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Kevin Bacon explains why ‘They/Them’ isn’t your average slasher flick

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

They/Them, pronounced They-Slash-Them, is a slasher flick with a side of social commentary.

The film stars horror movie veteran Kevin Bacon as the sinister director of a gay conversation camp, where LGBTQ+ teens find themselves being hunted by a mysterious masked killer.

Bacon tells ABC Audio when writer/director John Logan pitched him the role, he was a bit surprised. “He called me up and he said, ‘You know, I actually wrote this part for you in mind,’ and I read it and was like, ‘Thanks a lot, pal!’” the actor laughs.

But once he heard Logan’s vision for the story, he was sold.

“He really touched me with the notion that he wanted a young person who was feeling outside, who was feeling different, who was feeling bullied or feeling closeted or whatever, to be able to find the movie, and feel a sense of empowerment and maybe see a character that they could relate to up on a screen in a way that hadn’t been delivered before,” Bacon explains.

By packaging it in a genre people love – horror – Bacon says he hopes they can reach a wide audience and maybe change some minds.

“Hopefully we reach those kids who I described before, but also hopefully we reach people who do click on it because it is a horror movie and maybe think that maybe gay conversion isn’t all that bad, and they can possibly change their mind about this and get a different kind of perspective,” he says. “That would be the real win.”

They/Them, also starring Theo Germaine, Anna Chlumsky and Carrie Preston, is now streaming on Peacock.

Aerosmith’s 50 Years Live! streaming concert film series continues with 1989 show

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The second installment of Aerosmith‘s new archival streaming concert series, 50 Years Live!: From the Aerosmith Vaults, premieres Friday at 3 p.m. ET on the band’s official YouTube channel.

The movie captures that veteran rockers performing in December 1989 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, during the band’s tour in support of its then-latest studio album, Pump.

The show features renditions of “Walk This Way,” “Rats in the Cellar,” “Rag Doll,” “Dude (Looks Like a Lady),” and the Pump singles “Janie’s Got a Gun” and “Love in an Elevator.”

The film, which has been remastered in HD from the original master tapes, will be viewable for one week after its premiere.

As previously reported, the five-part series, which kicked off last Friday, offers a new archival “official bootleg” concert film featuring never-before-seen footage debuting weekly for five weeks. In honor of the band’s 50th anniversary, each flick captures Aerosmith during a different decade.

One day after each film premieres, highlight clips from the respective movies will be added to Aerosmith’s YouTube channel.

Here’s the complete remaining schedule of the 50 Years Live!: From the Aerosmith Vaults series:

8/5 — Live from the Capital Centre, Landover, MD, 1989 (Pump Tour)
8/12 — Live from the Coca-Cola Star Lake Amphitheatre, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993 (Get a Grip Tour)
8/19 — Live from Comerica Park, Detroit, MI, 2003 (Rocksimus Maximus Tour)
8/26 — Live from Arena Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, 2016 (Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble Tour)

‘Aftershock’ director says Hulu documentary “comes at a crucial time”

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Aftershock, a documentary out now on Hulu, follows the widowed husbands of Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac as they seek to raise awareness of the high maternal mortality rate of Black women and how the crisis can be solved.

The documentary’s director, Paula Eiselt, tells ABC Audio the film “comes at a really crucial time in this country,” noting, “with the overturning of Roe v. Wade our reproductive healthcare is under complete attack.”

As for what she believes the doc adds to the conversation going on right now surrounding reproductive rights, Eiselt says, “It’s really important that we speak about full spectrum reproductive rights in one conversation. That means talking about abortion care and maternal healthcare ’cause they’re one in the same. Abortion is healthcare and maternal healthcare is healthcare. We have to talk about this together.”

Adds Eiselt, “In the same way that a woman has the human right to choose whether or not to carry a pregnancy, if she does choose to have a baby, then she has the right to a safe and dignified birth.

Her hope is that the film acts as “a conversation starter within our communities and also with the power structure of this country.”

“I hope that after watching Aftershock, more women and families understand that there are choices around birthing and that women feel empowered to make those choices, demand autonomy, and human centered care in their birth,” she adds.

Machine Gun Kelly reacts to “idiot” who vandalized tour bus

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Machine Gun Kelly has words for the “idiot” who thought they were vandalizing his tour bus early Thursday morning.

