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“Opa!” Nia Vardalos shares update on ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’

June 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

“Opa!!” Filming for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 has begun!

Nia Vardalos, who plays Toula Portokalos in the film franchise, announced the exciting news in a recent Instagram video, giving fans a sneak peek of one of the spots in Greece where they are currently filming.

Vardalos also revealed that she will be directing the third installment.

“Thank you to Playtone, Gold Circle, HBO and Focus! And much love and gratitude to you all for your support as we waited to film,” she captioned her post. “Greece baby. Greece!” followed by a movie camera emoji, and the hashtag “#Mybigfatgreekwedding3”.

Details of the plot and those involved in the film have not been released yet.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding, released in 2002, grossed $368 million worldwide. It earned Vardalos an Oscar nod for Best Screenplay and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.

In April, in honor of the film’s 20th anniversary, she shared a Twitter thread reflecting on how much the movie impacted her.

The film’s sequel, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, was released in 2016.

Vardalos confirmed in 2021 that she had written the series’ third installment, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.

Spiritbox debuts trio of new songs

June 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

If you’re in low spirits, perhaps some new music from Spiritbox will help.

The “Secret Garden” metallers have premiered a collection of three new songs: “Rotoscope,” “Sew Me Up” and “Hysteria.” You can listen to them all now via digital outlets, and watch the video accompanying “Rotoscope” streaming now on YouTube.

Frontwoman Courtney LaPlante shares that Garbage was a “big [inspiration]” on “Rotoscope,” and guitarist Mike Stringer was influenced by Limp Bizkit‘s Wes Borland on “Sew Me Up.”

The new tunes follow Spiritbox’s breakout debut album, Eternal Blue, which was released in September.

The Interrupters premiere new ‘In the Wild’ song, “Jailbird”

June 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The Interrupters have premiered a new song called “Jailbird,” which will appear on the band’s upcoming album, In the Wild.

“This song is about feeling like a prisoner in my own mind,” says frontwoman Aimee Interrupter. “I’ve dealt with a lifetime of severe anxiety, insomnia, depression, PTSD, trichotillomania, and panic attacks. This song is about how cycles can repeat. Thankfully, screaming these lyrics at the top of my lungs brings relief from the very hell I am singing about.”

You can listen to “Jailbird” now via digital outlets.

“Jailbird” is the third track to be released from In the Wild following lead single “In the Mirror” and opening cut “Anything Was Better.” The album arrives in full on August 5.

The Interrupters are currently on a co-headlining tour with Flogging Molly. The first leg of the outing concludes July 3 in Asbury Park, New Jersey; the second leg picks up in September.

Four Walls: The ‘Always Sunny’ guys launch charity whiskey brand

June 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

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Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day, the guys behind the hit FX show It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, are getting into the celebrity spirits business — but it’s all for a good cause.

The creators of the show centered in a pub have announced the creation of their Four Walls Whiskey collection, a celebration, as McElhenney says, of “the four walls that have held our favorite memories in and kept our troubles out.”

Four Walls’ two offerings are “a rare Irish Whiskey with premium commemorative packaging for serious whiskey collectors” and “a blended Irish and Straight Pennsylvania Rye offering crafted with bartenders in mind and made to celebrate with fans.”

In a video announcement, slightly in character from their Always Sunny roles, Day declares, “Oh! I’m glad we’re getting in on the celebrity spirit brand thing. A lot of money in that.”

Howerton replies, “But in our case, a lot of money for bars and bartenders.”

“Forrrr?” Day replies. “I just want to be clear, we’re not going to be making a little tiny bit of the money?”

McElhenney clarifies that 100% of the profits for the brown stuff will be benefitting the Pennsylvania Restaurant & Lodging Association’s charity HARP [Hospitality Assistance Response of Pennsylvania]. The organization has been helping out bars and restaurants that have been hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The cast-strength whiskey is aged 15 years to commemorate Always Sunny‘s 15 years on the air. Limited to 755 bottles, it retails for $999 and features “premium packaging that includes signatures by Glenn, Rob, and Charlie, and a mirrored, engraved box.”

The “Bartenders Blend” rye mix sells for $89.95.

Both options have rated well in a blind tasting and are certainly classier than if the guys branded their own rum ham.

