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A$AP Rocky to be honored with Tribeca X Filmmaker of the Year Award

May 27, 2026 by WDNY Radio

A$AP Rocky is set to receive the inaugural Tribeca X Filmmaker of the Year Award at Tribeca X. The flagship event of the Tribeca Festival is focused on storytelling and features conversations, screenings and networking with entertainment and marketing leaders.

The honor recognizes Rocky’s work across music, fashion, film, and design and brand collaborations.

“Tribeca X was built to celebrate the creators reshaping modern storytelling,” Tribeca Enterprises CEO Rebecca Glashow said in a statement. “Today’s cultural landscape is being defined by artists and entrepreneurs who push creative boundaries across mediums and industries. A$AP Rocky represents the kind of genre-defying visionary the inaugural Tribeca X Filmmaker of the Year Award was created to honor.”

Tribeca X is set for June 8-9 at the Spring Studio in New York, and will display how brands and entertainment leaders are shaping new forms of storytelling.

‘Foreign Tongues’ producer says new Rolling Stones album is ‘rawer and liver and jammier’

May 27, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Andrew Watt produced The Rolling Stones’ well-received 2023 album Hackney Diamonds and the band’s upcoming release, Foreign Tongues. But Watt says he prefers latter, out July 10, because the Stones “never play the same f****** thing the same way twice.”

Watt tells the U.K. paper The Telegraph that for Foreign Tongues, he had the band play live in the studio. “It’s always changing, and then there’s moments where they blow your brains out with how unbelievable and tight it is, and they’re all on it,” he explains. “But part of their magic is that it’s always changing. … [S]o the recording process had to be something where we were going for keeps at all times, so you could capture those moments, moving with the heartbeats of the guys in the room.”

As a result, Watt tells the paper, “I like this one even more [than Hackney Diamonds]. It’s rawer and liver and jammier and wait till you hear the s*** Keith [Richards is] playing. It’s unbelievable.”

Describing the dynamic between Richards and Mick Jagger, Watt says, “You would think two people that have been with each other for as long as they have could read each other’s minds, and there’s times where they do and there’s other times where they go exactly opposite, and it’s those moments where some of the greatest s*** comes out.”

“When they’re recording, they’re almost like fencing a little bit,” he adds. “You know, it’s like this eloquent kind of battle that is occurring.”

“Balancing that whole act and keeping it moving along so you’ve got the take when the magic happens, that is really the main part of the job,” Watt notes. “Really, it’s the most fun thing in the world.”

Watt also produced Paul McCartney’s The Boys of Dungeon Lane.

The Four Tops musical, documentary in the works; vintage live album, new music coming

May 27, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The group that performs as The Four Tops no longer includes any original members, but they — and their team — are working to keep the legendary Motown act’s legacy alive.

Billboard reports that plans for a stage musical inspired by the group is in the works, as well as a documentary; potential producers for the film are being considered now. While there’s no time frame for either of those projects, there is a planned release coming in July: a 60th anniversary deluxe reissue of 1966’s Four Tops Live!, which was originally recorded during three 1966 shows the group played at Detroit’s Roostertail venue.

The 22-track reissue includes new mixes, four previously unreleased songs and a bonus instrumental, as well as onstage comments from late Tops singer Levi Stubbs. Among the hits included are “It’s the Same Old Song,” “Baby I Need Your Loving,” “Reach Out I’ll Be There” and “I Can’t Help Myself.” The album is out July 25, and The Four Tops will play a special show at the Roostertail on July 27 to celebrate.

According to Billboard, a new greatest hits compilation is also in the works, which will include Four Tops recordings from before and after their time at Motown. Plus, the current incarnation of the group — which includes the son of founder Lawrence Payton and former Temptations member Theo Peoples — is getting ready to “make new music.”

Keith Hagen, part of the group’s management team, tells Billboard, “Our goal here is to re-introduce and then introduce [the Tops] to a younger generation who maybe aren’t as familiar with the Tops’ monster hits as they should be. I feel very bullish that we can start to expand the Tops’ music and audience to a younger audience.”

Jutes announces new album, ‘Chin Up, Beautiful’

May 27, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Jutes has announced a new album called Chin Up, Beautiful.

The record is due out Aug. 5. It includes the previously released tracks “Disassociate” and “Icarus.”

“The world feels really cooked right now and it’s impossible to feel everything all at once, so we just go numb and fake smiles because we’re helpless,” Jutes says in a statement. “That’s how I was feeling when I made this. It pulls from elements of my music when I first started singing and incorporates them with everything I’ve learned about my voice and songwriting since then.”

Jutes has also released two new tracks off the record, “Mannequin” and “Goodnight (Interlude) ᐸ3.”

You can catch Jutes live on his upcoming U.S. headlining tour, kicking off in August.

Rock for Ronnie auction includes signed guitars & Metallica ‘S&M2’ violin

May 27, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The Rock for Ronnie benefit concert, which pays tribute to the late metal icon Ronnie James Dio, has announced a trio of signed instruments going up for auction as part of the event.

Attendees will be able to bid on a Lakland bass signed by Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler and an Epiphone Les Paul signed by George Thorogood. Additionally, Lita Ford, who’s headlining Rock for Ronnie, will contribute a custom-made guitar featuring the artwork from the Dio album Holy Diver, which she will sign and then play during her set.

