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The colorful bus from Kenny Chesney’s “American Kids” video and the cover of The Big Revival album will be on display in Nashville the opening weekend of his new exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. 

The “American Kids” Bus Pop-Up Experience will take place in Walk of Fame Park, right across from the Hall, from Wednesday, July 22, through Sunday, July 26. 

The exhibit Kenny Chesney: Living in Fast Forward opens on July 23 and runs through June 2027. 

Kenny and his friends hand-painted the bus back in 2014 for the video and album cover. There’ll be photo ops in the park, prizes and games, all free and open to the public as part of the pop-up. 

You’ll also be able to print your own poster from Hatch Show Print. On opening day, museum visitors will be able to design their own paper version of the bus in the Taylor Swift Education Center. 

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Queens of the Stone Age have released a new song called “Easy Street.”

You may recognize the track if you caught Josh Homme and company on their Catacombs tour, during which they first premiered “Easy Street” live in 2025.

The official studio version has now arrived and features guest vocals from Nikki Lane.

“It’s kind of a funny song. It’s like hitting your funny bone, where it’s funny because it hurts and it hurts because it’s funny. You’re serious, but it’s funny,” Homme says in a statement. “We made it the way you’d make a demo. No click track, mistakes left in. It speeds up, it slows down, the claps aren’t great, but they’re not bad, and a bad clap adds this human thing you can’t fake.” 

“It’s not just about silliness,” Homme adds. “It’s about understanding the imperfection of your life. The song, like your life, is in the mistakes. Its imperfections are unbeatable.”

You can watch the “Easy Street” video streaming on YouTube.

“Easy Street” follows QotSA’s 2023 album, In Times New Roman… 

Queens of the Stone Age are currently on tour in Europe with System of a Down. They’ll be touring the U.S. with Foo Fighters starting in August.

Homme, meanwhile, recently released collaborations with Mastodon and Shania Twain.

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Kehlani is taking a brief break from preparing for her upcoming tour after undergoing surgery to address a sinus issue.

She shared a post from her Instagram burner account, @sidequestshawtyyy, to her public Instagram Story, explaining the reason for the procedure.

“THIS IS NOT A NOSE JOB! lmao,” she began the caption of the post, which sees her with gauze taped beneath her nose. “so turns out for the last 7 years or so my nasal canal has been 98% blocked by my swollen turbinates, a deviated septum & a clogged right half of the sinus system.”

“the doctor said she don’t even know how i been singing forreal. mouth breather a**,” she added. “today i fixed it! i feel like i got punched in the face.”

Kehlani said she will have “some days of down time” before returning to rehearsals for her upcoming tour.

“IM FINNA BE ABLE TO BREATHE YALL FRIDAY HURRY UP,” she wrote.

In her burner account’s Story, she described the first night post-surgery as “terrible.” “I’m choking, can’t breathe at all..just a bloody blocked up mess. dry a** mouth,” she wrote.

Despite the recovery process, Kehlani said she’s excited about the advantages.

“i used to have to constantly cancel things because i was getting back to back to back sinus infections and everybody was cussing me out,” she wrote, “but im finally about to go on my first tour with no breathing issues! oh I can’t WAIT.”

Kehlani’s Kehlani World Tour kicks off in August. She’ll be joined by special guests Durand Bernarr, Isaia Huron, TheArti$t and Waseel.

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Kehlani is taking a brief break from preparing for her upcoming tour after undergoing surgery to address a sinus issue.

She shared a post from her Instagram burner account, @sidequestshawtyyy, to her public Instagram Story, explaining the reason for the procedure.

“THIS IS NOT A NOSE JOB! lmao,” she began the caption of the post, which sees her with gauze taped beneath her nose. “so turns out for the last 7 years or so my nasal canal has been 98% blocked by my swollen turbinates, a deviated septum & a clogged right half of the sinus system.”

“the doctor said she don’t even know how i been singing forreal. mouth breather a**,” she added. “today i fixed it! i feel like i got punched in the face.”

Kehlani said she will have “some days of down time” before returning to rehearsals for her upcoming tour.

“IM FINNA BE ABLE TO BREATHE YALL FRIDAY HURRY UP,” she wrote.

In her burner account’s Story, she described the first night post-surgery as “terrible.” “I’m choking, can’t breathe at all..just a bloody blocked up mess. dry a** mouth,” she wrote.

Despite the recovery process, Kehlani said she’s excited about the advantages.

“i used to have to constantly cancel things because i was getting back to back to back sinus infections and everybody was cussing me out,” she wrote, “but im finally about to go on my first tour with no breathing issues! oh I can’t WAIT.”

Kehlani’s Kehlani World Tour kicks off in August. She’ll be joined by special guests Durand Bernarr, Isaia Huron, TheArti$t and Waseel.

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Kelly Clarkson is among the nominees for the 53rd Daytime Emmy Awards.

Kelly’s talk show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, scored 11 nods this year for its seventh and final season, including outstanding daytime talk series and outstanding daytime talk series host.

The Kelly Clarkson Show has earned 24 Daytime Emmys since 2020.

Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and General Hospital scored nods in the outstanding daytime drama series category, while The View, Live with Kelly and Mark and The Drew Barrymore Show are nominated alongside Kelly in the outstanding daytime talk series category. Kelly’s fellow American Idol alum Jennifer Hudson was also nominated in the outstanding daytime talk series host category.

The Daytime Emmy Awards will take place Oct. 30.

Kelly announced earlier this year that she’ll be ending The Kelly Clarkson Show after this season. She shared the news on Instagram and explained, “Stepping away from the daily schedule will allow me to prioritize my kids, which feels necessary and right for this next chapter of our lives.”

In 2025, Kelly’s children, River Blackstock and Remington Blackstock, lost their father, Kelly’s ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, to cancer at age 48.

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Kelly Clarkson is among the nominees for the 53rd Daytime Emmy Awards.

Kelly’s talk show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, scored 11 nods this year for its seventh and final season, including outstanding daytime talk series and outstanding daytime talk series host.

The Kelly Clarkson Show has earned 24 Daytime Emmys since 2020.

Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and General Hospital scored nods in the outstanding daytime drama series category, while The View, Live with Kelly and Mark and The Drew Barrymore Show are nominated alongside Kelly in the outstanding daytime talk series category. Kelly’s fellow American Idol alum Jennifer Hudson was also nominated in the outstanding daytime talk series host category.

The Daytime Emmy Awards will take place Oct. 30.

Kelly announced earlier this year that she’ll be ending The Kelly Clarkson Show after this season. She shared the news on Instagram and explained, “Stepping away from the daily schedule will allow me to prioritize my kids, which feels necessary and right for this next chapter of our lives.”

In 2025, Kelly’s children, River Blackstock and Remington Blackstock, lost their father, Kelly’s ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, to cancer at age 48.

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Beabadoobee has premiered a new song called “Switchblade,” a track off her upcoming album, Pylon.

“‘Switchblade’ takes its central metaphor and pulls it apart thoroughly, wondering whether ‘self-defense is to be brave/ Do you start the fight/ Or take the flight?'” a press release reads. “The song has no clear answers, with beabadoobee emphatically past the point at which she thought she could ever have everything figured out.”

Beabadoobee also sings, “Either seether with this anger,” which may remind you of the Veruca Salt song “Seether.”

Pylon, the follow-up to 2024’s This Is How Tomorrow Moves, drops Sept. 18. It also includes the single “Sun Has Set.”

Beabadoobee will launch a U.S. arena tour in October.

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Beabadoobee has premiered a new song called “Switchblade,” a track off her upcoming album, Pylon.

“‘Switchblade’ takes its central metaphor and pulls it apart thoroughly, wondering whether ‘self-defense is to be brave/ Do you start the fight/ Or take the flight?'” a press release reads. “The song has no clear answers, with beabadoobee emphatically past the point at which she thought she could ever have everything figured out.”

Beabadoobee also sings, “Either seether with this anger,” which may remind you of the Veruca Salt song “Seether.”

Pylon, the follow-up to 2024’s This Is How Tomorrow Moves, drops Sept. 18. It also includes the single “Sun Has Set.”

Beabadoobee will launch a U.S. arena tour in October.

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Tim McGraw’s Pawn Shop Guitar Tour is now fully underway, after its kickoff Thursday at New Jersey’s Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. 

He also played the first of three stadium dates with The Chicks and Lady A Saturday in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The other two are July 30 at Boston’s Fenway Park and Aug. 23 at Target Field in Minneapolis. 

Regular tour openers 49 Winchester and Timothy Wayne are on the stadium dates, as well. 

The first half of Tim’s show features an unplugged set with his full band, meant to evoke the clubs he played early in his career. Full production returns in the second act, with a setlist that includes his biggest hits, a few deep cuts and his two newest songs, “Pawn Shop Guitar’ and “Song for America.”

Also during his shows, Tim’s giving a young audience member a pawn shop guitar he bought in their city. That’s significant since the tour’s namesake song is about the instrument Tim used to start his career.

This week the Pawn Shop Guitar Tour plays Toronto on Thursday, with stops in Ohio on Friday and Pennsylvania on Saturday. The trek wraps Sept. 26 in West Palm Beach, Florida. 

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Tim McGraw’s Pawn Shop Guitar Tour is now fully underway, after its kickoff Thursday at New Jersey’s Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. 

He also played the first of three stadium dates with The Chicks and Lady A Saturday in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The other two are July 30 at Boston’s Fenway Park and Aug. 23 at Target Field in Minneapolis. 

Regular tour openers 49 Winchester and Timothy Wayne are on the stadium dates, as well. 

The first half of Tim’s show features an unplugged set with his full band, meant to evoke the clubs he played early in his career. Full production returns in the second act, with a setlist that includes his biggest hits, a few deep cuts and his two newest songs, “Pawn Shop Guitar’ and “Song for America.”

Also during his shows, Tim’s giving a young audience member a pawn shop guitar he bought in their city. That’s significant since the tour’s namesake song is about the instrument Tim used to start his career.

This week the Pawn Shop Guitar Tour plays Toronto on Thursday, with stops in Ohio on Friday and Pennsylvania on Saturday. The trek wraps Sept. 26 in West Palm Beach, Florida. 

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