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Elon Musk joined Trump’s call with Zelenskyy: Sources

November 8, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — Billionaire Elon Musk joined President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the call told ABC News.

Musk was at Mar-a-Lago with Trump on election night as well as the day after, as previously reported by ABC News. Musk’s involvement in the call further highlights his influence in the upcoming administration.

Musk, the world’s richest person, had a profound impact on Trump’s campaign including a multi-billion dollar door-knocking operation, a social media megaphone and a $1 million sweepstakes for battleground voters.

Zelenskyy wrote on social media that he had an “excellent” call with Trump, but made no mention of Musk.

“I had an excellent call with President Trump and congratulated him on his historic landslide victory — his tremendous campaign made this result possible,” Zelenskyy wrote on X.

The call happened as Zelenskyy seeks to shore up long-term American military and financial support in its war with Russia.

On the campaign trail, Trump has often boasted that he would be able to stop the war in Ukraine, though he has yet to provide specifics as to how, often showing a willingness to work with both sides.

As of now, Musk is expected to return to Mar-a-Lago next week, but plans remain in flux, per sources familiar with the plans.

Jelly Roll, Chris Stapleton, Lainey Wilson, Post Malone + more earn 2025 Grammy nominations

November 8, 2024 by WDNY Radio

The Recording Academy announced its nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards Friday, and Chris Stapleton, Morgan Wallen, Post Malone, Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll and Beyoncé are a few country stars who scored nods.

Country music was also represented in several all-genre categories, with Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” getting nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year, Cowboy Carter earning an Album of the Year nod, and Shaboozey and “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” scoring Best New Artist and Song of the Year nominations.

The 2025 Grammy Awards will take place Feb. 2 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The ceremony will air live on CBS and stream on Paramount+.

Best Country Album
Higher – Chris Stapleton
Whirlwind – Lainey Wilson
F-1 Trillion – Post Malone
Cowboy Carter – Beyoncé
Deeper Well – Kacey Musgraves

Best Country Song
“I Had Some Help” – Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen
“I Am Not Okay” – Jelly Roll
“Texas Hold ’Em” – Beyoncé
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – Shaboozey
“The Architect” – Kacey Musgraves

Best Country Solo Performance
“It Takes a Woman” – Chris Stapleton
“I Am Not Okay” – Jelly Roll
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – Shaboozey
“16 Carriages” – Beyoncé
“The Architect” – Kacey Musgraves

Best Country Duo/Group Performance
“I Had Some Help” – Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen
“Break Mine” – Brothers Osborne
“Bigger Houses” – Dan + Shay
“II Most Wanted” – Beyoncé & Miley Cyrus
“Cowboys Cry Too” – Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan

Best Americana Album
No One Gets Out Alive – Maggie Rose
$10 Cowboy – Charley Crockett
The Other Side – T Bone Burnett
Trail Of Flowers – Sierra Ferrell
Polaroid Lovers – Sarah Jarosz
Tigers Blood – Waxahatchee

Album of the Year
Cowboy Carter – Beyoncé
Short n’ Sweet – Sabrina Carpenter
Hit Me Hard and Soft – Billie Eilish
New Blue Sun – André 3000
Brat – Charli XCX
Djesse Vol. 4 – Jacob Collier

Song of the Year
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – Shaboozey
“Texas Hold ‘Em” – Beyoncé
“Fortnight” – Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone
“Birds of a Feather” – Billie Eilish
“Good Luck, Babe!” – Chappell Roan
“Not Like Us” – Kendrick Lamar
“Die With a Smile” – Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
“Please Please Please” – Sabrina Carpenter

Record of the Year
“Texas Hold ‘Em” – Beyoncé
“Fortnight” – Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone
“Now And Then” – The Beatles
“Espresso” – Sabrina Carpenter
“Good Luck, Babe!” – Chappell Roan
“Birds of a Feather” – Billie Eilish
“360” – Charli XCX
“Not Like Us” – Kendrick Lamar

Best New Artist
Shaboozey
Benson Boone
Teddy Swims
Sabrina Carpenter
Chappell Roan
RAYE
Khruangbin
Doechii

Green Day, Pearl Jam & more nominated for 2025 Grammys

November 8, 2024 by WDNY Radio

The nominations for the 2025 Grammys were announced Friday. Here’s who’s nominated in the rock categories:

Best Rock Album:
Pearl Jam — Dark Matter
The Rolling Stones — Hackney Diamonds
Green Day — Saviors
Jack White — No Name
The Black Crowes — Happiness Bastards
Fontaines D.C. — Romance
IDLES — TANGK

Best Rock Song:
The Black Keys — “Beautiful People (Stay High)”
St. Vincent — “Broken Man”
Pearl Jam — “Dark Matter”
Green Day — “Dilemma”
IDLES — “Gift Horse”

Best Rock Performance:
The Beatles — “Now and Then”
The Black Keys — “Beautiful People (Stay High)”
Green Day — “The American Dream Is Killing Me”
IDLES — “Gift Horse”
Pearl Jam — “Dark Matter”
St. Vincent — “Broken Man”

Best Alternative Music Performance:
Cage the Elephant — “Neon Pill”
St. Vincent — “Flea”
Fontaines D.C. — “Starburster”
Kim Gordon — “Bye Bye”
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — “Song of the Lake”

Best Alternative Music Album:
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Wild God
Clairo — Charm
Kim Gordon — The Collective
Brittany Howard — What Now
St. Vincent — All Born Screaming

Best Metal Performance:
Gojira, Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne — “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)”
Judas Priest — “Crown of Thorns”
Knocked Loose feat. Poppy — “Suffocate”
Metallica — “Screaming Suicide”
Spiritbox — “Cellar Door”

In the big four main categories, Billie Eilish‘s “Birds of a Feather” was nominated for Song and Record of the Year, while her album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT is up for Album of the Year. Record of the Year also includes what’s called the final Beatles song, “Now and Then.”

Also nominated are Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross‘ Challengers soundtrack for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.

The 2025 Grammys will air live from Los Angeles Feb. 2 on CBS and Paramount+.

Sting, upcoming mega mentor on ‘The Voice,’ has never watched the show

November 8, 2024 by WDNY Radio

Sting was recently announced as a mega mentor for the Knockout Rounds of NBC’s The Voice, where he’ll advise Snoop Dogg and Gwen Stefani‘s teams. But he tells People he wasn’t sure about accepting the gig, since he’d never watched the show before.

“I’d never seen The Voice,” he tells People. “When I was given the premise of the show, I was a little bit anxious, but I know Gwen very well. I’m a big admirer of Snoop Dogg, and so I thought, I’m going to take a risk. I’m going to go on the show even though I’m a little trepidatious.”

But he says once he got into it, he found coaching the contestants to be “nourishing and joyful.”

He says, “I really feel good about the show. I feel good about myself, and I feel good about the young singers who are putting themselves through this ordeal. It is an ordeal, but I’ve loved it so far.”

Sting had a unique perspective, given that he was a teacher before he became a rock superstar.

“In teaching, there’s no such thing as teaching, actually. What happens in a classroom is learning and people learn through enthusiasm,” he says. “A teacher’s job is just to be enthusiastic, show appreciation, curiosity. And that’s your job here [on The Voice].”

Sting also welcomed the opportunity to work with Stefani. The two first met when she was a 13-year-old Police fan. In 2003 they played the Super Bowl halftime show together, and she inducted The Police into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame that same year.

“I’m so impressed by her ability to communicate with the singers so succinctly and so intelligently, so compassionately,” he notes. As for Snoop, Sting worked with the rapper on his upcoming solo album, Missionary.

Fake guns found at home of 13-year-old who allegedly planned to scare students at elementary school: Police

November 8, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(KENOSHA, Wis.) — Several replica guns have been recovered from the home of a 13-year-old who allegedly planned to scare students at a Wisconsin elementary school, but was stopped from entering the building, according to police.

The 13-year-old tried to enter his former school, Roosevelt Elementary School, around 9 a.m. Thursday, carrying a backpack and duffel bag, Kenosha police said.

