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Eddie Murphy reveals his Netflix documentary started off as a standup special

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Eddie Murphy reflects on his 50-year career in his new documentary, Being Eddie, but that originally wasn’t his intention. Speaking to Extra, he reveals he had just wanted to document his return to standup.

“I was going to do standup again. … And it was like, ‘Okay, let’s document it. Let’s do a documentary and show the whole process of getting the act together,’” he says. “And so we started doing that and then the pandemic hit.”

“After the pandemic was over, I was like, ‘Oh, I’m not going out there and telling no jokes. You can catch COVID. … But we had all of this footage,” he continues. “And it was like let’s just keep it going.”

The timing, Eddie adds, “worked out perfect because this is about to be my 50th year in show business.”

Being Eddie finds Eddie opening up for the first time about his journey, which includes “the only thing that might have been traumatic” for him in his life: the death of his brother Charlie Murphy. The documentary also features appearances from Arsenio Hall, Jamie Foxx, Tracee Ellis Ross, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle, who discuss Eddie’s impact and influence in Hollywood.

“To know that you had some impact on the people that came after you that they look at you a certain way … that’s always a good feeling,” Eddie says, noting he’s open to returning to the stage as a standup comedian.

“If it ever struck me that I could have some fun doing it, I’d get up there and do it again,” he said. “But it has to be fun for me. … If I’m having fun, it’s going to work and it’s going to be funny.”

Being Eddie is now available on Netflix.

10 years ago, terrorists attacked Eagles of Death Metal concert in Paris

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the attack on the Bataclan venue in Paris during an Eagles of Death Metal concert.

On Nov. 13, 2015, terrorists stormed the venue in the middle of EODM’s set as part of a wider attack on the French capital that killed 130 people, 90 of whom were at the Bataclan.

The EODM members playing the show — frontman Jesse Hughes, guitarist Eden Galindo, drummer Julian Dorio and bassist Matt McJunkins — escaped, though the band’s merch manager, Nick Alexander, was among those killed. Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, who cofounded EODM with Hughes, was not playing the show.

The impact of the Bataclan attack reverberated throughout the music world: U2, who was set to perform in Paris for a live HBO concert broadcast the following day, canceled the special. Deftones, who were scheduled to play the Bataclan the next three nights and had members in attendance at the EODM concert, canceled their remaining European tour dates, as did Foo Fighters.

U2 would return to perform in Paris in December 2015, and invited EODM onstage during the second of two concerts in the city. The music world also rallied around the band by contributing covers of their song “I Love You All the Time.”

A documentary exploring the aftermath of the attacks and the friendship between Hughes and Homme, Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends), premiered in 2017.

“What happened 10 years ago was perhaps the worst thing that ever happened in my life,” Hughes says in a new statement to Rolling Stone. “I lost faith in almost everything, I lost my confidence, I lost my sanity. Through the help of U2, our fans, and most importantly the strength of the people of France, I have slowly rebuilt my reality.”

Sting bringing reworked musical ‘The Last Ship’ back to NYC — and he’s starring in it

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Sting‘s musical The Last Ship closed on Broadway in January of 2015, but now it’s sailing back to New York City — just a little further uptown.

A reworked version of the Tony-nominated musical, inspired by Sting’s own childhood in Wallsend, a shipbuilding town in the north of England, will play at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House for nine performances. The musical, running from June 9 to 14, 2026, features a new book and new and revised songs by Sting.

The former Police frontman will star in the production as shipyard foreman Jackie White, while his frequent musical collaborator Shaggy will also appear, playing the role of the ferryman.

Previewing the new production for reporters at the Met on Wednesday, Sting explained that as a kid, he watched “thousands of men” go to work in the shipyard each morning.

“It was dark. It was dangerous. It was noisy and I would think, as I kid, ‘Is this what I’m supposed to do when I grow up?'” he recalled. “So I did everything in my power to escape that destiny.”

But after he found success, Sting said, “I realized I had a debt to pay. And the debt was to my community, the community that made me who I am. And the debt would be paid in the form of a story: to tell a story about my community.”

