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Jackson Browne’s new ‘Austin City Limits’ episode premieres Saturday on PBS

November 12, 2021 by WDNY Radio

The latest episode of PBS’ popular live performance series Austin City Limits features Jackson Browne, and it’ll premiere on Saturday, November 13, at 9 p.m. ET; check local listings.

Browne’s performance marks the lauded singer-songwriter’s first Austin City Limits appearance since 2002. The program was recorded recently at ACL‘s studio in Austin, Texas, and features Jackson backed by an eight-piece band playing to a limited audience.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s set includes three songs from his latest album, 2021’s Downhill from Everywhere, as well as select tunes from throughout his decades-long career, like “These Days,” “Doctor My Eyes” and “Take It Easy.”

“It’s like Valhalla for us, getting to play Austin City Limits,” Browne comments during the show. For a rendition of the Downhill from Everywhere track “A Human Touch,” Jackson is joined by singer-songwriter Leslie Mendelson, who co-wrote the tune.

Jackson brings the show to a close with a medley of two songs from his classic 1973 album For Everyman: The Eagles‘ hit “Take It Easy” — which Browne co-wrote — and “Our Lady of the Well.”

Browne wrote “Take It Easy” with late Eagles member Glenn Frey. While introducing the tune, he asks the audience, “You wanna sing this one? Sing it so Glenn Frey can hear you!”

You can check out a preview clip from the episode featuring a performance of the Downhill from Everywhere song “My Cleveland Heart” on YouTube.

Browne recently launched a new leg of his joint U.S. tour with James Taylor. The next show, which takes place in Jacksonville, Florida, is also scheduled for this Saturday. Visit JacksonBrowne.com to see his full tour schedule.

Here’s Browne’s full ACL set list:

“I’m Alive”
“The Long Way Around”
“My Cleveland Heart”
“The Dreamer”
“These Days”
“A Human Touch”
“Doctor My Eyes”
“Late for the Sky”
“Take It Easy”/”Our Lady of the Well”

Slipknot’s Clown drops off show after tearing his bicep tendon

November 12, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Slipknot was down a member during the band’s headlining set at Florida’s Welcome to Rockville festival Thursday night.

Percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan missed the performance because he was recovering from surgery to repair his torn bicep tendon.

Clown apparently suffered the injury during the Knot’s show at Knotfest Los Angeles last week. In video posted to his Instagram, Crahan says you can “pinpoint the exact frame” where he “completely tore the bicep tendon from the radial tuberosity with proximal retraction, proximal to the coronoid fossa of the humerus.”

“You may have realized I was not on stage in Florida with my brothers and my culture tonight,” Clown wrote in the caption. “For this fact I am saddened.”

The good news is that the surgery was a success, and Crahan’s currently “recovering peacefully.”

“I can’t express how happy and blessed I am to have been able to come back to touring after all that we as a community have been through the last couple years,” he wrote. “And I promise we will see you all very soon.”

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Jack Antonoff calls producing Taylor Swift’s 10-minute “All Too Well” the “honor of a lifetime”

November 12, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Count Jack Antonoff among the many, many people excited about Taylor Swift‘s Red (Taylor’s Version).

The newly re-recorded edition of the pop star’s beloved 2012 album Red is out today. With it comes an expanded, 10-minute version of the fan-favorite tune “All Too Well,” which Antonoff co-produced with Swift.

“Honor of a lifetime to produce the 10 minute version of ‘All Too Well,'” Antonoff tweeted early Friday morning. He also shared his love for the songs “Babe” and “Forever Winter,” which he also co-produced, but added that “All Too Well” “needed its own tweet.”

A short film accompanying the 10-minute “All Too Well” will premiere Friday night at 7 p.m. ET.

Red (Taylor’s Version) also features production from The National‘s Aaron Dessner, who previously worked with Swift on her 2020 albums folklore and evermore, as well as a collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers on the track “Nothing New.”

“I just am so excited to have people take it at face value the day that it comes out, because I got teary recording it,” Bridgers told Billboard of the song. “I just couldn’t be more excited.”

honor of a lifetime to produce the 10 minute version of all too well

— jackantonoff (@jackantonoff) November 12, 2021

Hailey Bieber says her family’s addiction struggles helped her empathize with Justin Bieber’s sobriety journey

November 12, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Hailey Bieber opened up about the “extremely difficult” time when her husband, Justin Bieber, decided to get clean.

