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Los Angeles opening of Pink Floyd’s “Their Mortal Remains” exhibit delayed until September

July 28, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Pink Floyd‘s “Their Mortal Remains” exhibition, which debuted in London in 2017, originally was scheduled to make its U.S. debut on Tuesday, August 3, at Los Angeles’ new ?Vogue Multicultural Museum on Hollywood Boulevard, but the opening has now been delayed until September 3.

According to a message on the museum’s Facebook page, the delay in the attraction’s opening is “due to issues with global freight.”

As the note explains, “The many containers filled with Pink Floyd’s [artifacts], stage sets, and private collections were shipped from the UK with an extensive lead time but coming out of the pandemic, there are many delays in global freight. These containers have now safely arrived in LA.”

The message also points out that those who already had purchased tickets for August “will be notified via email about how to reschedule their dates at no additional cost.” Tickets can be purchased now at VMMLA.com. Visit PinkFloydExhibition.com for more info.

In addition, the L.A. “Their Mortal Remains” exhibition, which initially had been scheduled through November 28, now will run until January 9, 2022.

As previously reported, the exhibition, which is fully sanctioned by Pink Floyd’s surviving members, takes an in-depth look at the pioneering prog-rockers, delving into their innovative music and album designs, groundbreaking concert staging and much more.

The exhibit uses audiovisual presentations and hundreds of artifacts to trace Pink Floyd’s story from its mid-1960s beginnings in London’s underground psychedelic music scene, through its massive success during the 1970s and ’80s, to the band members’ recent endeavors.

Among the many pieces of memorabilia featured are instruments, handwritten lyrics, vintage posters, photos and clothing items. Also on display are set pieces depicting Pink Floyd’s surreal album covers, stage props, promo videos, and rare film clips and live performance footage.

Report: Bob Odenkirk rushed to hospital after collapsing on ‘Better Call Saul’ set

July 28, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Bob Odenkirk has reportedly been hospitalized after suffering a medical emergency while filming Better Call Saul.

The Hollywood Reporter confirms that the 58-year-old actor is still undergoing treatment after collapsing on the show’s set on Tuesday. Sources tell the outlet that crew members immediately surrounded the fallen actor and summoned an ambulance.

Sources were unable to say if the four-time Emmy nominated actor was conscious when medics arrived.

It is unknown what triggered the episode and, at print time, his condition remains unknown.

Odenkirk was in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to film the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul, a prequel/spinoff of AMC’s popular Breaking Bad series. It is unknown if production has been delayed in lieu of the incident.

Request for comment from representatives of Odenkirk and AMC have not been returned.

TMZ was first to break the news.

Take a sunny stroll with Lorde as she answers “73 Questions” with ‘Vogue’

July 28, 2021 by WDNY Radio

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Want to take a stroll with Lorde and get to know her a bit better? Vogue has you covered.

In a new video, the singer answers “73 Questions” with Vogue while on a sunny walk at the New York Botanical Garden. She’s quizzed on everything from what her dream job was as a five-year-old — “cartoonist” — to which artist she thinks has the best style… David Bowie, of course.

The 24-year-old also reveals one of the most surprising things she’s learned about pop stardom.

“Right when you can afford to buy anything you want, you get given everything for free,” she says. “It doesn’t make any sense. Don’t give us free stuff!”

As for an artist she’d want to collaborate with, Lorde says, “I kinda wanna talk to Harry Styles.” She also reveals that Taylor Swift was the first artist she met that had her totally starstruck.

In answers to other music-related questions, Lorde says Natalie Imbruglia is the most surprising influence on her new album Solar Power, the song she wishes she’d written is “Graceland” by Paul Simon, the most surprising thing she brings on tour is “expensive sheets,” and the most important thing she’s learned about producing her own music is to always trust her instincts because they are “always right.”

Solar Power comes out August 10.

Chris Lane used to work as a landscaper; still takes “pride” in mowing his own lawn

July 28, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Long before he was topping the charts with hits like “Fix” and “I Don’t Know About You,” Chris Lane worked alongside his father and brother at the family’s landscaping company. The singer says the was as meaningful as it was educational.

“A lot of people don’t know this, so I used to do landscaping as a living,” Chris explains. “My dad started a landscaping company called Lane and Sons Landscaping, he still runs it to this day. My brother and I would always help every summer starting around 14 or 15 years old, but then we would come home from college during summer and we would always help him with that as well.”