The teen attempted to enter through other doors, but was not able to get in, Kenosha Unified School District Superintendent Jeffrey Weiss told reporters. He then approached the front entrance and was buzzed into a vestibule area. Two school employees confronted the student, who got nervous and then fled, Weiss said.

The suspect, who was taken into custody at his home on Thursday, has been charged with one count of terroristic threats, Kenosha police said.

In a search at the suspect’s home, police said they discovered several air soft replica handguns and a replica rifle.

No real guns were found, police said, and the suspect’s mother told authorities the teen doesn’t have access to guns.

The suspect told police he went to the school that day to sell candy, police said. The teen “later told a social worker that he went to the school with the intent to scare students,” police said in a statement.

The teen is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday, police said.

Police said the suspect looked up school shootings online and made comments to fellow students for weeks leading up to the incident.

“We narrowly missed a tragedy,” Kenosha Police Chief Patrick Patton told reporters at a news conference on Thursday, before police determined the guns were not real.

“I can’t stress … really how heroic our office staff was,” Weiss said, adding, “They helped avert a disaster.”

Kenosha is located about 40 miles south of Milwaukee.

ABC News’ Doug Lantz contributed to this report.

Chappell Roan on her pop star persona: ‘Chappell is a character’

November 8, 2024 by WDNY Radio

Chappell Roan wants you to know that Chappell Roan is a character.

While in conversation with Brandi Carlile at the Grammy Museum in LA on Thursday, Chappell talked about how she, born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, created a pop star persona for herself.

“Chappell is a character,” she said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I just can’t be here all the time. It’s just too much.”

She also talked about how her mental health routine has changed due to her success.

“This type of year does something to people. Every big thing that happens in someone’s career happened in five months for me,” Chappell said. “It’s so crazy that things I never thought would happen happened times 10. I think that that just really rocked my system. I don’t know what a good mental health routine looks like for me right now.”

That rapid success has gained her many new fans, including Saoirse Ronan. While guesting on The Tonight Show on Thursday, the actress told Jimmy Fallon she was starstruck when she met Chappell.

The encounter happened while she was backstage at one of Chappell’s concerts alongside fellow actress Brie Larson. Someone asked if they wanted to meet Chappell’s parents.

“We were like, ‘No! You’ve got to play it cool,’” Saoirse said. “‘We can’t, like, let her know we love her as much as we do. We have to be aloof and cool.’”

The pair eventually ended up chatting, and Chappell told Saoirse she thinks they look similar.

“She’s just incredible,” Saoirse said. “I love how she’s spoken out about the insane treatment that famous people get.”

Harris campaign leadership urges staffers not to speak with reporters: Sources

November 8, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — During an all-staff call earlier this week, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign leadership urged staffers not to speak with reporters and addressed concerns about the future after her loss to Donald Trump in the election, two people on the call told ABC News.

Campaign Chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon and Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks implored staffers not to speak with reporters, with Fulks saying they still needed staffers “staying in this fight.”

One source noted that the call gave the same “gaslighty” feeling they received after President Joe Biden left the race in July. In an all-staff call following Biden’s departure from the race, staffers were caught off guard and were only given a one-minute heads up that he was exiting the race before he made it public.

ABC News has reached out to the Harris campaign for comment on the matter.

The call, which was shared more widely on Thursday, was a recording from an initial call that the campaign held on Wednesday following Harris’ concession speech at Howard University.

During the call, O’Malley Dillon told staffers that they ran a “very close” race. She said that state teams knocked on more than 50 million doors in the final days before Election Day and their field operation helped the Senate races in those states. O’Malley Dillon teared up toward the end of the call, a source confirmed.

Harris spoke on that call, noting that this moment “sucks,” a source told ABC News.

“We all just speak truth, why don’t we, right? There’s also so much good that has come of this campaign,” Harris said, according to the source.

Harris had a hopeful tone in her message to supporters at Howard on Wednesday, too, saying “sometimes the fight takes a while. … The important thing is don’t ever give up.”

During the call, leadership spoke about the next general steps for staffers and connecting with people for their next jobs.

