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Go-Go’s drummer Gina Schock “very, very excited” about new photo book, thinks it will “make people smile”

October 26, 2021 by WDNY Radio

With The Go-Go’s being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this Saturday, drummer Gina Schock has just released a new autobiographical photo book focusing on her long career with the famous all-female group.

Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Go’s is highlighted by a bevy of personal photos that Schock took during the group’s 1980s heyday, as well as a variety archival images.

“I am very, very excited about my book, because it’s my life, and it’s from a band member’s perspective,” Schock tells ABC Audio. “[I]t’s taken me years to put it together. [O]ver 40 years of photographs and tales to tell are in this book.”

Gina notes that during the band’s early years, “I was carrying a camera around with me all the time and snapping shots…everywhere, on the tour bus, in hotel rooms, backstage.”

Schock also wrote commentary to accompany many of the pics in the book.

“I think I recapped things pretty evenly and pretty honestly,” she says. “And people will get an inside look at the band in a way they never have, because it’s being shown to them visually, and I’m writing text to it.”

Made in Hollywood also features essays from the other Go-Go’s, as well as from some of the group’s famous fans and friends, including as The B-52s‘ Kate Pierson, Jodie Foster, Eurythmics‘ Dave Stewart and Paul “Pee Wee Herman” Reubens.

“Everybody was pretty honest and was telling…when they first met the band, what happened, how we first came together,” Schock explains. “It’s great to relive all that.”

Gina says she thinks fans will love the book.

“[T]hey’re gonna look at this and they’re going to remember what they were doing [then],” she maintains. “It’s gonna make people smile.”

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood shares new music from upcoming ‘The Power of the Dog’ score

October 25, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has shared new music from his score to the upcoming film The Power of the Dog.

The tracks, which premiered via Variety, are called “25 Years” and “West,” and give a preview of the tone that you can expect from the Western movie, which was written and directed by Oscar winner Jane Campion.

“Jonny Greenwood, our composer, is a genius,” Campion says. “Simple as that.”

The soundtrack for The Power of the Dog will be released in full on November 17. The film, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, will open in select theaters that same day, followed by a Netflix release on December 1.

Greenwood, meanwhile, is also scoring the Princess Diana movie Spencer, as well as the Alana Haim-starring Licorice Pizza, which is directed by frequent collaborator Paul Thomas Anderson.

New Journey record to be a double album, new drummer Narada Michael Walden reveals

October 25, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Journey has been preparing a new studio album, and now comes word that the forthcoming release will be supersized.

Narada Michael Walden, who replaced longtime Journey member Steve Smith as the band’s new drummer last year, and also is producing the new record, posted a message Friday on his Facebook page revealing that he was in the studio with Neal Schon “wrapping up the exciting new Journey double album.” He added, “Stay tuned.”

On the same day, Schon posted a video on his Facebook page showing him laying down a guitar track, along with the message, “We had some fun today as I replayed all Guitar’s [sic] on this 1st track we cut over a year ago when we began the new Journey album. It’s a [wrap]!”

Journey gave fans the first taste from the upcoming album in June with the release of their latest single, “The Way We Used to Be.”

In addition to Walden, the new album marks the return of bassist Randy Jackson, who previously played with Journey in the mid-1980s, and of drummer Deen Castronovo, who was a member of the group from 1998 to 2015.

While no release date has been announced for the album, Schon told ABC Audio in July that he expected it to come out either at the end of this year or in early 2022.

Meanwhile, Journey is preparing to kick off a six-show Las Vegas residency at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas in December. The dates are scheduled for December 1, 2, 7, 8, 10 and 11. The band also will be playing a special symphonic concert on December 18 in Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

Dave Chappelle says he’ll meet with trans protestors, but says, “You will not summon me”

October 25, 2021 by WDNY Radio

In a video posted to his Instagram Monday, Dave Chappelle has responded to those who protested his Netflix special The Closer, claiming it was “transphobic.”

“I said what I said, and boy, I heard what you said,” he says in the clip while seated on stage in front of an audience.

“You said you want a safe environment at Netflix,” he says of his detractors, “but it seems like I’m the only one who can’t go to the office anymore.”

“Even though the media frames this as if it’s me vs. that community, that’s not what it is,” the Mark Twain Prize winner explains. “I do not blame the LGBT community for any of this s***…This is about corporate interests and what I say and what I cannot say!”

