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Belinda Carlisle releases first single from new album ‘Once Upon a Time in California’

June 16, 2025 by WDNY Radio

The Go-Go’s Belinda Carlisle has released the first single off her upcoming studio album, Once Upon a Time in California, an album of classic covers dropping Aug. 29.

The track is a cover of The Hollies’ “The Air I Breathe,” which Belinda says “has always been one of my very favorites growing up.”

“I love the lyrics and the complicated melody,” she says. “This was on the list I originally made of songs that I wanted to sing if I ever did a cover album,” noting, “I’m so happy with the way it turned out and I absolutely love the video as it sort of harkens back to my early solo albums and videos.”

“The Air I Breathe” is available now via digital outlets, and you can watch the accompanying video on YouTube.

Once Upon a Time in California, now available for preorder, is made up of 10 tracks, including covers of Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind,” Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle,” Harry Nilsson’s “Everybody’s Talking,” the Carpenters’ “Superstar,” Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “Anyone Who Had a Heart” and more.

New Eddie Vedder doc uses music to shine a light on rare skin disease

June 16, 2025 by WDNY Radio

The Eddie Vedder documentary Matter of Time had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival Thursday, and while it features portions of a 2023 Seattle concert by Vedder, it’s much more than a concert film.

The film shines a light on EB Research Partnership, which was started by Eddie and his wife, Jill Vedder, to find a cure for the rare skin disease epidermolysis bullosa. The doc also focuses on researchers searching for a cure and families affected by it.

And while it may seem like a challenge to balance all three in one film, director Matt Finlin says that wasn’t the case.

“It wasn’t hard because we all led … with the EB community first,” he tells ABC Audio. “Ed’s performance kind of provided the rhythm of everything and … the EB community and the researchers and these families provided the heartbeat.”

Finlin calls Vedder “a very humble collaborator” and said he made it easy to pick songs for the film.

“All of the performances really tied into the storytelling,” he shares. “The songs really organically … just kind of tied into what was happening over those two days in Seattle.”

The Vedders got involved in the community over 10 years ago. Since then three EB treatments have been approved by the FDA, and they’re still hoping for a cure.

“It’s definitely really incredible to see how much has happened just in the past couple years where it really does feel like, oh yeah, we got this,” Jill says.

As for how folks can do their part, Michael Hund, CEO of EB Research Partnership, thinks a good start is simply watching the film.

“The greatest gift that Matt Finlin has given us is to tell these stories,” he says. “It’s a gift to the community to be able to have someone that can tell the story in a way that is an entry point for so many people.”

Remainder of Bonnaroo 2025 canceled due to weather

June 14, 2025 by WDNY Radio

The remainder of the 2025 Bonnaroo festival has been canceled due to weather.

Following its opening day Thursday, conditions Friday forced organizers to delay performances before ultimately scrapping the whole day, as well as Saturday and Sunday.

“Today, the National Weather Service provided us with an updated forecast with significant and steady precipitation that will produce deteriorating camping and egress conditions in the coming days,” reads a statement posted to the Bonnaroo website Friday. “We are beyond gutted, but we must make the safest decision and cancel the remainder of Bonnaroo.”

The statement also includes information on refunds and campsite evacuations.

“We have put our hearts and souls into making this weekend the most special one of the year, and cannot express how crushed we are to have to make this decision,” the statement concludes. “Thank you in advance for your patience, your positivity and your unfailing Bonnaroovian spirit.”

Bonnaroo takes place in Manchester, Tennessee. The 2025 lineup included Queens of the Stone Age, Hozier, Vampire Weekend, Glass Animals, Megadeth, Avril Lavigne, Foster the People, Modest Mouse and beabadoobee, among others.

He’s Sir Roger Daltrey now: The Who rocker knighted by King Charles

June 14, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Roger Daltrey has been knighted by King Charles.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has been recognized as a Knight Bachelor as part of the King’s Birthday Honours. The now Sir Roger Daltrey is being honored for his contributions to music and his charity work, including raising funds for causes like Teenage Cancer Trust.

“It is a wonderful honour for me and especially for Teenage Cancer Trust,” Sir Roger shared in a statement, shared on The Who’s Instagram account. “I accept this award not only for myself but on behalf of all the unsung heroes who have given their energy towards making the Teenage Cancer Trust the success it has become.”

He adds, “The likes of The Who and their fans, Angie Jenkison, Lindsay Hughes, Des Murphy, Rob Ballantine and the late Chris York are some of many who have done so much to elevate the charity, to the point where it now has 28 specialist units in NHS hospitals across the U.K.”

This isn’t the first time the 81-year-old Daltrey has been honored by the royal family. In 2004 he was recognized with a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to music, entertainment and charity.

Teenage Cancer Trust is a nonprofit dedicated to providing specialized treatment and support for young people with cancer. Daltrey is a patron of the organization.

Godsmack announces vinyl reissue of ’1000hp’ album

June 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Godsmack has announced a vinyl reissue of the band’s 2014 album, 1000hp.

The LP is due out Aug. 8. It will also be available as a limited-edition color variant alongside a bonus 7-inch single featuring the vinyl debut of the bonus track “Life Is Good.”

