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Chayce Beckham is now a married man. 

The 2021 American Idol winner made the announcement on his socials, sharing a video of him driving down the Las Vegas strip with his bride, Ashley Britt. 

“Mr. & Mrs. Beckham,” the caption states.

Chayce is behind the wheel of a classic convertible in the black-and-white clip, holding hands with Ashley as the sights of Sin City pass by. He’s wearing a dark suit, while the bride’s white veil and bouquet are both visible. The video’s set to Stevie Wonder‘s 1970 hit “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours).”

The California native proposed to his longtime girlfriend last October during a concert in Anaheim. Shortly afterward, he told ABC Audio the two envisioned a small wedding in Vegas — presided over by an Elvis Presley impersonator — with a “big celebration” to follow later. 

The newlyweds don’t have a ton of time for a honeymoon, it seems. Chayce kicks off his Canadian tour with Warren Zeiders Oct. 1 in London, Ontario. 

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Brandon Lake‘s already found success in Christian music, but he now has his first country hit and a CMA nomination thanks to his collaboration with Jelly Roll. 

“I wrote the song ‘Hard Fought Hallelujah’ with some friends of mine last year, and then I released it,” Brandon explains. “And just thinking about the lyrics of this song, I knew it would resonate with Jelly Roll. I thought it might be a long shot, but we reached out, having no idea that Jelly Roll had already heard the song on TikTok.”

Luckily, timing was on Brandon’s side, since Jelly had recently scaled back his screen time. 

“A week [later] he threw his phone away, switched to a flip phone,” Brandon says. “And so he was like, ‘I love this song.’ My team reaches out and was like ‘Hey, would you jump on this song?’ having no idea what’s going on. He was like automatically … ‘100% yes, I love this song.’ And we just hit it off and became bros.”

You’ll find “Hard Fought Hallelujah” on Brandon’s King of Hearts album, which also features Gabby Barrett on the track “As for Me & My Home.”

Thanks to their collaboration, Brandon and Jelly will also vie for musical event of the year at November’s CMA Awards. 

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The inaugural CBGB Festival is taking place Saturday at Under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn, New York, but if you can’t make it, you can watch it online.

The event features Iggy Pop — doing his first New York show in more than a decade — as well as Jack White, Sex Pistols, Johnny Marr, The Damned, Melvins, Lunachicks and Marky Ramone, plus current acts like The Linda Lindas.

The streaming platform Veeps will livestream the festivities Saturday starting around 4:30 p.m. CT, and it’ll be free for fans worldwide. The only catch? You’ll have to watch it live, because there won’t be a replay option. Claim your free ticket now at Veeps.com/cbgb.

If you decide you want to attend in person, tickets are still available at CBGBFest.com.

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Oh, well imagine, a beloved album from your youth turning 20.

Such is the reality facing millennials as Panic! at the Disco‘s 2005 debut album, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, hits the two-decade milestone on Saturday. Hopefully they’re not freaking out — after all, it’s much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.

Panic! at the Disco was discovered by Fall Out Boy‘s Pete Wentz, who signed them to his label, then known as Decaydance Records, before they even played a live show.

A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out was released on Sept. 27, 2005, alongside the lead single “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage,” which, if nothing else, proved Panic! could carry on Fall Out Boy’s tradition of long, pithy song titles.

However, it wasn’t until the release of the follow-up single, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” that Panic! at the Disco truly blew up. The song introduced the world to frontman Brendon Urie‘s theatrical vocal delivery and the band’s baroque sound, making them faces of what would be defined in the 2000s as emo alongside Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance.

Panic! followed A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out with the experimental Pretty. Odd. in 2008, which divided fans. Over the years, the band’s lineup and sound would continue to change — they even dropped the exclamation point from their name at one point — and by 2015, Urie was the only band member remaining.

Urie released three Panic! albums essentially as a solo project before ending the band in 2023. Panic! will reform at the 2025 When We Were Young festival in October to perform A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out in full.

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Gloria Estefan stars in Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie, based on the hit Netflix kids show Gabby’s Dollhouse, in theaters Friday. She plays Gabby’s grandmother GiGi, who goes on a road trip with Gabby to “Cat Francisco,” where her precious dollhouse falls into the hands of a cat lady named Vera, played by Kristen Wiig. Gloria tells ABC Audio she thinks the film may earn her a whole new audience.

“When they sent me the script … I was enamored because [the role was] a grandma. So I go, ‘Oh my God, this is me.’ And the script was phenomenal,” says Gloria. She’s also a “huge fan” of Wiig. She wasn’t familiar with the Netflix series, though, so she watched it.

