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Now that Nick Jonas and his wife Priyanka Chopra have welcomed their baby girl, Malti, all three members of Jonas Brothers are fathers.  So, who’s the favorite uncle in the family?  Well, not someone you’d expect.

Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, Nick revealed, “Franklin Jonas, the youngest…he’s 21 now, if you can believe that…but he’s the favorite uncle by far, of all the uncles.” By way of explanation, Nick added, “Well, he’s the closest in age to the kids”

Nick also said Malti, who spent 100 days in the ICU, is “home and doing amazing,” adding, “What a gift!” However, he joked that he’s the recipient of a lot of unwanted advice, noting, “It turns out everybody I know is a newborn care specialist! All these PhDs I didn’t know they had!”

The “Jealous” singer also revealed that he gave Priyanka a citrus tree for Mother’s Day, which he plans to plant using “how-to” videos from YouTube. In addition, Nick said he was looking forward to the JoBros’ upcoming Las Vegas Residency, scheduled for June 3-11 at Dolby Live at Park MGM Las Vegas.

“I can’t wait to go to Vegas and actually leave with my money in my pocket!” he laughed.

Finally, Nick promoted the upcoming NBC show Dancing with Myself, which features him judging amateur dancers along with Shakira and Liza Koshy.  That premieres May 31 at 10 p.m. ET.

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Looks like it’s gearing up to be a hot girl summer again. After taking home the award for Artist of the Year at the 2022 Webby Awards earlier this week, Megan Thee Stallion shared some long-awaited details about her new album.

“I’m probably like 95 percent done with my new album,” the rapper said during a chat backstage. “I wanna tease that for the Hotties. I haven’t even told them nothing about my album, but yeah.”

While the latest update was all Meg decided to share about her forthcoming second project, she once hinted at the caliber of music that fans can expect on it.

“I have been recording songs for a long time,” she said speaking of the upcoming LP and her 2021 mixtape, Something For Thee Hotties, in an interview last year, as shared by AllHipHop. “

“I felt like I was rushing trying to put out projects because I feel like I always got to feed the Hotties,” Megan said. “So right now how I’m writing, I’m really taking my time. This is the most songs that I’ve ever recorded.”

As for any other details, “y’all know I’m not about to tell y’all the name of the second album,” she said.

The 27-year-old rap star shared pictures of her Webby Awards look on Instagram on Tuesday, thanking the organization for most recent accolade, which came only a day after winning Top Female Rap Artist at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.

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A new Design Network series called Rucker’s Reno will follow country star Darius Rucker as he works with a team of designers to refurbish a mansion in the downtown area of his hometown, Charleston, South Carolina.

Over the course of six episodes, Darius will rebuild the home room by room, exploring the history of the house — which was originally built by slaves — and sharing some of the history of the city in the process.

A trailer for the show offers a sneak peek at the work on the house and details Darius’ relationship with his hometown.

“Oh goodness, I don’t think anybody loves Charleston more than me,” he says in the clip. “It’s my favorite place in the world. It’s where you wanna be, downtown Charleston.”

He adds, “I think this house is gonna be really inspirational, because of where it is, because of what it is, you know, and who built it … I think this house is ready for a new chapter.”

Rucker’s Reno will premiere on May 30 at 8 p.m. ET, but Samsung TV Plus subscribers can watch the show exclusively on the platform right now.

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Chris Brown announced Tuesday that his new album, Breezy, will drop June 24. 

The R&B singer shared the news, along with the official album artwork — a gray-scale photo of “Breezy” shaved in to the back of his head — in an Instagram post with the caption, “JUNE 24th BREEZY ALBUM.”

In addition to dropping the release date for his upcoming tenth studio album, the 33-year-old seemed to reveal the album’s collaborators.

Taking to Instagram Stories, Chris posted the names of 11 artists — Wizkid, Yung Bleu, Ella Mai, H.E.R., Lil Wayne, Blxst, Anderson .Paak, Jack Harlow, Fivio Foreign, Tory Lanez, and EST Gee. He then followed up the posts with “… [smirk face emoji].”

Breezy will be the first album from Chris in three years. His last album, Indigo, was released in 2019.

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Comedian Ellen DeGeneres is ending her lengthy run as the host of Ellen, a talk show that many celebrities have been visiting since the very beginnings of their careers.

That includes two of country music’s biggest names: Keith Urban and Luke Bryan. Both are bidding their final farewell to Ellen’s couch this week and are feeling sentimental about the occasion.

For his part, Luke posted two snapshots on Twitter in which he’s posing with an early promotional picture for Ellen, including one where he’s kissing the image of Ellen’s face. “We’re all gonna miss you so much on our TVs,” he wrote in the caption. “Good luck on your next chapter.”

In his final appearance on the talk show, Keith not only serenaded Ellen with a rendition of his hit “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” but he also gifted her a guitar — complete with a letter written on its body — as a parting gift.

Ellen, which launched in 2003, is now in its final season.

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Chris Cornell died five years ago today.

The grunge icon, whose unmistakable voice helped define the sound of Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and Audioslave, passed away May 18, 2017, at age 52.

Cornell, born July 20, 1964, co-founded Soundgarden in 1984, becoming a staple of the Seattle music scene before the grunge movement took off in the early ’90s. In 1990, Cornell formed Temple of the Dog with future members of Pearl Jam. They released one album together in 1991. The record memorably included the song “Hunger Strike,” featuring a then-unknown Eddie Vedder.

