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LA warehouse fire continues to burn as officials warn residents of air quality issues

June 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(LOS ANGELES) — Firefighters continue to battle a massive blaze at a Los Angeles warehouse that has been burning for nearly a week, which has spread heavy smoke for miles.

As of Tuesday morning, the fire at the Boyle Heights Storage Facility, which stores frozen food, is still ongoing, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Due to the facility’s architecture and cold storage shelving, crews have to battle the blaze from the outside as they cannot ventilate the insulated roof, Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Jaime Moore told reporters Monday.

“The entire roof has been compromised, and it is sitting on top of those 65-foot towers,” he said. “Imagine going to Costco, or any other large convenience store, [like] Home Depot, any of those that have the large racks. Imagine the ceiling sitting down on top of those racks. It’s extremely dangerous, and I don’t foresee ever putting our firefighters in that type of danger.”

The fire at the facility, which Moore said contains about 85 million pounds of frozen food, began June 17, and a shelter-in-place order was temporarily in place.

Lineage Logistics, which operates the warehouse, said in a statement Monday that the fire began “while testing was being conducted by contractors of the third-party owner of the solar array located on the facility’s roof.”

Lineage said that no hazardous materials are stored in the facility and that it pumped out the ammonia inside and transported it.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Saturday, and additional resources were sent to assist, including specialized aircraft with high-capacity water cannons.

While the fire has not spread to other buildings, residents and businesses near the area have been feeling the effects from miles away.

Heavy smoke from the blaze raised the Air Quality Index to unhealthy levels in East Los Angeles, Boyle Heights, and the San Gabriel Valley since last Wednesday, officials said.

In Boyle Heights, the air quality was at “very unhealthy” levels Sunday evening with an AQI of 298, prompting warnings for people to stay indoors, according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

AQI values at or below 100 are generally thought of as satisfactory, according to federal air regulators.

By Monday morning, many of the affected neighborhoods saw lower levels, with Boyle Heights recording an AQI of 79, but they were still high enough to affect some residents with respiratory issues, according to officials.

Although a shelter-in-place order was not issued, LA Mayor Karen Bass and other city officials offered over 1,000 air purifiers and face masks to residents who needed them.

Lines for those purifiers stretched outside locations on Monday.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Particle Pollution Advisory remained until Tuesday afternoon.

-ABC News’ Jenna Harrison and Matthew Claiborne contributed to this report.

Don Toliver announces Nitrous world tour

June 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Don Toliver’s Octane tour experience will continue with a second leg. The Nitrous world tour will see Don play 19 dates across North America, before he makes his way to fans in Europe and the U.K.

The tour kicks off on Aug. 4 in Sacramento, with stops also scheduled in Austin, Birmingham, Nashville, Cleveland, Toronto and Brooklyn, where the North American leg ends on Sept. 6. The European and U.K. leg will begin on Oct. 25 in Paris and end Nov. 23 with a show at The 02 in London.

For those attending shows in North America, Don’s Garage VIP presale begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, followed by the Artist presale at noon ET, which fans can access by signing up at DonToliver.com/tour.

The general sale begins Friday at noon local time via LiveNation.com.

The tour supports Don Toliver’s latest album, Octane. It follows his Octane world tour, which sold out in 31 cities, according to a press release, and saw appearances from Travis Scott, SZA and more.

Twisted Sister expands fall tour with Sebastian Bach on vocals

June 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Twisted Sister is adding some new fall tour dates, with former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach handling vocals.

The rockers have confirmed nine fall dates in total, with recent additions of shows in Gary, Indiana, on Oct. 18; Charles Town, West Virginia, on Nov. 14; and St. Petersburg, Florida, on Dec. 11.

The fall tour is set to launch on Sept. 4 in Palmer, Alaska.

A ticket presale for the recently added shows begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

A complete list of dates can be found at twistedsister.com.

Twisted Sister’s Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda announced in March that Bach would be taking over lead singer duties in Twisted Sister after original frontman Dee Snider backed out of a planned reunion tour due to health concerns. Snider later revealed that he approved of Bach stepping in, noting, “He’s a true fan & will honor what I did with every show!”

Duran Duran releasing ‘Free To Love’ remix album

June 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Duran Duran is set to release a new album of remixes of their latest single, “Free To Love,” featuring Nile Rodgers.

Free To Love: Hot Star Remixes will be released Friday to all streaming platforms. It’s made up of eight different remixes of the song, from Trixie Mattel, Jersey Black Cat, Inner Galactic, ALISSIA and more.

“Sometimes a song simply demands remixes and you have no choice but to obey – this was certainly the case with ‘Free To Love,’” says Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes. “We wanted to collaborate with the best possible contemporary remixers, which is something we have not done for a very long time.”

He adds, “It was a leap of faith, and we had absolutely no idea how the interpretations of our song might turn out, but we could not be more thrilled with the results.”