Dave explains to the crowd, “Everyone I know from this community has been nothing but loving and supporting. So I don’t know what all this nonsense is about.”

Chappelle says he’s willing to meet members of trans community, but adds, “I am not bending to anyone’s demands. And if you want to meet with me…I have some conditions: First of all, you cannot come if you have not watched my special from beginning to end. You must come to a place of my choosing at a time of my choosing, and thirdly, you must admit that Hannah Gadsby is not funny.”

Gadsby had slammed Chappelle’s comedy, as well as Sarandos for posting the specials.

Chappelle also notes that he’s being dis-invited from film festivals that previously asked him to screen his documentary Untitled, so he’s releasing it to 10 American cities.

“…You cannot have this conversation and exclude my voice from it!” he emphasized. “You have to answer the question: Am I cancelled or not?” To which the audience yelled, “NO!”

“Then let’s go!” he exclaimed before thanking the audience, and tossing the mic.

The video then listed the 10 cities:

11/4 – San Francisco
11/7 – Minneapolis
11/9 – Des Moines
11/12 – Indianapolis
11/14 – Cleveland
11/15 – Toronto
11/17 – Cincinnati
11/19 – Columbus
11/21 – Atlanta
11/22 New York

(Video contains uncensored profanity)

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Fifteenth person claims to be the child of the late DMX

October 25, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Add one more person to the list of 14 people claiming to be the offspring of the late DMX.

Raven Barmer-Simmons from Georgia contacted DMX’s alleged adult children, and all of them will be DNA tested to confirm their paternity, Page Six reports.

The “Party Up (Up in Here)” rapper, born Earl Simmons, died on April 9 at age 50 from a heart attack. He did not leave a will, and his estate is estimated to be worth one million dollars.

On Friday, DMX’s three sons — Xavier, Tacoma and Sean Simmons — from his 16-year marriage to Tashera Simmons, were appointed as temporary administrators of his estate by Judge Helen Blackwood.

The fiancée of the three-time Grammy nominee, Desiree Lindstrom, who is the mother to DMX’s 5-year-old son, Exodus, asked to be legally declared his “common-law wife,” but her request was denied, reports Page Six.

“The next big thing is to determine who are the rightful heirs. The estate is going to ask everyone to prove paternity through DNA testing,” said Herbert Nass, the trusts and and estates attorney for Xavier, Tacoma and Sean Simmons. “All the legal children of DMX will be entitled to an equal share of his estate.”

Six injured, including officer, in shooting at mall in Boise: Police

October 25, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(BOISE, Idaho) — Six people, including a Boise police officer, have been injured in a shooting at a mall in Boise, Idaho, police said.

One person is in custody, Boise police said.

Police responded to reports of shots fired at the Boise Towne Square Mall on N. Milwaukee Street, authorities said.

The roads leading to the mall were closed as the investigation continued.

Officers were working to clear each business in the mall, police said, adding that there’s no information about additional threats.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Police responding to report of shots fired at mall in Boise

October 25, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(BOISE, Idaho) — Police are responding to a mall in Boise, Idaho, following a report of shots fired, authorities said.

There are multiple reports of injuries, Boise police said. One person is in custody, police said.

Officers are working to clear each business in the mall, police said, adding that there’s no information about additional threats.

Additional information was not immediately available.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

El Chapo appeals his conviction, argues for new trial

October 25, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Lawyers for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo argued Monday for a new trial, insisting “breathtaking jury misconduct” and an “unparalleled set of stifling defense restrictions” marred his conviction.

Joaquin Guzman, 64, was sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty in February 2019 of running an industrial-sized drug trafficking operation, the Sinaloa cartel, one of the world’s largest, most profitable and most ruthless drug smuggling organizations.

Guzman’s attorney, Marc Fernich, argued El Chapo did not get a fair trial because his solitary confinement in what the lawyer called a “modern dungeon” impaired his “cognitive, emotional and mental” faculties.

“The combination of unprecedented restrictions made it impossible to meaningfully prepare a defense,” Fernich said in court Monday.

Under questioning from a three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, Fernich conceded the defense made no specific objections during trial. Prosecutors said the strict conditions of El Chapo’s confinement were deemed necessary.