Soungarden, meanwhile, began gaining mainstream attention with 1991’s Batmotorfinger, which was released within two months of Pearl Jam’s Ten and Nirvana‘s Nevermind. They then broke out further with 1994’s Superunknown, which spawned Soundgarden’s signature single, “Black Hole Sun.”

After releasing one more album, 1996’s Down on the Upside, Soundgarden broke up in 1997. Cornell then began a solo career. In 2001, he joined three-fourths of Rage Against the Machine to form Audioslave, which would release three records before disbanding in 2007.

Soundgarden then announced in 2010 that they were reuniting, and a new album, King Animal, dropped in 2012. The group continued to tour throughout the 2010s and had begun working on another record.

On May 17, 2017, Soundgarden performed in Detroit. In the early morning hours following the show, Cornell was found dead in his hotel room. His death was ruled a suicide.

In January 2019, the Cornell family staged a tribute concert featuring Metallica, Foo Fighters and Miley Cyrus, among many others. The following year, a posthumous covers compilation, No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1, was released. It was described as Cornell’s last fully completed studio album.

If you are in crisis or know someone in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

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After a couple of relatively quiet months, Dan + Shay are once again hitting the stage: They performed at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, where they also won Top Country Duo/Group, and now they’re on tour with Kenny Chesney for the summer.

And while both members of the duo are longtime Kenny fans who’ve been to plenty of his shows as fans, they say that getting on stage is giving them a chance to get to know his fanbase in a new way.

“It’s a great group of people. It’s very eclectic,” says Shay Mooney. “You’ve got anyone from, you know, [age] 10 to 80. It’s just people that love music and that love people. It’s a nice vibe.”

And when they’re not on tour? Bandmate Dan Smyers says they’ve been taking advantage of the downtime to get to work on some new music.

“Writing songs — I mean, we can’t stop. That’s all we do,” he explains, adding that they’re trading in a traditional writer’s room for a sunnier locale this summer. “We’ve been writing songs by the pool, a little bit, trying to enjoy being outside.”

The duo are operating at a slower pace than they were this time last year, since the summer of 2021 was a jam-packed few months filled with touring and makeup shows from last year’s pandemic cancellations.

“It was a grind. It was awesome. Very, very busy,” Dan continues. “This summer is just weekends. So we’re taking advantage of the weekdays at home, floating around the pool with an acoustic guitar and trying to write our best music.”

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Selena Gomez finally dropped the hotly anticipated trailer for the new season of Only Murders in the Building. 

“June 28th!! Can’t wait for y’all to see @onlymurdershulu Season 2,” she teased in the caption. The season picks up right where season 1 left off, with her character, Mabel, Steve Martin‘s Charles and Martin Short‘s Oliver all accused of murdering Bunny, the building’s much reviled lead board member.

The trailer opens with Michael Rapaport‘s Detective Kreps — a new character this season — asking the trio, “You have no idea how much trouble you’re in, do you?”

The three then face the press as they exit the police building, with everyone experiencing a different kind of emotion with having their photos taken: Mabel is shocked, Charles is angry and Oliver is ecstatic.

Another scene shows the sleuths walking into what appears to be a memorial service for Bunny, with one resident deadpanning, “Oh, goodie, the murderers are here.” That, of course, leads to Martin’s Charles declaring, “We were framed,” as Short’s Oliver assures, “It’ll all be on the podcast.”

Other flashes shows the three breaking into apartments, discovering hidden passageways, mapping out how their new podcast series will be conducted and being sent evidence of Bunny’s murder — but not knowing who is behind the mysterious deliveries. That leads them to theorize either “someone’s toying with us” or someone is trying to make it appear they actually committed Bunny’s murder.

New faces this season also include Cara Delevingne and Amy Shumer, who both feature in the new trailer.

Gomez serves as executive producer of the Hulu series. Catch Only Murders in the Building when it returns to the streamer on June 28.

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Todd Rundgren and Daryl Hall have three shows left on their current series of joint U.S. tour dates, but a new six-date summer leg has now been added to the trek.

The newly announced concerts, which will mostly take place in the Southeast, run from a July 31 performance in Hollywood, Florida, through an August 11 gig in North Charleston, South Carolina. The other shows are scheduled for August 3 in St. Petersburg, Florida; August 5 in Roanoke, Virginia; August 7 in Mason, Ohio; and August 9 in Durham, North Carolina.

Tickets for the concerts go on sale to the general public this Friday, May 20, at 10 a.m. local time via LiveNation.com.

Rundgren’s current run of shows with Hall — their second of 2022 — winds down with performances this Wednesday in Denver; Friday in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Sunday in Austin, Texas. The first run of concerts kicked off on April 1, the same day that Hall released his first solo compilation, BeforeAfter.

BeforeAfter is a 30-track collection that features selections from all five of Hall’s solo studio albums, as well as eight performances from his acclaimed TV/web series Live from Daryl’s House. Among the Live from Daryl’s House performances is a duet between Hall and Rundgren on Rundgren’s 1978 hit ballad “Can We Still Be Friends.”

Meanwhile, Rundgren’s 2022 tour schedule also includes a new series of dates on the “It Was Fifty Years Ago Today” Beatles tribute trek — also featuring Badfinger‘s Joey Molland, ex-Wings member Denny Laine, Christopher Cross and former Chicago singer/bassist Jason Scheff — running from May 24 to June 26, as well as his own his own headlining trek, The Unpredictable Tour, which is plotted out from June 30 to July 30.

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