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Jane Fonda announces cancer diagnosis, says she’s started chemotherapy

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Jane Fonda announced Friday that she has been diagnosed with cancer.

“So, my dear friends, I have something personal I want to share. I’ve been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and have started chemo treatments,” the Grace and Frankie star, 84, wrote in an Instagram post.

“This is a very treatable cancer,” she continued. “80% of people survive, so I feel very lucky.”

Fonda said her chemotherapy will last six months and she is handling it “quite well” thus far, adding, “… believe me, I will not let any of this interfere with my climate activism.”

“Cancer is a teacher and I’m paying attention to the lessons it holds for me,” the Oscar-winning actress wrote.

“One thing it’s shown me already is the importance of community. Of growing and deepening one’s community so that we are not alone. And the cancer, along with my age — almost 85 — definitely teaches the importance of adapting to new realities.”

Fonda called herself “lucky” for having health insurance, and access to the top doctors and treatments, two things she said “far too many people” don’t have.

“I realize, and it’s painful, that I am privileged in this,” she wrote.

According to the National Cancer Institute, non-Hodgkin lymphoma begins in the cells of the lymph system, which is part of the immune system and helps the body fight infection and disease. It can occur almost anywhere, as lymph tissue is found all throughout the body.

Fonda previously underwent a lumpectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. In 2018, she revealed she had a cancerous growth removed from her lip.

Ozzy Osbourne performing during NFL season opener’s halftime

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Ozzy Osbourne is going from “Iron Man” to the gridiron.

The Prince of Darkness will be performing during halftime of the NFL’s upcoming 2022 season opener between the Los Angeles Rams and the Buffalo Bills.

The game will take place Thursday, September 8, at LA’s SoFi Stadium, where the Rams won Super Bowl LVI earlier this year. Kickoff is at 8:20 p.m. ET.

According to a press release, Ozzy’s halftime set will feature a “multi-song medley” for the fans attending in person, a “portion” of which will air during the broadcast on NBC.

Ozzy will release his new solo album, Patient Number 9, on September 9.

The Beach Boys’ Al Jardine releases remastered version of solo album ahead of 80th birthday

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine turns 80 this Saturday, September 3, and just a day before his milestone birthday, a newly remastered version of his 2010 solo album, A Postcard from California, has been released via digital formats.

This marks the first time the star-studded collection has been made available via streaming services.

A Postcard from California features an impressive cast of guest artists, including Jardine’s fellow Beach Boys, Steve Miller, Neil Young, Stephen Stills, David Crosby, America‘s Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, and Glen Campbell.

Jardine wrote or co-wrote over half of the tracks on the album, which also features updated renditions of The Beach Boys’ hits and of the Mamas and the Papas classic “California Dreamin’.”

The digital reissue includes two bonus tracks. The first is a previously unreleased extended version of “Waves of Love,” which features one of the last recorded studio vocal performances by late Beach Boys co-founder Carl Wilson. The second is “Sloop John B (A Pirate’s Tale),” Jardine’s reworked version of the popular folk tune “Sloop John B,” which was originally released in 2005 alongside Al’s children’s book of the same name.

Miller contributes to an updated version of “Help Me Rhonda,” the chart-topping 1965 Beach Boys hit featuring Jardine’s lead vocals. Crosby, Stills and Young all appear on Jardine’s rendition of “A California Saga.” Campbell, who was a touring member of The Beach Boys during the mid-1960s, lends his vocal talents to the title track and the “California Dreamin'” cover.

“I can’t believe it’s been 12 years since Postcard came out and I thank everyone involved in the production and creation of this album to help me get my songs out there,” says Jardine.

Here’s the reissue’s full track list:

“A Postcard from California” — featuring Glen Campbell
“California Feelin'”
“Lookin’ Down the Coast”
“Don’t Fight the Sea” — featuring The Beach Boys
“Tidepool Interlude” — featuring Alec Baldwin
“Campfire Scene” — featuring Neil Young
“A California Saga” — featuring Neil Young, David Crosby & Stephen Stills
“Help Me, Rhonda” — featuring Steve Miller
“San Simeon” — featuring America
“Drivin'” — featuring Brian Wilson & David Marks
“Honkin’ Down the Highway” — featuring Brian Wilson
“California Dreamin'” — featuring Glen Campbell
“And I Always Will”

Special Bonus Tracks
“Waves of Love” — featuring Carl Wilson
“Sloop John B (A Pirate’s Tale)”

Ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett releases new ‘Genesis Revisited Live’ album/concert video

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett‘s latest concert album and video, Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More, documenting a 2021 performance from his tour of the same name, got its release today.

