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Yesterday, Megan & Liz’s all new web series, the Macy’s Great American Road Trip premiered on YouTube. The series follows Megan & Liz as they visit iconic musical destinations in cities around the country including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Austin, Nashville, New Orleans, Seattle and Detroit.

Mission Impossible! After Justin Bieber‘s concert on Sunday in South Africa, thieves drilled through a wall to steal cash collected from food and merchandise. For the full story, visit ABC.com.

Rewind! Looks like I missed something in the new Dasani Drops commercials. In addition to the new music by Karmin, it also features actress/singer Kiersey Clemons who plays the role of Kira Starr on Disney Channel’s Austin & Ally.

Rock stars in training! Check out this new video of Hollywood Ending punching holes in a wall with R5. (Now I understand why fans are saying Cameron has been himself lately).

Party! Last night, Ashlee Keating released her new single and music video at Avalon Hollywood. The special event was hosted by Manny Streetz and featured a performance by Ashlee, Roshon Fegan and IM5.

Last weekend, the song Keep Me Crazy by Chris Wallace received a 50 percent approval on the Radio Disney Music Mailbag. I guess that means he got kicked and picked at the same time?

Lucy Hale shines on the June/July cover of Seventeen magazine. In the interview, hitting newsstands, May 21st, Lucy opens up to Seventeen about how Kelly Clarkson changed her life, the depression that nearly crushed her dreams and her upcoming country album.

As a bonus: Lucy also give readers an exclusive sneak peek to the season 4 premiere of Pretty Little Liars. To view the clip, simply pick up a copy of the June/July issue of Seventeen and scan Lucy’s story with your smartphone.

5pm CST – Alice in Wonderland (ABC Family)
Now a teenager, Alice returns to Underland, where she must find her destiny and put an end to the Red Queen’s reign of terror.

7pm CST – American Idol: Two Finalists Compete (FOX)
The finalists perform for the judges; Carly Rae Jepsen performs.

7:30pm CST – Starstruck (Disney Channel)
A Midwestern girl visits Los Angeles and spends time with a rising Hollywood pop star.

8pm CST – Glory Road (BET)
Coach Don Haskins leads the first all-black basketball team to NCAA victory during the 1966 season.

8pm CST – So You Think You Can Dance: Audition City No. 2 (FOX)
Hopefuls perform for the judges.

9pm CST – Nashville: A Picture From Life’s Other Side (ABC)
Lamar turns out to be an unexpected ally for Rayna; Jolene tries to help when she sees Juliette struggling; Will and Avery each get a shot to shine with bigger stars.

Aaron Carter and Nikki Flores
The Ritz Ybor
Tampa, FL

Paramore
Hammerstein Ballroom
New York, NY

R5
Hawthorne Theatre
Portland, OR

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran
Toyota Center
Houston, TX

Tonight Alive
The Factory Theatre
Marricksville, NSW
Australia

Dakota Bradley just released his brand debut Country/Pop single, Somethin’ Like Somethin’. Find out about the new single, how he got into music, working with Tim McGraw and much more in a brand new T2 interview.

Dakota Bradley: Somethin’ Like Somethin’ (single) – The first single from Bradley’s upcoming full-length debut album, co-produced by Grammy-winning producer Byron Gallimore and Country Music superstar Tim McGraw. Help support Tommy2.Net by purchasing this release at iTunes.

Demi Lovato: Demi – featuring the new single “Heart Attack” and more. Target has an exclusive bonus track titled “I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me.” Help support Tommy2.Net by purchasing this release at iTunes.

Cloud Atlas (Blu-ray/DVD) – Based on the novel by David Mitchell and starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, and more. [R]

So close! Last night Demi Lovato‘s new album Demi made it’s way all the way to #2 on the iTunes Album charts and #1 on iTunes Pop Album charts. Look for her to crack #1 on the Album charts early this morning.

They’re back! Karmin‘s new song Try Me On can be heard in the new Dasani Drops TV commercial. Check it out on ispot.tv.

For the first time in almost 10 years the Backstreet Boys are back with all five original members. They have been hard at work promoting their 20th anniversary and have been busy with many special events. They kicked off the year with a Disney Christmas Parade performance, received their Hollywood Star on the Walk of Fame, have announced dates in Japan and China, have been working on a new CD, and will even cruise later this year.

