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Damon Dash wants to squash 17 year feud with Jay-Z after Rock & Roll Hall of Fame shout-out

November 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Damon Dash founded Roc-A-Fella Records in 1995 with Jay-Z, and they’ve feuded since the label was sold in 2004. Now, after being praised by Hova during his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction speech on Saturday, Dash wants to finally squash their beef.

“Shout out to Dame,” the Roc Nation owner said during the ceremony at Rocket Mortgage Field House in Cleveland, “I know we don’t see eye to eye, but I can never erase your accomplishments. And I appreciate you and I thank you for that.”

“It was beautiful,” Dash told Page Six. “I’m glad he said it for the culture. We need to squash everything. So hopefully if that was an extended [olive branch], I’ll spin one back.”

“Congratulations to him and thank you [to him] for keep working so hard to where he got to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” Dash continued. “Anything he can do to make me great, so thank you for even continuing to strive. He keeps my name alive.”

In 2004, Roc-A-Fella Records was sold to Def Jam Recordings, and Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, was named Def Jam President and CEO. Dash felt betrayed and formed his own label, Roc4Life. The feud intensified in 2005 when Jay bought out Dash’s share of their Rocawear fashion company.

When Dash recently attempted to sell Rock-A-Fella’s first release, Jay-Z’s 1997 debut solo album, Reasonable Doubt, as an NFT, Carter sued him.

“I have no beef with [him] if [he has] no beef with me,” Damon added. “Let’s get the lawyers out of it then. Let’s talk like men.”

Dash hopes that now the bitterness between him and Hova will end, declaring, “We should not be divided. We have accomplished too much to be beefing.”

Director of ‘Midas Man,’ upcoming biopic about Beatles manager Brian Epstein, expected to exit project

November 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Midas Man, an upcoming biopic about late Beatles manager Brian Epstein, will continue production although its director, Jonas Akerlund, apparently will be dropping off the project, Variety reports.

According to Variety, sources have revealed that Akerlund currently is “taking a break” from filming and likely will not return.

The movie began shooting two weeks ago in Liverpool, U.K., but the production was put on hold this week. A source close to the production confirmed to Variety that the shoot may start up again as soon as next week, and if Akerlund doesn’t return, a new director will be announced soon.

“The director of Midas Man Jonas Akerlund is taking a break from the film,” says StudioPOW co-founder Perry Trevers, whose company is co-producing the movie. “Until some matters become clearer we are not able to add any further comment to this statement. In the meantime we can confirm that filming of Midas Man will continue in London in November before breaking for Christmas. Filming will restart in early January in Los Angeles.”

Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, whose credits include The Queen’s Gambit and Wolf Hall, has been cast as Epstein in the film, while Outlander actress Rosie Day is portraying pop star Cilla Black.

Akerlund’s credits include directing videos for Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, U2, Madonna, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne and many others. He won Grammys for McCartney’s Live Kisses film, as well as for Madonna’s The Confessions Tour concert video and “Ray of Light” music video.

Epstein discovered The Beatles in 1961 and officially became their manager the following year, helping to guide the group to superstardom. He also managed such other Liverpool acts as Black and Gerry and the Pacemakers. Brian died in 1967 of an apparent accidental sleeping-pill overdose. He was 32.

Christopher Nolan’s Manhattan Project movie ‘Oppenheimer’ recruits Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon

November 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Director Christopher Nolan‘s movie Oppenheimer, about J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the creators of the atomic bomb, has just added some nuclear level star power.

The Hollywood Reporter notes that Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon will join Nolan repeat player Cillian Murphy in the project; he’s playing the titular scientist.

The trade notes Damon will play Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, the military director of the secret Manhattan Project that was behind the atomic bomb’s creation.

For his part, Downey, will reportedly play Lewis Strauss, the Atomic Energy Commissioner who ended up getting Oppenheimer’s security clearance revoked after the scientist felt conflicted about unleashing the devastating power on the world.

Emily Blunt, who starred in this year’s hits A Quiet Place Part II and Jungle Cruise, will reportedly play Kitty Oppenheimer, the physicist’s wife, in the project that’s based on the Pulitzer-winning 2005 book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Dan + Shay cancel upcoming tour dates due to COVID-19, tease Christmas news

November 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Dan + Shay have cancelled a pair of upcoming dates on The (Arena) Tour due to a member of their team contracting COVID-19.

On Tuesday, the duo shared in a letter to their fans on socials sharing that they had “some good news + some bad news.”

The bad news is that a member of their touring crew has tested positive for the virus, and out of protection for fans and others members of the team they have to cancel shows in Orlando, Florida on November 4 and Atlanta on November 5.

Due to routing conflicts and their confirmed touring schedule in 2022, the duo’s unable to reschedule these shows, but offer hope in the fact that some of the tour stops on Kenny Chesney‘s 2022 Here and Now Tour, for which they’re opening acts, are near both cities.

On the upside, the twosome says they have some “Christmas surprises” in the works, teasing that the first surprise will be revealed on Wednesday morning, and they’re “VERY excited” about it.

“Thanks to the folks who were planning to attend the shows this week for understanding, we’ve been looking forward to them (for literally 2 years now lol), but promise we’ll make it up to you in a big way soon,” Dan + Shay conclude in the letter.

The Grammy-winning duo is currently scheduled to be on the road until December 7.

Pavement announces 2022 US tour dates

November 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Wowee Zowee, Pavement is hitting the road.

The “Cut Your Hair” outfit has announced a U.S. tour for 2022, running from September 7 in San Diego to October 11 in Austin. Tickets go on sale beginning this Friday, November 5.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit PavementBand.com.

Along with the U.S. shows, Pavement will play a run of European dates in the summer and fall of next year. The tour marks Pavement’s first full live outing since their 2010 reunion, which came 11 years after the band initially broke up in 1999.

Jessica Simpson reflects on the day she vowed to get sober

November 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Jessica Simpson celebrated being four years sober on Monday by sharing an unflinching look at her battle with alcoholism.

To mark the milestone, the fashion mogul shared a haunting throwback photo where she looks almost unrecognizable and explained it was taken on the day she vowed to stop drinking. Simpson’s face is red, puffy and streaked with tears as she sits in what appears to be her living room.

“This person in the early morning of Nov 1, 2017 is an unrecognizable version of myself,” the singer writes. “I had so much self discovery to unlock and explore. I knew in this very moment I would allow myself to take back my light, show victory over my internal battle of self respect, and brave this world with piercing clarity. Personally, to do this I needed to stop drinking alcohol.”

Simpson said she knew in that moment that drinking “kept my mind and heart circling in the same direction” and that she “was exhausted” from the pain.

“I wanted to live as a leader,” she continued, noting that in order to do so, she had to never look back “with regret and remorse over any choice I have made and would make.”

Simpson then opened up about the “stigma around the word alcoholism” and explained what it means to commit to a sober lifestyle.

“The real work that needed to be done in my life was to actually accept failure, pain, brokenness, and self sabotage. The drinking wasn’t the issue. I was,” she said. “I didn’t love myself. I didn’t respect my own power. Today I do.”

Simpson says she now embraces every part of herself, including the “parts of my life that are just sad,” and that makes her “free.”

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‘Saved by the Bell’ reboot to honor Dustin Diamond in upcoming season

November 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

When Peacock’s Saved by the Bell reboot returns for its upcoming second season on November 24, the show will pay tribute to original cast member Dustin Diamond, who died of lung cancer in February at the age of 44.

Diamond, who played Samuel “Screech” Powers from the show’s inception in 1989, through its College Years and New Class spinoffs — 12 years in all — was referenced in the first season of the reboot, though he was not invited onto it as a guest star.

Executive producer Franco Bario, who also produced the original series, tells Variety he spoke with Diamond ahead of the season one premiere to “fill him in on the Screech mentions in the first season and how those may lead us to possible stories that would include him in season two.” However, after learning of Diamond’s death, Bario and showrunner Tracey Wigfield decided to celebrate Dustin as an actor and Screech as a character in season two.

“I didn’t know him and I hadn’t met him,” Wigfield tells Variety. “Just thinking about it as a fan, I knew we wanted to do more than just putting a picture of him up at the end.”

