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New Green Day song “Holy Toledo!” dropping Friday

November 4, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Here comes a shock: Green Day has announced a new song.

The track, titled “Holy Toledo!”, will drop this Friday, November 5. It was recorded for the upcoming film Mark, Mary & Some Other People, which hits theaters, on-demand and digital that same day.

“Holy Toledo!” will be Green Day’s third new tune of 2021, following “Here Comes the Shock” and “Pollyanna.” The punk trio also released a cover of the KISS classic “Rock and Roll All Nite,” which was recorded during their Hella Mega tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer.

Green Day’s most recent album is 2020’s Father of All… On December 10, they’ll release BBC Sessions, a collection of live recordings from the band’s four performances at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios in the ’90s and early 2000s.

We now interrupt your weekly BBC Live Sessions broadcasts to announce that we’ll be releasing a NEW song this week. “Holy Toledo!” from @MarkMaryMovie is out everywhere this Friday. pic.twitter.com/lraBK1BzdY

— Green Day (@GreenDay) November 3, 2021

Listen Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ new cover of late UK folk artist Bert Jansch’s “It Don’t Bother Me”

November 4, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have shared a third advance track from their upcoming collaborative album, Raise the Roof, an atmospheric rendition of a 1965 song by late British folk guitar legend Bert Jansch titled “It Don’t Bother Me.”

The tune, which is available now via digital outlets, is the final advance song the duo plans to debut before the album’s November 19 release.

The track showcases Krauss’ lead vocals, some eclectic instrumentation, and guitar interplay from Marc Ribot and Los Lobos‘ David Hidalgo.

The Led Zeppelin singer says of recording “It Don’t Bother Me” for the new album, “I’ve been a big follower of Bert Jansch’s work since I was a teenager, and of that whole Irish, Scottish, English folk style that has a different lilt and different lyrical perspective. I was very keen to bring some of that into the picture.”

Adds Krauss, “One of my favorite parts of this is the songs and songwriters that I had never heard of. Working with Robert, and with [producer] T Bone [Burnett], is always a great education in music history.”

As previously reported, Raise the Roof features covers of “legends and unsung heroes of folk, blues, country and soul music,” as well as one original tune co-written by Plant and Burnett titled “High and Lonesome.”

“High and Lonesome” was one of the previously released tracks from Raise the Roof, along with the album’s lead single “Can’t Let Go,” a song written by Randy Weeks that previously was recorded by popular alt-country artist Lucinda Williams.

Raise the Roof can be pre-ordered now. It’s a follow-up to Plant and Krauss’ 2007 collaborative album Raising Sand, which won a total of five Grammys in 2009, including Album of the Year.

Paula Patton says she had the opportunity to become “a boss” with her ‘Sacrifice’ character Daniella Hernandez

November 4, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Paula Patton says her role as successful entertainment lawyer Daniella Hernandez on the BET+ drama series Sacrifice was a rare opportunity to boss up.

“[I’ve] never had a character like Daniella come into my life, because she’s just a boss,” Patton tells ABC Audio. “She’s this fierce, ferocious human that just sets her sights on her goals and accomplishes them and manipulates to make things happen. When…there’s a knot that seems impossible to undo, and she figures out how to undo it.”

Aside from the character’s strong personality, Patton says she was also drawn to Daniella’s complexity and her unbelievable resilience when defending her not-so-honest clients.

“Daniella is [also] that…scared little girl, who has suffered a lot. Who feels abandoned [after]…her parents have died,” Patton explains. “She has just recently gotten sober. She had an addiction to alcohol. And now that she’s sober, she’s looking at her life going, ‘Am I willing to sacrifice my soul to do the things I’m doing?'”

While the dangers of the music business often present a moral dilemma for her character, Patton says it’s Daniella’s desire to rise above her fractured past that she finds most admirable.

“She’s on a journey of healing and self-discovery,” Patton shares. “And that I found so compelling and interesting to play.”

“So that was one of the big reasons. That, and the clothes,” she adds.

Sacrifice, also starring Erica Ash, Willie Taylor and Veronika Bozeman, is now available to stream on BET+.

Dwayne Johnson banning real firearms from his Seven Bucks productions following ‘Rust’ tragedy

November 4, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Dwayne Johnson has thrown down the gauntlet, telling Variety on Wednesday night that he’s banning the use of real firearms on the sets of films and TV shows he produces, in light of the fatal Rust set shooting.

The incident on October 21 saw Alec Baldwin firing a live round at the camera from a gun he was told was empty, fatally wounding cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.

