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Lynyrd Skynyrd headline Born & Raised outlaw country festival in Oklahoma this September

May 3, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Lynyrd Skynyrd will headline the final day of the second annual Born & Raised Festival, taking place September 16-18 in Pryor, Oklahoma, at Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds, the same site as the popular Rocklahoma Festival.

The three-day event offers a country music and camping experience that showcases artists from the outlaw country genre, with a lineup featuring a total of over 35 acts.

Pre-sale passes for the festival will be available to purchase starting Friday, May 6, at 8 a.m. CT, while the general public will be able to purchase passes beginning on Monday, May 9, at 10 a.m. CT. You can register for the pre-sale, and find out full information about the event, now at BornandRaisedFestival.com.

Skynyrd’s Born & Raised Festival appearance is among a series of new performances that the famed Southern rockers have added to their 2022 tour schedule in recent weeks.

The band now has 25 shows listed on its itinerary, spanning from a May 13 appearance at the Pomona County Fair in Pomona, California, through a September 26 concert in Airway Heights, Washington.

Visit LynyrdSkynyrd.com to check out the band’s full schedule.

Meanwhile, founding Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington, who’s sat out most of the band’s concerts since 2021 because ongoing heart issues, recently posted a video on the group’s Facebook page giving an update on his health.

“I hope to make all [the upcoming shows] I can with my heart problems,” Rossington says in the clip, and reveals that he’ll soon undergo an operation “to put some heart-valve clips back on my valves that have kind of gone bad.”

He adds, “I’m gonna really keep working on my health and working out and trying to get better to be out there and play every night.”

Teyana Taylor announces second iteration of her farewell tour, The Last Rose Petal 2

May 3, 2022 by WDNY Radio

After gracing the iconic carpet of the Met Gala in her purple Iris Van Herpen look Monday night, Teyana Taylor dropped off yet another gift to her fans on Tuesday. The singer and fashion star announced the dates and cities she’ll visit as part of “The Last Rose Petal 2” tour, a second round of stops from the original tour last year.

“I kept my promise… I told you I would come back for you #TLRP2 is here!,” she captioned her Instagram announcement. “Come out and watch me, leave it all out on the stage… One last time… Just for you & as my last rose petal falls….🥀”

This time around, the tour will make stops in other countries, including England, France and the Netherlands, as well as in 18 major U.S. cities including Washington, D.C., Houston, Denver and Miami. Some of those she’ll visit for the first time, while others will get encore shows.

Emphasizing the sold-out success of the shows during the first tour, Taylor said, “P.S. make sure y’all get y’all tickets early cause I don’t wanna hear y’all asses complaining about shit being sold out!”

The new concert series comes more than two years since the 31-year-old announced her retirement from music. She’s since focused on creating, directing, and also on raising her daughters, Junie and Rue Rose, alongside her husband, basketball player Iman Shumpert.

Visit LiveNation.com for full tour dates and stops and to purchase tickets starting Friday, May 6.

Jack Harlow’s new album features collaborations with Justin Timberlake, Pharrell and more

May 3, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Jack Harlow‘s new album Come Home the Kids Miss You arrives Friday and, ahead of the hotly anticipated release, the “First Class” rapper unveiled the record’s complete track list, which features some surprise collabs.

Harlow’s new album features the likes of Pharrell, Drake, Justin Timberlake and Lil Wayne. In order, Jack and the “Happy” singer perform on the seventh track, titled “Movie Star,” while Harlow teams with Drizzy on the 10th song, “Churchill Downs.”

The “Nail Tech” rapper features JT on the album’s 12th track, “Parent Trap,” and Lil Wayne is on the song right after, titled “Poison.”

Prior to releasing the track list, Harlow hyped his fanbase by tweeting out, “Strictly legends on my album. Any guesses???”

Surprisingly, Harlow also included Dua Lipa in his forthcoming work; that is, he named the fifth track after her. He already teased a little bit of the single, which sees him trying to shoot his shot with the “Levitating” singer.

“Dua Lipa, I’m tryna do more with her than do a feature/ I check the web, they out here chewin’ me up,” he rapped in a video sneak peek of the track, which he shared Monday. He also mimed shooting a basketball, letting fans know exactly what he hopes the song will accomplish.

