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New! A week ago I had the chance to sit down and talk with the guys from Mindless Behavior. Click here to listen to what their thoughts are about the future, what it was like to debut at #1 on the R&B Charts, their experience performing at the Radio Disney Music Awards, who they enjoyed seeing and who they thought rocked the red carpet! Plus, Princeton shares some info about his t-shirts and Rey Rey gives the latest on his recent portraits.

Emblem3 announced last week that they will join Selena Gomez’s worldwide Stars Dance tour as the opening act of the tour’s 41 North American dates. Check out this photo of the guys meeting Selena at Sunday’s Billboard Awards!

Jason Derulo performs at the Buffalo David Bitton presents Billboard Music Awards Official After Party.

Remember back on April 22nd when I criticized the Radio Disney Music Awards for not allowing fans to vote for Carly Rae Jepsen‘s Call Me Maybe? Once again, a legitimate award show honored the breakout star for her hit single. Call Me Maybe won the Top Pop Song and Top Digital Song categories at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards. Carly also tied with Taylor Swift for Top Digital Artist. #IHateRiggedAwardsShows

Available now – The After Party‘s new single, Got It Made. Help support Tommy2.Net by purchasing this release at iTunes.

And the winner of Dancing With the Stars season 16 is … Kellie Pickler!

Last weekend, Popular Song by Mika featuring Ariana Grande received a 68 percent pick on the Radio Disney Music Mailbag.

Today, The Veronicas and Badflower will be at Rock & Reilly’s Irish Pub in West Hollywood for an exclusive interview and performance hosted by Lance Bass. The three hour event begins at 3pm.

Tomorrow, Universal CityWalk celebrates its 20th birthday with a blockbuster-worthy bash that drives flashy street racers from Universal Pictures’ Fast & Furious films to park at CityWalk in time for the much-anticipated movie opening weekend and the launch of the summer blockbuster season. A life-sized wax figure of Vin Diesel from Madame Tussauds Hollywood will also share the spotlight with the Fast & Furious cars.

The arrival of an elaborate 20-tier cake and a performance of Happy Birthday from Midnight Red, will keep the momentum going. Midnight Red will also headline CityWalk’s free “Summer Music Spotlight” concert series at “5 Towers,” beginning June 29th.

Advance screenings for the pre-Memorial Day weekend blockbuster will begin with Fast & Furious 6 at 7:15pm, 10pm and midnight with crowds of enthusiastic fans.

This weekend, Hayley Kiyoko will be performing with R5 in Texas. For those in the area, you might want to take advantage of the amazing VIP Meet and Greets she’ll be hosting in Houston and San Antonio. For more details visit BigCartel.com.

7pm CST – Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Disney Channel)
A pampered pooch from Beverly Hills must rely on help from scrappy Mexican street dogs after she is accidentally separated from her caretaker.

9pm CST – Nashville: I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive (ABC)
Juliette finds a letter from her mother; Deacon confronts Rayna about a secret; Brad Paisley performs with Rayna and Deacon; Gunnar tries to win Scarlett’s heart back.

Carrie Underwood
Abbostford Entertainment Centre
Abbostford, Canada

Hollywood Ending
Upstate Concert Hall
Clifton Park, NY

Tommy2: What’s up it’s Tommy2 and this afternoon we’re at Epic Nightclub in Minneapolis, MN with Mindless Behavior. So how are you guys feeling today?

Roc Royal: Aw man, we’re feeling great. You know we just got in town and we’re excited to give a wonderful show and tear it up with the fans.

Ray Ray: Yeah it feels really good to be back. Last time we were back it was freezing, it’s freezing this time too.

Roc Royal: And we had a whole bunch of fans come out and support us so it’s gonna be real fun just to actually party with the fans this time.

Ray Ray: Oh yeah!

Tommy2: That’s right you guys got a lot of fans here man. Considering it’s 50 degrees out did you see the line outside?

Roc Royal: Yeah man it was crazy. Last time we came we were at Mall of America and there was like 5,000 fans, and now this time you know… we came here and seen the line, it was crazy man.

Ray Ray: I don’t see how they do it, I’m from California and I’m not used to all of this cold cold weather.

Tommy2: And believe it or not it actually snowed this morning.

Ray Ray: Wow!

Tommy2: It melted, but it did snow.

Ray Ray: Are you serious? That’s weird.

Princeton: I’ve realized, I do like… I have a really good passion for New York and London and I’m starting to get passionate about Minnesota only because like Prince is from here.

Tommy2: You know what’s even better? Where you guys are playing today, right here. This used to be his old nightclub – Glam Slam.

Roc Royal: Wow… that’s crazy.

Princeton: See… that’s crazy, I like Minnesota.

Tommy2: And First Avenue is just a block up the street, where they did…

Roc Royal: Purple Rain.

Tommy2: It’s all here man!

Princeton: This is the Glam Rock.

Roc Royal: That’s crazy.

Tommy2: You know it man! Now you guys have had a very busy Spring and it all started with your new release “All Around The World.” So what’s different about this release from “#1 Girl?”

Roc Royal: You know this release we’re starting to mature now and “#1 Girl,” you know we were still looking for our girl and now we’re trying to settle down and find that actual, find that girl and that’s why we’re traveling around the world just looking.

Princeton: Actually “All Around The World” was a soundtrack for the movie “All Around The World” and “#1 Girl” was actually a packaged album. So we’re looking forward to work on a third album and more albums, but that was just a little taste of new music for the new movie.

Tommy2: And “#1 Girl” was actually about two and a half, three years old from now, it’s quite old. You guys, your voices have changed a lot as well.

Ray Ray: Yeah, and also due to our like voice changing and we’re getting older, we’re at the position right now to make that transition to get to the mature stage cause personally, we’re already there but you have to deliver it to your audience. But now we’re about to take it right there, we thing it’s the right time… and be ready.

