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Experience Hendrix Tour announces 2025 dates

November 12, 2024 by WDNY Radio

The Experience Hendrix Tour, celebrating the music of the legendary Jimi Hendrix, has announced new dates for 2025.

The trek, which returned in 2024 for the first time in five years, features an all-star lineup that includes guitarists Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Zakk Wylde and Eric Johnson, along with Devon Allman, Samantha Fish, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Marcus King, who’s joining the tour for the first time.

The 2025 tour is set to kick off March 11 in Cincinnati, hitting such cities as Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit and Washington, D.C., before wrapping April 12 in Atlanta.

“It’s a beautiful and powerful phenomenon to witness!” Janie Hendrix, president and CEO of Experience Hendrix and co-founder of the tour, says. “We have all of these incredibly talented musicians, each with their own special vibe, coming together in celebration of Jimi and his music.”

She adds, “You can feel the energy and the love being poured out on stage and every audience adds to the electricity! It’s amazing!”

The lineup for each Experience Hendrix show varies depending on the city. A complete schedule, with lineups and ticket information, can be found at experiencehendrixtour.com.

Warner Bros. selling 10 real-life Batmobiles

November 12, 2024 by WDNY Radio

If you’ve ever wanted to be Batman — or, more accurately, his deep-pocketed alter ego Bruce Wayne — here’s your chance.

To celebrate the 85th anniversary of the Caped Crusader, Warner Bros. is selling 10 authentic Tumblers — that is, the tank-like Batmobile model as driven by Christian Bale‘s Batman, for the price of $2.9 million a pop.

The vehicles are accurate in nearly every way to the ones seen in Christopher Nolan‘s Dark Knight trilogy, except the jet exhaust and machine guns are for show only.

The very limited-edition vehicles are made from Kevlar, carbon fiber, and sheet metal and fiberglass, and feature tubular aeronautical steel frames, 4-wheel power disc brakes, and a 6.2 liter LS3 525 HP Engine boasting 486 foot pounds of torque.

And while some of the bells and whistles are for the big screen, the roar of the engine, as seen in the movies, is very much real.

The 5,511-pound, 9-foot-wide beasts aren’t street legal.

That said, it’s pretty safe to assume that unless you’re “pancaking cop cars” as seen in the movies, most cops would probably give you a request for a selfie, not a ticket.

Trump picks former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to be Israeli ambassador

November 12, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has nominated former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to be the U.S. ambassador to Israel.

“Mike has been a great public servant, Governor, and Leader in Faith for many years,” Trump said in a statement. “He loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise, the people of Israel love him. Mike will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East!”

The role, which will need to be confirmed by the Senate, will be a key appointment as tensions remain high in the Middle East.

Trump has long touted in campaign speeches that he would work to bring peace to the region. The president-elect has argued for Israel to “finish the job” on Hamas, but he’s offered little guidance on what action he might take in the region.

“He loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise, the people of Israel love him,” Trump said of Huckabee in the statement.

Huckabee, an evangelical Christian, is an outspoken supporter of the Israeli settlement movement.

“I think Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria,” he said on a 2017 visit to Israel, according to CNN, using the biblical names for the West Bank.

“There are certain words I refuse to use. There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria,” Huckabee said. “There’s no such thing as a settlement. They’re communities, they’re neighborhoods, they’re cities. There’s no such thing as an occupation.”

As a 2008 presidential candidate, Huckabee also said “there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian,” according to Buzzfeed, and has suggested that a Palestinian state could be constructed with land from Arab countries surrounding Israel.

Huckabee is the father of current Arkansas governor and former press secretary under Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

News of Huckabee’s selection comes as Trump’s new administration begins to take shape with a handful of picks either being shared by Trump or reported by ABC News.

Hey, cowgirls: Parmalee’s got a new song for you

November 12, 2024 by WDNY Radio

If you’re a cowgirl and love country love songs, Parmalee just might have the song for you.

The group hopped on socials recently to tease a new, as-yet-untitled track that’s a hat-tip to cowgirls.

“The way she fitted in them Levi’s/ Make a man never want to go home/ I only came for a minute now she make me want to live it/ Yeah Southern charm ain’t no joke/ Thank God for the cowgirl/ I fell in love with a cowgirl/ And I ain’t coming home,” Parmalee sings in the upbeat clip.

“What do ya think? Should we release this one?” they wrote in their post.

While you wait for the release date to be announced, you can check out the full snippet now on social platform X.

Parmalee’s currently in the top five of the country charts with their latest single, “Gonna Love You.”

Mike Jones reflects on ‘Still Tippin” on its 20th anniversary

November 12, 2024 by WDNY Radio

It’s been 20 years since Mike Jones released his breakthrough hit, “Still Tippin.'” Reflecting on the song and its impact, the rapper tells Billboard his famous “Who? Mike Jones” ad-lib in the song was born with help from his mother and grandmother, who’d been there to witness when his music would get turned down in the streets and the clubs.

“I was trying to go to the club and get my music played,” Jones recalls. “People were making fun of me, like, ‘Are you Biggie?’ I’m like ‘I’m Mike Jones.’ And they’d be like, ‘Who?’ And my grandma and mom said, ‘Throw it back in their face.'”

His grandmother was also the one who suggested he connect with fans by giving them his phone number. “I didn’t want to give out my phone number at first,” Jones says. “My grandma was like, ‘Do something that ain’t nobody else doing. Be personal to the fans. Give out your phone number.’ And I was like ‘Man, I’m not finna give out my phone number.’ I eventually gave out my phone number. Thank God for her giving me that direction.”

Mike’s grandma passed away before the song’s video was released, and the number is now used as a fan hotline.

