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Happy Birthday to Ryan Ochoa (Pair of Kings).

Forbes has released their list of the 100 Most Powerful Celebrities and Justin Bieber takes the cover! Here’s a list of how some of our favorites ranked.

3. Justin Bieber (Pay $55 Million)
11. Taylor Swift (Pay $57 Million)
29. Ryan Seacrest (Pay $59 Million)
43. Kristen Stewart (Pay $34 Million)
56. Johnny Depp (Pay $30 Million)
67. Taylor Lautner (Pay $26 Million)
85. J.K. Rowling (Pay $17 Million)
96. Zooey Deschanel (Pay $9 Million)

MTV.com has a new article about the Jonas Brothers that includes an interview with Joe Jonas. The key points he hit on was that they are looking forward to heading to the studio without a label (in terms of creative freedom) and that parts of the recording process might end up on Kevin’s E! reality show.

Savvy continues to keep busy with the Girl Scouts, yesterday they confirmed a new show at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI on June 16th (upcoming shows are listed below). Also, fans might want to check out a new interview/performance clip produced by the Front Row Girls. Check it out on YouTube.

May
19th Virginia Beach, VA – Girl Scouts of Colonial Coast

June
3rd Cape Cod, MA – Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
9th Washington, DC – Girl Scouts Rock the Mall
16th Green Bay, WI – Girl Scouts of Northwestern Great Lakes
23rd Jersey City, NJ – Girl Scout Councils of New Jersey

On June 19th, Tamar Kaprelian will release her new EP titled California. You can hear a preview of the song All Or Nothing from this release at Killer Tracks Facebook page.

Did you see this? Greg Raposo has released a brand new music video for his song That Day. Check out this great video on YouTube. Are you excited to hear him singing again?

On May 22nd, the action-packed romantic comedy This Means War, starring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, which will be released on Blu-ray and DVD.

smartwater will soon be kicking of their new ad campaign starring Jennifer Aniston. Here’s a look at the black and white black and white campaign that will begin to appear in June issues of magazines.

Last Thursday, Victoria’s Secret Angels Doutzen Kroes, Erin Heatherton, and Lindsay Ellingson were poolside at Mr. C Beverly Hills to discuss the celebrity winners that have been named to this year’s What Is Sexy? List. Past What Is Sexy? List winners have included Sofia Vergara, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Scarlett Johansson, Cameron Diaz and more. Adding even more heat to the summer temperatures, Victoria’s Secret launched the VS Knockout bra and the Victoria’s Secret Bombshell, The Summer Edition fragrance.

6pm CST – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (ABC Family)
The young wizard and his best friends investigate a dark force that is terrorizing their school, Hogwarts.

7pm CST – American Idol: Results Show (FOX)
The finalists are revealed; Lisa Marie Presley performs; Adam Lambert performs.

7pm CST – Shake It Up: Tunnel It Up (Disney Channel)
CeCe hatches a plan that will allow her and Rocky to tape a Shake It Up, Chicago national special

7:30pm CST – College Road Trip (Disney Channel)
A cop accompanies his daughter on a trip to visit the colleges to which she is applying.

In Concert Tomorrow:

Hayley Reinhart
Gramercy Theatre
New York, NY

NKOTBSB
Rod Laver Arena
Melbourne Australia

Have you joined in to help Everlife with their final album? Last week – Amber, Julia, and Sarah called in to talk about raising funds for this special project on Kickstarter.com and more. To listen to the T2 interview, click here.

How much do you LIKE Savannah Outen? On May 18th she’ll be performing in Billboard’s Battle of the Bands concert and needs your help with online support. Just visit Billboard.com and like her profile page and leave a comment.

We already know how talented Dan Brozek of Action Item is at playing drums, but in case you need a reminder there’s a great new video on YouTube as he bangs along to So Good by BoB.

