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Justin Bieber releases 7th studio album ‘Swag’

July 11, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Justin Bieber is standing on business with new music.

The singer released his new album, Swag, on Friday, which features 21 new songs.

“Inspired by his devotion as a husband and father, this new era of music has fueled a deeper perspective and more reflective sound, resulting in some of his most personal music yet,” according to a press release from his label, Def Jam Recordings.

The album is Bieber’s seventh studio album. It follows his 2021 album, Justice, which featured the songs “Peaches” and “Holy.”

Leading up to the new album, Bieber had teased the new project on several billboards across Times Square, Atlanta and Iceland, where he allegedly recorded the album.

In May, Travel + Leisure reported that Bieber was recording new music at Eleven Deplar Farm’s recording space called Flòki Studios.

Bieber shared a post about his Icelandic adventure and captioned it, “the best trip of my life.”

See the full tracklist below:

“All I Can Take”
“Daisies”
“Yukon”
“Go Baby”
“Things You Do”
“Butterflies”
“Way It Is”
“First Place”
“Soulful”
“Walking Away”
“Glory Voice Memo”
“Devotion”
“Dadz Love”
“Therapy Session”
“Sweet Spot”
“Standing on Business”
“405”
“Swag”
“Zuma House”
“Too Long”
“Forgiveness”

Is Lainey Wilson planning a courthouse wedding?

July 11, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Even though Lainey Wilson got engaged to boyfriend Devlin “Duck” Hodges back in February, there aren’t any elaborate wedding plans underway yet — or perhaps ever, as she explains.

“I’m so excited,” the ACM entertainer of the year says. “He made me wait four years, so I’m gonna make him wait four years for the planning.”

“I’m just playing, but I’m so happy. We haven’t started planning yet, but whenever we do, I think it’s gonna be just something very simple,” Lainey reveals. “You know, everything else in our life is a big old to-do, so who knows? We might have to run to the courthouse.”

There’s no doubt Lainey’s life remains a Whirlwind, just like the title of her album. The deluxe edition arrives Aug. 22.

After a couple shows in Canada, she’ll have a bit of a break before kicking things off again Aug. 14 in Phoenix.

40 years ago, Live Aid rocked the world

July 11, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Forty years ago Sunday — July 13, 1985 — Live Aid, the massive all-star charity concerts, took place in London and Philadelphia. Organized by Bob Geldof to raise money for African famine relief, the shows featured anyone who was anyone in music at that time, from legends like Bob Dylan, Elton John, Queen, Tina Turner and David Bowie to younger acts like Madonna, U2, Bryan Adams and Duran Duran. Sting performed at the London show, both solo and with Dire Straits and Phil Collins.

“I can’t believe it’s 40 years. It just seems like yesterday, but it was an important moment,” Sting tells ABC Audio. “It really was almost a spontaneous moment, but really because of Bob Geldof. … Without Bob, it simply wouldn’t have happened. And he stuck with the idea, all this 40 years, and what we achieved on that day has propagated up till now.”

Bryan Adams performed in Philadelphia, between Judas Priest and The Beach Boys.

“I do remember Jack Nicholson introducing me,” Adams recalls. “It was definitely something special. There was no question about it. I didn’t get to hang around unfortunately because I had a gig that night. So we did that and then we just got back in the bus and left for the next town.”

Nile Rodgers of Chic performed with Madonna and The Thompson Twins that day. “Oh my God, it was one of the greatest days of my life because Joan Baez knew who I was,” Rodgers laughs. “I couldn’t believe it.”

But Rodgers, who produced Madonna’s Like a Virgin album, says she pulled a diva move at the end.

“What happened was, Madonna wasn’t invited to sing on the record ‘We Are the World,'” he recalls. “So when it came to do the finale, she split.”

Deftones announce new album, ‘private music’; listen to single ‘my mind is a mountain’ now

July 10, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Deftones have announced a new album called private music.

The milestone 10th studio effort from Chino Moreno and company will arrive Aug. 22. It’s the follow-up to 2020’s Ohms.

You can listen to the lead private music single, “my mind is a mountain,” now via digital outlets.

Deftones embarked on a North American tour earlier in the year from February to April. They’ll kick off a summer leg in August.

Here’s the private music track list:

“my mind is a mountain”
“locked club”
“ecdysis”
“infinite source”
“souvenir”
“cXz”
“i think about you all the time”
“milk of the madonna”
“cut hands”
“~metal dream”
“departing the body”

Tom Morello releases new solo song, ‘Pretend You Remember Me

July 10, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello has released a new solo song called “Pretend You Remember Me.”

The track is accompanied by a video that opens with long incarcerated Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who says, “No human being is illegal.”

“This song is dedicated to all the families torn apart by state violence and injustice,” Morello previously said.

You can listen to “Pretend You Remember Me” via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video on YouTube.

“Pretend You Remember Me” follows Morello’s 2024 single, “Solider in the Army of Love,” which he recorded with his son Roman Morello.

Morello also just served as the musical director for Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne‘s Back to the Beginning farewell concert, which took place July 5.

Grateful Dead announces ‘Dave’s Picks Vol. 55’, featuring 1990 Paris concert

July 10, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Grateful Dead has announced details of the next release in their Dave’s Picks bootleg series.

Dave’s Picks Vol. 55 will feature the complete and unreleased show from Oct. 28, 1990, at Le Zénith in Paris, France.