“Still Tippin’” featuring Paul Wall and Slim Thug went on to be certified Platinum and received a nomination in the MTV2 category at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It’s been sampled by A$AP Rocky, Lil Uzi Vert and Normani and is a staple at functions in Texas.

“If it didn’t blow up nowhere else, we knew it was going to blow up in Texas,” Jones says. “Everybody’s big on rides and cars. We still tippin’, and people that are from where we’re from understand the lingo.”

Return of ‘Yellowstone’ lassos series-best rating for Paramount Network

November 12, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(SPOILERS) Fans really wanted to see what happened to Kevin Costner‘s John Dutton: The Sunday return of Yellowstone scored the best-ever season debut for the Paramount Network drama, ABC Audio has confirmed.

According to data from VideoAmp provided by Paramount Network, the first episode of season 5’s back half scored some 16.4 million viewers across both cable and its sister network CBS.

By comparison, the previous high-water mark for Taylor Sheridan‘s neo-Western was the season 5 premiere in November 2022, which was seen by 8.8 million viewers on Paramount Network and 10.3 million viewers across all platforms, according to the trade.

For the record, Costner said he only learned what became of his John Dutton the morning after the show premiered, telling The Michael Smerconish Program, “I mean, I’ve been seeing ads with my face all over the place and I’m thinking, ‘Gee … I’m not in this season.'”

He added with a laugh of the character’s demise, “Doesn’t make me want to rush to go see it.”

That said, he added of the show’s producers, “They’re pretty smart people. … They’re very good. And they’ll figure that out.”

He also reiterated the shooting of his Horizon movies didn’t interrupt the shooting of Yellowstone, as was alleged. “There was room, but it was difficult for them to keep their schedule.”

“I didn’t leave. I didn’t quit,” Costner insisted.

The debut episode brings to a head just how far John’s adopted son, Jamie, played by Wes Bentley, was willing to go to bring his dad down.

Bentley tells ABC Audio his journey with the scheming character has been “wild and unexpected.”

He teases the fans, “I always think I know where it’s going. I think I know something about Jamie, and then I get surprised.”

GAYLE went from covering U2 songs to writing a song with U2’s drummer

November 12, 2024 by WDNY Radio

When she was little, GAYLE would perform at farmers markets, singing U2 songs for extra money to buy ice cream. Now she’s written a song for a new documentary with Larry Mullen Jr. — U2’s drummer.

The Grammy-nominated singer has dyslexia, and Mullen’s son also has dyslexia. As Billboard reports, that’s why they came together to write “Between the Lines,” a song for the documentary Left Behind. The film tells the story of the New York City mothers who fought to open the city’s first public school for dyslexic children.

The “abcdefu” singer tells Billboard Mullen reached out to her to collaborate. “He was talking about how passionate he was about the project, especially the fact that he has a child that has been affected with dyslexia,” she says. “He had a view as a parent seeing how it’s affected his child. He didn’t have to sell me in any way.”

Mullen tells Billboard, “I was really anxious that when I agreed to do [the song] that somebody who actually had dyslexia was involved and they would do the lyrics. It was just completely fortuitous and luck that myself and GAYLE kind of fell into each other.”

Mullen said creating the song with his two co-writers and GAYLE was “a collide of cultures, two different eras coming together. And the collision is kind of a beautiful one despite the musical differences.”

Mullen only recently returned to music, having been sidelined by neck surgery that caused him to sit out U2’s residency at Sphere Las Vegas.

“It was great to be able to do this track because I could play on it, whereas six months ago, I couldn’t,” he tells Billboard.

Left Behind will premiere Jan. 17 in New York City.

Portishead’s Beth Gibbons headlining Big Ears festival, Arcade Fire leads High Water lineup

November 12, 2024 by WDNY Radio

A pair of festivals have announced their lineups for 2025.

Portishead‘s Beth Gibbons will make her North American solo debut when she headlines Big Ears, taking place March 27-30 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The “Glory Box” artist released her first solo album, Lives Outgrown, in May.

For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit BigEarsFestival.org.

Meanwhile, Arcade Fire leads the bill for the High Water Festival, held April 26-27 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Also on the lineup are Lord Huron, Counting Crows and Mt. Joy.

You can find ticket info at HighWaterFest.com.

Machine Head, In Flames & Lacuna Coil announce 2025 North American tour

November 12, 2024 by WDNY Radio

Machine Head, In Flames and Lacuna Coil will be touring North America together in 2025.

The run, which also features Unearth on the bill, kicks off April 5 in Oakland and will conclude May 10 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.

Presales begin Tuesday, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit MachineHead1.com.

In addition to sharing the road, the four bands have united in the studio for a collaborative song called “These Scars Won’t Define Us,” which premieres Friday.

Lynyrd Skynyrd to play 2025 Rock the Country festival

November 12, 2024 by WDNY Radio

Lynyrd Skynyrd is set to play several dates on the 2025 Rock the Country touring festival, which will be headlined by Kid Rock and Nickelback.

Skynyrd is confirmed for five festival dates: April 5 in Livingston, Louisiana; April 26 in Knoxville, Tennessee; May 3 in Poplar Bluff, Montana; May 31 in York, Pennsylvania; and June 14 in Hastings, Michigan.

Depending on the day, the bill will also feature artists including 3 Doors Down, Travis Tritt, Hank Williams Jr., Staind‘s Aaron Lewis and Lee Greenwood.

Tickets go on sale Friday, and presales are open now. For more info, visit RocktheCountry.com.

Next up, Lynyrd Skynyrd is set to play the Rock N’ Support hurricane relief concert in Palmetto, Florida, on Nov. 15, with special guest Marcus King. A complete list of Skynyrd dates can be found at lynyrdskynyrd.com.

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