Free To Love: Hot Star Remixes will also be released on vinyl, CD and cassette later this summer, with physical copies including two additional bonus remixes. There will also be a 7-inch release that includes the original single, along with an exclusive instrumental version.

Duran Duran is currently on a European tour that hits the Czech Republic on Wednesday. They are also set to headline BST Hyde Park in London on July 5. A complete list of concert dates can be found at DuranDuran.com.

Deftones announce 2026 Dia De Los Deftones festival

June 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Deftones have announced the 2026 edition of their annual festival, Dia De Los Deftones.

The event will take place Nov. 7 at San Diego’s Petco Park. Deftones themselves will headline, alongside a typically diverse lineup that includes The Neighbourhood, AFI, Bktherula, Converge, Jehnny Beth, Ladrones, Lip Critic and LustSickPuppy.

Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. PT.

For all ticket info, visit Deftones.com.

You can also catch Deftones live at the Sick New World festival in Fort Worth, Texas, in October.

The most recent Deftones album is 2025’s private music.

Turnstile announces second part of ‘NEVER ENOUGH’ tour

June 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Turnstile has announced a new run of dates in continued support of their latest album, NEVER ENOUGH.

The aptly titled NEVER ENOUGH TOUR PT. 2 launches Sept. 9 in Milwaukee and wraps up Oct. 18 in Santa Ana, California. Openers include Clipse, Thundercat, Hatebreed, Vince Staples and Pennywise.

Presales begin Thursday, 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 TurnstileHardcore.com.

NEVER ENOUGH was released in 2025 and won best rock album at the 2026 Grammys. It also earned the band their first #1 hit on the Alternative Airplay chart with the title track, and spawned the single “LOOK OUT FOR ME” and the Grammy-winning song “BIRDS.”

Go ahead and bedazzle your boots, ’cause Miranda Lambert’s ‘gotta keep groovin”

June 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

If you like the groove Miranda Lambert’s been throwing down lately, there’s more to come.

Though she hinted at it with “A Song to Sing,” her duet with Chris Stapleton from July 2025, Miranda came right out and said it in “Crisco,” which dropped in May: “Ain’t we mixin’ country and disco?”

She also spells it out in a new Instagram video, bellying up to the bar behind two bedazzled Crisco-esque cans: One says “country” and the other says “disco.”

“Yeah I gotta keep movin’, gotta keep groovin’/ ‘Cause that song that’s in my soul will carry me on down the road/ I gotta keep goin’ till the going’s gone/ Till it’s gone, gone, gone,” Miranda sings in the background.

The accompanying text confirms “Till the Going’s Gone” will drop on Friday, fueling fans’ hopes there’ll soon be a whole album to follow.

Miranda’s most recent project was 2024’s Postcards from Texas.

Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson and more pay homage to the late Clive Davis

June 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Alicia Keys is honoring Clive Davis, the man she says “changed my life forever.” After posting a photo of herself with Clive on her Instagram Story Monday, she shared a post on her feed, reflecting on the impact he had on her life.

“He believed in me from the very beginning, when I was just 18 years old, and very few saw what I was capable of!” Alicia wrote of Clive, who passed away at 94 years old. “He has stood beside me through every chapter that followed. Not just in that fake industry way but in a way that was full of love for how unlimited I could be! He called me a renaissance woman! It’s one of my favorite descriptions. It reminds me to be boundless.”

“If he didn’t see in me the glimmer of what was to become, you and I may have never known each other and be on this deep musical journey,” she wrote. “You will be missed beyond words but I am so grateful to have had you for as long as I did.”

Clive signed Alicia to Arista Records in the late ’90s, before leaving the label to launch J Records. There, he recruited Alicia, who released her Grammy-winning debut album, Songs in A Minor, under his tutelage. They later worked on four more albums together.

Jennifer Hudson, who signed to J Records shortly after her American Idol run and maintained a relationship with Clive, wrote on Instagram, “Yes, he was the legendary music mogul, but he was family to me.”

Dionne Warwick, whose career Clive helped revitalize, said, “I can think of no other record man that seemed to have that magical ability to know a hit when he heard a song.”

Jermaine Dupri called for BET to honor Clive with a special tribute at Sunday’s BET Awards.

Andy Grammer announces ‘intimate’ Greater Than Pt. II concert experience

June 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Andy Grammer will reprise his 2025 Greater Than: A One Man Show concert experience with Greater Than Pt. II: A One Man Show.

Following Andy’s already announced Big Stupid Hearts tour, which runs July 25 through Aug. 30, the new show launches Nov. 3 in Nashua, New Hampshire. It will be a stripped-down presentation that will allow Andy to, as he puts it, “connect with so many of you in such a deeply beautiful, meaningful way.”

He writes on Instagram that the first Greater Than tour was “so raw, candid and special” that he’s excited about sharing “more of these moments with you all.”

