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Madonna is selling the mansion she bought from The Weeknd

April 21, 2022 by WDNY Radio

If you’ve been wanting to own a home that once housed music royalty, you’re in luck. Madonna has listed her sprawling Hidden Hills, California, estate that she previously bought from The Weeknd for a cool $26 million.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Madge purchased the home from the “Take My Breath” singer about a year ago for $19.3 million. The contemporary farmhouse offers nine bedrooms, 11 bathrooms and spans over 12,500 square feet. Not only that, the property boasts a separate, two-bedroom guest house on its nearly three-acre plot.

Additionally, Madonna reportedly renovated the barn so that its new owners can enjoy a private gym and dance-Pilates studio. In addition, the main house offers a home theater, music lounge, indoor/outdoor bar, infinity saltwater pool with adjacent 10-person hot tub, a steam shower, stone bath, a full-sized basketball court and an outdoor kitchen, among other expensive perks.

While the “Express Yourself” singer resided in the estate for a little over a year, The Weeknd previously called it home for four years after acquiring it in 2017. He listed the property in 2020.

“Who Says” a rocker can’t open a Nashville bar? Jon Bon Jovi linked to new venue in Music City

April 21, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The latest trend among country music superstars is opening their own bar, restaurant or music venue in downtown Nashville. Now it seems as though Jon Bon Jovi may want a piece of the action.

The Nashville Business Journal shared reports this week that Jon might be attaching his name to a new venue at the prime downtown location of 405 Broadway. That site is currently a vacant lot situated between a famous honky tonk and an upscale restaurant, on the same block as iconic Nashville locations like Tootsies Orchid Lounge.

The Business Journal cites multiple unnamed reports linking Jon to the new development. Though his involvement hasn’t been confirmed, the Nashville Post reports that work is underway at the site, with a “celebrity partner” in the mix.

Nashville-based investment group Big Plan Holdings owns the property, and founder and CEO Josh Joseph has hinted that he’ll soon reveal the star who’s partnered in the project.

Though Bon Jovi isn’t country, the band has had a country hit: In 2006, they put out a duet version of “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” with country star Jennifer Nettles, which hit number one on the country charts. It won Bon Jovi their only Grammy, for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. Bon Jovi re-teamed with Jennifer in 2020 for a duet version of “Do What You Can.”

Bon Jovi also recorded songs with country acts Big & Rich and LeAnn Rimes on the band’s 2007 album Lost Highway.

Mike Tyson reportedly punches “aggressive” airline passenger

April 21, 2022 by WDNY Radio

ABC News has learned that the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Dept is actively investigating, after former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson allegedly punched a fellow passenger on a still-grounded airplane.

Tyson was caught on video seemingly punching a fellow passenger on a Jet Blue flight from San Francisco to Florida Wednesday night. However, his rep said the boxing legend was provoked.

TMZ showed the unidentified passenger both before the incident, mugging next to Tyson, who was seated directly in front of him and a buddy. He was also shown after, bloodied from scrapes on his head.

Eyewitnesses tell the gossip site that one passenger took a picture with Tyson, but the other, who was intoxicated, kept bugging him through the seats, leading to the physical scrap.

Tyson then exited the plane, which was still at San Francisco International Airport at the time.

A rep for the champ noted, “Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat.”

The injured passenger reportedly sought medical attention, and also spoke with police about the incident.

Brothers Osborne’s TJ Osborne is a Grand Marshal in this year’s Nashville Pride Parade

April 21, 2022 by WDNY Radio

TJ Osborne, one half of the sibling duo Brothers Osborne, is one of the Grand Marshals in this year’s Nashville Pride Parade.

He’ll share the role with Leslie Jordan, who recently starred in the music video for Brothers Osborne’s “I’m Not for Everyone,” as well as Greg Cason — who’s held board positions on an array of LGBTQ+ Nashville organizations — and Alberta Hardison, whose activism work with the HIV community dates back to 1998.

TJ came out as gay in early 2021 and, in so doing, became the first openly gay act signed to a major country label. Subsequently, Brothers Osborne put out their song “Younger Me,” which they wrote in part as a reflection on TJ’s experience of growing up and moving into an industry that he never thought would accept him.

The Nashville Pride Parade will be held on June 25. It’s free to attend.

Listen to Bring Me the Horizon’s collaboration with Sigrid, “Bad Life”

April 21, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Bring Me the Horizon‘s collaboration with Norwegian pop musician Sigrid has arrived.

The joint track, titled “Bad Life,” is available now via digital outlets. It’s accompanied by a video featuring both Sigrid and Horizon frontman Oli Sykes singing in a rainstorm, which you can watch now streaming on YouTube.

“Bad Life” will also appear on Sigrid’s upcoming album How to Leg Go, due out May 6.

Bring Me the Horizon first announced the Sigrid collaboration last week. It follows the band’s recent run of songs with other artists, including Machine Gun Kelly, Masked Wolf, Ed Sheeran and Tom Morello.

Janelle Monae confirms she’s non-binary, Oprah selects Viola Davis’ memoir for her book club, and more

April 21, 2022 by WDNY Radio

—Janelle Monae sat down with the hosts of Jada Pinkett Smith‘s Red Table Talk on Wednesday and in the personal interview, the Grammy-nominated singer opened up about gender identity, again declaring herself as non-binary.

“I’m non-binary, so I just don’t see myself as a woman, solely,” Monae said to Smith. “I feel like God is so much bigger than the ‘he’ or the ‘she’ and if I am from God, I am everything.”

The “Make Me Feel” singer previously declared her gender identity in a 2020 post on Twitter, saying, “#IAmNonbinary.”