Speaking to the Victoria Secret Voices podcast, the model said her family’s history with addiction prepared her for when Justin started working on his sobriety.

“There’s a lot of addiction that runs in our family. Not even just my dad, but a lot of other people on that side of my family struggled with a lot of different things,” the 24-year-old shared.

Hailey said she “appreciated” that her father, Stephen Baldwin, openly talked about his battles with substance abuse and how they “almost ruined his relationship with my mom.”

“He was always just extremely open about why being sober worked for him and why he needed to be sober and what alcoholic behavior looks like, and where that comes out,” she expressed, adding that his openness is what kept her from experimenting with drugs.

“I was never somebody who struggled with any substances, but that’s because I was so aware of it because of my dad. He had a really big issue with cocaine and I was like, I’m never trying it because I’m just so scared that if I try it one time, it might lead into something else,” said Hailey, adding that her mother “barely drank wine” for the same reason.

Hailey said that also prepared her to support Justin when he began working on his sobriety. “It was extremely difficult,” she admitted, adding she felt “nervous” to talk about his drug use because it meant looking back at “some dark spaces” in his life.

However, Justin was “very open about it,” and Hailey commended his “good self awareness” because it helped him heal.

“I think that is all I can really ask for,” she said.

‘And Just Like That…’ there’s a teaser-trailer to the ‘Sex and the City’ sequel

November 12, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Friday morning, HBO Max dropped a brand-new teaser-trailer for the next chapter of Sex and the City, …And Just Like That, along with a release date, December 9.

The tease features Sarah Jessica Parker‘s Carrie Bradshaw living it up with her old friends Miranda and Charlotte, played respectively by Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, along with some of their new friends, including Grey’s Anatomy‘s Sara Ramirez playing Che, and Empire‘s Nicole Ari Parker as Lisa.

The teaser also features a trademark SATC voiceover from SJP’s Carrie Bradshaw, which ties it all together. “They say some things never change,” Carrie says. “But the truth is life is full of surprises, and as your story unfolds, the city reinvents itself. And just like that, a new chapter begins.”

HBO Max says the “new chapter of the groundbreaking HBO series, Sex and the City…will follow Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.”

The series also stars returning SATC cast members Chris Noth, Mario Cantone, David Eigenberg, Evan Handler, and Willie Garson, the latter of whom died in September of pancreatic cancer.

Read Pink’s Veteran’s Day tribute to her late father

November 12, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Pink lost her father James Moore, a veteran, not long ago, and she paid tribute to him on his birthday with a photo showing his grave marker. Yesterday, Veteran’s Day, she wrote another loving post honoring his memory and his service.

Posting his official military photo, Pink wrote, “Look at my handsome Papa. Thank you to all the women and men for your sacrifice and your service.”

She also captioned two additional photos in the same post, writing, “The second picture is me and my Dad and brother marching in Washington. The third is his beautiful memorial box that holds his ashes.”

“They used to call him twinkle toes for dancing when he was meant to be marching in line,” Pink concluded. “Hug a veteran today. Consensually of course.”

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Attention, all you lonely Starbucks lovers: Taylor Swift’s got you covered

November 12, 2021 by WDNY Radio

For years, Taylor Swift fans have thought that the lyrics of her hit “Blank Space” mentioned “lonely Starbucks lovers.” But what if it was intentional, and Taylor was playing the long game with a seven-year-long Easter egg? Because now, she’s officially teamed up with the coffee chain to promote her new album, Red (Taylor’s Version).

Starbucks has been teasing the partnership for several days now by posting lyrics from various Red songs on social media and announcing, “It’s Red season.” According to People, starting Friday, you can order the star’s favorite drink — a Grande Caramel Nonfat Latte — by asking for “Taylor’s Latte” or “Taylor’s Version” in stores and on the app. The drink labels for those lattes will read “(Tay’s).”

Starbucks also will be playing Taylor’s music in stores, and the company’s put together a playlist as well. In addition, Taylor e-Gift cards are available.

