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Alice Cooper to reunite with original bandmates for special London event

June 9, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Alice Cooper reunited with his original bandmates for his upcoming album, The Revenge of Alice Cooper, and now they are teaming up for a one-off event in London.

Cooper announced on Instagram that he and the group — guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neil Smith — are coming together for a July 24 event at London’s Union Chapel.

The evening, hosted by Sir Tim Rice, will be open to just 900 “lucky souls,” with attendees getting to hear the album for the very first time. Cooper and the band will also answer questions from fans and share “some twisted tales from the road.”

Tickets for the event go on sale Wednesday via the Rough Trade website. And for those who don’t get in, the evening will be streamed live.

The Revenge of Alice Cooper will be released on July 25. It marks the first album to feature Cooper playing with his original band since 1973’s Muscle of Love.

The Weeknd hits a major milestone with New Jersey concert

June 9, 2025 by WDNY Radio

The Weeknd performed sold-out shows at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on June 5, 6 and 7 — and set a new record in the process.

After performing for more than 163,000 fans over three days, the “Blinding Lights” singer is now the top-grossing Black male artist ever to perform at the venue.

The Weeknd is currently on his After Hours Til Dawn Tour, which touches down at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts for shows on June 10 and 11. The tour comes in support of his album trilogy After Hours, Dawn FM and Hurry Up Tomorrow. It’s set to wrap up Sept. 3 in San Antonio, Texas.

The Weeknd is donating a dollar from every ticket sold to charities that support children from vulnerable communities around the world.

The singer’s movie Hurry Up Tomorrow, a companion to his current album in which he stars with Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, has grossed just over $6 million worldwide, against a production budget of $15 million.

Leon Thomas announces Mutts Don’t Heel tour

June 9, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Leon Thomas is making one thing clear: Mutts Don’t Heel. It’s a message he hopes to share during his upcoming world tour, which he recently announced will visit cities in the U.S. and abroad.

The North American leg will launch Oct. 30 in Dallas before making stops in major cities including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Brooklyn and LA. The international trek will then follow, kicking off March 5 and coming to an end on April 3. Rising R&B star Ambré will join as the supporting act.

Tickets for the Mutts Don’t Heel tour, which supports Thomas’ Heel album, will be available starting with an artist presale Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time. A Spotify presale will commence Thursday at 10 a.m. local time, and the general sale will start Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

Heel is the deluxe version of Thomas’ sophomore album, Mutt.

Paramore’s Hayley Williams dubs Turnstile ‘my Fugazi’

June 9, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Turnstile has a big fan in Hayley Williams.

The Paramore frontwoman has posted an Instagram Story expressing her love for the hardcore outfit, which put out their new album, NEVER ENOUGH, on Friday.

“Can’t remember the first time I heard Turnstile but it was over a decade ago and I was in my early 20s,” Williams writes. “I have loved every iteration of their band thus far.”

“A genre is a label but community is *alive*,” she continues. “[Turnstile] represent so much just by showing up exactly as they are. Which is probably why all kinds of [people] can belong at their show.”

Williams concludes by likening Turnstile to iconic punk band Fugazi.

“They are my Fugazi but they’re also my friends,” she writes. “Thx for inspiration!!!!”

Williams is featured on the NEVER ENOUGH song “SEEIN’ STARS” and joined Turnstile to perform it during their New York City album release show.

Billy Idol says Sting got lucky after impersonating him

June 9, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Billy Idol has shared a funny anecdote about a Saturday Night Live sketch in which Sting did an impersonation of him.

In an interview with The Ankler, Idol was asked about the 1991 sketch “The Sinatra Group,” where Phil Hartman as Frank Sinatra hosted a talk show where he interviewed a variety of guests, including Sting as Idol.

Idol says he thought the sketch was “very funny” and shares that he was told that Sting’s wife, Trudie Styler, was a big fan of her husband’s impersonation.

“Sting’s wife, Trudie, told me that when he went into the dressing room after playing me, she got him to have sex with [her] as me,” Idol shares. “So that was a great caveat to the sketch. She said, ‘F*** me as Billy Idol.’ And he did.”

Idol is the subject of a new documentary, Billy Idol Should Be Dead, which will have its premiere at the Tribeca Festival on Tuesday, where he’ll also perform.

“I think the documentary has got a depth to it, as we really worked on it over quite a long period of time,” he tells the outlet. “I think it’s a really great documentary that shows a lot of aspects of my life.”

As for not holding anything back in the film, he shares, “You just have to own it and you realize what happened, whatever it was, the drug addiction or whatever else and own the different periods of my life. It all led to something: The bad stuff and the good stuff somehow ended up fusing [into] the music I’ve made.”

Doja Cat, Tems to headline inaugural FIFA Club World Cup final halftime show

June 9, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Doja Cat and Tems will bring their talents to the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup final halftime show. They’ve been tapped alongside J Balvin as headliners for the event, which will take place July 13 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

“We’re going to bring the world together for a beautiful moment — to celebrate football, feel the unity that music brings, and improve the lives of millions of children through the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund,” Tems said in a statement. “I can’t wait — see you at the FIFA Club World Cup final!”