Additionally, the auction includes a violin from Metallica’s 2019 S&M2 concert.

Rock for Ronnie takes place Sunday in Los Angeles. It raises money for the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund in support of cancer research.

Dio died of stomach cancer in 2010 at age 67.

Drake celebrates latest ‘Billboard’ chart-toppers

May 27, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Drake is celebrating his latest record-breaking accomplishments.

After news broke that Iceman topped the Billboard 200, becoming his 15th #1 album, and “Janice STFU” topped the Hot 100, becoming his 14th #1 and surpassing Michael Jackson, he took to his Instagram Story to mark the moment.

Drake posted a photo that sees him wearing an all-black outfit with sparkling slippers, surrounded by blue and silver balloons. Spread out on the floor before him is a list of his #1 albums and songs above the words, “Neck broke from carrying the chain, back broke from carrying the game, records broken carry on my name, carry on carry on.”

Among the other achievements, Iceman posted the biggest week for an R&B/hip-hop album in 2026 and the second biggest overall. The album also topped Top Streaming Albums, earning the biggest streaming week for any album this year and the largest for an R&B/hip-hop release in 2026.

With “Janice STFU,” Drake earned the most Hot 100 chart-toppers among solo men in history. The song also tops the Streaming Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Meanwhile, Drake’s Habibti and Maid of Honour debuted at #2 and #3 on the Billboard 200, making Drake the first artist ever to simultaneously debut in and hold the chart’s top three spots. The albums also landed in the same position on the Top Streaming Albums chart.

Songs from the three albums fill the Hot 100’s top 10. Drake also set a single-week record with 42 songs charting and became the first artist to surpass 400 career Hot 100 entries.

Riley Green and GMA’s Lara Spencer to host CMA Fest on ABC

May 27, 2026 by WDNY Radio

As CMA Fest prepares to take over downtown Nashville June 4-7, the Country Music Association and ABC have revealed the hosts and airdate for the annual three-hour special to follow.

Riley Green and Good Morning America‘s Lara Spencer will host the show, set to air Thursday, June 25, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. You’ll be able to stream it the next day on Hulu.

2026 marks 23 years of the ABC special and the 53rd year of CMA Fest, which was formerly known as Fan Fair.

Disney is the parent company of ABC, ABC News and Hulu.

Vermont passes Noah Kahan-supported ticket resale cap bill

May 27, 2026 by WDNY Radio

In Vermont, it’s the season of the tix. Specifically, tickets that can’t be sold for an exorbitant amount above their face value.

The governor of Noah Kahan’s home state of Vermont has signed bill H.512 into law, which caps the amount for which a ticket can be resold on the secondary market at 110 percent of its original price. The bill, which Kahan testified in support of, makes Vermont the only U.S. state to put a cap on secondary market ticket sales.

“What’s happening in Vermont is the first step toward what we believe is going to be a trend that continues,” Kahan’s manager, Drew Simmons, tells The Boston Globe. “I think it is foundational to shifting the economic landscape to be a healthier place for artists.”

Arguing against the bill, Brian Berry, who represents secondary market sites including StubHub and SeatGeek as the executive director of the Ticket Policy Forum, tells the Globe, “We are fundamentally opposed to arbitrary price caps.”

“We think this will not solve for concerns about higher cost tickets because people can sell them elsewhere,” Berry says.

Kahan will launch a U.S. tour in June in support of his new album, The Great Divide.

Listen to new Dexter and the Moonrocks song, ’12 Steps’

May 27, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Dexter and the Moonrocks have premiered a new song called “12 Steps,” which features the country rock band Treaty Oak Revival.

“We’ve always loved songs that toe the line between ‘is he talking about a woman or schedule 1 narcotics?’ So we decided, why not write one?” the “Sad in Carolina” outfit says in a statement. “Very excited we get to have a band like Treaty Oak Revival feature on this song. We’ve been massive fans of them forever, and it’s cool to represent Texas together.”

“12 Steps” follows Dexter’s single “Freakin’ Out,” which currently sits at #3 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart. “Freakin’ Out” is also the first Dexter song to chart on the all-genre Hot 100.

Dexter and the Moonrocks will launch a U.S. tour in June.

Taylor Swift sends guitars to little girl and her musician neighbor following viral TikTok

May 27, 2026 by WDNY Radio

You never know when Taylor Swift will see your Taylor Swift-centric content. That’s what parents in Ohio experienced after a TikTok video featuring their young daughter and one of their neighbors went viral.

In the TikTok, an 8-year-old girl named Madeline hears her musician neighbor playing guitar on his porch. She writes him a note on a paper airplane requesting that he play a Taylor Swift song and throws it into his yard. After the girl’s stepfather alerts the neighbor, Ethan Hayes, to the request, he plays “Love Story” as the little girl sings along while watching from her window.

The video quickly racked up millions of views — including one from Taylor.

As People reports, Taylor sent Madeline a guitar and a handwritten note, in which she told Madeline that she “brought the biggest smile to my face” with her request. She added, “I’m sending you your own guitar in case you ever want to learn too!”

Meanwhile, Taylor’s team contacted Ethan and told him a gift was headed his way, as well.

“They’re like, ‘Hey, Taylor saw your video. We want to send you something. Don’t tell anyone until it gets there,'” Ethan told People. “I was expecting maybe a signed poster or something. And then she sent us guitars, which is insane.”

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