The collection captures a September 2021 show in Manchester, England, that featured Hackett and his current backing band performing Genesis’ 1977 album Seconds Out in its entirety. It also features some select solo tunes, including two from 2021’s Surrender of Silence.

Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More is available as a two-CD/Blu-ray set, a two-CD/DVD package and via digital formats. A four-LP/two-CD version of the release will follow on November 25.

The versions featuring the Blu-ray and DVD boast 5.1 surround sound, as well as a behind-the-scenes documentary and promotional videos.

Coinciding with Genesis Revisited Live‘s release, a video clip from the film featuring a performance of the 1974 Genesis song “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” has debuted on Hackett’s official YouTube channel.

In other news, Hackett and his solo band will launch a new Genesis-themed tour, “Foxtrot at Fifty,” with a series of U.K. shows running from September 9 through October 12. The trek also will visit Italy in mid-November. Hackett and company also have plans to return to North America in late November to play some rescheduled dates for postponed shows on their “Genesis Revisited: Seconds Out & More” tour. Visit HackettSongs.com to check out Steve’s full itinerary.

Here’s the full Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More track list:

“Apollo Intro”
“Clocks — The Angel of Mons”
“Held in the Shadows”
“Every Day”
“The Devil’s Cathedral”
“Shadow of the Hierophant”
“Squonk”
“The Carpet Crawlers”
“Robbery, Assault and Battery”
“Afterglow”
“Firth of Fifth”
“I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)”
“The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”
“Musical Box (Closing Section)”
“Supper’s Ready”
“The Cinema Show”
“Aisle of Plenty”
“Dance on a Volcano”
“Los Endos”

Fugitive ex-Marine charged in girlfriend’s murder ordered held without bail

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(SAN DIEGO, Calif.) — A former Marine arrested in El Salvador earlier this week for the 2016 murder of his girlfriend was ordered held without bail during an arraignment hearing in California on Friday.

Raymond McLeod was taken into custody on Monday following a yearslong manhunt. He was charged with the murder of his girlfriend, 30-year-old Krystal Mitchell, who was found strangled to death at a friend’s apartment in San Diego on June 10, 2016.

“This week, this defendant’s brazen attempt to evade justice was over,” San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan said during a press briefing following the arraignment. “The work to hold him accountable has begun.”

McLeod, 37, pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder during his arraignment hearing, San Diego ABC affiliate KGTV reported. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 26, 2023. He faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted, the district attorney said.

Mitchell’s mother, Josephine Funes Wentzel, a former police detective, was instrumental in the search for McLeod by helping generate leads and spreading the word about the manhunt on social media, the district attorney’s office said.

“He’s not going to get away again. He’s never going to be released from that jail if I could have something to do with that,” Wentzel, who was in the courtroom Friday, told reporters after the arraignment hearing. “I will be satisfied when he is convicted for brutally murdering my daughter, and that he is sentenced to life in prison.”

The couple, from Phoenix, was in San Diego to visit friends when Mitchell was killed. McLeod was seen assaulting Mitchell in the hours before she was found dead from a “violent” strangulation, Stephan said. McLeod, the last person with whom Mitchell was seen alive, then fled to Mexico, Stephan said.

McLeod was believed to have also been in Belize, Guatemala and, for the past two-and-a-half years, El Salvador, Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Joseph O’Callahan told reporters during Friday’s briefing.

“He really laid low,” O’Callahan said, noting the former Marine may have relied on training in “clandestine operations.”

Then, on Aug. 20, the U.S. Marshals Service received a promising tip that someone resembling McLeod may be working as an English instructor at a school in Sonsonate, El Salvador, O’Callahan said.

A week later, U.S. Marshals traveled to El Salvador and “determined the individual inside the school was, in fact, Mr. McLeod, going by the name of Jack Donovan,” he said.

McLeod, previously described by the U.S. Marshals as an “avid bodybuilder,” is believed to have taken the name of a bodybuilder in Canada who resembled him and “was able to run with that identity,” O’Callahan said.

El Salvadorian law enforcement officials took McLeod into custody on Monday and he was deported back to the U.S. the following day.

McLeod was added to the U.S. Marshals’ 15 Most Wanted List in 2021 and a reward of up to $50,000 was being offered for information leading to his capture. O’Callahan said the U.S. Marshals plan to pay the reward but did not share further details.

Maren Morris embraces being a “lunatic country music person” in hilarious Tucker Carlson clap back

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Maren Morris is finding the humor in a rapidly escalating social media feud with Jason Aldean’s wife, Brittany.

In the latest installment of a fiery weeklong back-and-forth, Maren posted a screenshot of a photo that appears of her onscreen during Brittany’s recent interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight.

The photo of Maren is from the Grammy Awards, but what really got her attention is the caption underneath, which identifies her as a “lunatic country music person.”

