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Miranda Lambert, Morgan Wallen, Chris Stapleton + more to receive ACM Honors Special Awards

June 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The Academy of Country Music announced its Special Awards nominees on Wednesday, putting a spotlight on artists, songwriters and industry members.

Miranda Lambert is being honored for her career-long ACMs success, receiving this year’s Triple Crown Award. She qualifies for that honor because throughout her career she was won ACM Top New Female Vocalist, ACM Female Vocalist of the Year and ACM Entertainer of the Year.

The most controversial honoree in the bunch, Morgan Wallen, will win the Milestone Award for his outstanding achievements in the country music field over the past year. It’s a major turnaround for Morgan, who was barred from eligibility at the 2021 ACM Awards due to his racist slur scandal, which took place in February of that year.

Chris Stapleton is also being recognized: He’ll be awarded the ACM Spirit Award, which draws inspiration from country legend Merle Haggard. The honor is presented to an artist who most exemplifies Haggard’s legacy, writing great songs and following their own path.

Shania Twain and legendary songwriter Sonny Throckmorton are the two recipients of the ACM Poet’s Award, which they are winning for lyrical contributions and impact on country music culture.

TV series Yellowstone is winning the ACM Film Award; and Paul Barnabee and Dwight Wiles are this year’s ACM Lifting Lives Award recipients. Connie Bradley will receive the ACM Icon Award, and Duane Clark will receive the ACM Service Award. Hardy, who won ACM Songwriter of the Year at the most recent awards show, will be recognized, too.

The ACM Honors ceremony will take place Wednesday, August 24, at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. This year’s show will also celebrate some of the ACM Awards winners who weren’t televised during the major awards show, like studio recording and industry honorees.

Chlöe Bailey lands “Gyalis” remix after covering Capella Grey’s hit song

June 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

When superstar singer Chlöe Bailey isn’t producing Grammy-nominated hits like “Do It,” she’s lending her vocals to covers of other popular hip-hop songs such as Capella Grey‘s “Gyalis.” After posting her rendition of the 2021 “summer anthem” last month, Grey called upon Bailey to record an official cover version, called “Gyalis (Shemix).”

“Ya asked for it,” Grey said on Instagram, sharing the cover art and a snippet of the new single.

Bailey also posted the single art on her socials with the caption, “go be a gyalis official remix out now.”

Her original video, which was shared on social media and now has over 3 million views, joins a collection of covers from the 23-year-old R&B artist. Fans seemed to have really enjoyed her version of Minnie Riperton‘s classic 1970s hit “Lovin You,” posted in January, and her most recent cover of Kanye‘s “24,” off his 2021 Donda Deluxe album.

83% say movie theater popcorn just tastes better than homemade

June 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

With hits like Top Gun: Maverick and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness raking in the dough in theaters, it’s safe to say movie fans are back after the dark days of the pandemic.

With that in mind, Fandango polled 2,500 U.S. moviegoers about the second-biggest attraction at their local theaters: the concession stand.

Eighty-three percent of those polled say movie theater popcorn just tastes better than eating it at home, according to the company’s Concession Confessions Survey. In fact, 76% say they usually only eat popcorn at the movies.

And apparently, they can’t get enough: 66% of respondents say they order large or extra large sizes of popcorn every time — and 47% wish there was a “bottomless bucket” option at their local theater.

However, sometimes popcorn just isn’t enough: Nearly half of those polled mix in concession candy with their popcorn, with moviegoers confessing to dumping everything from M&M’s, Reese’s Pieces and Raisinets to Goobers and Milk Duds into their buckets or bags.

And while everybody gripes about the prices at their concession stand, they’re not doing without: 47% say they’ll wait in line even if they’re late for their movie.

However, there could be drama ahead — even before you take your seat. A recent report in the Wall Street Journal noted that supply chain issues and other economic factors are making popcorn harder to come by. Suppliers have noted they’re paying more just to ensure farmers keep planting corn to pop.

Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.

Panic! at the Disco returns: New album ’Viva Las Vengeance’ due out in August; listen to title track now

June 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

This! is not a drill: Panic! at the Disco is officially back.

The Brendon Urie-led outfit has announced a new album called Viva Las Vengeance. The follow-up to 2018’s Pray for the Wicked arrives August 19.

“Viva Las Vengeance is a look back at who I was 17 years ago and who I am now with the fondness I didn’t have before,” Urie says. “I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest.”

You can listen to the Viva Las Vengeance title track now via digital outlets, and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.

Along with the album news, Panic! has announced a U.S. headlining tour, running from September 8 in Austin, Texas, to October 25 in San Francisco.

Tickets go on sale next Friday, June 10, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit PanicattheDisco.com.

Here’s the Viva Las Vengeance track list:

“Viva Las Vengeance”
“Middle of a Breakup”
“Don’t Let The Light Go Out”
“Local God”
“Star Spangled Banger”
“God Killed Rock and Roll”
“Say It Louder”
“Sugar Soaker”
“Something About Maggie”
“Sad Clown”
“All By Yourself”
“Do It to Death”

Ava Max’s new album, ‘Diamonds & Dancefloors,’ coming October 24

June 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

We’re officially in Ava Max‘s new era.

The star announced on Wednesday that she’ll release her sophomore album, Diamonds & Dancefloors, on October 14. You can pre-save and pre-order the album now. Along with the announcement, Ava also performed her new single, “Maybe You’re the Problem,” on NBC’s Today.

Diamonds & Dancefloors is the follow up to Ava’s debut album, Heaven & Hell, which came out in September of 2020 and was recently RIAA-certified Platinum. It features the hits “Sweet but Psycho,” “Kings & Queens” and “My Head & My Heart.”

