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Selena Gomez is still coming off the high of being invited to Britney Spears‘ wedding and that she was able to hang out with fellow guests Madonna, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton and fashion icon Donatella Versace.

Appearing alongside her Only Murders in the Building co-stars Martin Short and Steve Martin on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Selena spoke about the incredible event.

“I am really happy for her!  It was beautiful,” Selena praised as Kimmel held up a photo of her posing with Britney, Madonna, Drew, Paris and Versace.   Of course, Kimmel wasn’t concerned about Britney’s famous guests — he instead was more curious if the wedding had good food and fun events.

“What am I supposed to do with this? I don’t know,” Selena giggled, but said she was “under oath” not to give anything away.

Thankfully, Short redirected the conversation for Selena to rave about the impressive guest list — especially Madonna.  “Here’s the thing about Madonna.  She is 63 years of age and she has a boyfriend who is 28 years of age.  She is trying to see how many times 28 goes into 63,” he joked, which earned him a rim shot from Kimmel’s band.

Britney tied the knot with Sam Asghari in an intimate ceremony earlier this month, nine months after announcing their engagement.

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Tim McGraw wears many hats — country superstar and starring actor on the Yellowstone prequel 1883, for two — but none is more important than the title he has at home: Proud dad.

Tim and his fellow country superstar wife, Faith Hill, are parents to three adult daughters — Gracie, Maggie and Audrey — and in an interview with his record label ahead of Father’s Day, the singer says he couldn’t be prouder of the people they’ve grown up to become.

“They’re all completely different creatures,” he reflects. “But they all have big hearts, and they are all very polite and they really respect people, and they all feel like they wanna make a difference in the world. Hopefully we’ve instilled that into them.”

Though all three of his girls are their own unique people, Tim says that he and Faith can see the family resemblance in all three daughters.

“It’s funny because Faith and I have talked about that a little bit, and I think we see each other in all three of ‘em,” he says. “There’s little parts of us in all three of ‘em.”

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Surprise! Drake‘s seventh studio album Honestly, Nevermind is here!

The Canadian rapper released the project at midnight Friday, just hours after he announced it in an Instagram post Thursday evening. 

Alongside a shot of the album’s artwork, Drake wrote, “7th studio album, “HONESTLY, NEVERMIND” out at midnight.”

Shortly after, the 35-year-old shared the tracklist. The album, which was co-produced by the “Way 2 Sexy” rapper, his longtime collaborator Noah “40” Shebib, his manager Oliver El-Khatib, Noel Cadastre, and Black Coffee, features a total of 14 songs, with only one feature from 21 Savage on the album’s final track titled “Jimmy Cooks.” 

Honestly, Nevermind is the follow up to Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, which dropped less than a year ago in September 2021. 

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Could there be a Wolf Alice and Hayley Williams collaboration brewing?

During the latest episode of her Everything Is Emo BBC Sounds radio show, the Paramore singer shared her love for the English rockers after playing their Blue Weekend song “How Can I Make It OK?”

“I cannot imagine Ellie [Rowsell‘s] voice live,” Williams said of the Wolf Alice frontwoman. “It is insane on the album. And you just can’t fake that.”

Williams then added, “Ellie, I wanna sing with you, so bad.”

When news of Williams’ comments reached Wolf Alice thanks to a fan on Twitter, Rowsell replied, “I would sing with u any day queen,” alongside a heart emoji.

While you wait for a possible collaboration to materialize, you can catch Wolf Alice playing U.S. shows next week opening for Bleachers and Halsey. They’ll launch their own North American headlining tour in September.

Paramore, meanwhile, will make their return to the live stage for the first time in four years in October at the Austin City Limits and When We Were Young festivals.

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Keith Urban’s currently looking ahead to his big return to the road: His The Speed of Now Tour launches this month.

The live show veteran has played all over the place, and his current tour will traverse the U.S. and make a few stops in Canada and his native Australia. But the absolute craziest crowd he’s ever played to? It’s gotta be the UK, he tells ET Online.

“All of the UK. Every single show,” Keith reveals. “It’s like a soccer final. It is insane.”

Keith’s hoping to keep the energy high in every city he goes to, and over the years, he’s learned that it’s important to take breaks in between shows if you want to keep the energy up.

“I’m lucky where I can do a few shows and then come home for a few days. I structured the tour where I can do that,” he continues. “…It also keeps the shows fresh. ‘Cause I’ve been to plenty of shows where you can tell, ‘That person probably needs to take a break.’”

To find a stop on Keith’s The Speed of Now Tour near you, head over to his tour calendar.

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Bonnaroo has finally returned, and Judah & the Lion is ready to jam again.

The “Take It All Back” outfit is set to perform at the Tennessee festival — which is back this year after being canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic and weather, respectively — this Saturday. The set will essentially be a hometown show for the Nashville-based band, and they plan to celebrate accordingly.

“We’re going all out on the production,” frontman Judah Akers tells ABC Audio.

This year marks Judah & the Lion’s second performance at Bonnaroo, following their debut in 2016. However, they have a long history of attending the festival as fans.

