The battle rounds begin tonight on The Voice. Meet the members of Team Blake Shelton who will be competing to advance. Patrick Thomas (defeated Tyler Robinson in Battle Round) This 20-year-old from Nashville was the first country singer to audition on The Voice and, of course, landed with coach/judge Blake Shelton after singing “Live Like…
I wonder how our remaining American Idol contestants reacted when told that this week’s theme is the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Hey, the duo has plenty of hits songs to their credit. But many not only pre-date Idol’s final four, they probably pre-date the final four’s parents. With so much at stake…
Funny how things work out. