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Mary J. Blige, Usher, Wiz Khalifa and more featured on ‘Snoop Dogg Presents The Algorithm’

November 15, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Snoop Dogg is bringing the heavy hitters on his new compilation album, The Algorithm, which he is dropping on Friday.

Mary J. Blige, Usher, Wiz Khalifa, Redman & Method Man, Eric Bellinger, Fabolous and Dave East are among the many stars featured on the project, which will be The Doggfather’s first release on Def Jam.

Snoop’s supergroup, Mount Westmore, which includes himself, Ice Cube, E-40 and Too Short, previously dropped the first single from the compilation, “Big Subwoofer,” followed by “Murder Music” recorded by Benny the Butcher, Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes and Snoop.

In other news, the 50-year-old hop hop icon, who loves sports, including hockey, will DJ for the third time at a Los Angeles Kings home game, on December 9.

“I’m excited to kick off my third night in three years with the LA Kings celebrating the release of my new album Algorithm,” Snoop Dogg said in a statement. “I can guarantee 12.9.21 is gonna be filled with non-stop entertainment and good old fashioned hockey. Kings are on a roll right now and I’m looking to bring another win to tha table that night. Don’t meet me there, beat me there.”

Meanwhile, Snoop loves interacting with his fans, and last week, he surprised customers at a Raising Cane’s fast food restaurant in Fayetteville, Arkansas, by serving from the drive-by window.

Måneskin releasing vinyl “MAMMAMIA” single featuring new song “Touch Me”

November 15, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Måneskin is releasing a new vinyl single featuring their latest song, “MAMMAMIA.”

The disc is due out this Friday, November 19, and also features a previously unreleased track called “Touch Me,” which the Italian rockers say they “can’t wait for you to hear.”

“MAMMAMIA” premiered this past October. It followed Måneskin’s breakout singles “Beggin'” and “I Wanna Be Your Slave.”

Måneskin just performed “MAMMAMIA” over the weekend on the MTV Europe Music Awards, at which they won the Best Rock award, as well. They also played it during their debut U.S. late-night TV appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show last month.

Vanilla Fudge to release remastered version of “Ramble On” in advance of full Led Zeppelin’s cover album

November 15, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Vanilla Fudge has announced plans to release a remastered version its 2007 cover of Led Zeppelin‘s “Ramble On” as a digital download and via streaming services on November 30.

The song is the third advance track from a remastered edition of a full Led Zeppelin covers album called Out Through the In Door that the band originally put out in 2007, and which will be released with a new title, Vanilla Zeppelin, and updated packaging at an as-yet-unannounced date.

You can pre-save the track now on Spotify and Apple Music, and also check out a 30-second clip of the tune, which features Vanilla Fudge putting their own keyboard-driven spin on the hard-rocking Led Zeppelin song. The other remastered Zeppelin cover that the band released in advance of the Vanilla Zeppelin album were “The Immigrant Song” and “Rock and Roll,” which arrived in September 2020 and March 2021, respectively.

Vanilla Fudge’s most recent release was a new cover of the classic 1965 Supremes hit “Stop in the Name of Love,” which the band issued in September. The track featured the final recording of original Fudge bassist Tim Bogert, who died of cancer in January of this year.

In other news, Vanilla Fudge has three concerts lined up this week that will feature the band supporting Doors guitarist Robby Krieger and his solo group. They take place in New York City at Sony Hall tonight and on Tuesday, November 16, and in Ridgefield, Connecticut, at the Ridgefield Playhouse on Wednesday, November 17.

Carrie Underwood, Jimmie Allen & more tapped for ‘CMA Country Christmas’

November 15, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Christmas just got a little more country with the announcement of the lineup for the 2021 CMA Country Christmas special, which airs November 29 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

Carrie Underwood, Jimmie Allen and Lady A are part of the star-filled bill for the annual holiday special filmed in Nashville.

Brett Eldredge and Pistol Annies, both of whom dropped new Christmas albums this year with Mr. Christmas and Hell of a Holiday, respectively, will also perform, along with Breland and “Things a Man Oughta Know” singer Lainey Wilson.

Newly crowned CMA Female Vocalist of the Year Carly Pearce and “I Hope” hit-maker Gabby Barrett are set to co-host for the first time, as well as perform holiday classics. A promo clip for the special shows the two singing “Sleigh Ride.”

Jimmie will unite with Louis York, as well as with the duo of Grammy-nominated songwriters Chuck Harmony and Claude Kelly, who made their Grand Ole Opry debut in 2020, and The Shindellas, the trio of Kasi Jones, Stacy Johnson and Tamara Chauniece who performed with Lady A at the 2021 CMT Music Awards. Jimmie teamed up with the two acts on a reimagination of York’s “What Does Christmas Mean” last year.

Turnstile announces 2022 tour

November 15, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Turnstile has announced a headlining tour for 2022.

The outing, dubbed the Turnstile Love Connection tour, is set to kick off February 23 in San Francisco, and will wrap up May 26 in Washington, D.C.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 19, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit TurnstileHardcore.com.

Turnstile will be touring in support of their new album, Glow On, which dropped this past August. It includes the single “Blackout.”

Harry Styles explains why he is always redefining himself: “Life is about learning”

November 15, 2021 by WDNY Radio

There is a reason why Harry Styles continues to make a name for himself outside the music industry. Aside from launching a successful solo career following his One Direction days, he’s also an actor, and now he’s adding “businessman” to his impressive resume.

Styles, 27, tells Dazed magazine, “I like to challenge myself and do something different.”