Both sources noted how shocked they still felt about the loss, particularly with how wide the margins were in the battleground states.

Both sources said the moment on “The View” when the vice president wasn’t able to differentiate herself from Biden as a moment the entire campaign felt was a big mistake.

Last month on the show, when asked what she would have done differently than Biden over the last four years, Harris said, “there is not a thing that comes to mind,” before citing, much later in the interview, her pledge to put a Republican in her Cabinet.

On This Day, Nov. 8, 1971: Led Zeppelin released their fourth studio album

November 8, 2024 by WDNY Radio

On This Day, Nov. 8, 1971 …

Led Zeppelin released their fourth studio album, which became known as Led Zeppelin IV.

The album featured what became their signature tune, “Stairway to Heaven,” along with such future classics as “Going to California,” “The Battle of Evermore,” “When the Levee Breaks” and “Rock and Roll.”

The album went to #1 in Britain and Canada, and peaked at #2 in the U.S. It is Led Zeppelin’s bestselling album, moving over 37 million copies worldwide.

Led Zeppelin IV is often included on lists of the greatest albums of all time. In 1999 it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Rashida Jones honors dad Quincy Jones with heartfelt tribute: ‘He was love’

November 8, 2024 by WDNY Radio

Rashida Jones is remembering her late father, famed music producer Quincy Jones, in the wake of his death.

The Parks and Recreation alum, 48, shared a photo of her and her father from when she was a baby to Instagram on Nov. 7 and recalled a sweet memory from her childhood.

“My dad was nocturnal his whole adult life. He kept ‘jazz hours’ starting in high school and never looked back,” she began. “When I was little, I would wake up in the middle of the night to search for him. Undoubtedly, he would be somewhere in the house, composing (old school, with a pen and sheet music). He would never send me back to bed.”

“He would smile and bring me into his arms while he continued to work…there was no safer place in the world for me,” she continued.

Rashida Jones, who co-directed and co-wrote the 2018 documentary Quincy about her father, called him “a giant,” “an icon,” “a culture shifter” and “a genius,” adding that music and all he created were “a channel for his love.”

“He WAS love. He made everyone he ever met feel loved and seen. That’s his legacy,” she wrote. “I was fortunate enough to experience this love in close proximity. I’ll miss his hugs and kisses and unconditional devotion and advice.”

She added, “Daddy, it is an honor to be your daughter. Your love lives forever.”

Quincy Jones was dad to seven children during his lifetime, sharing Rashida Jones with ex-wife Peggy Lipton. He died Nov. 3 at the age of 91.

Lipton, an actress and singer, died in 2019 at the age of 72.

Wildfires erupt in New Jersey, fueled by dry, windy conditions

November 8, 2024 by WDNY Radio

(NEW JERSEY) — Multiple wildfires have erupted across New Jersey amid windy and dry conditions

A large brush fire broke out on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Bergen County in northern New Jersey, near New York City. The fire covers 19 acres and is 30% contained, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said. No structures are threatened.

On Friday, “conditions will be extremely dangerous for more brush fires and rapid fire spread,” the Englewood Fire Department warned.

New York City Emergency Management said New Yorkers may smell smoke on Friday.

Another wildfire is threatening over 100 structures in Burlington and Camden counties in southern New Jersey, outside of Philadelphia. The blaze spans 360 acres and is 75% contained, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said.

In Jackson Township, in central New Jersey, the Shotgun Wildfire has burned through 350 acres and is 80% contained, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said. No structures are threatened.

A fourth fire, the Pheasant Run Wildfire, covered 133 acres in the Glassboro Wildlife Management Area, a wildlife park in southern New Jersey. It’s 50% contained and isn’t threatening any structures.

Fire danger has increased in the Northeast due to the combination of a historically dry fall, gusty winds near 30 mph and relative humidity down to 25%. A red flag warning has been issued from Boston to New York City and Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.

Meanwhile, on the West Coast, the Mountain Fire in Southern California has exploded in size, blazing through 20,000 acres, destroying homes and prompting mass evacuations.

ABC News’ Max Golembo contributed to this report.

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