On Wednesday, Sting performed several songs from the musical on the Met stage, accompanied by just guitar and piano. He will release an expanded edition of his 2013 album The Last Ship on Dec. 5. It includes five brand-new, never-released recordings.

Tickets for The Last Ship go on sale Nov. 13 at 12 p.m. ET at metopera.org/thelastship.

Meghan Trainor wrote new single after being ‘confused and sad’ about her socials’ ‘dark turn’

November 13, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Meghan Trainor‘s new single “Still Don’t Care” is her remedy for online hate, and now she wants her fans to believe it as much as she does.

Speaking to People, Meghan explained that she wrote the song after her socials were flooded with negative comments. “My page is usually a friendly, happy, mom-loving place, but it took a dark turn,” she says. “People started commenting about my body, saying I’m too thin, and that they don’t recognize me anymore. And I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve just been focusing so hard on my health and my fitness that I’ve never felt better.'”

“So, I was confused and sad and was like, ‘Oh, it’s almost worse now.’ I don’t know what happened,” says Meghan, who admits she would cry over the cruel comments.

However, she eventually learned in therapy to stop giving “strangers” so much “power” over her. In the song, she sings, “Oh, let me take a moment, think it over/ Does it touch me at all?/ Nope, I still don’t care.”

“I’m rewiring my brain to finally believe this. And I know when I sing it a hundred times, I will,” Meghan says of her upcoming tour. “So, I recommend playing the song every morning and learning every word and screaming it as loud as you can until you start believing it, because that’s what it takes. It takes a lot of work.”

“I believe in it so much and I love it so much,” Trainor says of the song. “I think it’s so important, especially now more than ever, the world’s a very dark, hateful place. If this is a little bit of light in the world, that’d be sick.”

“Still Don’t Care” is from Meghan’s upcoming album Toy With Me, due out April 24.

Roberta Flack biopic and documentary in the works

November 12, 2025 by WDNY Radio

A new biopic on legendary R&B singer Roberta Flack is in the works.

ABC Audio has confirmed that Good Morning America host Robin Roberts’ production company, Rock’n Robin Productions, has acquired the singer’s life rights for a biopic and a documentary on Flack’s life.

“We are thrilled to add Roberta Flack to the illustrious list of American icons whose stories have been told by Robin Roberts and Rock’n Robin Productions,” Suzanne Minka Koga and Joan Martin, co-artistic executors of the Roberta Flack Foundation, said in a statement. “Roberta was a devoted fan and friend of Robin’s and she considered her one of our greatest journalists who continues to inspire us with storytelling that exemplifies extraordinary courage and creativity.”

Flack, who passed away in February at the age of 88, is known for such chart-topping ’70s hits as “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” “Where is the Love” and “The Closer I Get to You.”

Flack won the Grammy for record of the year two years in a row, in 1973 for “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and in 1974 for “Killing Me Softly,” making her the first artist ever to do so. “Killing Me Softly” would go on to have renewed popularity in the ’90s, when the Fugees topped the charts with a cover of the song.

Seether premieres video for ‘The Surface Seems So Far’ track ‘Lost All Control’

November 12, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Seether has premiered the video for “Lost All Control,” the current single off the band’s latest album, The Surface Seems So Far.

The clip follows a mysterious figure as they walk through a desert while picking up and trying on different masks. You can watch it on YouTube.

The Surface Seems So Far was released in 2024. It also includes the lead single “Judas Mind,” which hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

Seether is currently on a U.S. co-headlining tour with Daughtry, which concludes Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Gigi Perez named Vevo’s 2025 DSCVR Artist of the Year

November 12, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Gigi Perez has been named Vevo’s 2025 DSCVR Artist of the Year.

The DSCVR series is an annual “hand-picked, highly curated selection of global artists who Vevo has tipped to break through to the mainstream.”

“Gigi Perez is the definition of what it means to be an artist on the rise,” says Vevo executive JP Evangelista. “With a sound that is bold yet vulnerable, storytelling that’s deeply authentic, and a stage presence that is simply unmatched, she perfectly embodies the next generation of artists that Vevo always loves to champion.”