“#NewProfilePic,” Maren joked on Twitter, posting a screenshot.

For those who haven’t been following the feud between Maren and Brittany, it started when Brittany posted an Instagram Reel showing her going from no makeup to a face full of glam. The caption thanked her parents for not “changing my gender” during her “tomboy phase.”

Cassadee Pope first objected to Brittany’s transphobic comments, and Maren quickly followed, calling Brittany “Insurrection Barbie.” Angry back-and-forth ensued, and Brittany even launched a Barbie-themed line of shirts that read “Don’t Tread On Our Kids.”

Jason hasn’t formally addressed the feud — though he has posted a few vaguely supportive comments on Brittany’s posts — but on Friday, his publicity firm of 17 years, The GreenRoom, announced its decision to part ways with the star. The company didn’t specify whether that decision was a response to Brittany’s comments.

As for Maren, she’s not the only one finding humor in the fight: Cassadee replied to Maren’s “lunatic country music person” post, writing, “A framer for sure.”

Charlie Puth reveals he reversed his music-making template to make ‘Charlie’

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Usually Charlie Puth makes music by coming up with the melody and then writing lyrics around the music. But he put that process in reverse to make his new album, Charlie, which comes out October 7.

Speaking to American Songwriter, the Grammy winner explained, “I wanted to approach this album a little differently.” He said he wanted to step away from his “music first, lyrics after” formula, which is how he writes “a lot of music for myself and for other artists.”

“For this album, I had so much to say and throughout all the conversations that I had with myself, I was able to start with the lyrics first and then put the music on afterward,” said Charlie, adding he used the same process to develop The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber‘s hit song “Stay.”

“The most important thing you can do as a songwriter is tell the truth,” the singer continued, “and I was telling the truth a little bit before, but now the cup is overflowing with truth on this album.”

Although Charlie said he’s “a pretty private person,” that doesn’t mean he putting up a facade. “I’m very open about the mistakes that I’ve made in the past in these new songs,” he said.

While this is a deeply personal album for the hitmaker, Charlie said this new effort is “just as much about the listener, as well, and me wanting to guide them to inspiration.”

That explains why he seemingly created this whole album on TikTok, allowing fans to follow along with the process and make their own remixes. “I wanted them to make their own album and realize that anybody can be a musician,” he said.

Charlie dropped “Smells Like Me,” a new single off Charlie that’s about him wondering if an ex misses him.

Jay-Z celebrates 10th anniversary of his Made in America festival this weekend in Philadelphia

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

This is a special Labor Day weekend for Jay-Z as he celebrates the 10th anniversary of his Made in America festival in Philadelphia.

The two-day event on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in the City of Brotherly Love will be headlined Saturday by Tyler, the Creator, who hits the Rocky stage at 9:30 p.m. The Saturday lineup also features Philly native Lil Uzi Vert, Kodak Black, Jazmine Sullivan, Pusha T and many more.

Bad Bunny headlines Sunday and closes the festival, which will be streamed live on the Roc Nation YouTube channel, beginning Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET.

When Made in America began in 2012, Jay-Z was the headliner on a bill that also featured Drake, Mariah Carey, Rick Ross, Meek Mill, D’Angelo and Run-DMC. The following year, the festival was headlined by Hova’s wife, Beyoncé.

Shinedown premieres new version of “Daylight” for Amazon Music

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Shinedown has premiered a new version of “Daylight,” the current single off the band’s new album, Planet Zero.

The updated recording, which is streaming exclusively through Amazon Music, is described as a “complete re-imagining” of “Daylight,” complete with “big drums and an aggressive distorted synth guitar tone that balance against the beauty and softness of the verses and chorus.”

The original “Daylight” hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, helping Shinedown once again take the record for the most leaders in the ranking’s history. The Planet Zero title track reached #1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay, as well.

Shinedown has been touring throughout the year in support of Planet Zero, which continues Friday at the Rocklahoma festival. The band will then play a run of U.S. headlining dates throughout September and October, followed by a trip to Europe in November.

‘House of the Dragon’ beats Stallone’s ‘Samaritan’ on streaming charts

September 2, 2022 by WDNY Radio

There be dragons … at the top of the streaming charts. HBO’s already-renewed House of the Dragon again topped all competition for last week, according to streaming service aggregator Reelgood.

Dragon remained perched in the #1 slot of Reelgood’s streaming Top Ten list for the week ending August 31; Sylvester Stallone‘s Amazon superhero pic Samaritan made its streaming debut in second place.

Netflix’s thriller series Echoes took the third spot, followed by Disney+’s Marvel Studios series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law in fourth place.

Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg‘s Netflix comedy film, Me Time, rounded out the top five.

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