While trying to make it in the music industry, Chris returned to his landscaping job for stability. And while he now has his hands full as a successful music artist and new dad to son Dutton, the singer still utilizes his landscaping skills in his own home.

“After I graduated college while I was trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to do with my life, I dove back into that and was still doing landscaping, even up until the day that I got a record deal with Big Loud, I still did landscaping off the side,” Chris says. “[It’s] something that I still do at my own house now. I mow my own yard and weed eat and blow, and I really enjoy that. I take pride in it. Only other job I’ve ever had is truly landscaping.”

Chris launches his Fill Them Boots Tour in October.

Starset announces fall tour dates

July 28, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Starset is returning to the road for a tour this fall.

The newly announced shows — or, as the sci-fi-themed bands likes to refer to them, the “demonstrations” — begin November 3 in Asheville, North Carolina, and will conclude December 18 in Cleveland.

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

Starset released a new single called “Infected” in April. It follows the band’s 2019 album, Divisions, which features the singles “Manifest” and “Trials.”

Michael Bolton’s preparing for his return to live concerts: “My voice is eager to get out there”

July 28, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Like nearly every other music star on the planet, Michael Bolton was sidelined by the pandemic and left unable to tour. Unlike most other music stars, Michael’s been busy for the past few months starring on ABC’s The Celebrity Dating Game, where he’s been using his famous voice to comedic effect. Still, he admits he’s gotten a bit rusty and now has to work on getting his voice ready to hit the stage again.

Michael will return to touring in September, when he has a major tour of the U.K. kicking off September 25, followed by a few U.S. shows in November and December. He says he’s already started to prepare to belt out his signature hits.

“Y’know, I’m not quiet…I’m speaking I’m just not using full voice: high C’s and big notes,” Michael tells ABC Audio. “I’m actually literally just starting now to do the [warm-up] routines. And so there is some rust, there’s some tightness.”

“The vocal cords are muscles, basically,” he explains. “So you got to use them, stretch ’em, make ’em stronger. And my bit of rehearsal here and there has been very promising, like, my voice is eager to get out there.”

Meanwhile, you can catch Michael on The Celebrity Dating Game, which airs Monday nights on ABC. On the show, actual celebrities offer themselves up as potential dates, and Michael sings song parodies to comment on the action and give the contestants clues to each celebrity’s identity.

Scoreboard roundup — 7/27/21

July 28, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

INTERLEAGUE
St. Louis 4, Cleveland 2
Miami 7, Baltimore 3
Texas 5, Arizona 4
Colorado 12, LA Angels 3
San Diego 7, Oakland 4

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chi White Sox 5, Kansas City 3
NY Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 3
Detroit 6, Minnesota 5
Houston 8, Seattle 6
Toronto at Boston (Postponed)

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Milwaukee 9, Pittsburgh 0
Washington 6, Philadelphia 4
Atlanta 12, NY Mets 5
Cincinnati 7, Chi Cubs 4
San Francisco 2, LA Dodgers 1

Iowa judge to decide if Mollie Tibbetts’ convicted killer will get new trial

July 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

(POWESHIEK COUNTY, Iowa) — The lead agent who investigated the disappearance and murder of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts testified Tuesday that there was no doubt in his mind who killed her.

“Cristhian Rivera murdered Mollie Tibbetts,” special agent Trent Vileta said in court.

Vileta rejected a theory by Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s attorneys that he was framed for Tibbetts’ kidnapping and murder as part of a sex trafficking ring. The attorneys claim the alleged sex trafficking ring was investigated and that resulting evidence was withheld from them by law enforcement authorities.

“I don’t remember any tips that she (Tibbetts) was the victim of sex trafficking, but I didn’t see all of them either,” Vileta said.

A jury convicted 27-year-old Bahena Rivera in May of first-degree murder, but his sentencing was postponed after his attorneys requested a new trial in order to be allowed to review evidence in any ongoing investigations into sex trafficking in and around Poweshiek County, Iowa, where Tibbetts went missing in July 2018. Her body was discovered in an Iowa cornfield about a month after she vanished.

During Tuesday’s hearing, which lasted more than four hours, Bahena Rivera’s attorneys called Arne Maki to testify about a conversation he said he had in July 2020 with a 21-year-old inmate while they were both being held at the jail in Keokuk County, Iowa.

Maki, 46, who is now serving a prison sentence for domestic violence, claimed the inmate who he befriended told him that he and another man killed Tibbetts on the orders of a sex trafficker after she was kidnapped and brought to a sex trafficking “trap house.”

