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This! is not a drill: Panic! at the Disco is officially back.

The Brendon Urie-led outfit has announced a new album called Viva Las Vengeance. The follow-up to 2018’s Pray for the Wicked arrives August 19.

“Viva Las Vengeance is a look back at who I was 17 years ago and who I am now with the fondness I didn’t have before,” Urie says. “I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest.”

You can listen to the Viva Las Vengeance title track now via digital outlets, and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.

Along with the album news, Panic! has announced a U.S. headlining tour, running from September 8 in Austin, Texas, to October 25 in San Francisco.

Tickets go on sale next Friday, June 10, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit PanicattheDisco.com.

Here’s the Viva Las Vengeance track list:

“Viva Las Vengeance”
“Middle of a Breakup”
“Don’t Let The Light Go Out”
“Local God”
“Star Spangled Banger”
“God Killed Rock and Roll”
“Say It Louder”
“Sugar Soaker”
“Something About Maggie”
“Sad Clown”
“All By Yourself”
“Do It to Death”

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We’re officially in Ava Max‘s new era.

The star announced on Wednesday that she’ll release her sophomore album, Diamonds & Dancefloors, on October 14. You can pre-save and pre-order the album now.  Along with the announcement, Ava also performed her new single, “Maybe You’re the Problem,” on NBC’s Today.

Diamonds & Dancefloors is the follow up to Ava’s debut album, Heaven & Hell, which came out in September of 2020 and was recently RIAA-certified Platinum. It features the hits “Sweet but Psycho,” “Kings & Queens” and “My Head & My Heart.”

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On Tuesday, the final day of AANHPI month, BTS visited the White House to meet with President Joe Biden and discuss anti-Asian hate crimes and Asian inclusion.  While the 35-minute meeting was closed to the press, the president has tweeted portions of the chat.

In a minute-long video, we see the president welcoming the group to the White House, as group member RM says, “It’s an honor to meet you, Mr. President.”  We then see the guys sitting down in the Oval Office with Biden.

“This is an important month here in America. A lot of our Asian-American friends have been subject to real discrimination,” Biden tells them. “Hate only hides. When good people talk about it and say how bad it is, it goes down. So thank you.”

RM says, “We want to say thank you sincerely for your decision…such as signing the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act into law.”  He continues, “So we just want to be a little help, and we truly appreciate the White House and the government’s trying to find solutions.”

“People care a lot about what you say, and what you’re doing is good for all people,” Biden responds. “It’s not just your great talent. It’s the message you’re communicating. It matters.”

Biden presented the group with commemorative coins as gifts after the meeting.

“It was great to meet with you, @bts_bighit. Thanks for all you’re doing to raise awareness around the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and discrimination,” the president later tweeted. “I look forward to sharing more of our conversation soon.”

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Billie Eilish‘s ex, Matthew Tyler Vorce, is setting the record straight about their break up.

After rumors circulated that Matthew cheated on Billie, he took to Instagram Stories to shut down the accusations. 

“The fact that thousands of people take time out of their day to write the most heinous things on someone they will never knows posts is the most cowardly thing you can possibly do,” the actor wrote over the weekend, according to E! News. 

“Nobody cheated on anyone,” he continued. “Relationships end. Simple as that. Creating rumors and LYING on the internet is dangerous.”

Matthew, 30, and Billie, 20, first ignited romance rumors in April 2021 when they were photographed showing PDA while getting coffee in Santa Barbara, Calif. 

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Darius Rucker can now add a new skill to his tool belt: home renovator.

In the debut episode of his new limited series, Rucker’s Reno, Darius takes viewers on a tour of a historical home he’s purchased and renovated in his home city of Charleston, South Carolina. 

Citing Charleston as his “favorite city in the world,” Darius purchased the home at 119 Broad St. Built in 1802 and handmade entirely by enslaved people, Darius acknowledged that the home has a “complicated history.” “That’s the only way you can make someplace better is to talk about it and try to work on it,” he says. 