Regarding the decision to come out now, it was advice Monae was once given. “Somebody said, ‘If you don’t work out the things that you need to work out first before sharing it with the world, then you’re going to be working it out with the world’,” Monae said. “That’s what I didn’t want to do.”

–Legendary rapper Ice Cube is set to headline the 2022 NFL Draft concert series in Las Vegas on April 28-30. He’ll take the stage on day two of the three-day event, following the end of round three of draft picks.

Cube also took to his Instagram on Wednesday to provide an update on his Big3 basketball league, an organization where fans can purchase team ownership stakes in the form of NFTs.

—Oprah Winfrey has selected Viola Davis‘ memoir, Finding Me, as the 95th selection to her famed book club.

“After I finished reading the first paragraph, I knew this was a book I wanted to share with the world,” Winfrey said in Thursday’s announcement.

News of the selection comes a day before the premiere of the highly anticipated, Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event, where Davis chats with Winfrey about the book and other private life stories.

‘The Straight Man’: ABC picks up Bob Odenkirk’s ‘Better Call Saul’ follow-up

April 21, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Better Call Saul isn’t even over yet, but its star Bob Odenkirk has his next TV project ahead of him, and he’s not leaving AMC.

The network announced it’s staying in the Odenkirk business with The Straight Man, a “mid-life crisis tale” starring the Emmy winner as William Henry Devereaux, Jr., “the unlikely chairman of the English department in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.”

Odenkirk of course preceded Saul with the Emmy-winning drama Breaking Bad, which also aired on the cable network.

“The saying goes ‘the third times a charm,’ but when it comes to Bob Odenkirk on AMC, the first and second times were about as charming, captivating and viscerally entertaining as it gets,” the network’s head Dan McDermott in a statement.

Odenkirk added, “I have loved the mix of comedy and drama in Better Call Saul, and this is another story with a unique dynamic, and the kind of closely observed character writing and exploration that AMC has become the touchstone for.”

The “thrilled” actor added, “It’s going to be fun to play and watch!”

“Talk about a way to merge my worlds”: Kenny Chesney celebrates Earth Day with a week of activities

April 21, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Kenny Chesney’s No Shoes Reefs, which helps support healthy oceans, is partnering with Tampa Bay Watch for a five-day Earth Day celebration.

Earth Day takes place this Friday, and to celebrate the holiday, Tampa Bay Watch’s Living Shoreline project will release Reef Balls filled with sea grass off the Florida coast, allowing the balls to sink into the sediment and the sea grass to grow.

That’s part of the organization’s mission to rebuild the shoreline and prevent further erosion. For Kenny, it’s the latest in a string of initiatives he’s partnered with in order to help foster healthy oceans off the coast of his adopted home state.

“Talk about a way to merge my worlds,” Kenny states. “We have been doing various projects around the country. But when Tampa Bay Watch had a week of actual activities designed to not just walk people through the process, but teach them how to not only make Reef Balls but allow people to deploy the Reef Balls filled with sea grass on Earth Day, it was the best kind of synergy possible.”

It’s a big week for Kenny in musical news, too: His 2022 Here and Now Tour begins on Saturday.

Ryan Tedder & Kygo are turning their Bored Ape NFTs into a band with actual music

April 21, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Back in 1998, Damon Albarn from the British group Blur started Gorillaz: a “virtual” group of animated musicians drawn by artist Jamie Hewlett, with real, famous musicians playing the actual songs made by the “band.” Well, just to prove that everything old is new again, OneRepublic‘s Ryan Tedder and DJ/producer Kygo have teamed up to create their own “virtual” group…out of their cartoon NFTs.

Both Ryan and Kygo own “Bored Ape” NFTs, which depict various cartoon apes, each of which is generated by an algorithm. Justin Bieber and Madonna are among the other celebrities who’ve purchased Bored Ape NFTs. Now, Ryan and Kygo have put theirs together in a “metaverse band” called Bored Brothers.

Bored Brothers’ first “single” — which is also an NFT, natch — arrives Friday at 5 p.m. ET. It’s called “DRIP.” No word on what it sounds like, but the description says Bored Brothers’ music is “based primarily in dance and hip-hop” and “stems from an overwhelming desire to curate and create music outside our respective genres.”

OneRepublic and Kygo have also collaborated on a few singles in the past, most recently “Lose Somebody,” which came out in 2020.

Nicolas Cage reveals he nearly bought himself a Batcave

April 21, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Comic fan Nicolas Cage nearly played Superman on the big screen, but IRL he nearly bought a Batcave.

The comic-collecting Oscar winner, who portrayed Ghost Rider in two films and a version of Spider-Man in Into the Spider-Verse, revealed to Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday night that he almost purchased a real-life version of Batman’s hideout.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent star, marking his first time on a talk show in 14 years, played along while Kimmel tried to dispel rumors about the mercurial actor.

“We were in North Dakota, in the Black Hills, when we were shooting one of the [National] Treasure movies,” Cage said. “I said, ‘I hear there’s a cave for sale, let’s go look at it.'”

Instead of wanting to use it as a headquarters to fight crime, however, Cage recalled having a different plan, thinking, “‘I’d like to buy this and just get totally naked with my wife and drink nigori [sake] in the bottom of the cave in the earth.”

Also differing from the Caped Crusader’s crash pad, there were no bats in the cave, said Cage, who resisted the urge to buy it.

The actor also confirmed that he once spent a night in Dracula’s castle, and that he’d been stalked by mimes.

In addition, Cage relayed a story about an incredible hot streak while gambling in the Bahamas. Cage turned $200 at the roulette table into $20,000, which he then put into the hands of the headmistress of an orphanage he visited there. “And I never gambled again,” Cage said, fearing he’d never be able to recapture the magic.

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