According to photos published by TMZ, one of at least four buses the “Bloody Valentine” rocker is traveling with on tour was tagged with a homophobic slur and a graphic image while it was parked in Omaha, Nebraska, where MGK played Thursday night.

In a series of Instagram Stories responding to the incident, Kelly declared the unidentified vandal to be “so dumb,” for one reason in particular: the bus that was tagged is not the bus he’s actually touring in.

“You spray-painted a bus thinking it was my bus,” Kelly said. “Wrong bus, you f***ing idiot. Do the first part of the crime right!”

Continuing to make fun of the culprit, Kelly noted that he’d been standing near the buses until about 4:30 in the morning, which means the person responsible “waited until 5 a.m. to spray-paint a d***.”

“You could have been at home, cuddling with your partner, doing something,” Kelly continued. “Instead you were, like, ‘I just wish he would go up to his hotel room so I could spray-paint this d***!'”

Kelly added that he didn’t even see the graffiti on the bus before it was washed off.

“Aren’t you sad?” Kelly said, adding a “you suck” for good measure.

Machine Gun Kelly is current on tour in support of his new album, Mainstream Sellout, which was released in March. The outing continues Saturday in Salt Lake City, Utah.

“The Little Things”: Kelsea Ballerini’s bubbly new song sings the praises of “simple love”

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Forget swoon-worthy tales of romance, white horses and steamy love scenes: Kelsea Ballerini’s latest song is all about the little moments that make a relationship great.

“It’s when we’re in a crowded room, put your hand on my back / And waiting on me in the morning with my coffee black,” Kelsea sings in the chorus of her song. “Back to the basics, ‘cause they’re bigger than they seem / Give me that typical, simple love, it’s the little things.”

“The Little Things” is the latest song to come off of Kelsea’s forthcoming new project, Subject to Change, which comes out in full on September 23. Fans have already heard a couple of other new songs off the album, including “Love is a Cowboy” and the lead single, “Heartfirst.”

“Let’s not go big, let’s just go home,” Kelsea wrote on social media when she shared her new song. “My little ‘90s inspired windows down giddy song ‘The Little Things’ is out now.”

‘Hysteria!’: Peacock announces series about ’80s “Satanic panic”

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

If you’re of a certain age, you might remember what became known as the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, when everything from Dungeons and Dragons to heavy metal was seen as promoting Satanism.

Peacock has announced it’s capturing that era in a drama series called Hysteria!, written and directed — most appropriately — by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the guys behind the upcoming role-playing game-inspired adventure Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

According to the streaming service, the series will be a “coming of age” story that follows a group of high school misfits “as they exploit the growing hysteria around teen occult activity.”

Peacock teases, “When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the ‘Satanic Panic’ of the late 1980s, a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts realize they can capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reported ‘supernatural activity’ triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them.”

Yungblud shares new song, “The Emperor”

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Yungblud has premiered a new song called “The Emperor.”

The track will serve as the anthem for ESPN’s coverage of the upcoming 2022 college football season. You can hear a clip of “The Emperor” in a new ESPN college football commercial and listen to it in full now via digital outlets.

Meanwhile, Yungblud is gearing up to release his new, self-titled album on September 2. The record — Yungblud’s third full-length effort — features the previously released songs “The Funeral,” “Don’t Feel Like Feeling Sad” and the WILLOW collaboration “Memories.”

You can also catch Yungblud at a number of U.S. festivals this fall, including Riot Fest, Firefly and Austin City Limits.

ESPN is owned by Disney, parent company of ABC News.

“I don’t like having hair”: Doja Cat shaves her head and eyebrows

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Doja Cat is tired of having hair, so she shaved her head and her eyebrows — all on Instagram Live.

The Grammy winner shocked fans on Thursday night when she spoke about how her hair had been making her uncomfortable. She said wearing wigs made her obsess over her appearance because they were “sliding and peeling off my head.”

“I would be working out, but I couldn’t focus because I was more concerned about how I looked, and how my hair was doing and how to keep it adhered to my scalp,” the “Kiss Me More” hitmaker explained.

