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Shawn Mendes partnering with Playing For Change Foundation to bring music education to kids

June 25, 2025 by WDNY Radio

While Shawn Mendes was performing in Latin America and India earlier this year, he teamed up with the Playing For Change Foundation to bring music education, instruments and live performances to kids in those countries and provide grants for long-term music education goals. Now he’s announced that via his own charity, The Shawn Mendes Foundation, he’ll be carrying that partnership into his upcoming tour.

During Shawn’s On the Road Again tour, which launches Aug. 5, he and Playing For Change will continue to provide grants for music education in each country he visits. He will also meet with young musicians and take part in workshops.

“As musicians, we get to travel to so many places. You get to see what makes people so different, and the beautiful thing is that music seems to be the one thing that, no matter where you go, whether we’re dancing or we’re singing, connects us and unites us,” Shawn says in a statement.

“Music has the power to change lives, and every child deserves the opportunity to explore their creativity and express themselves.”

The On the Road Again tour will visit Europe and North America before wrapping up in LA in October. Before it begins, Shawn will play the Sunny Hill Festival, established by Dua Lipa in her parents’ home country of Kosovo, on Aug. 2.

Listen to The Rolling Stones contribution to King of Zydeco Clifton Chenier tribute album

June 25, 2025 by WDNY Radio

The Rolling Stones’ contribution to an upcoming tribute album celebrating the late King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, has just been released.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have covered the track “Zydeco Sont Pas Salés,” which features accordion player Steve Riley and includes Chenier’s original 1965 recording of the song.

“The Stones are truly honored to be on this tribute album amongst a stellar cast of artists and musicians,” the band shares. “Clifton Chenier was one of the most influential musicians to come out of Louisiana. He turned so many people onto the wonderful free spirited dance music of zydeco, including ourselves back in the day.”

They add, “Although the development of any music style can seldom be attributed to one artist, there is not a zydeco band who has not followed the template Chenier created.”

The track is now available via digital outlets, with a limited-edition 7-inch vinyl dropping on Friday.

The complete album, A Tribute to the King of Zydeco, will also be released on Friday. In addition to The Stones, the 14-track album features covers from Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Taj Mahal, John Hiatt and Jimmie Vaughan.

Chenier, who would have turned 100 on Wednesday, helped pioneer zydeco, a music genre created in Louisiana that blends blues, R&B and Afro-Cuban rhythms with music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles. He won a Grammy Award in 1983 for his album I’m Here. In 2014 he was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Chenier passed away in 1987 at the age of 62.

Proceeds from the album benefit the all-new Clifton Chenier Memorial Scholarship at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. The album is available for preorder now.

Good Charlotte releases new single ‘Rejects’ off first album in seven years

June 25, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Good Charlotte has released a new single called “Rejects.”

The track marks the first preview of “The Anthem” outfit’s upcoming album, Motel Du Cap, their first new record in seven years.

“Music gave us a way out, a place to belong and a way to find out who we really were. What we could be. And we did,” Good Charlotte says. “Now we are happy to share the songs that tell the story of our lives now, looking back at the past, standing in the present, and always moving forward.”

You can listen to “Rejects” via digital outlets. Its accompanying video is on YouTube.

Motel Du Cap is due out Aug. 8. That same day, Good Charlotte will perform on ABC’s Good Morning America Summer Concert Series.

Erykah Badu and The Alchemist announce The Abi & Alan Tour

June 25, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Erykah Badu and The Alchemist are coming together to bring their forthcoming album, Abi & Alan, to the stage. They’ve announced the Abi & Alan Tour, a multisensory experience that “bridges hip-hop production mastery with neo-soul innovation” while showcasing Erykah’s talents as a producer and “a skilled b-girl,” a press release states.

The performances will be backed by Badu’s instrumental band, The Cannabinoids, who will be on board for all 10 dates. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time at baduworldmarket.com.

Abi & Alan comes from Erykah and The Alchemist’s birth names — Erica Abi Wright and Alan Maman; the artists will reveal “new sides” of themselves on the forthcoming album. Arriving sometime in 2025, the project will mark Erykah’s first new album in 15 years. The first single, “Next to You,” is now available on streaming services.

Sabrina Carpenter offers fans new album cover ‘approved by God’

June 25, 2025 by WDNY Radio

The woman who once joked that “Jesus was a Carpenter” has now claimed that The Almighty Him — or Her — self has signed off on her new album cover.

After catching flak for the cover of her upcoming album, Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter has offered an alternative to anyone who was offended by the image of her on all fours, standing next to a man who’s grabbed a fistful of her hair.

She announced on Instagram Wednesday, “i signed some copies of Man’s Best Friend for you guys. & here is a new alternate cover approved by God. available now on my website.”

The new black-and-white cover shows Sabrina in a lacy dress, holding on to a man in a dark suit whose face is turned away from the camera. There are several other men, also in suits, in the background, but they’re obscured by shadows.