He recently unveiled his new company, Pleasing, which he first conceptualized in a hotel room in Boston. Pleasing specializes in beauty products, with its first offering being nail polish.

“That was kind of the birth of what it was for,” said Styles, “It was a fun little project, but during the pandemic, and when we eventually named it Pleasing, it felt like it was so much more than nail polish.”

Styles says the goal of his products, which will come in sustainable packaging, is to help consumers “feel beautiful” and create “little moments of joy” for them.

Makeup is a departure from music, but there’s an organic reason why Styles’ career branched out from being a member of a boy band.

“Life is about learning,” he explained, saying an early fear of failure set him off on his path. He was only 16 when One Direction became a global sensation and Styles said he once dreaded being told, “We don’t like your music any more, go away.”

The Grammy winner assures he’s no longer “working from a place of fear” because he’s figured out who he is.

“I’m working from a place of wanting to work stuff out, and try different things,” Styles explained, saying that realization led him to try acting and launch Pleasing.

So, what does he find the most challenging? He admits, “Movies are definitely where I feel most out of my comfort zone.”

Michael Bublé returns to TV with new holiday special, ‘Christmas in the City’

November 15, 2021 by WDNY Radio

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas from six years ago: Michael Bublé is coming back to NBC for a new holiday special.

Michael Bublé’s Christmas in the City will air December 6 at 10 p.m. ET and will repeat on December 22 at 10 p.m. ET. The special will originate from Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, which is the same studio where Saturday Night Live happens each week. So far, no special guests have been announced for the special, which will mix comedy and music, but it’s probably likely that one or two SNL cast members will show up for the festivities.

This will be Michael’s first Christmas special since 2015’s Michael Bublé’s Christmas in Hollywood and his sixth one overall. He’s returned to TV to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his record-setting 2011 album, Christmas, so you can expect music from that project to take center stage, along with other Christmas favorites.

Summer Walker is the new queen of the ‘Billboard’ 200

November 15, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Summer Walker is reigning over the Billboard 200 chart as her new album, Still Over It, debuted at number one.

The 25-year-old singer’s second studio album earned 166,000 units in its first week. This marks the biggest week for an R&B album in 2021, and Still Over It is the first R&B album by a woman to top the Billboard 200 in more than five years. Solange’s A Seat at the Table ruled for one week in October 2016.

Summer’s 20-track project also set the record for the largest streaming week ever for an R&B album by a woman, with 201 million on-demand streams, surpassing Walker’s first album, Over It, which earned 155 million stream in its debut week in October 2019.

Plus, Still Over It achieved the biggest sales week for an R&B album by a woman since Beyoncé’s Lemonade earned 202,000 units in May 2016.

Still Over It features Cardi B, Pharrell Williams, SZA, Ciara, Omarion, Lil Durk and Ari Lennox, plus JT from City Girls, who teamed with Summer for the first single, “Ex for a Reason.

‘Eternals’ screenwriters on seeing stars in their cast

November 15, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Marvel Studios’ Eternals is the number-one movie at the box office for the second week in a row. The cast includes Oscar winner Angelina Jolie, plus Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, Richard Madden and more, all playing a race of immortal heroes.

Kaz and Ryan Firpo, the two relative newcomer cousins who wrote the first draft of the script, tell ABC Audio they could have only dreamed of getting that cast when they were writing it.

“It’s always been an important part of my writing process to just picture the actor, because that just really helps me capture the voice,” Ryan Firpo says. “And sometimes, you know, it’s a real actor that you get cast and sometimes it’s like, ‘Oh, I’m picturing Gene Hackman from the French Connection,’ you know? So we have to figure out somebody who’s like that. [Because] up to this point…I can’t get the script to them.”

“The really amazing thing with Marvel is that we could have these ideas, and then they could execute them,” says Ryan.

Kaz adds, “Kumail was somebody that from the beginning we were just begging Marvel, ‘It’s nobody else, it’s got to be him.’ The matriarch, Ajak…we wrote that role for Salma. Thena is really for Angelina.”

Conversely, Patrick Burliegh, who worked on the Firpos’ screenplay with Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao, knew the cast was in place when he got to work on it. He comments, “When she came on board, we had written a lot of dialog for Thena and she was like, ‘No…Thena…is a woman of few words.'”

“So we…cut most of Angelina’s dialog. But what’s amazing is that she was 100% right.”

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

One love, one life, three decades later: U2 announces 30th anniversary ’Achtung Baby’ reissue

November 15, 2021 by WDNY Radio

U2 has announced a deluxe reissue celebrating the 30th anniversary of the band’s 1991 album, Achtung Baby.

The package will arrive on vinyl November 19, followed by a digital release December 3. The digital version boasts a total of 50 tracks, including two sets of demos and a collection of B-sides, 22 of which have never been available before digitally.

For the full track listing, visit U2.com.

In celebration of the reissue, U2 is teaming up with artist Thierry Noir for a new art exhibition at Berlin’s Hansa Studios, where the band had started recording Achtung Baby. Noir, who was the first artist to paint on the Berlin Wall, previously contributed to the Achtung Baby artwork and pieces for the 1991 Zoo TV tour.

Released November 18, 1991, Achtung Baby marked U2’s return after they had to “go away” and “dream it all up again” following the end of the Rattle and Hum tour. In contrast to the Americana sounds of Rattle and Hum and The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby found U2 diving into more of an alternative sound, and started experimenting more with an electronic style that continued throughout their ’90s discography.

Achtung Baby is now certified eight-times Platinum by the RIAA, and spawned the singles “One,” “The Fly,” “Mysterious Ways,” “Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses” and “Even Better Than the Real Thing.”

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