Pink Floyd to release its new song “Hey Hey Rise Up” on CD and vinyl in the coming weeks

June 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Pink Floyd has announced plans to release a physical version of their new song “Hey Hey Rise Up,” which the band recorded with singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk [AHN-dree KLIV-nik] of the Ukrainian band Boombox and first made available as a digital single in April.

“Hey Hey Rise Up” now will be released on CD and as a seven-inch vinyl single on July 15 in the U.K. and most other countries, while it won’t be available in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Australia in those formats until October 21, and in Japan until August 3.

The CD and vinyl single will also include a second track, a newly reworked version of the 1994 Pink Floyd song “A Great Day for Freedom,” which originally appeared on the band’s 1994 album, The Division Bell.

As previously reported, “Hey Hey Rise Up” was recorded in late March and uses vocals taken from an Instagram post showing Andriy singing the Ukrainian protest song “The Red Viburnum in the Meadow” while standing in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square. The song, which was written during World War I, has become an anthem in Ukraine protesting Russia’s invasion of the country.

The track also features Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason, along with keyboardist Nitin Sawhney and longtime Floyd touring bassist Guy Pratt. A music video for the song accompanied its release in April.

For the updated version of “A Great Day for Freedom,” Gilmour reworked the track using the original tapes, which also feature Mason and late Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, along with backing vocalists Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine and Durga McBroom.

You can preorder the CD and vinyl single now. Proceeds raised by the discs and the digital version of “Hey Hey Rise Up” will benefit Ukraine humanitarian relief efforts.

Taylor Swift to release her new song “Carolina” tonight

June 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Get ready, Swifties! Taylor Swift drops “Carolina” at midnight tonight — her haunting theme for the upcoming movie Where the Crawdads Sing.

The Grammy winner told fans to make room on their playlists on Thursday morning and dropped a link where they can pre-save the new song. Taylor didn’t share any more details about “Carolina” and has kept pretty quiet about the new offering.

Fans are hoping Taylor will have more to say when the song drops at midnight ET.

When announcing the song in March, she said on Instagram, “Where The Crawdads Sing is a book I got absolutely lost in when I read it years ago. As soon as I heard there was a film in the works starring the incredible @daisyedgarjones and produced by the brilliant @reesewitherspoon, I knew I wanted to be a part of it from the musical side.”

The singer added she wrote the song by herself and tapped folklore and evermore producer Aaron Dessner to help her bring “Carolina” to life. She also teased at the time, “I wanted to create something haunting and ethereal to match this mesmerizing story.”

The movie’s director, Olivia Newman, previously revealed Taylor made the song authentic to the early ’50s, which is when the first half of Where the Crawdads Sing is set. Added Newman, “They chose instruments that were only available before 1953 and she recorded it in one take the way they recorded songs at the time.”

Where the Crawdads Sing arrives in theaters July 15.

Aidy Bryant said she left ‘SNL’ “with so much love”

June 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Aidy Bryant was one of the big names who left SNL at the close of this past season — along with Pete Davidson, Kyle Mooney and Kate McKinnon — and now she’s explained why.

To Variety, Bryant revealed she actually wanted to leave sooner.

“If it weren’t for COVID, I probably would have left a few years earlier,” said the Emmy-nominated star of the sketch show and of her own Hulu comedy series, Shrill.

“But it was such a huge change. When COVID hit, it was so jarring that we were all like, ‘I’m definitely going to come back next year.'”

She added, “And then I had to shoot Shrill for half of last season, and so I missed a lot. And then it was like, ‘Well, now I should go back one more.’ I kept trying to seek one last normal year. This year wasn’t the normal year that I hoped for, but it was closer to that.”

Ultimately, Bryant said of her years on the show, “10 felt like a nice, solid round number.”

That said, the actress admitted she was “scared” to break the news to SNL‘s executive producer Lorne Michaels.

“I was scared because I feel close to him and so grateful to him. I didn’t want it to come off like I was leaving angrily. I am leaving with so much love,” she explained. “He was like, ‘I understand, and it makes sense for you.'”

Bryant is working on an animated series for Peacock, called Cheeky, about our relationships with our bodies. “I’ll probably always be writing to work through my own shame about my body or parameters of gender and womanhood. Those are the things that interest me in ways I find funny and insane,” she said.