The first episode finds the singer and his team of architects and interior designers renovating the kitchen and dining room, with Darius picking out the light fixtures and other elements he wants in the space. 

“Wow, this is awesome!” he exclaims as he walks into the newly renovated kitchen, which features a marble island, all new appliances and a TV screen above the original mantle. “I love keeping the history, but bringing the modern touches that look beautiful,” Darius says. “This is a great way to start.” 

As for the dish he’ll be whipping up in the newly renovated kitchen? Shrimp and grits.

The six-episode series will continue to air on the Design Network.

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The Jonas Brothers are working hard to turn their Las Vegas residency this month into a very special fan experience — and they’re also using the opportunity to clean out their closets.

Nick Jonas tells Variety, “We’re cooking up a few special things for our fans. They’re going to help us pick the set list every night.” In addition, he adds, “We all walked through our homes and grabbed a bunch of [our] own personal memorabilia that we’re going to be selling for a dollar each at a pawn shop to thank them for always being so supportive.”

So how do you gain access to this pawn shop? You apparently have to subscribe to a new smartphone-based premium content service called Scriber, which will give you “unique, behind-the-scenes videos and updates” from the brothers for five bucks a month. 

In addition to ticket presales and such, Variety reports, subscribers will get a chance to win a spot at the JoBros “Authentic Memorabilia Pawn Shop Dollar Store” in Vegas. The group will donate around $2 per subscription to various charities, and Scriber itself is donating some of its proceeds to carbon reduction efforts.

In addition to creating content for this new service, the group has equity in the company.

The JoBros Las Vegas residency kicks off at the Dolby Live Theater at the Park MGM on June 3 and runs through June 11.

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Charlie Puth is a singer, songwriter and producer, and as such he’s completely consumed by music nearly all the time. But weirdly, the only time Charlie turns the music off is when many of us turn the music on: during sexytime.

Speaking to Bustle in an interview in which he completely overshares, Charlie admits he can’t listen to music while in bed with someone because, he explains, “I will analyze the music playing in the background and I’ll start to see the music notes in my head and I will not be able to [perform].”

That’s not to say Charlie avoids sex, though. If you follow him on TikTok, you’ll find he’s pretty obsessed with it. As he tells Bustle, “I’m really horny. I think to be a creative, you have to be a little bit.” 

But why is he so open about that sort of thing on TikTok, where he boasts more than 16 million followers? “It just shows your vulnerability,” he explains, “and I was not a vulnerable person [before].” 

He notes, “I need to really show my personality off. I wasn’t doing that because I was surrounding myself with producers and record label heads who were like, ‘You are a massive act. You need to go away and work on your art for a while.’ The pandemic made me realize that I have to not only not do that, but the opposite of that. I need to show every step of the process.”

And he doesn’t care whether or not you think he’s ridiculous or thirsty, either.

“I would be more offended if somebody opens up my TikTok and they have no opinion about it, if they were indifferent,” he says. “I want them to be either very angry about it or in love with it.”

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Bad Wolves have introduced a new guitar player named Max Karon.

“It’s with great excitement that we announce our new permanent guitar player: Max Karon,” the “Lifeline” rockers wrote in a social media post. “The funny thing is that Max isn’t new to us, he started the band with founder [and drummer] John Boecklin in 2014 and was a major writer/player on all three Bad Wolves albums.”

The statement continues, “Being a key ingredient to the Bad Wolves sound, this was a no-brainer decision. There is no other person on this earth that would be a better fit for Bad Wolves than Max.”

Karon, who adds that he’s “thrilled and grateful” to be officially joining, takes the place of guitarist Chris Cain, who announced in April that he’s leaving Bad Wolves after five years in the band. In his own statement, Cain wrote, “Sometimes in life you have to do what’s best for you and for me it was stepping away.”

Bad Wolves, of course, went through a big lineup change last year when vocalist Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz joined in place of frontman Tommy Vext.

You can catch the revamped Bad Wolves live when they hit the road with Papa Roach, Falling in Reverse and Hollywood Undead on the Rockzilla Summer Tour, which kicks off in July.

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