To put the cherry on top, it was announced yesterday on Ryan Seacrest, that BSB be bringing Jesse McCartney and Pauly D on tour for their USA leg. While the tour dates are limited, tickets are going onsale this week! Presale is Wed and General Sales are Friday. I have a feeling this is a tour you won’t want to miss.

August
2 Chicago, IL – Chicago Charter One Pavillion
3 St. Louis, MO – St. Louis Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
4 Toledo, OH – Toledo Toledo Zoo Amphitheater
6 Montreal, Quebec – Montreal Bell Centre
7 Toronto, Ontario – Toronto Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
8 Detroit, MI – Detroit DTE Energy Music Theatre
9 Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati PNC Pavilion
10 Cleveland, OH – Cleveland Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
12 Boston, MA – Boston Bank of America Pavilion
13 Wantagh, NY – Wantagh Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
15 Holmdel, NJ – Holmdel PNC Bank Arts Center
16 Camden, NJ – Camden Susquehanna Bank Center
17 Virginia Beach, VA – Virginia Beach Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
20 Raleigh, NC – Raleigh Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek
21 Charlotte, NC – Charlotte Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
22 Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Chastain Park Amphitheatre
23 Tampa, FL – Tampa Live Nation Amphitheatre
25 West Palm Beach, FL – West Palm Beach Cruzan Amphitheatre
30 Dallas, TX – Dallas Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
31 Houston, TX – Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

September
5 Phoenix, AZ – Phoenix Comerica Theatre
6 Irvine, CA – Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
7 Las Vegas, NV – Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Events Center
8 San Francisco, CA – San Francisco Sleep Train Amphitheatre

Are you ready for some football? This year Carrie Underwood will sing the theme to Sunday Night Football.

Tonight Alive has announced they’ll be returning to the UK/Ireland later this year for their biggest headlining tour so far. Here are the dates!

September
29th Brighton – The Haunt

October
1st Birmingham – Institute Library
2nd Glasgow -King Tuts
3rd Manchester – Academy 3
4th Liverpool – O2 Academy
5th Dublin – Academy 2
6th Belfast – Oh Yeah Centre
8th Newcastle – Academy 2
9th London – Electric Ballroom
10th Kingston – Peel
11th Leeds – Cockpit 2

Music’s Biggest Night, the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, returns to Los Angeles’ Staples Center on Sunday, January 26, 2014, and will be broadcast on the CBS Television Network from 7-10:30 pm (CST).

This past Saturday Lucy Hale hosted a Bongo party at Sears in North Hollywood to kick off summer. Lucy handed out customized Bongo pops, surrounded by Bongo ice sculptures showcasing the latest trends from the brand.

7pm CST – The Voice: Recap Top 12 Performances (NBC)
Performance recap.

7pm CST – So You Think You Can Dance: Audition City No. 1 (FOX)
Dancers perform for the judges.

8pm CST – Dancing With the Stars (ABC)
The couples face elimination; The Wanted and Avril Lavigne perform.

8pm CST – New Girl: Elaine’s Big Day (FOX)
Jess and Nick make a decision about their relationship; Schmidt and Winston scheme to ruin Cece’s wedding.

8pm CST – The Voice: Live Eliminations (NBC)
Contestants face elimination; Lady Antebellum performs; Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I. perform.

Carrie Underwood
MTS Centre
Winnipeg, Canada

Paramore
House of Blues
Boston, MA

R5
El Corazon
Seattle, WA

Tommy2: What’s up it’s Tommy 2 and as the sun is going down we’ve got County Pop Singer and Songwriter Dakota Bradley checking in with us from Las Vegas. So how you doing man?

Dakota Bradley: I’m doing good, I’m just watching the Boston playoff hockey game and hanging out in Vegas?

Tommy2: Good times. Now let’s find out about your debut single being released tomorrow. Tell me the truth, how excited are you about “Somethin’ Like Somethin’” finally coming out?

Dakota Bradley: I am so excited and Tim McGraw just tweeted me and told everybody to check it out so that just pretty much amped up my excitement to the brim.

Tommy2: Cool… yeah, and he actually co-produced that song… that had to be amazing getting a chance to work with someone that’s such powerhouse in the industry.