Meghan Trainor to release new album, ‘Takin’ It Back,’ in October: “It’s my old school”

June 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Meghan Trainor will release her fourth album, Takin’ It Back, on October 21.

The title is apt, because the album features Meghan “taking back” the sound she first introduced on her debut album, Title. She tells Rolling Stone, “It’s like Title 2.0. It’s my old school. It’s true to myself in all the weird genres that I go to, but also modern with my doo-wop in there.”

She adds, “The lyrics are stronger than ever, and it’s still a party.”

Meghan also tells Rolling Stone that the title refers to her “taking back” her power, because, “During the pandemic, I lost that…I just felt like everything I ever achieved is all gone…it crippled me a little bit with my confidence.” But she says when people started telling her her new music was her best yet, she started to feel better about it, and herself.

The first single and video, “Bad For Me,” are out Friday and feature Teddy Swims. The album also includes Dominican singer Natti Natasha and legendary Cuban artist Arturo Sandoval on the song “Mama Wanna Mambo.”

And while Meghan says there are lots of songs on the album inspired by the fact that she’s now a mom, she adds that she also wrote songs about “loving myself for me because I need them the most.”

Meghan explains that after she gave birth, she had to “learn how to love my body with all this new s**t” — stretch marks and a C-section scar. She reveals, “I didn’t feel sexy ever. I didn’t want to make love to my mans because I was like ‘Ew, gross.'”

But now, she says, “My body is amazing. I worked really…hard on my body. I’ve never felt better, more confident, happier and healthier.”

Dollywood’s Gazillion Bubble Show features a new tribute to Dolly Parton

June 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Dolly Parton’s Dollywood theme park launched its Smoky Mountain Summer Celebration last weekend, including the fan-favorite Gazillion Bubble Show.

But this year, the show features something new: A fantasy segment that offers a tribute to Dolly and her childhood in the Smoky Mountains.

For those who aren’t familiar with Dolly’s upbringing, she was one of 12 kids growing up in the rural wilds of Tennessee. Though the family was poor, it was filled with music: Dolly’s mother played guitar and sang, and a young Dolly first started singing in church. She started performing at just 10 years old and made her Grand Ole Opry debut only three years later.

Dolly’s childhood in the Smokys has inspired several of her most popular songs, including her classic single “Coat of Many Colors.”

Dollywood’s Gazillion Bubble Show is back this year for the first time since 2017. For more details on the Smoky Mountain Summer Celebration and to plan your visit, visit the theme park’s website.

Chris Brown shares track list for ’Breezy’ album

June 23, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Chris Brown is giving fans a glimpse into his new album, Breezy, revealing the official track list on Wednesday.

Taking to Instagram Stories, the Grammy-winning artist revealed that his upcoming tenth studio album will have a total of 24 songs and a star-studded list of features. Among those joining Brown on the album are Lil Durk, Bryson Tiller, Lil Wayne, Jack Harlow, Lil Baby, Tory Lanez, Blxst and more.

In a follow-up IG Story, Brown also shared a snapshot of some additional tracks that he plans to feature on a deluxe version of Breezy. Alongside a picture that showed the names of nine songs, he wrote, “BREEZY Deluxe… For the fans who wanted more music Trust me.”

Breezy is due out Friday, June 24.

Here’s the full Breezy album track list:

“Wheels Fall Off” feat. Capella Grey and Lil Durk
“CAB” feat. Fivio Foreign
“Pitch Black”
“Possessive” feat. Yung Bleu and Lil Wayne
“Addicted” feat. Lil Baby
“Call Me Every Day” feat. Wizkid
“Closure” feat. H.E.R.
“Need You Right Here” feat. Bryson Tiller
“Sex Memories” feat. Ella Mai
“Hmhmm” feat. Est GEE
“Psychic” feat. Jack Harlow
“Show It” feat. Blxst
“Sleep at Night”
“Passing Time”
“WE (Warm Embrace)”
“Forbidden”
“Bad Then A” feat. Tory Lanez
“Survive the Night”
“Dream”
“Slide”
“Harder”
“On Some New Shit”
“Luckiest Man”
“Iffy”

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