Tommy2: Now you guys actually had a bunch of guest working on the album. Did you enjoy all of the guests you got to have on your album?

Ray Ray: Yeah, like we worked with multiple people and they were really fun. We worked with Jacob Latimore – lil’ bro he’s really talented, Lil’ Twist, Sean Garrett producer, we worked with multiple people and we just had a great time and we’re really happy how everything came out and how everything was delivered.

Tommy2: And I was going to ask, were you guys surprised when you heard the news that you you guys were #1 on the US R&B charts when it debuted?

Roc Royal: Oh man… like that whole day I was like, I was doing homework that day and our managed he texted our phones all together in a group message and was like, he sent us a picture of us #1 on the charts and I was excited man. I told the teacher and everything. It’s crazy.

Tommy2: Earlier Princeton you mentioned the movie. I mean what was that like having a movie? I men, you guys… the music business is changing and everything like that and you guys got your own movie?

Princeton: What it felt like having a movie was like this. Camera’s all around you 24/7, and for me personally I’ve always said I like reality shows, but I would never do one. And at the beginning it felt like a reality show but it becomes second nature. The camera becomes your best friend and you just start to express yourself.

Ray Ray: It didn’t really hit me until like the first day the movie actually came out and I went to go see it. And it was like, I walked into the theater and I just see our movie and we have like the posters inside the glass and I was just like “wow, we have a movie in theaters.” It was just amazing and I can look back when I’m a little older and like wow, I actually had a movie out and that’d be cool.

Tommy2: And were there any scenes that you guys like loved or any scenes that made you cringe?

Roc Royal: It was enough that made me cringe, but you know it was basically this… camera’s in our face so you know everything is all natural an simple.

Tommy2: Now last month, you guys had a chance to perform at the Radio Disney Music Awards. You guys have a lot of fun their?

Roc Royal: You know what man, that was like one of the best experiences ever. We did our thing it was crazy we had on our all white outfits, people were shocked to see us actually perform.

This month, UK Pop group Little Mix will be on their first US magazine cover — Seventeen’s June/July issue! Hot off the heels of their success, the girls are ready to take over the states this summer with their song Wings. In the magazine, the girls share the 17 things you didn’t know about the band including their connection to Katy Perry and the advice fellow super-group One Direction have shared with them. For more on the girls from Little Mix, you can check out Seventeen.com and pick up the June/July issue of Seventeen, available now on newsstands at Wal-Mart stores.

Daft Punk: Random Access Memories – featuring the single “Get Lucky.” Japan has a bonus track titled “Horizon.” Get $2 off at Best Buy with coupon code DAFTPUNKSAVE2BBY or printable coupon at Facebook.com/BestBuy. Help support Tommy2.Net by purchasing this release at iTunes.

Denyse Tontz: Parachute (single) – The new song Denyse wrote and performed for “All My Children.” Help support Tommy2.Net by purchasing this release at iTunes.

Beautiful Creatures (Blu-ray/DVD) – Based on the novel by Kami Garcia and starring Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Jeremy Irons, Emmy Rossum, Emma Thompson, and more. [PG-13]

Howl’s Moving Castle (Blu-ray) – Available for the first time on Blu-ray in the US, Studio Ghibli’s 2004 anime film based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones.

My Neighbor Totoro (Blu-ray) – Available for the first time on Blu-ray in the US, Studio Ghibli’s 1988 classic anime film.

Teen Wolf: Season 2 (DVD) – includes 12 episodes, alternate scenes, deleted scenes, extended scenes, gag reel, and much more. Catch the premiere of season 3 on June 3rd on MTV.

Did you hear this? Bad For Me by Megan and Liz is being featured in the new Audi A4 TV commercial. This is the second time in less than a year their single has been used in a national advertising campaign.

After promoting her upcoming single during the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, Miley Cyrus has now released artwork for We Can’t Stop which is scheduled to be released on June 3rd.

To celebrate the 2013 Billboard Awards, Buffalo David Bitton hosted the official after party with celebrity guests. Pictured above Roshon Fegan, Hayden Panettiere and Audrina Patridge.

Taylor Swift rocked a Junk Food t-shirt during Sunday night’s performance at the Billboard Music Awards. The pop superstar customized a Junk Food Haters Gonna Hate Unicorn tee for a lively rendition of her hit song, 22. Currently sold-out on the Urban Outfitters website, Junk Food plans to bring back this style after Swift’s stellar performance.

Production has begun on Star Wars Rebels, an exciting, all-new animated television series based on one of the greatest entertainment franchises of all time. Scheduled to premiere in fall 2014 as a one-hour special telecast on Disney Channel, it will be followed by a series on Disney XD channels around the world.

6pm CST – Mulan (ABC Family)
A Chinese maiden disguises herself as a man to take her father’s place in battle against invading Huns.

7pm CST – The Bachelor: The Bachelor’s Funniest Moments (ABC)
Hilarious moments – on-screen and off – from past seasons of “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” include spontaneous gaffes and faux pas.

7pm CST – So You Think You Can Dance: Auditions No. 2 (FOX)
Hopefuls perform for the judges.

7pm CST – The Voice: Recap Top 10 Performances (NBC)
A recap of performances by the top 10 artists.

8pm CST – Dancing With the Stars (ABC)

8pm CST – The Voice: Live Eliminations (NBC)
The artists face elimination.

8:05pm CST – Pocahontas (ABC Family)
Based on a story of John Smith, a Powhatan Indian stops a war between her tribe and the British by interceding with the chief, her father.

Action Item and The Summer Set
Clwb Ifor Bach
Cardiff, United Kingdom

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran
Frank Erwin Center
San Antonio, TX