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In brief: ‘The Nanny Diaries’ TV series headed to Netflix and more

April 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Scarlett Johansson is set to executive produce a TV adaptation of her film The Nanny Diaries. Deadline reports that Netflix is developing a series based on the film adaptation of Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus’ book of the same name. Johansson starred as the titular nanny Annie alongside Laura Dern, Paul Giamatti, Alicia Keys and Chris Evans in the 2007 film …

Don’t miss the moment that The Moment makes its streaming debut. The A24 film will arrive to HBO Max on May 29. It will make its HBO linear debut on May 30. Charli XCX stars in the movie that is also based on her original idea. Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Jamie Demetriou, Hailey Benton Gates, Isaac Powell, Rish Shah and Alexander Skarsgård also star …

It seems many people have been watching Euphoria season 3. Variety reports that the second episode of the third season of HBO’s drama series hit 8.5 million viewers across both HBO and HBO Max in its first three days, according to numbers measured by Warner Bros. Discovery. This matches the viewership of the season 3 premiere …

If you think Maryland’s not country, Jackson Dean’s ready to ‘Make a Liar’ of you

April 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Jackson Dean’s third album, Magnolia Sage, paints a picture of two different parts of the country.

The Magnolia half represents the Southeast and the East Coast, while Sage is oriented toward the West.

So where does the “Heaven’s to Betsy” hitmaker fall on the map?

“I was born and raised about 20 minutes outside of Annapolis, Maryland,” Jackson explains. “The town I grew up in is called Odenton. You’ve got a whole bunch of corn fields and you’ve got a whole bunch of crabs. The only thing city about Maryland is Baltimore and D.C.”

If you’re still wondering where he gets his country cred, Jackson points to his father.

“My dad was big into the blues and funk, but at heart he was [into] old country and stuff,” he says. “So, that’s where that part of it came in, you know.”

“I was born on a dead-end street with a gun range at the end of it that backed up to a swamp. And I spent more time in there than I did with people. So, that’s where that comes from,” he adds.

Magnolia Sage is out now, featuring Jackson’s latest hit, “Make a Liar.”

Stephen Sanchez says new tour will be ‘a celebration of love, for sure’

April 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Stephen Sanchez, best known for his hit “Until I Found You,” will release his sophomore album, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, on May 8, and he says that’s the theme of his tour, launching in Paris on Saturday.

Stephen’s first album, Angel Face, was a retro-sounding concept album, while LOVE, LOVE, LOVE is more of a straight-ahead pop album with some retro flavors. On tour, he says there will be no problem mixing those two sounds. “Overall, like when we play our live show, it’s not something that feels terribly similar to the record,” he explains.

“You know, we usually try and make it feel a bit bigger. Like … this is the record sound and this is the show sound. And so I think it’s easy for us to be able to kind of put these worlds together, you know album one and album two. It’s gonna be exciting and lots of lights and colors, and just a celebration of love for sure.”

While all of Stephen’s music has been well received, his retro sound, which you can hear in his latest single “Sweet Love,” may be the reason for his global audience.

“I hear a lot that it just feels accessible to anybody. It doesn’t feel like it leaves anybody out,” he tells ABC Audio.

“People will come up and be like, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m in high school and I listen to it, or my brother who’s in college listens to it or our grandma loves it,'” he adds. “Hearing stuff like that makes me feel really good because, it feels like we’re actually getting to be a part of the world as a whole, and not just like a piece of it.”

In March, Stephen told a fan on Instagram that U.S. tour dates would be coming “soon.”

Hit play on new Foo Fighters album, ’Your Favorite Toy’

April 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

No need to ask a friend, we can tell you that the new Foo Fighters album is here.

Your Favorite Toy, the 12th studio effort from the “Everlong” outfit, is out now. It’s the follow-up to 2023’s But Here We Are, and arrives after a couple tumultuous years for Dave Grohl and company.

In September 2024, Grohl shared that he’d fathered a child outside his marriage, and the Foos canceled their remaining scheduled show. Then in May 2025, drummer Josh Freese, who’d joined Foo Fighters in 2023 following the 2022 death of Taylor Hawkins, announced that he’d been fired from the band.

The Foos officially reemerged in July 2025 with the single “Today’s Song.” They returned to the live stage in September 2025, which marked the debut of their new drummer, Ilan Rubin, formerly of Nine Inch Nails.