Eighteen-year-old singer Manika will be releasing her debut, five-track EP entitled The Middle of Hollywood EP, under Wamaframa Records/CCA Entertainment and distributed by BDG / RED (A division of SONY Music Entertainment) on May 22nd. Yesterday the singer announced that she’ll be heading out on the road for 20 shows with One Direction this summer.

While much of the focus has been on the Macy’s iHeartRadio Rising Star competition this month, former #1 Crush (Radio Disney Incubator) vocalist, Monica Matocha was profiled at Clear Channel’s iheartradio.com for its New! Discover & Uncover section. Last November, she earned top honors for Best Female Vocals and Best Pop Artist at the Houston Press Music Awards. The release date for her debut album will be announced later this year.

BONGO has launched a custom Facebook application called: How Well Do You Know Your Best Friend on the BONGO Facebook page. To kick off the launch, BONGO is sharing an exclusive video featuring BONGO girls, Ashley Benson and Lucy Hale. Users will be able to answer the same questions about their best friends to prove how well they know each other. Check out the their Facebook page to view the new app and all the new features.

Disney Channel and Disney XD have announced an open casting call in Kansas City, MO, in search of talented young actors and actresses with comedy skills, and singers and dancers with acting ability, who will be given the opportunity to audition for authorized casting directors.

Registration and auditions will be held on May 26th from 9 am – 3 pm at the Kansas City Convention Center, located at 301 West 13th Street in Kansas City, MO. An application and monologue will be provided upon arrival. Parking is available in surrounding parking lots for a $7 – $10 fee. (Minors must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian).

Last Friday, the wildlife conservation organization, WildAid held their annual gala in San Francisco, A. Hayden Panettiere and Jared Leto were among the stars raising money for WildAid and awareness of its wildlife conservation programs around the world. WildAid’s list of celebrity ambassadors includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Harrison Ford, Yao Ming, Kate Hudson, Jackie Chan, and Carmelo Anthony.

5:30pm CST – Step Up (ABC Family)
A troubled guy but a gifted dancer attracts the attention of a talented ballerina at a Maryland school.

7pm CST – American Idol: Finalists Compete (FOX)
The finalists visit their hometowns and perform for the judges.

7:30pm CST – Suburgatory: The Motherload (ABC)
Tessa feels a void as Chatswin celebrates mothers; Dalia goes to Israel without Dallas; Eden reacts to a baby shower’s theme; Fred arranges a surprise for Sheila; Lisa makes a discovery.

8pm CST – Step Up 2 the Streets (ABC Family)
A street dancer enrolls at Maryland School of the Arts and teams up with a talented classmate to take a team to an underground dance contest.

Tommy2: How’s it going it’s Tommy2 and this morning we’ve got some very special guests on the line – it’s Amber, Julia and Sarah of Everlife and they’re here to talk about raising funds for their final album, At the End of Everything. So how’s everyone doing?

Everlife: Good, how are you?

Tommy2: I’m doing good now I just want to make sure of one the thing real quick here. Julia did you get your coffee this morning?

Julia: I actually just walked over to the table to pick it up. So yes.

Tommy2: I learned in your live chat the other day that it’s always important to keep little sister is always happy, so.

Julia: Yes!

Amber: Yes, it definitely is.

Tommy2: So what’s on the agenda for today?

Julia: Well we were just going to have a little bit songwriting and I think at the end of every week we’ve been in this process of doing a new record, the three of us kind of sit together and talk about what we’ve done in the last 15 years. We’ve been taking a lot of trips down memory lane lately, I think that’s what our Fridays have turned into is just sitting around with some coffee and talking about that.

Tommy2: Well that definitely has a lot of inspiration packed in all those memories I’ll bet.

Julia: Yeah, definitely.

Tommy2: Now earlier this month you launched a Kickstarter project for your final album, why don’t you just give a quick overview about that?