“When we were in college, we would go and camp for the four days,” Akers shares. “We just love that festival a lot.”

The Bonnaroo set will also give Judah a chance to play songs off their new album, Revival, which dropped last Friday. Perhaps they’ll bring out the single “Scream!”, which, ironically, doesn’t have any screaming on it. Instead, Akers merely whispers the word “scream” on the song.

“We talked about it, ’cause I scream a lot on certain songs,” Akers explains. “When we were talking about, [we thought] it feels like the fans should be the ones to do it.”

Playing “Scream!” live, Akers thinks, will be an opportune time to let the crowd let their emotions fly.

“We wanted to subtly play at that whisper that we did on the track,” Akers says. “But we’re hoping that the fans gravitate [to it] live and will take over that spot.”

Even if you’re not going to Bonnaroo this year, you can still “Scream!” along to Judah & the Lion’s set, which will air via Hulu’s livestream of the festival.

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Xernona Clayton‘s entrance onto the blue carpet of the 2022 Trumpet Awards in April was quiet but grand, similar to her humble recollection of the history-rich 91 years of her life. Though welcoming of questions about her mission as the creator of the Black awards show, Clayton was eager to delve into her career and life story beyond the Trumpets. Ahead of the 30th annual Trumpet Awards airing on Juneteenth, ABC Audio spoke with Clayton about her humanitarianism. 

“I think I’ve done some things that were momentous but people always pick out the Trumpets,” Clayton said jokingly via Zoom call from her home in Atlanta. “Everything else has kind of been forgotten. But that’s OK.”

Born Xernona Brewster on August 30, 1930, Clayton was raised in the segregated small town of Muskogee, Oklahoma, by her part-Indian mother and Black father. She grew up to become an integral leader of the civil rights movement.

Clayton investigated employment discrimination with the National Urban League; became the first Black person in the South to host a prime-time television talk show; and was good friends with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King.

“I’ve fulfilled commitments through the work of Dr. King, and I became an integral part of the organization,” she said of her time working at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta.

Clayton and her late first husband, Ed Clayton, the Jet Magazine editor who stopped the presses to put Emmett Till‘s bludgeoned photo on the cover, relocated to Atlanta at the request of the Kings in 1965. She says they “trusted me implicitly” to do the civil and social work. 

In 1968, Clayton drove King to the Atlanta airport ahead of his flight to Memphis, two days before his assassination. She tells people of their close relationship, “Once I met him and went to work for him, I stayed with him to the end, literally.”

She once got a key member of the Ku Klux Klan to renounce the white supremacist organization. She was also the driving force behind the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame. For more than 50 years, her profound accomplishments have contributed to the advancement of America’s promise of liberty and justice for all.

While she couldn’t quite articulate what legacy she hopes to leave behind, she did offer a piece of advice: “Don’t occupy space on Earth as your contribution, do something.”

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Having finished touring her native Canada, Avril Lavigne hits the U.S. Friday, joining her pal Machine Gun Kelly‘s in-progress Mainstream Sellout Tour. While Avril plans to play about half of her new album, Love Sux, she says she’ll revisit her entire back catalog — and the memories associated with it.

“It’s important for me to play songs from all seven of my records. So I’ll play all the hits from over the years, some from each album,” she tells ABC Audio. “And I think that’s fun because it’s like going on a journey with me [and] with my music over the last 20 years.”

Avril says she loves the fact that performing her past hits takes her fans back to a certain place and time in their lives.

“It’s kind of nostalgic, y’know? You tie memories to certain songs and I hear that from people all the time,” she shares. “They’re like, ‘Oh, I listen to ‘Sk8er Boi,’ it takes me back to high school!'”

Avril laughs, “I’m like, ‘Yeah, it takes me back to making my first album and coming out to LA for the first time and dropping out of high school!”

The singer, who’s engaged to boyfriend Mod Sun, notes, “I have my memories attached to the songs and then other people have theirs: falling in love, summer, whatever it is. And so that’s so fun. and I love that! And it’s kind of like this, emotional journey…That’s what I love about music. It’s so powerful.”

Avril’s tour with MGK runs through August 13.  In September, she starts a run of festival appearances, including Brazil’s Rock in Rio, Delaware’s Firefly Music Festival, and the emo-tastic When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas. Then she’s off to Asia and Europe for more shows.

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Otherwise has premiered a new song called “Full Disclosure.”

In a statement about the straightforward track, guitarist Ryan Patrick says, “We’ve met people who are different from their stage persona.”

“It’s genuine frustration with people who aren’t what they seem,” Patrick shares. “This is who we are.”

Vocalist Adrian Patrick adds, “To sum it up as a former business law major/minor, ‘Full Disclosure’ is a legal term, and it means what you see is what you f***ing get.”

You can listen to “Full Disclosure” now via digital outlets.

“Full Disclosure” is the first song to be released off the next Otherwise album. The upcoming record — title and release date TBA — will follow 2019’s Defy, which includes the single “Lifted.”

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