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Kendrick Lamar announces The Big Steppers Tour

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Just after releasing his first new album in five years, Kendrick Lamar has announced a world tour to go along with it.

The Big Steppers Tour will kick off July 19 in Oklahoma City and conclude its U.S. and Canada on September 15 in Los Angeles. Then, the trek heads to Europe for a string of October and November dates, before heading to Australia and New Zealand in December.

Baby Keem will be the supporting act on all dates, with Tanna Leone joining on select dates.

A pre-sale for Cash App Cash Card holders takes place Thursday, May 19 at 10 a.m. through 10 p.m. local time via Ticketmaster. General ticket sales begin Friday, May 20 at 12 p.m. local time on oklama.com.

Kendrick’s new album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, is out now.

Fran Drescher reveals she spent two years convincing Elton John to cameo on ‘The Nanny’

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Elton John made a splash on The Nanny when he made a cameo in 1997 in the season five episode “First Date.” Star Fran Descher revealed just how hard she worked to get the music great to appear on her sitcom.

“It took me a year or two get him on the show,” she told USA Today. “I was always an Elton John AIDS Foundation supporter and we were very warm to each other at all of his events.”

The episode was about Fran going on her first date with Maxwell Sheffield, played by Charles Shaughnessy, and hilariously pulling all the stops to prevent Elton from recognizing her after a prior embarrassing run-in.

As for how they got Elton to agree to appearing on the beloved sitcom, Drescher said it came down to good timing.

“When his documentary Tantrums & Tiaras was coming out, his publicist said, ‘Maybe this would be a good time to put him on the show to promote the documentary,'” she recalled. “There’s a scene (in the film) where he throws a tantrum because he’s trying to play tennis and a fan starts saying, ‘Yoo-hoo! Yoo-hoo!’ So we thought it’d be funny if Fran was actually the ‘Yoo-hoo’ lady and gets in trouble when she has the opportunity to meet him through Mr. Sheffield.”

The sitcom star praised Sir Elton for being such a good sport. “That was an amazing episode and he couldn’t have been more gracious,” she said, adding that the cast came up with a special way to thank him. “We heard that he loves red roses, so we filled his dressing room with red roses.”

The Nanny ran for six seasons on CBS.

The Hu releases new song, “This Is Mongol”

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The Hu has released a new song called “This Is Mongol.”

The track marks the first preview of the Mongolian rock outfit’s upcoming sophomore album, due out this summer. It’s the follow-up to the group’s 2019 debut The Gereg and its 2020 deluxe edition, which features collaborations with Halestorm‘s Lzzy Hale, Papa Roach‘s Jacoby Shaddix and From Ashes to New.

You can listen to “This Is Mongol” now via digital outlets, and watch its accompanying video, shot in Nevada’s Mojave Desert, streaming now on YouTube.

The Hu is currently traveling the U.S. on the Black Thunder headlining tour, which continues Friday in Portland, Maine. In August, they’ll return to the road as part of Five Finger Death Punch‘s summer tour.

Brett Eldredge is taking his ‘Songs About You’ on the road for a 2022 tour

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Brett Eldredge has announced a tour to go along with Songs About You, his forthcoming new album.

Kicking off on June 19 — just two days after the album comes out — the Songs About You Tour will begin in Brett’s home state of Illinois and extend through late September. A rotating cast of supporting acts will join the singer at his shows, including Lauren Alaina, Breland, Caylee Hammack, Nate Smith and Shelby Darrall.

Tickets go on sale next Friday, May 20, but members of Brett’s The Locals fan club will have access to a pre-sale beginning May 17.

Along with his tour news, Brett dropped another new song off of his Songs About You album Friday. Called “Wait Up for Me,” the piano ballad counts down the minutes until two lovers are reunited at the end of a long day.

Songs About You arrives in full on June 17.

‘Conversations with Friends’ cast talks messy relationships and conversation starters

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Conversations with Friends takes the “it’s complicated” relationship status to a whole new level.

The Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s debut novel, from the same team that brought us 2020’s Normal People, follows the intersecting relationships between four people. Alison Oliver and Sasha Lane play best friends and exes Frances and Bobbi, who become entangled with a married couple, Nick and Melissa, portrayed by Joe Alywn and Jemima Kirke.

“I was really interested in kind of, I guess, the dynamic between these four characters and how, you know, when one shifts how it affects all the others,” Oliver says of what drew her to the story.

It’s a four-way affair of sorts, which Alwyn and Oliver can only describe as “a mess.” “I guess it’s a really productive ‘love mess,’ in a way,” Oliver laughs.

One thing’s for sure — the show is definitely a conversation starter. So what conversations are the cast hoping to spark when people watch?