After pitching the idea to original cast members Elizabeth Berkley Lauren, Mario Lopez, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tiffani Thiessen and Lark Voorhies, who appear on the show in different capacities, Wigfield and Bario wrote a scene in which the five OG cast members would reunite at the group’s favorite hangout, The Max, to remember their friend.

The tribute to Diamond also includes clips of him in the original series, to demonstrate that he was not just “an outrageous character” or “the butt of a joke,” but “to show how important he was to the show the other characters.”

Megan Thee Stallion and Amanda Gorman are among Glamour’s Women of the Year

November 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Glamour announced Tuesday that Megan Thee Stallion and Amanda Gorman are being honored on the magazine’s Women of the Year list.

Megan Thee Stallion has won three Grammys, two MTV Video Music Awards, and one American Music Award. As her career continues to rise, she is about to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in heath administration from Texas Southern University.

“The bigger my platform gets, I start realizing that I’m not the only woman that goes through what I go through, and it doesn’t matter what scale it’s on,” she tells Glamour. “Mine is just public because I’m a public figure. I want to bring things to light so other women don’t feel like they have to continue to be silent.”

Beyond music, Megan’s becoming a powerful entrepreneur in fashion, as well as owner of a a Popeyes franchise.

“The sky not even the limit,” Megan says. “It can go past that.”

Writer and poet Amanda Gorman, 23, became an international figure when she read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at President Joe Biden‘s inauguration in January. The next month, she performed at the Super Bowl, and was included on TIME magazine’s 100 Next list under the category of Phenoms.

“I see so many students who are reading me in the classroom, or dressing up as me, or amazing artists that are creating cello compositions or ice skating routines based on my poem,” Gorman says. “That just makes my heart swell.”

Gorman has become a global role model, and she advises young women to embrace their individuality. “We need new, diverse, different voices, and the world isn’t served if people imitate me,” Amanda says. “The more that we have people who are excellent at doing what they do, I think the brighter and bolder we’ll all be for it.”

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Mark Lanegan recounts “terrifying” bout with COVID-19 in upcoming ‘Devil in a Coma’ memoir

November 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Screaming Trees frontman and frequent Queens of the Stone Age collaborator Mark Lanegan will recount his “terrifying” bout with COVID-19 in an upcoming memoir, Devil in a Coma.

According to the publisher’s description of the book, Lanegan awoke one morning in March 2021 “breathless, fatigued beyond belief, his body burdened with a gigantic dose of COVID-19.”

Lanegan was admitted to a hospital in Ireland, where he was living at the time, where he’d be “slipping in and out of a coma, unable to walk or function for several months and fearing for his life.”

“As his situation becomes more intolerable over the course of that bleakest of springs he is assaulted by nightmares, visions and regrets about a life lived on the edge of chaos and disorder,” the description reads.

That apparently inspired what would become Devil in a Coma, which uses “vignettes of prose and poetry” to tell a “terrifying account of illness and the remorse that comes with it.”

Devil in a Coma will be released December 14.

John Mayer launches his second capsule collection of…laundry detergent

November 2, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Back in 2016, John Mayer partnered with the upscale laundry and fabric care company The Laundress to release a capsule collection of laundry detergent called Out West. Now, he’s indulging his love for laundry once again with another Laundress capsule collection called Way Out West.

Today at 4 p.m. ET, you can chat with John live on Instagram and be among the first to shop the new collection live — just reserve a spot over at TheLaundress.com.

People reports that the new Way Out West collection, which officially launches Wednesday, includes a laundry detergent and a fabric spray, priced at $20 and $16, respectively. In a statement via People, Jon says, “I first discovered The Laundress products over six years ago, and we aligned so organically on the philosophy that if you love fashion, you should be into fabric care.”

“I find something so meditative about the process, which makes laundry day a very soothing ritual for me,” he adds. “Way Out West is an extension and embodiment of that passion, and I am so proud to introduce everyone to the new collection.”

Way Out West, inspired by John’s current home in Montana, is designed to “smell like home,” no matter where your home is. It features notes of black pepper, neroli, amyris, cedar, sandalwood and musk. The bottles feature a pink and blue motif that matches one of John’s favorite articles of clothing, and all of the packaging is made of recycled plastic.

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