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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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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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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.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.) 

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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.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.) 

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Daughtry has released a new compilation titled There and Back Again.

The record features newly rerecorded versions of 11 of the Chris Daughtry-fronted band’s biggest hits, including “It’s Not Over,” “Home,” “Over You,” “What I Want,” “No Surprise” and “What About Now.”

“We decided it would be fun to go back in the studio and rerecord some of our older hits and recreate them note for note,” Chris said in a video explaining the project. “It was a lot of fun.”

There and Back Again is out now via digital outlets.

Daughtry’s most recent release is their 2025 EP SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM (PART TWO), which includes the single “THE BOTTOM.”

You can catch Daughtry live on their 20th anniversary unplugged tour kicking off in October.

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The Beaches have premiered the video for their song “Edge of the Earth.”

The track originally appears on The Beaches’ 2023 album, Blame My Ex, but received a second life when it was featured on the Prime Video series Off Campus, which premiered in May.

On the show, protagonist Hannah Wells, played by Ella Bright, shows love interest Garrett Graham, played by Belmont Cameli, The Beaches’ set at Coachella and tells him it will “change your life.” It’s basically this generation’s version of when Natalie Portman told Zach Braff that The Shins will change your life in Garden State.

The “Edge of the Earth” video cuts between footage of The Beaches performing on a fog-filled stage and shots of young couples in intense conversations and making out. You can watch it on YouTube.

The Beaches’ most recent album is 2025’s No Hard Feelings. A deluxe version was released in June.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani might have missed the Jay-Z concerts at Yankee Stadium, but he understands what the performances meant to fans.

“I was not there this weekend, though I know that it was a moment that many New Yorkers are going to hold dear for years,” he said at a press conference Monday. “Nas and Jay-Z performing together—it’s incredible, and I know that there’s just so many more moments that we could be listing.”

He also addressed the lengthy delay before Sunday’s Extra Innings show, which followed a security breach that involved people without tickets.

“I know that there are many New Yorkers who were delayed after there was a breach of security by those that didn’t have tickets and then it resulted in a multiple hour delay for many others so that’s something we’ll follow up on,” he said.

Asked to name his favorite Jay-Z album, Mamdani picked The Blueprint.

“The first album I was ever given was a clean version of The Blueprint, which is unfortunate,” he joked. “I learned about the importance of freedom of expression.”

Jay-Z celebrated the 25th anniversary of The Blueprint during the second night of his Yankee Stadium run, with appearances from Eminem, Slick Rick and Pharrell Williams. The first night celebrated Reasonable Doubt with guests including Nas, Alicia Keys, Beyoncé and Memphis Bleek.

The delayed Extra Innings show also featured Beyoncé, Jeezy, The-Dream and Teyana Taylor, among others.

Speaking to TMZ, Memphis Bleek said Jay-Z was initially “stone-faced” and “wasn’t talking to nobody” during the wait.

Teyana also reflected on the night, acknowledging the technical issues during her performance on Instagram.

“The sound & in-ears said ‘Not today.’ But guess what?? The gratitude was louder than any mic could ever be,” she wrote. She then thanked Jay-Z “for allowing me to be a part of such an iconic night.”

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