“I hope maybe they’re, like, sitting with their partner and they’re like, ‘Would you ever…?’ And I just want to see how that one unfolds,” Lane says.

“I would like to see people have the F***, Kill, Marry conversation after they watch this,” Kirke adds, laughing.

Conversations with Friends debuts this Sunday on Hulu.

Accused subway shooter pleads not guilty in federal court

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Frank James, the man accused of opening firing on a Brooklyn, New York subway train last month, wounding 10 people, pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court to a two-count indictment that includes a federal terrorism charge.

Story developing…

Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo to star in and produce new comedy series

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo are set to star in a new comedy series from Disney’s Onyx Collective.

Unprisoned, created by relationship author Tracy McMillan, is inspired by McMillan’s own life. It follows a relationship therapist and single mom, played by Washington, whose life gets thrown for a loop when her father, played by Lindo, gets released from prison and comes to live with her and her teenage son.

Washington and Lindo will also serve as executive producers on the eight-episode series.

“From the moment Tracy McMillan brought this project to [my production company] Simpson Street, we knew that it had the potential to be provocative, groundbreaking and life-affirming,” Washington says in a statement. “I love this show. I love these characters and the stories that they inspire. And I’m extremely excited to be working, once again, with both Onyx Collective and ABC Signature and honored to be collaborating with this talented group of creative partners.”

Washington previously produced the Onyx legal drama Reasonable Doubt.

Unprisoned marks the first scripted comedy series from Onyx. It will be streamed exclusively on Hulu in the U.S.

Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

Pregnant woman shot dead in car, newborn in critical condition: Baltimore police

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(BALTIMORE) — Baltimore police are searching for the gunmen who killed a pregnant woman, leaving her newborn in the hospital in critical condition.

Officers found a man and a 38-year-old pregnant woman shot inside a car at about 8:13 p.m. Thursday, Baltimore police said.

Both victims were taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where the man was immediately pronounced dead, police said.

The woman gave birth and was pronounced dead a short time later, police said.

The newborn is in critical condition as a result of the emergency delivery, not the shooting, Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison told reporters.

Police said they believe at least two gunmen fired multiple shots.

The suspects’ car pulled up next to victims’ car as it was parking, and one person fired out of the passenger window into the victim’s car, police said. Authorities believe the second gunman then got out of the driver’s side and fired into the victim’s car, police said.

“To be quite honest and frank, I don’t really give a s— what the conflict was,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott told reporters. “We cannot have folks shooting at pregnant women in our city.”

Harrison called it a “very, very violent, brazen assault.”

He added, “We will do everything within our power to find who did this, catch them and hold them accountable.”

Katy Perry reveals she’s been going to couple’s therapy with Orlando Bloom

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Katy Perry revealed one way she keeps her relationship with fiancé Orlando Bloom healthy — couple’s therapy.

Appearing on Chelsea Handler‘s Dear Chelsea podcast, Katy fielded a question from a fan wanting to know how she can stop yelling so much at her boyfriend.

The “Roar” singer’s initial advice was to take “three deep breaths” before speaking. “I know it sounds also like a cliché,” Katy admitted, adding, “I know what it’s like to have been yelled at as a child,” and insisting shouting at someone is “not going to work.”

Katy then shared, “Orlando and I do couple’s therapy, and we love it because it keeps us in tune, and the resentment can get really strong when you’re both working hard.”

Noting how things are different when one’s in the professional spotlight, Katy said, “when you want to come back to being normal in a domesticated world where you have a child and stuff like that, you have to really learn how to be kind of different out there in the big and in the small. And so we’ve had a lot of success with that couple’s therapy.”

Katy also spoke about her 2017 breakup with Bloom, admitting it came during “the worst year of my life” because she had to “evolve and grow” into a better person. Katy credited going through the Hoffman Process — a week-long retreat designed to eradicate negative habits and behaviors — for helping her get to a space where she was ready for that kind of relationship.

“It profoundly changed my life,” she said.

Katy and Bloom share a daughter, Daisy Dove.

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross guest on new song from jazz drummer Antonio Sánchez

May 13, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross guest on a new song from jazz drummer Antonio Sánchez.

The track, titled “I Think We’re Past That Now,” features a vocal performance from Reznor that shifts from an eerie whisper to a more forceful delivery, while Ross provides the main synth line. You can listen to it now via digital outlets.

Aside from working with them on the same song, Sánchez has another thing in common with the NIN duo: they’ve all composed music for film. Reznor and Ross, of course, have scored movies including The Social Network and Soul, while Sánchez provided the percussion-heavy soundtrack to the film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), which won Best Picture at the 2015 Oscars.

Nine Inch Nails, meanwhile, just returned to the stage last month to play their first live show since 2018. Their next scheduled concert takes place at Florida’s Welcome to Rockville festival on May 22.

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