Another new song, “Asking for a Friend,” arrived in October 2025, before the Foos finally announced Your Favorite Toy in February and released its shouty title track. Two more songs, “Caught in the Echo” and “Of All People,” followed.

In addition to working through the tumult in new music, Grohl says he started going to therapy.

“I’ve been in therapy six days a week for 70 weeks,” Grohl told The Guardian in an interview published in March. “I did the math the other day: over 430 sessions.”

Foo Fighters will celebrate the arrival of Your Favorite Toy on Saturday with a performance on Saturday Night Live UK. They will play a one-off show in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on April 28, followed by headlining sets at the Welcome to Rockville and BottleRock Napa festivals in May. They’ll launch a full North American stadium tour in August.

It’s a ‘Beautiful Day’ for Akon, who has just dropped his brand-new album

April 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Cover art for Akon’s ‘Beautiful Day’ album (Konvict Kulture)

It’s a Beautiful Day, as Akon has just released his new studio album. It marks his first full-length project since 2008, though he’s continued to drop music over the years.

“Before I was just doing it to feed the passion,” he tells ABC Audio. “I had so much other stuff going on.” But he says music was something he “couldn’t let go of.”

Now, with more time on his hands, Akon felt ready to fully return to music.

He says, “Things are freed up and on cruise control to the point where now I can go back to the passion and have fun back doing music again.”

The result is Beautiful Day, a genre- and culture-blending project that dives deeper into international sounds than he’s ever done before.

“I was sneakin’ it in there. The labels, I had to fight them to put it on,” he says of past music. “Now, I’m like my own label, own distribution, my own mind, own decisions, and I can freely do what I wanna do and how I wanna to do it.”

Like its lead single, the album reflects gratitude and a new outlook on life.

“I think there’s so much that’s going on in your life that we discount,” Akon says. “We’re so always focused on all the negative things because … they hit you a little harder. … So you find yourself spending more time and attention dealing with those things than you do about all the beautiful things around you that you should be grateful for.”

With age and experience, Akon’s mindset has shifted. He describes the album as a reflection of his growth, and understanding “how everything that happens in your life is supposed to happen.”

“The moment you embrace it all, all your worries, stress … goes away and every day becomes a beautiful day,” Akon says.

More like Cyn City: Cyndi Lauper starts Las Vegas residency

April 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want to Have Fun Farewell Tour ended in August 2025, but on Friday she’ll be back onstage — in Las Vegas.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is kicking off her first Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. So far, it consists of five dates: April 24, 25 and 29, and May 1 and 2.

Cyndi initially described the show as “an opportunity for fans who missed my Farewell Tour to celebrate one last time.” However, at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in November, she told KABC-TV that she’s hoping to do some things that she wasn’t able to do when she was appearing in a different city every night.

“It’s an opportunity, because in Vegas they have all this new technology, and you can do art and music together,” she explained. “And I have this wonderful creative director that I’ve been working with, and we’re kind of like scientists sometimes, and I’m so excited about that.”

In addition to Vegas, Cyndi has one other performance on her schedule. She’s performing at the Rock In Rio – Lisbon festival in Portugal June 27, where she’ll share a bill with her former tour mate Rod Stewart, as well as Guns N’ Roses, 4 Non Blondes and more.

Ringo Starr takes a journey on the ‘Long Long Road’ with new album

April 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Ringo Starr’s new album, Long Long Road, which has roots in country and Americana, is out today.

It’s the second straight album he’s done with producer T Bone Burnett. At a recent listening party in Los Angeles, Ringo said Burnett made making the album easy, noting, “There’s a lot of great players in Nashville, and he knows most of them.”

Ringo said Burnett would send him “tracks with some meat on” them, and he would send back his drum and singing parts. Then Burnett would “complete the deal,” which Ringo describes as “a great way of working.”

And it was just as easy for Burnett, who said he’s been listening to Ringo play drums for so long that “his feel is in my DNA at this point. It’s in my cells, you know.”

“I’ve always thought of him as a Texas musician because he played so Texas,” he added. “He’s the swinginest drummer in the history of the United Kingdom. I can tell you that.”

Ringo said the title of the album represents “the road I’ve taken,” adding, “You know all of those stop marks on your walk of life, it’s so far out.”