“I saw, like, kids — little kids — they’re addicted to this show,” Gloria says. “And I thought, ‘You know what? Good idea to get in there with a really young crowd.’ And I just thought it was such a great opportunity.”

But initially, Gloria thought she’d have to turn down the role.

“My schedule was nuts and I was gonna pass,” she explains. “And then, I was in an airport lounge in LA and this very nice lady comes up and she goes, ‘Gloria, we really need your energy on this film.’ And I’m going, ‘What?’ And she goes, ‘I’m the head of DreamWorks Animation, and we really need your energy on this film.'”

Gloria says when she got home her daughter — who didn’t know that her mom had been sent the script — informed her that a comedian friend of hers had just been hired to “beef up your lines and the comedy in this movie.”

“So I go, ‘You know what? I listen to the universe,'” Gloria laughs. “And I said, ‘OK.'” 

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Zara Larsson’s new album Midnight Sun will make you dance — and think.

The Swedish star initially said of her latest project, which is her fourth international release, “I wanted the whole album to feel like it’s a summer night and it never ends.”  But Zara tells ABC Audio that the new songs also address where she is right now in her life, after having a major epiphany.

“It is very upbeat and it is very fun, but there’s also some introspective moments,” she explains, “Because …  it was a lot of things that happened in my brain. Like, turning 27, I really feel like … somebody threw a cold glass of water in my face, and I just realized a lot of things about myself, about just life in general.”

“I would say it’s quite existential in a way, but it’s dynamic,” she adds. “Overall, I would say it has a lot of energy, for sure.”

So far Zara has released three tracks from the project: “Pretty Ugly,” her current hit, “Crush” and the title track. The phrase “midnight sun” is a nod to Sweden, and Scandinavia in general: During the summer months there, the sun is still visible at midnight.

“It’s funny, because a lot of people, they don’t realize that it’s a real phenomenon,” she says. “I’ve had definitely, like, three people in interviews where they ask me, like, ‘How did you come up with that amazing sentence? It’s so hopeful.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, no, it’s a real thing.'”

“But it is quite nice. It is a beautiful symbol,” she says, adding that she “wanted to take people on this little journey to the midnight sun” with the new album, which also includes “some other Swedish references.” 

Zara’s Midnight Sun North American headlining tour launches Feb. 28 in Portland, Oregon.

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Eric Bellinger is back with the new album It All Makes Sense. It’s a continuation of his 2024 album, It’ll All Make Sense Later, a title that explains the creative process for the album.

“When I was finishing my tour last year, I was like, ‘Yo, let’s take a trip’ … to create some music. So my buddy VScript was like, ‘Let’s go to South Africa. … That might be a dope spot for you to record,'” Eric tells ABC Audio.

Though he notes it wasn’t his intention to create an Afrobeats project, he says “that’s the sound that came out” as “the music that came from the camp, from all the producers, it was naturally Afrobeats music.”

The title, Eric adds, came from a conversation he had with VScript.

“We was just talking like, man, people gonna see you. They gonna know you normally do the R&B music, but it’s cool. They gonna catch on. It’ll all make sense later,” Eric remembers VScript saying, adding a lightbulb instantly went off.

“I was just like, ‘Ooh, I think that’s the title.’ … We taking a chance, we trying something new. Who cares if everybody don’t get it? They’ll get it later,” Eric explains, adding he had to have faith that things would eventually make sense while “taking the back seat to the creatives out there, trusting their vision, trusting their sound.”

Eric is now back in the States and still into the Afrobeats vibes.

“Now I can put my own flavor on it. It makes sense to me,” he says, hence the name of the album, It All Makes Sense. “It’s a personal mission from trying something out, having faith and then now I just feel so much more zeroed in. … It all makes sense to me and hopefully the world.” 

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The lineup has been announced for Primavera Sound ’26, taking place June 3 to June 6 in Barcelona, Spain. Among those taking the stage are headliner Doja Cat, PinkPantheress, Amaarae and Ravyn Lenae. Fans can now register for the Fan Sale, which starts Sept. 29. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Sept. 30.

Stagecoach also dropped the names for its festival, taking place at Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, from April 24 to April 26. It’s a country music event, but a few hip-hop stars will be performing. Those include BigXthaPlug, Post Malone and Ludacris. Passes go on sale Oct. 2 at 11 a.m. PT.

The Shreveport, Louisiana, City Council has voted and approved 50 Cent‘s downtown entertainment district redevelopment plan, KTBS.com reports. “Positive vibes all roads lead to SHREVEPORT art, entertainment, music film&Television. BOOM. let’s work!” 50 celebrated on Instagram.

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