“I don’t like having hair,” she said. “I never liked having hair. I cannot tell you one time, since the beginning of my life, that I’ve ever been like, ‘This is cool.'”

Doja added she began using wigs because she was tired of maintaining her natural hair. “You guys have seen me wear my natural hair out,” she told fans. “I would straighten it … I don’t even wear it natural ’cause I don’t feel like it and it’s just a f***ing nightmare, dude. I’m over it.”

With all that said, the rapper said she saw “no point” to having hair — and that included eyebrows.

“What is [the] use of having hair if you’re not going to f***ing wearing it out? I don’t even sport it, so I’m shaving it off,” said Doja — who revealed her new look on Instagram Live. She then shaved off her eyebrows.

Doja said she is “obsessed” with her new look and described how freeing it feels. “I can swim, which is a big deal for me because I love to surf,” she said. “I can work out, I can do like real strenuous workouts … Either way, it’s much easier all around.”

Drowning Pool premieres first song off upcoming ’Strike a Nerve’ album, “Mind Right”

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Drowning Pool has premiered a new song called “Mind Right,” the first preview of the band’s upcoming album, Strike a Nerve.

The track, which is available now via digital outlets, is described as a tribute to the late Pantera brothers “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and Vinnie Paul.

“This song was written not long after Vinnie Paul died, as a tribute of sorts to him and Dime and a way for us to honor the impact Pantera had on our local Dallas scene,” says guitarist CJ Pierce, adding that “Mind Right” is “probably the heaviest song we’ve recorded.”

Strike a Nerve — the seventh Drowning Pool album and the first since 2016’s Hellelujah — arrives September 30. Here’s the track list:

“Doing Time in Hell”
“Hate Against Hate”
“Stay and Bleed”
“Strike a Nerve”
“Racing to a Red Light”
“Choke”
“Everything But You”
“Down in the Dirt”
“Rope”
“A Devil More Damned”
“Mind Right”

(Video contains uncensored profanity)

Ten miners remain trapped underground in flooded tunnel for nearly two days in Mexico

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Ten miners remain trapped underground in a flooded tunnel in northern Mexico on Friday after first becoming trapped nearly two days ago.

Mexican officials said the incident was reported around 1:35 p.m. on Wednesday, when miners allegedly encountered a tunnel filled with water that then flooded the Sabinas mine.

There were 15 miners inside when the flooding began, but rescuers were able to extract five of them on Wednesday, according to officials.

The remaining miners are trapped between two 200-foot deep mine shafts, with half of the area flooded with water, authorities said.

Laura Velazquez, Mexico’s national coordinator of civil protection, said on Thursday that authorities are now working to pump water out of the flooded areas of the mine.

“We have not slept, we are working day and night, uninterrupted,” Velazquez said at a briefing Thursday.

Velazquez said officials are strategically using the pumps to extract the greatest amount of water and gain access to the miners inside as soon as possible.

No one has had contact with the 10 miners who remain trapped since Wednesday.

Six special force divers arrived from the National Guard on Thursday morning, but officials had not given updates on their mission as of Friday morning.

Gov. Miguel Riquelme of Coahuila and Zaragoza state visited the Sabinas mine, located about 75 miles southeast of the Texas border, on Thursday.

Riquelme tweeted that work was being done through three wells to extract water using eight specialized pumps. Seventeen additional pumping teams with more resources were being called in, he added.

Riquelme said 150 people were working on the rescue, with officials from the Mexican Office of National Defense, the National Guard and expert rescuers from the Carboniferous region adding to the effort.

“The rescue work at the Agujita coal mine continues without rest, #Sabinas,” Riquelme tweeted on Thursday evening.

This is the third mining incident in Sabinas since 2006; 65 people were killed that year in a mining blast, followed by another 14 miners that were trapped and confirmed dead after a different explosion in 2011.

Officials have not yet begun investigating this new incident’s cause.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in his daily press briefing on Thursday that investigations will have to come later.

“Those responsible — the permits, the inspections, everything, all of that — we are leaving until after. We already have the basic information. But let’s not talk about that now, let’s look to save the miners,” he said.

The specific mine shaft where 10 workers are now trapped only began operations in January 2022, the secretary of Labor and Social Welfare said in a statement. However, the agency said there has been “no history of complaints of any type of anomaly.”

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