Harlow also shared a teaser trailer for Come Home the Kids Miss You, which features actress Danielle Fishel of Boy Meets World fame sobbing in her car.

The album drops this Friday, May 6, and is available to pre-order now. It follows the “Industry Baby” rapper’s 2020 debut release, Thats What They All Say, which is RIAA-certified Platinum.

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler speaks on his brother Will’s departure from band: “My brother has his own path”

May 3, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler is sharing his thoughts on his brother and band mate Will Butler‘s decision to leave the group.

Will, the younger Butler, announced this past March that he’d departed Arcade Fire last year following the completion of their upcoming album, WE. “There was no acute reason beyond that I’ve changed — and the band has changed — over the last almost 20 years,” he wrote at the time. “Time for new things.”

In a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Win says that Will “always had interests that transcend music.”

“I think that he sort of followed his big brother into this band,” Win muses. “It was his first job.”

Win notes that Will has “three young children,” and that “there’s things way more important than music.”

“My brother has his own path,” Win says. “Fundamentally, you only have one chance to raise your family and to kind of have a life with your family.”

Win adds that he’s “proud” of Will for “doing his own thing.”

Even with Will out of the band, you can always count on at least one Butler being in Arcade Fire.

“This band is my life,” Win says. “There’s no out for me, fortunately.”

WE will be released this Friday, May 6.

Trump will repay $750K to settle inauguration lawsuit over hotel payments

May 3, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Trump will repay 0K to settle inauguration lawsuit over hotel payments

(WASHINGTON) — The Trump Organization and Donald Trump’s presidential inaugural committee have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine over allegations that Trump and his family misused nonprofit inauguration funds to enrich themselves in early 2017.

The suit claimed that the nonprofit funds raised by the inaugural committee were improperly used for private benefit when the Trump campaign rented $1 million in ballroom space from Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel during the four days of inaugural festivities.

Trump’s company will repay $750,000 to settle the suit, according to the terms of the settlement.

“After he was elected, one of the first actions Donald Trump took was illegally using his own inauguration to enrich his family,” Racine said in a statement. “We refused to let that corruption stand.”

“Nonprofit funds cannot be used to line the pockets of individuals, no matter how powerful they are,” said Racine. “Now any future presidential inaugural committees are on notice that they will not get away with such egregious actions.”

Trump, in a statement, denied any wrongdoing.

“Given the impending sale of The Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C., and with absolutely no admission of liability or guilt, we have reached a settlement to end all litigation with Democrat Attorney General Racine,” the former president said. “As crime rates are soaring in our Nation’s Capital, it is necessary that the Attorney General focus on those issues rather than a further leg of the greatest Witch-Hunt in political history.”

“This was yet another example of weaponizing Law Enforcement against the Republican Party and, in particular, the former President of the United States,” Trump said in the statement. “So bad for our Country!”

The $750,000 in repaid funds with be redirected to nonprofit organizations.

Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell releases two signature guitars with Epiphone

May 3, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Alice in Chains guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell has announced two new signature guitars in partnership with Epiphone.

The newly launched instruments include the Jerry Cantrell “Wino” Les Paul Custom and the Les Paul Custom Prophecy. The Wino is inspired by Cantrell’s own beloved Les Paul, while the Prophecy is described as a “modern collaboration.”

Both guitars are available now via Epiphone.com.

Cantrell previously released a signature Wino Les Paul with Epiphone’s parent company, Gibson. He joined Gibson as an official brand ambassador in 2020.

You can see Cantrell play a variety of guitars on his current tour in support of his new solo album, Brighten, which continues Wednesday in Sacramento, California.

Stevie Wonder to receive racial-justice organization the Legal Defense Fund’s inaugural Icon Award

May 3, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Stevie Wonder will be honored with the Legal Defense Fund’s inaugural Icon Award at the racial-justice organization’s 2022 National Equal Justice Awards Dinner, which will be held May 10 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Billboard reports that, according to a statement from the Legal Defense Fund, Wonder will be recognized for “his steadfast work throughout his illustrious career, spanning over half a century, which embodies LDF’s values and demonstrates his commitment to confronting the barriers that face Black Americans and other marginalized communities.”