He said that the title track “is me going through my things about my life.” And while he said some of it may have been bad, most of it wasn’t.

“I’ve been a lucky human being,” he said. “I got to do what I love to do.”

Long Long Road is the follow-up to Ringo’s 2025 country-inspired album, Look Up. It features guest appearances by Sheryl Crow, St. Vincent, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle and Sarah Jarosz.

‘Euphoria’ star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on the ‘roller-coaster ride’ of season 3

April 24, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Euphoria is so back.

Sam Levinson’s drama series has finally returned for season 3. Now that we’re two episodes into the third season, viewers are situated in the time jump and have met the many new characters who become part of Rue, Cassie, Nate, Maddy and Jules’ journey.

One of those new characters is Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje [ah’-duh-WAH-lay ah’-kuh-NO-yay ag-BAH-zhay]‘s Alamo, who is Rue’s (Zendaya) new boss. He spoke to ABC Audio about what it was like to join the series in its third season.

“It was really exciting to be invited and to be a part of the journey of Euphoria,” Akinnuoye-Agbaje said. “These performances of this young cast — Zendaya, Alexa Demie, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi — they were some of the most powerful performances I’ve seen on TV in many years. So the bar was set really high. And I was just happy to come on board and try to be a part of raising that bar.”

Akinnuoye-Agbaje continued, saying fans will be “taken on a roller-coaster ride” over the course of the season.

“We follow these characters that they’ve [grown] to love in high school into the real world and see the cost of some of the choices that they make dabbling on the wrong side of the law, which is the realm in which Alamo lives,” Akinnuoye-Agbaje says.

Above all else, Akinnuoye-Agbaje says season 3 continues to put a spotlight on one of the show’s main themes.

“Most importantly, I think the subject matter that it addresses in this season, as it did in the previous ones, [is] the drug use and the impact of fentanyl on the younger generation,” Akinnuoye-Agbaje said. “It really does spotlight and highlight it in a real way, and I was happy to see that and be a part of that.”

New episodes of Euphoria air Sundays on HBO.

Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka announces new signature guitar with Gibson

April 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka has announced a new signature guitar with Gibson.

The Jake Kiszka SG Standard is inspired by Kiszka’s own beloved 1961 SG.

“The ’61, this particular model, has defined me as a player, and I think I’ve defined it in return,” Kiszka says in a statement.

You can watch Kiszka rock his signature guitar in a video for Gibson, now on YouTube. He’ll also be celebrating the launch with a Q&A event Thursday at the Gibson Garage in Nashville.

The Jake Kiszka SG Standard is on sale for $2,499. For more info, visit Gibson.com.

Greta Van Fleet’s most recent album is 2023’s Starcatcher. Kiszka has since launched a side project called Mirador, which released their debut album in 2025.

Final season of ‘The Chi’ to premiere in May

April 23, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Lena Waithe has announced the release date for the eighth and final season of The Chi. She shared the news with a video teasing what’s to come.

The clip features flashback moments of characters like Tiffany, Victor and Jake, blending scenes from earlier seasons with that of season 8. “Life comes at you fast whether you’re ready for it or not,” says a voice-over. “Everything has to come to an end.”

According to the official logline, season 8 will see The Chi enter its “coldest winter ever,” where “life or death choices must be made.” It adds, “The question becomes, who is willing to make them? Legacy, conflict, joy, and pain. It all collides in the biggest, most emotionally riveting way ever seen this season.”

The series, which premiered in 2018, stars Jacob Latimore, Birgundi Baker, Luke James, Shamon Brown Jr., Michael V. Epps, Hannaha Hall and Jason Weaver. It centers on a group of residents from Chicago’s South Side whose lives become linked through coincidences, tragedy, and a desire for community and redemption.

Lena previously told Deadline that creating the show was “about owning our narratives and telling our stories with truth, care, nuance and complexity. It was about showing the soul of the South Side — the beauty, the pain, the grit, and the magic that lives in every block, and in every family.”

She said the decision to wrap things up came “after much reflection.”

“I know, for the sake of our story and our characters, it’s the right thing,” she told Deadline. “I am committed to delivering a final season that our Chi Family deserves.”

Season 8 of The Chi will premiere May 22 on Paramount+ with the Premium Plan.

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