Dakota Bradley: Yeah! I feel like the luckiest kid in the world. He actually produced my entire album and he co-produced it with his producer Byron Gallimore, so I feel like the luckiest kid in the world honestly. I’ve learned so much from those guys.

Tommy2: For people that haven’t heard the track yet, why don’t describe what it’s all about?

Dakota Bradley: It’s really just a bouncy feel good summer song. It’s about young love and you just can’t put your finger on exactly what it is but it’s somethin’ like nothin’ before.

Tommy2: And even though it’s a Country song, it’s definitely got it’s pop leanings to it.

Dakota Bradley: Yeah, for sure!

Tommy2: So now explain your story, about when you got into music and what lead up to you getting signed.

Dakota Bradley: I got into music when I was twelve-years-old. I picked up a guitar and the first song I ever learned was “Working Man” by Rush. So I got into hard rock like Aerosmith and stuff like that, and then I discovered Stevie Ray Vaughan and I became addicted to the guitar and fell in love with the guitar and pretty much said by to sports and all my friends and just became a guitar obsessed kid and learned all kind of blues riffs. And that kind of lead me to Keith Urban and Country music and I fell in love with the writing of Country songs, how it really is just telling a story. And then I moved to Nashville after my house in St. Louis burned down and within’ a month of living in Nashville not knowing a single person I ended up on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and that just opened a lot of doors for me and changed my life and I met Byron (Gallimore) and he gave me a record deal and introduced by to Tim McGraw and I’ve been on a radio tour for geese… five months now, I’ve been in 95 cities. It’s pretty, pretty insane.

Tommy2: Yeah, that sounds like a crazy experience. Do you have any interesting stories to share?

Dakota Bradley: Oh man, I don’t even know where to begin. I got to walk the red carpet at the ACM’s this year which was pretty insane. That was probably one of the craziest things that happened to me.

Tommy2: During your promo stop in Portland you shot a video with Savannah Outen covering Highway Don’t Care. Did you have fun doing that?

Dakota Bradley: I did! I was actually… I had a cold but I got in, I flew in and I landed at about eleven o’clock and she came to the hotel at one in the morning and we shot that and that was the first time I met her so it was… we had a really good time

Tommy2: Now I was talking to Savannah earlier today and she told me that you were a bit obsessed with Nike shoes. Is that true?

Dakota Bradley: I actually am sponsored by Air Jordan. They send me all kinds of shoes and I love them!

Tommy2: Awesome, can’t complain about that!

Dakota Bradley: Yeah, I can’t complain at all.

Tommy2: You mentioned earlier about your guitar playing and she mentioned that too and it’s obvious in your videos on YouTubethat you’re a great player. Who are some of your favorites?

Dakota Bradley: Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Joe Perry, Slash… those are probably some of my favorites… Eddie Van Halen.

Tommy2: More in the 70′s / 80′s era.

Dakota Bradley: Yeah, definitely. They were the most influential guitar players in my opinion.

Tommy2: Right now what’s this summer looking like as far as getting out on the road and doing shows?

Dakota Bradley: You know there’s some stuff being talked about but I’m really just finishing up the radio tour and I honestly don’t even know what’s ahead of me. I just gotta, I’m focused on the end of this radio tour and my single coming out tomorrow. I don’t even know what the summer holds but it’s going to be exciting, I know that.

Tommy2: And I know with the good stuff happening right now some radio stations are already playing your single.

Dakota Bradley: Yeah, it got 17 adds the first week and I want to say it’s 62 on the charts right now, last time I heard.

Tommy2: Moving it’s way up to the Top 20 right?

Dakota Bradley: That right man… not Top 20, number one!

Tommy2: Just a few minutes ago I followed you on Twitter and if there’s anybody else interested in doing that, why don’t you mention your account name and other social media platforms that your active on.

Dakota Bradley: Yeah, at Twitter it’s @DakotaBradley, Facebook is Facebook.com/DakotaBradley and YouTube I think is YouTube.com/DBradleyMusic.

Tommy2: Cool! Well, Dakota thanks so much for taking the time to talk us with us tonight and we’ll be looking forward to seeing “Somethin’ Like Somethin’” on iTunes in just a few hours. You take care now.

Dakota Bradley: Alright you too man. Thank you so much!