While an investigation into the incident is ongoing, Johnson, who was in Los Angeles promoting his new Netflix movie Red Notice, said he wasn’t wasting any time.

He told the trade he was on the phone to his company within hours of hearing the news to discuss changes.

“I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can tell you…that any movie that we have moving forward with Seven Bucks Productions — any movie, any television show…we won’t use real guns at all,” Johnson told Variety.

Among others, Johnson’s company has produced movies including Red Notice, but also his hit Jumanji films the recent Jungle Cruise, NBC’s Young Rock, and HBO’s Ballers.

“We’re going to switch over to rubber guns, and we’re going to take care of it in post,” he said, meaning visual effects added in post productions to simulate muzzle flashes.

“We’re not going to worry about the dollars; we won’t worry about what it costs.”

Johnson added, “There are safety protocols and measures that we have always taken in the movie business and we take very seriously, and these sets are safe sets, and we’re proud of that. But accidents do happen. And when something like this happens of this magnitude, [that is] this heartbreaking.”

Red Notice, also starring Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds, debuts on Netflix on November 15.

Lynne Spears requests that Britney’s team pay the $663,000 she amassed in legal fees

November 4, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Lynne Spears requests that Britney’s team pay the 3,000 she amassed in legal fees

The day after Britney Spears put her mom on blast earlier this week in a since-deleted Instagram post, in which she alleged the conservatorship was her “idea,” Lynne Spears reportedly requested that Britney’s team pay her legal fees…to the tune of $663,000.

Entertainment Tonight reports that Britney’s mother racked up $663,202.54 in attorney fees during the ongoing conservatorship battle and requested her daughter’s team settle the bill.

Lynne’s legal fees began stacking up in 2019, when she hired the law firm Jones Swanson Huddell & Garrison LLC with the intent of learning “what they could do to get involved to help Britney free herself from what she saw was a very controlling existence,” reports ET. The primary goal was to see if they could assist Britney “achieve independence from her conservator father Jamie Spears.”

In the paperwork, Lynne claims her daughter “enthusiastically agreed” to her mother’s help in hopes their combined efforts would “free her from the nightmare she was enduring.”

Lynne said she obtained her own legal counsel “in order to fill the gap and help pursue the basic rights to which Britney was entitled but was being denied.” She also requested that Jamie be ousted from the conservatorship in 2019 and claims she was “instrumental” in removing TriStar Sports and Entertainment as co-conservator of her daughter’s estate.

Neither Britney, nor her legal team, has publicly responded to Lynne’s request to settle her fees. But, the day before ET reports Lynne made the request, Britney tore into her mother in a since-deleted Instagram post, claiming “she secretly ruined my life.”

Watch the trailer for ABBA’s ‘Voyage’ concert production

November 4, 2021 by WDNY Radio

ABBA‘s reunion album Voyage arrives Friday, but the Swedish pop icons have already dropped the first trailer for their ABBA Voyage concert production, which launches next year at a purpose-built theater in London.

In the brief trailer, you can see digital “avatars” of Bjorn, Benny, Anni-Frid and Agnetha, looking as they did in the ’70s, performing on stage under pyramid-shaped lights. It’s set to the group’s 1978 single, “Summer Night City.”

The avatars were created by having the real members of ABBA perform for hours while wearing motion-capture suits. In addition to the avatars and a light show, the concert production also features a ten-piece live band.

More tickets have also been released for sale; you can now buy them for shows through December of 2022.

Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Adam Levine nominated for Hollywood Music in Media Awards

November 4, 2021 by WDNY Radio

In what could be a harbinger of future Oscar nominations, some of music’s top names have received nods for the Hollywood Music in Media Awards — the HMMAs — which honor composers, songwriters, and music supervisors for their work in music for film, television, and videogames.

In the category of Song: Feature Film, nominees include Ariana Grande, who co-wrote “Just Look Up” — from the upcoming Netflix film Don’t Look Up — with Kid Cudi, among others. Cudi and Ariana both appear in the film. Ariana is also nominated in the category of Song: Onscreen Performance for “Just Look Up.”

Billie Eilish and brother FINNEAS are also nominated in the Feature Film category for “No Time to Die,” from the James Bond film of the same name. Beyoncé is nominated for “Be Alive,” the song she co-wrote and performs for the movie King Richard, about the father of tennis superstars Serena and Venus Williams.