“This judge was presented with a defendant who had already escaped from prison twice in Mexico in dramatic fashion, who had a history of intimidating and killing perceived rivals and who had previously run his criminal enterprise while incarcerated,” the Justice Department’s Brett Reynolds said in court Monday.

Guzman’s appeal also argued the trial judge should have more forcefully questioned whether jurors disobeyed repeated instructions to avoid information about the case that was not included as evidence.

An anonymous juror told Vice News that five jurors consumed news coverage or followed the trial on social media. Fernich called them “5 jurors who don’t know the meaning of an oath” and urged the appellate court to pursue an inquiry.

“It’s very disquieting in a case like this to do an end-around and let it go,” Fernich said. “This guy is going to be in a box for the rest of his natural life. I’m not asking you to play violins for him and I’m not playing any violins for him either. This is very, very serious business for everybody concerned.”

Prosecutors argued the Vice article was insufficient to merit an inquiry.

“The evidence here is not competent. It’s just not. It’s anonymously sourced. It’s non-corroborated. It is hearsay and double hearsay,” the Justice Department’s Hiral Mehta said in court Monday.

There was no immediate ruling.

‘Eternals’ acknowledges the DC universe within the MCU

October 25, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD) Sure, superheroes exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but thanks to a couple of lines in the Eternals, costumed do-gooders from Marvel Comics competitor DC are apparently also a thing.

There’s a line in the yet-to-be released film that acknowledges for the first time that regular people in the MCU are aware of Superman and Batman, and that’s because of Eternals‘ Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao. “I take responsibility of that,” she tells Variety.

At one point in the movie, a young character recognizes Richard Madden‘s Ikaris from seeing in action, and exclaims, “That’s Superman!…With the cape, and you were shooting laser beams out of your eyes!”

Ikaris then winks, “I don’t wear a cape.”

Another scene has Don Lee‘s Gilgamesh referring to the butler of Kumail Nanjiani‘s Kingo as “Alfred,” who is, of course, the keeper of the Caped Crusader’s secrets.

While the reveals blew fans’ minds, Zhao explains to Variety how the multiverse-shaking name-drops came to be. “We’re playing on a genre that draws so much from mythology, and Superman, for example, was created in the comics and also by these brilliant filmmakers along the way — they’re modern reinterpretations of a mythical characters that exist in different cultures.”

She says, “Ikaris is our interpretation of it. It doesn’t mean we can’t pay tribute to the really iconic version that we’ve all grown to love and has influenced us.”

The unprecedented references obviously got the blessing of Marvel Studios’ head Kevin Feige. “I don’t think there was a conversation…except, he goes, ‘Oh, that’s cool,'” Zhao says.

Eternals hits theaters November 5.

Marvel Studios is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.

Saweetie, Yvonne Orji on season finale of ‘The Shop: Uninterrupted’; Tisha Campbell joins ‘Uncoupled’; and more

October 25, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Rapper Saweetie and Insecure actress Yvonne Orji are taking a seat in the barber’s chair for an upcoming episode of HBO’s The Shop: Uninterrupted.

The two stars will be featured on the season four finale, which airs Friday, October 29 at 9 p.m. ET. They join David Beckham, James Corden, Bubba Wallace and Paul Rivera. Hosted by Maverick Carter, The Shop: Uninterrupted centers on thoughtful conversations and debates among some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment. Past guests have include Tom Brady, Jay-Z, Drake, Will Smith, and former President Barack Obama.

In other news, Tisha Campbell and Emerson Brooks will star opposite Neil Patrick Harris in Netflix’s new comedy series, Uncoupled, Deadline reports. They join the cast as series regulars. Campbell will play high-powered real estate agent Suzanne, while Brooks will portray Billy, a TV weatherman and close friend of Harris’ Michael. Uncoupled follows Harris as Michael, a man who thought “his life was perfect until his husband blindsides him by walking out the door after 17 years.” A release date for Uncoupled has not been set.

Finally, Tessa Thompson is helping to develop Raven Leilani’s best-selling, award-winning debut novel, Luster, into a TV series. According to Deadline, Thompson’s production company Viva Maude and the studio Gaumont are teaming up to adapt the work for HBO. The book, released in 2020, follows Edie, a Black artist living in Brooklyn who begins an affair with a white man in his forties. Their relationship becomes even more complicated when Edie movies in with him and his wife and she forms “an unexpected bond with their adopted Black daughter, Akila.” Casting details for Luster has not be announced.

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