1000hp, the sixth Godsmack album, spawned singles in “Something Different,” “What’s Next” and the title track.

Godsmack’s most recent album is 2023’s Lighting Up the Sky. Godsmack announced in April that longtime members Tony Rombola and Shannon Larkin had retired from the band.

The All-American Rejects highlight house party tour with new ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’ video

June 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

The All-American Rejects have shared a new video for their single, “Easy Come, Easy Go,” featuring footage from their viral house party shows.

For the past month, the “Gives You Hell” outfit has been making headlines by playing unannounced, last-minute shows at random house parties across the country.

The “Easy Come, Easy Go” video is on YouTube. You can also sign up to follow along with the AAR house party tour.

“Easy Come, Easy Go” the song premiered earlier in June and will be included on the upcoming new Rejects album, their first in over 10 years. Frontman Tyson Ritter promoted the track by launching an OnlyFans page.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

Paul McCartney to voice left-handed bass playing Walrus in animated feature ‘High in the Clouds’

June 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

An animated film based on Paul McCartney’s children’s book High in the Clouds is in the works, and while we knew McCartney was going to voice a character in it, exactly which character has now been revealed.

According to Screen Daily, in a video message shown at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, McCartney revealed he’ll be voicing a character that shouldn’t be too big of a stretch for him. He’ll play a walrus named Paul McKenzie, who’s a left-handed bassist in a band called The Sweets.

McCartney shared that the character was based on his Beatles bandmate John Lennon, noting, “If you asked him something, he could always have a quick, snappy answer.”

One of the film’s other characters, Sugartail, is inspired by another important person in McCartney’s life, his late wife Linda.

“I first thought of the idea after my kids’ mum Linda died, and I knew everyone was missing her so much that I thought if we could bring her back in the film, it would be very nice for them,” he said. “Sugartail is like Linda – she’s strong and resourceful.”

High in the Clouds, which McCartney wrote with Philip Ardagh in 2005, follows a teenage squirrel named Wirral in his quest to overthrow an owl named Gretsch who banned music in their city of Gretschville in an attempt to be the town’s only singer.

Yesterday’s Hamish Patel will voice Wirral, while Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham will voice Gretch. McCartney’s fellow Beatle Ringo Starr is also voicing a character similar to himself, The Sweets’ drummer, an ostrich.

Other members of the voice cast include Celine Dion, Idris Elba, Lionel Richie and Jimmy Fallon.

High in the Clouds, which will feature original tunes written by McCartney, is expected out in 2027.

‘Making dreams come true’: Taylor Swift visits Florida children’s hospital

June 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Taylor Swift stopped by a children’s hospital in Florida on Friday, the day after she attended the Stanley Cup Finals with her boyfriend, Travis Kelce.

That’s according to photos and videos of Taylor’s visit that have appeared on social media. Jill Whitehouse, chief of surgery at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital near Miami, posted a photo of herself posing with Taylor and captioned it, “Chief of Surgery meets Chief of the World! Undeniably one of the kindest human beings I have ever had the privilege of meeting.”

She added, “Thank you #taylorswift for making dreams come true for all of our patients, families, and staff today!”

Taylor, wearing a sage-green sleeveless dress, can also be seen greeting a patient in a video on social media, and saying goodbye to hospital staff in another.

The superstar has visited children’s hospitals before. In December she went to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, and after a patient complimented her outfit, Taylor sent her a matching one as a holiday gift.

Russell Dickerson ‘Heard It in a Country Song’ — while mowing the lawn

June 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

If you love barbecue stains, grape snow cones and the watermelon crawl — and you recognize those as nods to ’90s country — Russell Dickerson‘s new song is probably for you.

“Heard It in a Country Song” is the latest preview of his fourth album, Famous Back Home, which drops Aug. 22. It also includes his top-20 hit “Happen to Me,” which has now been streamed more than 100 million times.

It’s a bit of a gun show as Russell mows the lawn in a tank top in the “Heard It in a Country Song” lyric video. You can check it out on YouTube now.

Hey Madonna and Justin Bieber: Meet your cousin, Pope Leo XIV

June 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Back in 1989, Pope John Paul II condemned Madonna and urged Catholics to boycott her over her use of “blasphemous” imagery in her video for “Like a Prayer. ” In 1990, he denounced her Blond Ambition tour as “demonic” and urged Italian Catholics not to attend. But 35 years later, 20 years after his death, Madonna’s cousin was elected pope.

That’s according to The New York Times, which has exhaustively traced the family tree of Robert Prevost — now known as Pope Leo XIV — back to the early 1500s. Among the paper’s findings: Some of the pope’s eighth great-grandparents were born in France, but relocated to Quebec in the mid- to late 1650s.

Through one of those Canadian ancestors — a man named Louis Boucher de Grandpre, who was born in Quebec — the pope is a ninth cousin various times removed to multiple famous people, including Madonna. His other cousins include Justin Bieber, Angelina Jolie and Hillary Clinton, as well as former Canadian prime ministers Pierre and Justin Trudeau.

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