Sarah: Well, we decided at the beginning of this year that we wanted to do another record as Everlife. Which we’re really excited cause we took the previous year off and just kind of did some personal stuff and recoup I guess you could say over the last fifteen years. And we sat down and we were like we really want to do this new project but we have so many people asking you know, when are they going to get new music and how they can help and be involved and so we decided to go through Kickstarter which is the way that you can raise funds for anything that you’re doing but, people can be involved. So you can really feel like you’re a part of it and there’s incentives that we have as well, so whatever dollar amount that you decide to donate you get something cool for it too which is awesome, but we’re just really excited to be able to have our fans and our friends and our family be involved and to help us along the way and be just as much as part of this record as the three of us are.

Tommy2: And was kicking off this whole thing a little scary for you, since it’s really leap of faith.

Amber: Yeah, it’s definitely a different experience and wow, it is a leap of faith because when the three of us decide at the beginning of this year to do this record. You know we’re just like okay, well we’re in the same boat as a lot of independent artists out there, where are we going to get the money? And it just kind of came down to the fact of us going, well we could go chase after some labels and we could go try to find someone to back us or we could retain everything and in our creative, like keeping our creative right do the record we’ve always wanted to do and have our fans that have been with us from the beginning be part of it. So while it’s an odd kind of thing to be raising funds for anything that you’re doing. It’s been overwhelming but the response has been great and we told our fans last… well, I guess you saw on the chat, we’re just like – it’s the slow and steady crawl. Slow and steady win the race. Like we’re really excited about all the things that are coming out of it. Not only in just raising funds, but we’re reconnecting with fans that we haven’t talked to in several years.

Sarah: And meeting new ones that we were never able to talk to.

Tommy2: And you just, Amber, you just hit on it there. You kind of mentioned the one thing in the past that you’ve talked about is that you’ve always someone to guide your choices and I’m sure that had to do a lot to do with like your music direction and things like that. Is that one of the biggest things driving you with this project is the fact that this is something you can own and control everything about?

Amber: Yes, 100 percent. Like all of the different labels that we’ve been with and our time with Disney were invaluable in teaching us not only about the industry but just about how to work well with people in our team. But we were kids, so that’s why a lot of decisions were made of us but as we started to find ourselves really creatively and individually we were like now we really know what we want to do and now we have the complete freedom to do that because we’re all co-producing the record with our friends at Zod Lounge (Todd Shay, Tom Michale and Brett Vargason). They’re just kind of opening the doors to let us do exactly what we want, and we’re really excited about this songs Tommy. They’re really like, we’re really reaching down and trying to bring out a lot of different issues that we’ve dealt with in our lives. Kind of like What’s Beautiful did with in our last EP. But also just kind of writing about specific memories that we’ve had and, and hopefully it will be an open door into the story of Everlife.

Tommy2: It’s great to see that you have an option like Kickstarter to use because, you know like you said you’ve been reflecting about the last 15 years and when most people think about you in the past they think of all the great things you have done, but there’s so many little things that they don’t see and how much the three of you have laid out there on the line and the things that just haven’t gone through. Is it refreshing to have this?

Amber: Yeah, definitely! It’s kind of therapeutic.

Sarah: I think the Kickstarter thing is crazy as it is and it definitely is a lot of faith, but we have a lot of that. We’ve never really done anything conventional but it’s really cool to know that at the end of the day we raised the funds cause we totally believed that we will. It’s cool to say we did this, you know like another thing that we’ve been able to accomplish, and with obviously so much help from the people that we care about and love.

Tommy2: And of course with new music, the next logical question the fans are always going to ask is, are you hoping to do some shows as well?

Yeah, I think we’re going to do a hometown show here in Nashville but as far as what the fall brings for us we we have a lot of individual things coming up that aren’t confirmed yet. So we’re excited to eventually sing out these new songs because when you write a song, that’s what you have in your mind is to be able to perform it so, hopefully at the end of the record process we’ll definitely be doing a show here in Nashville, but the rest of that I don’t know. We’ve kind of taken this one step at a time, we’ll see what kind of comes of it.

You can help support Everlife to reach their goal at Kickstarter.com!