WYRK Staff

Country singer and ‘Voice’ co-host Blake Shelton will cover the title track for the upcoming ‘Footloose’ remake, EW.com revealed exclusively on Monday.

Shelton is just one of many famous names to appear on the soundtrack. Also lending their voices are Zac Brown Band, who will sing ‘When the River Goes’; ‘One Tree Hill’ beauty Jana Kramer, who will record the famous ‘Let’s Hear It for the Boy’; and Shelton’s ‘Voice’ cohort Cee Lo Green, who will sing ‘Walkin’ Blues’ with Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

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Jason Aldean has a new commercial out for Wrangler Jeans and you could be checking them out up close by getting in to win our trip to see him LIVE in Los Angeles California on October 27th.

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President Barack Obama offered a reassuring assessment of the U.S. economic situation today, calling the country's problems "imminently solvable" despite Standard & Poor's downgrade of its credit rating.

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Taylor Swift knows a thing or two about how to tell a 'Love Story' through song -- and a few days ago, she helped play a role in a real-life marriage proposal.

When Taylor's tour stopped in Detroit last February, she met up with WYCD DJ Jason 'The 300 Pound Cowboy' and his girlfriend, Kelli, and hit it off with the couple. As the night drew to a close, Taylor's mother warned them, "Next time I see you two, you’d better be engaged!"

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V.P. Joe Biden is being paid by the Secret Service. That's right the Veep is landlord for the agency protecting him at his Wilmington, Delaware cottage, near his home.

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After serving 20 months on a gun charge, Plaxico Burress is back in the NFL. He signed a one year deal with the New York Jets, so the Bills will see him twice. He had been rumored to go back to one of the teams he previously played for, the Steelers or the Giants

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A listener sent this photo in of a rattlesnake found in Letchworth State Park. Although rattlesnakes are not uncommon in the northeast, they rarely come in contact with humans.

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If your airline flights and restaurant meals seem a bit quieter, it's not your imagination.

The 2010 census reveals children now comprise only 24 percent of the US population, a two-point drop in the past 20 years. Experts predict it will fall another percentage point by 2050, while the group comprised of people 65 and older is expected to rise from 13 percent to 19 percent due to the aging of baby boomers.

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While touring to support his 2010 album 'Get Closer,' Keith Urban said he wanted to make an effort to literally get closer to fans. So, the musician had a stage constructed that allows him to mingle with the crowd, as well as smaller, more intimate stages interspersed throughout each venue. "This tour is about making a real connection with the audience, finding a way to engage with everybody that doesn’t always rely on massive video walls," he told Taste of Country.

Urban also credited fellow Australian musicians AC/DC with inspiring the driving beat behind his new single 'Long Hot Summer.' "It’s probably my AC/DC upbringing. I’ve always loved 4/4 tunes that are four-on-the-floor and just really want to rock," he said.

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Next summer, TNT will take TV viewers back to Texas for a reboot of the long-running primetime soap 'Dallas,' promising plenty of sex, drama and, of course, oil.

This time around, 'Dallas' will focus on the scandalous misadventures of J.R.'s son, John Ross (Josh Henderson), and Bobby’s adopted son, Christopher ('Desperate Housewives' hunk Jesse Metcalfe).

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The Westboro Baptist Church is at it again.

The fundamentalist and anti-gay group has announced it will picket the funeral of former first lady Betty Ford, who died last week, because she got divorced before marrying the man who would later become President Gerald Ford. This, the group says, made her an adulterer who "loved to sit with tawdry reporters and blather about sex."

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Sherwood Schwartz, the man who created or contributed to several iconic television shows, died Tuesday at 4AM of natural causes. He was 94.

Schwartz worked in radio for Bob Hope before transitioning to television, where he won a 1961 Emmy as part of the writing team for 'The Red Skelton Show.' He also worked on series such as 'My Favorite Martian' and 'Harper Valley PTA.'

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