The event, which boasts the theme “Truth Is Power,” will feature video messages from former first lady Michelle Obama and from former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick, as well as performances from the Dance Theater of Harlem.

Also at the event, author and professor Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her book The 1619 Project, will be honored with the Spirit of Justice Award; and Sherrilyn Ifill, the Legal Defense Fund’s outgoing president, will receive the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award.

“Our honorees have unapologetically used truth as power,” says current LDF president Janai S. Nelson in a statement. “They have refused to back down when others tried to silence them. And they have held their convictions fiercely and been unyielding to false narratives. Most importantly, they have used truth to shape outlooks, inform mindsets, and touch souls.”

For more information about the Legal Defense Fund and its National Equal Justice Awards Dinner, visit NAACPLDF.org.

Check out Daniel Radcliffe in teaser for Weird Al biopic ‘WEIRD’

May 3, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Fans can now get their first look at WEIRD, the “untold true story” of “Weird Al” Yankovic — and, on brand for the famed parodist, it seems to be something of a spoof of the genre.

As stage lights ignite, and throngs of concert fans scream, serious-looking title cards appear into frame, listing Yankovic’s very real accolades — “6 Platinum Records, 5 Grammys” — before the keyboard open to Al’s Madonna-spoofing “Like a Surgeon” begins.

“Hope you guys are ready for this,” a shirtless Radcliffe tells the crowd as Al, before a shot shows him jumping back up into frame with an accordion.

The clip also shows a fight scene straight out of a kung-fu movie, and apparently another face-off that has Al saying, “Does anyone have an accordion?” before unseen hands shove three into frame.

So it’s safe to say the film isn’t going to be a straight-up biopic — or, as Al says in the teaser, “What can I say? I’m full of surprises.”

The film debuts on Roku in the fall.

Stephen Colbert returns from COVID; insists he didn’t give it to Jimmy Kimmel

May 3, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Stephen Colbert was back at The Late Show Monday night, following having COVID. The talk show host used a planned week off to recover, with his wife Evie, who was also infected.

Colbert noted that while he’s back on his feet, the “first three days sucked,” and now, although he’s negative, he’s got a “serious head cold.” He also thanked “science” for providing the vaccines and boosters he’d taken before coming down with the virus.

The late show host also offered well-wishes to Jimmy Kimmel, who announced yesterday that he’s down for the count with the virus. “TV is down a Jimmy!” Colbert joked in a “broadcast emergency.”

“I’m calling on President Biden to open the United States’ Strategic Jimmy Reserve!” Colbert snarked.

That said, Colbert insisted he didn’t infect his late-night colleague. “Of course, I’m on the East Coast, Jimmy’s in LA, there’s no way I could have given it to him,” Colbert said.

“And yes, last week, I did lick a lot of things and FedEx them to his office. But I only paid for two days: gotta be sterile by the time he opens it.”

Bruno Mars to open Fenway Park’s new music hall with three-day spectacular

May 3, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Bruno Mars is coming to Boston for a three-day spectacular to celebrate the opening of an all-new music hall.

The Grammy winner will officially open MGM Music Hall at Fenway, which seats 5,000 people, starting September 7. The opening night will be followed by two more shows on September 9 and September 11.

The new venue is located steps away from historic Fenway Park, which is the home of the Boston Red Sox. According to the press release, the MGM Music Hall at Fenway is being billed as “the new, state-of-the-art, multi-purpose performing arts center, occupying roughly 91,500 square feet on four levels.”

The “Leave the Door Open” singer has lately been directing his full attention on his Silk Sonic partnership with Anderson .Paak and the duo are currently performing their An Evening With Silk Sonic Vegas residency at Park MGM, which runs through May.

Tickets go on sale starting Friday at 10 a.m. ET on Ticketmaster.com.

While Bruno will be the first artist to christen the music hall, a line of performances is already building.

Lil Nas X announced last week he’s bringing his Long Live Montero tour to the venue, which stops in Boston on September 18. Other big acts heading to the venue include “Beggin'” singers Måneskin and country group Lady A, among many others.

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