“He’s like, ‘yeah, I killed her,'” Maki testified about the inmate who defense attorneys named in court documents and during the hearing. “I’m like, ‘I don’t believe you.'”

Maki claimed the man then mentioned Bahena Rivera, a Mexican national who was in the country illegally and working at a dairy in Poweshiek County when he was arrested and charged with Tibbetts’ killing.

“He’s like, ‘We set him up.’ He’s like, ‘It’s a sex trafficking case gone wrong, and I stabbed her to death and put her in a tarp, me and my Black friend that don’t speak English good.'”

Maki testified that he doubted the inmate’s story until he saw TV news reports on Bahena Rivera’s testimony during his trial.

Bahena Rivera claimed he was kidnapped at his home near Brooklyn, Iowa, by two armed masked men, who ordered him to drive to where Tibbetts was expected to be jogging. He claimed that when they found Tibbetts, one of the men stabbed her to death, put her body in the trunk of Bahena Rivera’s car and made him drive to a cornfield, where the young woman’s badly decomposed remains were discovered a month after she went missing.

Bahena Rivera said that while he placed Tibbetts’ body in the cornfield, he did not kill her.

“Right there my conscience told me that I should say something, even if it’s not true,” Maki said, explaining why he told authorities about the inmate’s purported confession.

But under cross-examination from prosecutor Bart Klaver, Maki said he did not know that the inmate who confessed to him was in a rehab facility under court supervision at the time Tibbetts disappeared.

Judge Joel Yates, who presided over Bahena Rivera’s trial, told the attorneys he will make a written decision as soon possible on the defense motion for a new trial.

Earlier this month, Yates rejected the motion to allow Bahena Rivera’s attorneys an opportunity to review evidence in ongoing sex trafficking investigations in Poweshiek County and in the case of a missing 11-year-old boy, Xavior Harrelson, who vanished in May from his home in Poweshiek County. The defense attorneys suggested that the man who they allege operated the sex trafficking “trap house” once had been the boyfriend of Harrelson’s mother.

Pete Davidson’s taking music & voice lessons ahead of filming Joey Ramone biopic: “Hopefully I do it justice”

July 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

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Earlier this year, it was announced that Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson would be playing Joey Ramone in an upcoming Netflix biopic about the late Ramones legend. Speaking now with Billboard, Davidson reveals how he’s approaching the role.

“I’m about to start music lessons and voice lessons and all this other s***,” Davidson says, adding that the project is a “dream come true.” “Hopefully I do it justice and I hope I don’t let anybody down.”

Davidson will also co-write the film, which is based on and named after the book I Slept with Joey Ramone, written by Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh.

“I’m definitely taking it very serious and I’m doing my research,” Davidson says. “Because Joey did a bit of everything and we’re following his life, so you’re going to see a bit of that.”

That research includes spending time with Leigh and “the whole Queens crew” from the brothers’ hometown neighborhood in New York City.

“It’s a lot, man,” Davidson says. “It’s gonna be really interesting and I’m excited.”

Peter Frampton, Paul Rodgers, Slash & more offer support to Road Recovery program assisting at-risk youth

July 27, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Peter Frampton, Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers and Guns N’ Roses‘ guitarist Slash are among the rockers sharing their support for Road Recovery, an organization that uses music to help teens battling addiction and other at-risk youth.

Each musician filmed a video testimonial speaking about Road Recovery’s mission and how music can help, especially during a particularly difficult time like the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Frampton’s clip, he notes, “Road Recovery’s creative staff and our amazing young people are in need of some encouragement to keep on keeping on,” and asks supporters to “film a short video of hope and inspiration to our dedicated staff of music professionals and the amazing youth in our…programs,” which then will be shared across the organization’s social media platforms.

In Rodgers’ video, the singer notes, “I’ve learned that you have to stay positive in your heart, body and soul, [and] steer clear of booze and drugs. You’re still OK to rock and roll.” He also recommends checking out the Qi Gong for Beginners series on YouTube. “It’s a moving meditation,” he says. “It’s very simple, but very profound.”

In Slash’s testimonial, the GN’R guitarist notes that he’s been hanging with and jaming with kids and adults in the Road Recovery programs for a while, and he finds it “really inspirational…to see how [they] get inspired by the arts are able to “turn [their lives] around.”

Other artists offering testimonials include Metallica‘s James Hetfield and Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello. You can watch all the videos now via the Road Recovery YouTube channel.

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