Watch President Biden chat with BTS in the Oval Office: “People care a lot about what you say”

June 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

On Tuesday, the final day of AANHPI month, BTS visited the White House to meet with President Joe Biden and discuss anti-Asian hate crimes and Asian inclusion. While the 35-minute meeting was closed to the press, the president has tweeted portions of the chat.

In a minute-long video, we see the president welcoming the group to the White House, as group member RM says, “It’s an honor to meet you, Mr. President.” We then see the guys sitting down in the Oval Office with Biden.

“This is an important month here in America. A lot of our Asian-American friends have been subject to real discrimination,” Biden tells them. “Hate only hides. When good people talk about it and say how bad it is, it goes down. So thank you.”

RM says, “We want to say thank you sincerely for your decision…such as signing the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act into law.” He continues, “So we just want to be a little help, and we truly appreciate the White House and the government’s trying to find solutions.”

“People care a lot about what you say, and what you’re doing is good for all people,” Biden responds. “It’s not just your great talent. It’s the message you’re communicating. It matters.”

Biden presented the group with commemorative coins as gifts after the meeting.

“It was great to meet with you, @bts_bighit. Thanks for all you’re doing to raise awareness around the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and discrimination,” the president later tweeted. “I look forward to sharing more of our conversation soon.”

Ewan McGregor says “racist DMs” sent to “brilliant” ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ co-star Moses Ingram “broke my heart”

June 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Obi-Wan Kenobi star Ewan McGregor has responded to trolls’ racist messages that were reportedly sent to his co-star Moses Ingram, who plays Jedi hunter Reva.

As reported, Ingram, who’s Black, posted some of the messages she’d received online, leading the franchise — and fans — to support her.

McGregor began his online message with a spot of good news, saying, “This weekend, Star Wars fans made Obi-Wan Kenobi the most-watched Disney+ premiere of all time. And for that, I would say a big thank you, and it just goes to show what this family can do when we all pull together.”

“However, it seems that some of the fan base…have decided to attack Moses Ingram online, and send her the most horrendous, racist DMs,” McGregor continued. “I heard some of them this morning and it just broke my heart.”

The actor added, “Moses is a brilliant actor, she’s a brilliant woman, and she’s absolutely amazing in this series. She brings so much to the series, she brings so much to the franchise, and it just sickened me to my stomach to hear that this had been happening.”

McGregor concluded, “I just wanted to say as the leading actor to the series and executive producer that we stand with Moses, we love Moses. If you’re sending her bullying messages, you are no Star Wars fan in my mind.”

For her part, Ingram had said, “I think the thing that bothers me … is…that feeling inside of myself … that I just have to…just grin and bear it.” She added defiantly, “But I’m not built like that.”

Moses also thanked fans who have shouted her out for her portrayal of Reva, declaring that it “means the world to me.”

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‘West Side Story’ star Rachel Zegler leading ‘Hunger Games’ prequel, and more

June 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Lionsgate has tapped West Side Story actor Rachel Zegler to star in The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The prequel movie will reportedly focus on Coriolanus Snow at age 18, years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem. As previously announced, Billy the Kid and The Gilded Age actor Tom Blyth will play the young Snow. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is due in theaters on Nov. 17, 2023…

Charles Siebert, the actor best known for playing the snooty Dr. Stanley Riverside II on all seven seasons of CBS’ MASH spinoff Trapper John, M.D., died May 1 of COVID-19-related pneumonia at University of California San Francisco Medical Center, his daughter, Gillian Bozanic, tells The Hollywood Reporter. He was 84. Siebert’s other TV roles included three guest-starring stints on All in the Family, and he appeared on other shows including Kojak, Police Woman, The Rockford Files, The Incredible Hulk, Maude, FBI and Murder, She Wrote. He also appeared in such films as The Other Side of Midnight, And Justice for All and Eight Men Out…

Kaley Cuoco, who stars and executive-produces the HBO Max series The Flight Attendant, warns fans not to get their hopes up for a third season. Following Thursday’s season two finale, Cuoco tells People that while there’s been interest in a third season, “I think for me, at this moment, the plane has landed.” However, the 36-year-old Big Bang Theory alum admits she “could possibly get back in it,” but “needs a minute.” “I think the writers and the team did a really beautiful job in tying it up in a pretty bow…But if you had to open the bow, it would be okay,” she adds…

EU crackdown on Russian oil pushes gas price to new highs

June 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — The crackdown on Russian oil is helping push gas prices in the U.S. to record highs.

For the first time ever, seven states — Alaska, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon and Washington — have gas prices averaging over $5 a gallon.

Nationally, the average for a gallon of regular unleaded gas now stands at $4.67.

As much of the world tries to put pressure on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, experts believe gas prices will continue to soar.

The U.S. has already banned Russian oil imports and now, the European Union is saying that it will also embargo the vast majority of oil imports from Russia.

Billie Eilish’s boyfriend Matthew Tyler Vorce addresses breakup and cheating rumors

June 1, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Billie Eilish‘s ex, Matthew Tyler Vorce, is setting the record straight about their break up.

After rumors circulated that Matthew cheated on Billie, he took to Instagram Stories to shut down the accusations.

“The fact that thousands of people take time out of their day to write the most heinous things on someone they will never knows posts is the most cowardly thing you can possibly do,” the actor wrote over the weekend, according to E! News.

“Nobody cheated on anyone,” he continued. “Relationships end. Simple as that. Creating rumors and LYING on the internet is dangerous.”

Matthew, 30, and Billie, 20, first ignited romance rumors in April 2021 when they were photographed showing PDA while getting coffee in Santa Barbara, Calif.

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