The FIFA Club World Cup final halftime show, which will crown the first-ever FIFA club world champion, will be broadcast live at no cost on DAZN.com. Portions of the proceeds from FIFA Club World Cup matches will help support the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, an “initiative that aims to raise $100 million to provide access to quality education and football for children around the world,” according to the Global Citizen site.

The new FIFA Club World Cup begins Saturday and wraps up on July 13.

Still your favorite reference: Charli XCX celebrates ‘365 days of Brat’

June 9, 2025 by WDNY Radio

On June 7, 2024, Charli XCX released her album Brat, changing her career and pop culture in the process. She paid tribute to the moment on Instagram Sunday, posting photos of billboards in Brat‘s signature acid green with the word “forever.”

“forever <3 happy 365 days of brat,” she captioned the post.

While Charli first scored U.S. success as a songwriter in 2012 with Icona Pop‘s “I Love It” and as a singer in 2014 with “Fancy” and “Boom Clap,” Brat made her a global superstar. She first built hype for the project with pop-up shows, and the singles “Von dutch” and “360,” the latter featuring a now-iconic “It girl”-crammed video.

Brat debuted at #3, amid discussions about Charli’s relationships with Lorde — documented in “Girl, so confusing” — and Taylor Swift, allegedly the subject of “Sympathy is a knife.” But Brat summer really took off when Charli wrote on social platform X, “Kamala IS brat.”

Though Charli is British and couldn’t vote in the U.S. presidential election, Kamala Harris‘ campaign leaned all the way into the moment, changing its social media profile banners to match the Brat font and color.

Charli then kept the project going with Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, a new version of the album that featured guest appearances by Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Lorde and more.

The Sweat tour and the Brat Tour followed, as well as three Grammy wins; appearances on Saturday Night Live and at Coachella; and a slew of upcoming movie projects. And now that Charli’s older songs are coming to the forefront, like her 2020 track “party 4 u,” it seems Brat summer may never be truly over.

Deep Purple’s ‘Rapture of the Deep’ getting 20th anniversary reissue

June 9, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Deep Purple’s 18th studio album, Rapture of the Deep, will be reissued for its 20th anniversary.

A remixed and remastered version of the album will be released Aug. 29, with new artwork and bonus material made up of never-before-heard instrumental takes and studio rehearsal recordings. Among those tracks is a tune called “Closing Time,” written by the band’s then-guitarist Steve Morse, which is getting its first-ever release.

The new mix of the album was handled by Deep Purple’s bassist Roger Glover, who notes of the release, “It’s a new album now to me.”

As a preview of what to expect, the band has shared the new remix of the track “Junkyard Blues” to digital services.

Released in the U.S. on Nov. 1, 2005, Rapture of the Deep was the band’s fourth studio album with Morse and the second with keyboardist Don Airey. Glover notes in a press release the band was “going through a bit of a hard time when we started the songwriting and production of Rapture of the Deep.”

“Strangely enough, we didn’t have a record company at that point,” he says. “Let’s face it, we were a bit lost.”

Rapture of the Deep 20th Anniversary Remix will be available on CD, as a three-LP black vinyl and as a limited-edition three-LP transparent sky blue vinyl. It is available for preorder now.

ICYMI: Lil Wayne, Lil Baby and more

June 9, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Lil Wayne celebrated the release of his new album, Tha Carter VI, Friday at Madison Square Garden, and he brought out a surprise guest: LL Cool J. LL performed his song “Rock The Bells,” which Wayne sampled on “Bells” from his new album. The album is now available on streaming services.

André 3000 recently played his flute for a group of mothers and their newborns at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. “Grady moms and babies were treated to their own pop-up flute concert by the legendary @andre3000 – right here in our halls. Sounded like serenity in the key of #ATL,” the hospital shared to its Instagram. Alongside the caption was a photo of Three Stacks posing with four new mothers and their babies.

During a recent meet and greet in Atlanta for his Wham World Tour, Lil Baby saved a fan from hitting the ground. He put his hands out in front of him just in time to catch a woman who passed out and collapsed into his arms. Lil Baby then lowered her to the ground and made way for the security team to pick her up, but she recovered and got up on her own.

Wu-Tang Clan has released a video game titled Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver. The premise of the co-op action role-playing game, according to IGN, is to battle “the forces of an invading, corrupting force” called the Deceiver and “restore Shaolin to a beacon of hope, community, and prosperity.” Players can call on the Wu for their wisdom, skills and powers along the way.

Bad Wolves’ DL playing bass in Falling in Reverse’s live band

June 9, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Bad Wolves vocalist Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz is Falling in Reverse‘s new touring bassist.

DL made his live debut with Ronnie Radke and company over the weekend during Germany’s Rock im Park and Rock am Ring festivals. In an Instagram post, DL calls the Rock am Ring performance the “most intense show I’ve ever played.”

“90,000 heads, my 2ND show with FIR,” he writes. “Insane…I’m speechless. Forever Grateful.”

DL joined Bad Wolves in 2021 following the departure of original frontman Tommy Vext. The band’s most recent album is 2023’s Die About It.

Falling in Reverse’s current tour of Europe will wrap at the end of June. They’ll play a run of U.S. festivals in July, followed by a full U.S. headlining tour launching in August.

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