Taylor first hinted at the partnership back in October, when she posted a video declaring her love of all things fall, which pointedly featured her drinking a Starbucks coffee.

Britney Spears’ sister Jamie Lynn claims family told her to hide pregnancy from Britney

November 12, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Britney Spears‘ younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, recently announced that she’s written a memoir, Things I Should Have Said, which recounts the struggles she faced after becoming pregnant with her daughter Maddie in 2007 when she was just 16 years old. She claims those struggles included hiding the pregnancy from Britney.

At the time, Britney’s “condition” was “spiraling into something more concerning,” Jamie writes in an excerpt from the book, according to People. “They were concerned her instability at that time made her untrustworthy.”

“I went along with what my team told me to do because I was a minor and didn’t want to create any more issues,” Jamie continues. “Britney learned of the pregnancy when the article was released. To this day, the hurt of not being able to tell my sister myself lingers.”

The Zoey 101 star, now 30, announced the book in an Instagram post in October and explained that the idea for the memoir came to her in 2017 when her daughter Maddie was involved in a near-fatal ATV incident.

“I owe it to myself, my younger self, and to my daughters to be an example that you should never edit yourself or your truth to please anyone else,” Jamie Lynn explained in the post.

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‘DWTS” Suni Lee says she was pepper sprayed during racially motivated attack

November 12, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, which originated in China in 2019, an increasing number of Asian-Americans have reported experiencing racist attacks. Gymnast Suni Lee, who won a gold medal at this year’s summer Olympics, revealed that she is no exception.

In an interview with PopSugar, the 18-year-old Dancing with the Stars contestant recalls a recent act of anti-Asian hate involving her and her girlfriends, who are also of Asian descent, as they were waiting for an Uber at night.

Lee says they were startled by a group speeding by in a car yelling racist slurs and epithets while insisting they “go back to where they came from.” One passenger, she claims, sprayed her arm with pepper spray as the car sped off.

“I was so mad, but there was nothing I could do or control because they skirted off,” she adds. “I didn’t do anything to them, and having the reputation, it’s so hard because I didn’t want to do anything that could get me into trouble. I just let it happen.”

Suni recently opened up about the bullying she’s received while in Los Angeles for Dancing with the Stars, noting, “I always see a lot of mean comments about me not being able to dance and I need to go home. I feel like they’re right. I let them get to me.”

Lee tells the outlet that it’s difficult to speak up about uncomfortable topics like racial injustice, especially at her age, but she believes that using her voice makes a difference.

American tourist shot by gang’s gunfire at Mexico beach resort: ‘I thought this is it’

November 12, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Tanner Vanvalkenburg is speaking out after he was shot on vacation in a popular resort area in Mexico late last week, caught in the crosshairs of gunfire by rival gangs.

“I was just like, man this is it, like I’m probably not going to make it,” he recalled to ABC News.

The tourist from America was with his partner and two friends when the incident began.

“We were kind of just eating tacos and that’s when I started hearing gunfire,” he said.

The gunmen headed ashore in front of a Hyatt Resort just south of Cancun and opened fire.

The shooting left two dead and four Americans injured. The armed suspects initially escaped, but local authorities confirmed to ABC News on Friday that they have five people in custody.

“We thought that they were fireworks and then more started going off and everyone started to panic and run,” Vanvalkenburg said. “That’s when I took off and all of us jumped into the pool.”

The mele sent tourists scrambling for cover as some hid under pool chairs.

“Right when I jumped into the water, I went to dive and that’s when the bullet hit. And as soon as the bullet hit me, I came up … and I was holding the gunshot wounds as I was bleeding, kind of putting as much pressure as I could because I knew that I had just been hit,” Vanvalkenburg explained.

“I honestly thought that I was gonna die because I thought the gunmen were going to basically come and just kill everyone [who] was there at the resort,” he said.

Vanvalkenburg was taken to a local hospital and later released.

Hyatt told ABC News “the safety and wellbeing of guests and colleagues is always a top priority.”

Now as he recovers back home in Utah, Vanvalkenburg said this incident has left him reconsidering how he travels.

“I never in a million years thought that I would have to worry about my life sitting in a resort,” he said. “So it’s going to be very different now if I travel again.”

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