Jennifer Hudson scored a nod in that category as well for co-writing “Here I Am (Singing My Way Home),” for the movie Respect, in which she also stars as the late Aretha Franklin. Hudson’s also up for Song: Onscreen Performance for performing “Respect” in the film.

In the animated film category, Adam Levine is nominated for “Good Mood,” the song he co-wrote and performs in the movie Paw Patrol. U2‘s Bono is nominated for “Your Song Saved My Life,” which he wrote for the upcoming movie Sing 2 and performs with U2.

Jada Pinkett Smith admits her struggle with setting boundaries has caused “relationship issues”

November 4, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Jada Pinkett Smith has opened up about her complicated relationship with setting boundaries and how it’s negatively impacted her relationships.

On the newest episode of Facebook Watch’s Red Table Talk, the actress explained that she struggles with setting limits because she worries how it will make the other person feel.

“I have a difficult time setting boundaries with it all, whether it’s work, family, kids, friends,” Smith admitted. “With me, I get angry if you make me set a boundary. I get angry at you. Isn’t that crazy? So, now you’re putting me in a position that I gotta tell you to, ‘Give me 50 feet.'”

While not touching upon her marriage to husband Will Smith or her professional relationships, the Girls Trip star revealed that her issue with setting boundaries affected her on a personal level, saying, “I definitely realized that it is a huge weakness of mine and has definitely played into a lot of relationship issues.”

She declined to elaborate why and, instead, opened a conversation about why asserting yourself is necessary part of life — even it if is one of her least-favorite moments because she likes to make others “feel better.”

Pinkett Smith, 50, elaborated by explaining that, when she sets boundaries, “You really start to see who’s a real friend and who’s not.”

“People feel really entitled, you know?,” she continued. “People that are close to you. I’ve done the same, where you feel entitled to people, their things. I’ve had to check myself on both sides of that coin.”

Pinkett Smith also shared how she’s embraced the boundaries set by her daughter, Willow.

“She’ll call me disrupted, and be like, ‘I don’t need you to fix anything, Mom. I just want you to listen,'” Jada remarked, and praised her daughter’s straightforwardness.

Bill Bellamy, Jerry Springer and more announced as upcoming guest hosts on ‘The Wendy Williams Show’

November 4, 2021 by WDNY Radio

It’ll be at least another month before Wendy Williams returns to her purple chair.

The Wendy Williams Show announced Wednesday that their host’s expected return date had to be pushed back yet again. In the meantime, a new slate of guest hosts has been announced who will hold down the fort through November 19.

Starting November 8 it’ll be actor Michael Rapaport, who will host through November 12 and then pass the mic to comedian Bill Bellamy. Bellamy will entertain the audience on November 16 and 17 before Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos take over on November 18 through the end of the week.

The show also announced an “all-new hot talk panel” will kick off on Monday, November 15.

Williams has been absent from her show since it was originally expected to return on September 20 for the start of the 13th season. Her return was delayed due to ongoing health issues, which included testing positive for a breakthrough case of COVID-19.

The show returned to the air on October 18 with Leah Remini as its first guest host. It was also announced that Williams was “making progress but experiencing serious complications as a direct result of Graves’ Disease and her thyroid condition. It has been determined that more time is needed before she is able to return to her live hosting duties.”

Mayo Clinic defines Graves’ disease as a disorder of the immune system that is a common cause of hyperthyroidism, or an overproduction of thyroid hormones. Side effects attributed to the illness are anxiety, hand tremors, palpitations, fatigue and other disruptive symptoms.

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Joe Exotic says “aggressive cancer” is back, wants out of prison

November 4, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Tiger King star Joe Exotic has revealed that he has “aggressive cancer.”

The unfortunate news was shared on Joe’s Instagram and featured a picture of the handwritten note he wrote to fans, dated October 27.

The note reads, “Everyone, It is with a sad face that I have to tell you the doctors called me in today to break the news that my prostate biopsy came back with an aggressive cancer, I am still waiting on the results from other test as well.”

Exotic goes on to say that he doesn’t want “pity,” though he says he’s sure his nemesis, Carole Baskin, will “have her own party over this.” What Joe does want is to be released from prison, where he is currently serving a 22-year sentence for violating wildlife laws, and also for the failed murder-for-hire plots against Baskin.

“What I need is the world to be my voice to be released, they have the proof I DID NOT DO THIS!” he wrote. “And there is no reason for the district attorney to drag this out, So I can go home and get treatment on my own or enjoy what life I have left with my loved ones! Say a prayer everyone & be my voice.”

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