The concert had the band playing with two new keyboardists, Vince Welnick and Bruce Hornsby, who were filling the spot left by Brent Mydland, who died in July 1990.

The Paris concert, the second of a two-night stand at the venue, features performances of such classic Dead tracks as “Touch of Grey,” “Uncle John’s Band” and “Sugar Magnolia,” as well as covers of two Bob Dylan classics, “Maggie’s Farm” and “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.”

Only 25,000 numbered copies of Dave’s Picks Vol. 55 are up for grabs and are available for preorder now, with shipping starting on July 25.

Givēon says he is inspired by Usher’s story, career: ‘I value longevity’

July 10, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Givēon will release his second full-length studio album on Friday, but he’s already thinking about the long game. In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Givēon said he’s inspired by Usher‘s longevity in the music industry.

“I want to stay around because I value longevity as well. … Even Usher’s story is just so inspiring. Because it’s like this is a rhythm and blues act who does the Super Bowl, has a crazy residency and it has a crazy tour later,” Givēon says. “As a Black American rhythm and blues artist, I’m looking at that salivating like, ‘All I have to do is be quality?'”

“He is really inspiring,” Givēon continues of Usher. “I’m just like, ‘OK, let me stay in here and make progress.'”

Givēon’s sophomore album, Beloved, is autobiographical and includes stories based on his past relationships. He also compares it to a photograph to Rolling Stone.

“I think this album [is] like a photograph. Once you look at a photo, you start noticing stuff you didn’t see before,” he says. “So after I finished this album, I was listening to it and looking at it was just like, ‘Oh, that’s just not a person I think I would want my daughter to date.’ At that point, I got to just actually do the work.”

Givēon tells the mag the album will introduce fans to his own sound and says it’s “going to be magical” when he hits the road.

“It’s going to be my best tour. I want to do strings, I want to do horns, I want to do background vocals, so I feel like [I’ll have] a full eight to 10 piece [backing band], depending on how big the stages are,” he says. “The album is really a movie, it’s a world, and I want the night to feel like that.”

Nashville notes: Cam’s espresso drink + Steve Earle’s Opry induction

July 10, 2025 by WDNY Radio

You can check out Trisha Yearwood‘s new lyric videos for “Girls Night In” and “The Mirror” on YouTube now. They’re from the new album she co-wrote and co-produced, also titled The Mirror, which comes out July 18.

Nashville coffee shop Dose will be serving the new All Things Light Espresso Tonic July 14-20, in honor of Cam‘s album of the same name that drops July 18.

“Guitar Town” hitmaker Steve Earle will officially be inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry on Sept. 17.

Pretenders join comedian Bill Burr for surprise performance

July 10, 2025 by WDNY Radio

The Pretenders made a surprise appearance during Bill Burr’s comedy show in London on Wednesday.

Frontwoman Chrissie Hynde shared the news on her Facebook page, writing that Burr had asked them to join him for a few tunes at his show at the Hammersmith Odeon, which is now known as the Eventim Apollo. She noted that one of the songs they played was Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades,” because she had seen the heavy metal band play at the same venue 40 years ago.

Pretenders also covered “How Do You Get Your Money, Honey?” by AC/DC and Judas Priest’s “Breaking the Law.” According to setlist.fm, they ended the night with the Pretenders classic “Don’t Get Me Wrong.”

Burr even got behind the drum kit for the performance. Chrissie wrote of the moment, “I was thinking… He can tell jokes but can jokes play drums? The answer is – yes they can! Bill nailed it.”

Hynde added Burr’s performance got her thinking about other artists who may have missed their calling.

“John McEnroe missed his as a guitar player and opted out for tennis,” she writes. “Bill missed his as a drummer and opted out for stand-up. Kate Moss missed hers as a singer… (and I’m still trying to figure out what she opted out for).”

Finally, Hynde notes, “I guess we all have our chosen destinies. Keep on rocking in the free world!”

The performance was the Pretenders’ first gig since May, when they played C6 Fest in São Paulo, Brazil. They currently have no other shows on the schedule for 2025.

Doechii says she ‘needed to use’ BET Awards moment to protest ICE deportations

July 10, 2025 by WDNY Radio

When Doechii accepted the best female hip-hop artist trophy at BET Awards 2025, she addressed the LA protests against undocumented immigrants being targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Speaking to Variety, she explained she spoke up because she wanted to take advantage of the spotlight and her platform.

“I felt like I needed to use that moment, and they were live, so it wasn’t s*** they could do about it,” she said.

At the award show, Doechii called out President Donald Trump for “using military forces to stop a protest” and asked the audience “to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”

She also argued that oppressed people “deserve to live in hope and not in fear” and added, “I hope we stand together, my brothers and my sisters, against hate, and we protest against it.”

Pivoting from her advocacy to the topic of new projects in the cover story, Doechii told Variety she’s “been sonically sketching” new music.

“I know it’s gonna be a similar theme from my last project, of a real, deep vulnerability,” she said. “It’s gonna be the new lessons that I’m learning, and that’s why I say it’s hard to talk about now, because I’m still learning.”

She noted she’s also trying to discover what it takes to get herself to superstar status.

“We don’t really have a superstar of this generation just yet, because there hasn’t been enough time,” Doechii told Variety. “When I look at pop culture right now, I’m just trying to figure out, ‘OK, what does a Doechii superstar look like? What does it take to make that?’ I have no clue. I’m still figuring it out.”

The full interview is available online.

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