He calls the show “an intimate set of songs, storytelling and poetry” that “kind of feels like we’re all in someone’s living room with each other, holding space for everyone in the room.” It will be an all-new show, but, he notes, “the sentiment remains the same.”

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time at AndyGrammer.com.

Meanwhile, Andy will release a new song, “Best Hearts,” on July 10.

1st-of-its-kind mission will attempt to save aging space telescope using robot spacecraft

June 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(LONDON) — Satellites don’t always stay in orbit. As they get closer to Earth, atmospheric drag can pull them lower and lower until they burn up, with solar activity speeding up the process.

NASA’s Swift Space Observatory is facing that fate — its orbit is decaying, and if left alone, it will be destroyed in a matter of months.

But in a first-of-its-kind mission, Katalyst Space, a startup, is teaming up with NASA to try and rescue Swift using the company’s newly developed robotic spacecraft, LINK.

“This is a historic mission, you know, some would call it the first of its kind, a robotic spacecraft that can go and capture an unprepared satellite,” said Robert Lamontagne, vice president of strategic partnerships at Katalyst Space.

Swift’s original orbit was around 370 miles above the Earth’s surface. But over the years, it’s fallen to less than 250 miles, according to NASA. Now it’s a race against the clock to keep Swift from falling even further and burning up in Earth’s atmosphere.

To save the satellite before time runs out, the Arizona-based company built its 935-pound rescue spacecraft in just 250 days. LINK was designed to physically interact with Swift despite the observatory not being designed for this kind of operation.

“Over the last nine months, we have gone from a clean sheet to a spacecraft that is currently integrated on a rocket, on an airplane ready to go to college for launch,” added Kieran Wilson, the principal investigator for LINK at Katalyst Space. “This is an absolutely unprecedented development timeline for this program.”

If all goes as planned, LINK will be launched into space on Saturday aboard a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket, which will be launched from a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar carrier aircraft taking off from Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific.

Once in orbit, it will take about three weeks for LINK to rendezvous with and capture the 22-year-old observatory. Over two to three months, the spacecraft will use its thrusters to raise Swift into a more stable orbit. The two will then separate as LINK lowers itself back into Earth’s atmosphere, where it will burn up, keeping it from adding to the rest of the space debris in our orbit.

The hope is that the maneuver will add 10 years to the mission and allow NASA to resume its scientific operations. The space agency had to stop most of the observatory’s scientific operations to reduce drag and slow its descent from orbit.

“No one thought it was going to be possible,” said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, NASA’s division director for astrophysics. “No one thought we would get as far as we’ve already gotten today.”

The clock is ticking for the $30 million mission to be completed. According to NASA, Swift is currently falling at roughly eight kilometers per month, and the space agency estimates it will drop below 300 kilometers sometime around October.

According to Wilson, at that point, the satellite will be “too low” for the rescue mission to be executed.

A potential blueprint for saving satellites

Earth’s orbit is littered with lots of aging satellites. If the mission is successful, NASA and Katalyst hope it could help establish a blueprint for future satellite rescues so fewer spacecraft are abandoned. Katalyst envisions having a fleet of spacecraft that can repair, refuel and upgrade satellites in need of help.

“Katalyst is here really to kind of mark the end of that throwaway model and the start of a new model where we think the spacecraft operators should no longer be constrained by the silly decisions that were made before launch,” Lamontagne said.

There’s no guarantee the rescue will be successful. Swift wasn’t designed to be grabbed by another spacecraft, and its age could make it vulnerable to damage during the capture.

“We still have to get spacecraft on orbit. We have to operate the spacecraft there successfully. And as we’ve all seen before, that’s a very challenging thing to do,” said Wilson.

“Rendezvous is going to be a challenge. It’s always a technical challenge, but we think we’re ready to handle that,” he added.

NASA says space weather and how the Earth’s atmosphere interacts with the spacecraft could also impact the outcome.

“If my confidence proves true and this team pulls off everything perfectly, the darn sun puffing up the darn atmosphere, at the wrong time,” Domagal-Goldman said. “There are still unknowns, both in terms of the dynamic nature of this part of Earth’s atmosphere, and its response to solar activity that is beyond all of our control.”

The Swift Space Observatory is a NASA satellite built to study gamma-ray bursts, the brightest and most powerful explosions in the universe. Swift uses multiple instruments, including three multiwavelength telescopes that can collect data in visible, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray light. NASA has used it to study black holes, stars, comets and other celestial objects.

“Swift can routinely conduct follow-up with things that go bump in the night within minutes. It really is NASA’s first responder,” said Brad Cenko, Swift’s principal investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Launched in 2004, the observatory was supposed to last only two years. But it’s been operating for more than two decades.

“Last year, Swift received five requests from the community to follow up newly discovered sources each and every day. That’s more annual community requests than any other NASA facility,” Cenko added.

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