right kind, and down the line you are going to look back and say, ‘Wish I hadn’t done that.’”

“I mean, Dua Lipa? It’s shocking!” she adds. “She’s so talented. She doesn’t need to do that.”

Carlisle goes on to say that after she went solo, a “big manager” told her that she should “show your t*** and sing some [songs about sex].” Carlisle’s reaction? “I said simply, “No, I don’t do that.”

She also notes that she and the rest of the Go-Go’s weren’t subject to the sexual abuse that many women in the music industry in the ’80s were. “No man ever messed with a Go-Go. We were like a five-headed monster,” she claims.

Carlisle will release a new album, Once Upon a Time in California, due Aug. 29. It’s a collection of cover versions of songs she loved growing up, like The Youngbloods‘ “Get Together,” Three Dog Night‘s “One” and The Hollies‘ “The Air That I Breathe.”

He dropped out of ‘American Idol,’ then scored a hit. Not Benson Boone — Max McNown

August 11, 2025 by WDNY Radio

A singer/songwriter tries out for American Idol, makes it to Hollywood and then drops out. His decision to do so turns out to be correct, because he then goes on to score a big hit. No, we’re not talking about Benson Boone and “Beautiful Things” — we’re talking about Max McNown and “A Lot More Free.”

Just like Benson, Max is an American Idol alum. “I actually was a contestant on American Idol for a brief moment in time,” he told ABC Audio. “I went to Casamigos, California, and I auditioned in front of Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, and I got the Golden Ticket, and I was like super-excited. I was on top of the world.”

But then, Max said, a song he’d posted on social media called “A Lot More Free,” which he wrote about a breakup, went viral.

“‘A Lot More Free’ started to have that life of its own,” he said. “I had to make the really difficult decision to kind of move on from American Idol instead of following it to the end just because I felt like I had started to build this career.”

While it was “such a difficult decision” for him, Max says he then felt he got a sign from the universe that he’d made the right call: Earlier this year, Kelly Clarkson performed “A Lot More Free” on her talk show as part of her popular Kellyoke segment.

“When Kelly Clarkson ended up covering my song, in the same way ‘A Lot More Free’ was my claim to freedom from that past heartbreak, seeing Kelly Clarkson cover that song was the full-circle moment of that whole experience on American Idol,” said Max. “And I was like, ‘Okay, I think I made the right decision.'”

Derek & the Dominos’ Bobby Whitlock dies at 77

August 10, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Bobby Whitlock, the pianist, guitarist and songwriter who played on three of rock’s most legendary albums — Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, All Things Must Pass and Exile on Main Street — has died. He was 77.

A statement provided to ABC Audio by his manager Carole Kaye reads, “With profound sadness, the family of Bobby Whitlock announces his passing at 1:20am on Aug. 10 after a brief illness. He passed in his home in Texas, surrounded by family.”

Born and raised in Memphis, Whitlock played on recordings by Sam & Dave and Booker T. & the M.G.’s as a teen and was the first white artist signed to Stax Records. In 1969, he played on the album Accept No Substitute by Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett and joined their touring band, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends.

Eric Clapton and George Harrison subsequently joined the band as guest “Friends,” which led to Whitlock and Clapton backing Harrison on the former Beatle‘s landmark 1970 album All Things Must Pass.

While working on Harrison’s album, Whitlock and Clapton formed Derek and the Dominos with fellow Friends Carl Radle and Jim Gordon. Whitlock wrote or co-wrote seven of the 14 songs on their now-iconic album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, including “Tell the Truth” and “Bell Bottom Blues.”

After Derek and the Dominos split in 1971, Whitlock released two solo albums and played uncredited on The Rolling Stones’ 1972 album Exile on Main Street. He also played on albums by Dr. John and Manassas.

Whitlock, who was inducted into Memphis’ Beale Street Walk of Fame in 2024, continued to record and release albums throughout his career, later accompanied by his wife and musical partner CoCo Carmel Whitlock. He is survived by Carmel Whitlock, sister Debbie Wade and children Ashley Brown, Beau Whitlock and Tim Whitlock Kelly.

Turnstile tops chart with ‘Never Enough’

August 8, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Turnstile has earned a major career milestone: They have a #1 song on a Billboard chart for the first time.

While the band’s albums have reached the top of a number of the publication’s charts, this is the first time a song of theirs has done the same. In this case, “Never Enough,” the title track of their current album, crowns the Alternative Airplay chart. The song’s parent album hit #1 on Billboard‘s Top Hard Rock Album chart back in June.

Previously, the highest the band had ranked on that chart was #8, with their 2022 song “Mystery.”

Billboard also notes that the Maryland punk rockers are the ninth act this year to score a debut #1 on the Alternative Airplay tally. That’s the most in one year since 2010.

Hear Kings of Leon on Zach Bryan’s new track ‘Bowery’

August 8, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Kings of Leon are featured on the latest single from Zach Bryan.

The track, “Bowery,” is out now, with Zach calling the collaboration the “honor of my life” in a post on Instagram.

Bryan has also released a video for the track, which gives fans a glimpse into the studio as Bryan and Kings of Leon record the tune.

Kings of Leon recently opened for Bryan at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. The July 20 show featured a guest appearance by New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen, with The Boss, Bryan and Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill teaming for a performance of Springsteen’s “Atlantic City.”

Cardi B microphone from mic-throwing incident in Vegas is reportedly up for sale on eBay

August 8, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Someone is trying to cash in on the microphone Cardi B used during her mic-throwing incident in 2023. EBay user Mswus74 claims they have the real item and has created a listing on eBay for $1 million or “best offer.”

“First & for most, my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims that were hit with this infamous microphone thrown by Cardi B. back on July 29th, 2023, at Drai’s outdoor nite club,” the description reads. “Wishing them a speedy recovery…Overall, the microphone looks good, but there are some scratches on it. I’m not sure if those scratches came from it being thrown at fans, but please look at all the pictures closely. Any other questions, just ask.”

This marks the second time Cardi’s alleged mic has been sold on eBay; TMZ reports Scott Fisher of The Wave production company sold the item for $2,550 after initially receiving a $99,900 bid.

For the uninitiated, the mic-throwing incident occurred in 2023 during Cardi’s performance at the Las Vegas nightclub Drai’s. Footage from the show captured Cardi as she requested fans throw water at her to cool her down from the heat, prompting an audience member to throw water in her face. Cardi then threw the mic in the fan’s direction. “I said splash my p**** not my face, b****,” she told the crowd.

Cardi B is now being accused of assault, battery, negligence and more as part of a civil lawsuit related to the incident.

Billy Joel releases archival performance from a ‘Long, Long Time’ ago

August 8, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Billy Joel has debuted another archival performance, and this one is a real throwback.

The “Piano Man” shared a video of him performing the track “Long, Long Time” on the PBS station WSIU on Feb. 10, 1972.

The clip is from such an early point in his career that during the intro the host notes that Joel and his backing band have been together “less than a year,” but adds that the “maturity of sound is there.”

“Long, Long Time” is actually a song that didn’t appear on any of Billy’s original studio albums. A performance of it does appear on the 2011 Legacy Edition of his sophomore album Piano Man.

Joel began releasing archival rarities to his YouTube account following the release of his HBO documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, with many of the clips found during the making of the film.

Billy Joel: And So It Goes is now streaming on HBO Max

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