Perez’s 2025 has included releasing and touring in support of her debut album, At The Beach, in Every Life, which includes her breakout single, “Sailor Song.” She also played shows opening for Hozier.

In celebration of her DSCVR Artist of the Year title, Perez has released a new acoustic performance video for her song “Fable.”

Vevo, meanwhile, has also announced its list of 2026 DSCVR Artists to Watch, which includes Royel Otis.

‘Pure light and soul’: Paula Abdul mourns former band member & ‘Kimmel’ bandleader Cleto Escobedo III

November 12, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t the only celebrity mourning bandleader and saxophonist Cleto Escobedo III.

Before Cleto became the leader of Cleto and the Cletones on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he toured the world with Paula Abdul. She shared a clip on Instagram that showed her performing her hit “Forever Your Girl” onstage with Escobedo and wrote, “My heart is heavy today as we say goodbye to the incredible Cleto Escobedo III.”

“I first met Cleto when he was playing sax in a small bar at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas,” she continues. “I was putting together my band for my first world tour and the moment I heard him, I knew I had to hire him, even though he didn’t have any touring experience yet.”

Paula goes on to say that Escobedo’s “talent and energy were undeniable,” and adds that he “went on to have an amazing career” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! She concludes, “Cleto was pure light and soul, both on and off stage. Sending so much love to his family and everyone who loved him.”

In his emotional monologue bidding farewell to Escobedo, who died Tuesday at age 59, Kimmel showed the same clip that Paula posted and commented on his late pal’s long, curly, Kenny G-like hair, “We never stopped making fun of that hairstyle.”

Music Notes: Coco Jones and Mariah the Scientist, Clipse and more

November 12, 2025 by WDNY Radio

Coco Jones and Mariah the Scientist will perform their holiday songs at The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular. Coco will sing “Silent Night,” while Mariah will perform her rendition of “Santa Baby.” The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular will air Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

Clipse released the official music video for “F.I.C.O.,” from their Grammy-nominated album Let God Sort Em Out. The video finds Pusha T and Malice rapping from various parts of an empty apartment and the back of a car that’s making its way through New York City on a rainy day.

Cardi B took on the role of meteorologist Tuesday when she wrote on X, “Looks like there is a 100 percent chance of snow tomorrow at 12pm est.” Jeezy reshared the post alongside the snowman emoji. It was all a tease for their new collaboration, “ErrTime.” The track arrives as part of Am I the Drama? (The Snow Mix), which features the original version of “ErrTime,” the Jeezy version, the Latto version, and one with both Jeezy and Latto. “It’s time to make the club fun again,” Cardi wrote.

Shaggy and Sean Paul are headlining the upcoming Jamaica Strong benefit concert, which aims to raise money for those affected by Hurricane Melissa. It will take place Dec. 12 at New York’s UBS Arena and will feature performances by KES, Chronic Law, Inner Circle, T.O.K. and more. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday.

Bryan Adams photo exhibit to open in LA in November

November 12, 2025 by WDNY Radio

When he isn’t being a rock star and touring the world, Bryan Adams is also an acclaimed photographer, and you’ll be able to see his work in LA.

Adams’ latest photography exhibition, #SHOTBYADAMS, will open at the Leica Store & Gallery Los Angeles Nov. 17 and run through Dec. 1. It’s the first time the show has been staged in the U.S. Among the highlights are Adams’ photos of a smiling Queen Elizabeth II and the late Amy Winehouse, but there are other photos of notable people, as well.

The pictures are black-and-white, color and silver gelatine prints under colored plexiglass. Bryan says in a statement, “In #SHOTBYADAMS, I explore the human experience through light, composition, and authenticity. Photography, for me, is about trust and connection — it’s about capturing what exists between the subject and the lens in a single, unguarded moment.”

Adams, who inducted Joe Cocker into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday and also performed as part of Bad Company‘s induction, is on tour in the U.S. with Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo through Nov. 26.

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