The original album cover was decried by some fans as “degrading” to women, while others argued that it was clearly satire.

And don’t try to criticize Sabrina for her “Manchild” video, either. She just posted a behind-the-scenes look at the video, in which she holds up the cigarette she’s smoking on camera and says, “For all the people who are thinking, ‘Shame on you, Sabrina,’ these are nicotine-free.”

Ex-Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds calls former bandmates ‘horrible humans’

June 25, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Former Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds is striking out at his former bandmates.

Replying to a fan commenting on a Mastodon Instagram post saying that they will miss Hinds, he wrote, “I want miss being in a s*** band with horrible humans.”

Presumably, Hinds means “won’t” instead of “want.”

Mastodon announced in March that they’d “mutually decided to part ways” with Hinds, a founding member of the band.

Hinds’ departure marked the first lineup change for Mastodon in 25 years. Since 2000, the band had consisted of Hinds, drummer Brann Dailor, guitarist Bill Kelliher and bassist Troy Sanders.

Earlier in June, Mastodon wrapped their Infinite Arc tour with Coheed and Cambria, during which they played with guitarist Nick Johnston in place of Hinds.

Joni Mitchell’s jazz influences explored in new ‘Joni’s Jazz’ box set

June 25, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Joni Mitchell is exploring her jazzy side in a new box set coming in September.

Joni’s Jazz will feature recordings chosen by Mitchell that highlight how jazz has influenced her music. It includes 61 tracks, made up of studio recordings, live performances and alternative takes, including two previously unreleased demos from 1980.

The set features Joni collaborations with jazz greats like Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock and Charles Mingusy, with tracks coming from albums like Songs to a Seagull, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Mingus, Turbulent Indigo and Both Sides Now. There are even tunes featuring Joni, which appeared on Hancock’s album River: The Joni Letters.

As a preview of what fans can expect, Joni has released one of those previously unreleased demos, for the song “Be Cool,” to digital services. The original version appeared on her 1982 album Wild Things Run Fast.

Joni’s Jazz will be released Sept. 5 in a variety of formats, including as an eight-LP or four-CD set, with the physical releases coming with original artwork by Mitchell, as well as rare and previously unseen photos.

Joni’s Jazz is available for preorder now.

Primus shares live ‘Duchess’ recording from Sessanta tour

June 25, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Primus has shared a live version of their song “Duchess (And the Proverbial Mind Spread),” recorded during the Philadelphia stop of the band’s Sessanta tour alongside A Perfect Circle and Puscifer.

The recording showcases the chops of new Primus drummer John Hoffman, who picked “Duchess” as one of the songs to play during his audition for the gig.

“He’s the only one that picked it, and he f****** killed it,” says frontman Les Claypool.

You can listen to the live “Duchess” via digital outlets. It will also be included on a 7-inch vinyl single alongside the new Primus song “Little Lord Fentanyl,” which features Maynard James Keenan.

The vinyl single will be available on Primus’ upcoming U.S. headlining tour, launching in July, before being released wide on Aug. 15.

ZZ Top adds more dates to their North American Elevation Tour

June 25, 2025 by WDNY Radio

ZZ Top has expanded their North American Elevation Tour.

Now that drummer Frank Beard is back with the band after taking time off to recover from foot and ankle issues, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have decided to add more than a dozen new shows to their schedule.

“This has been a great tour so we figured it would be a good idea to add some additional dates to keep the good times rolling,” Billy F. Gibbons says. “Come on out and see us at a concert venue near you.”

The new shows include dates in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana and their home state of Texas. Night Ranger, The Wallflowers, Black Stone Cherry, Molly Hatchet and Payton Smith are booked as openers.

ZZ Top’s Elevation Tour hits Laval, Quebec, Canada, on Wednesday. The tour is set to run through Nov. 21 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A complete list of dates can be found at ZZTop.com.

Lorde says new album makes her feel like she’s ‘shot gunned’ a Red Bull

June 25, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Two years ago, Lorde thought her career was done.

That’s according to a caption on the singer’s Instagram Story, which shows footage of her giving a very enthusiastic crowd of fans at a Brooklyn club an advance listen to her new album, Virgin. They’re all singing along at the top of their lungs to her song “What Was That.”

“In 2023 I thought for sure i didn’t have any more music in me and all this was over,” she wrote. “I was scared to let this exact roomful of people down.”

“Now i have a new album coming out in three days that makes me feel like ive shot gunned a red bull and am kissing someone i really like and here i am dancing to it with my beautiful babies,” she added.

Virgin, Lorde’s fourth album, is out on Friday. In addition to “What Was That,” she’s officially released the songs “Hammer” and “Man of the Year.”

Lorde’s Ultrasound tour starts in September in Austin, Texas.

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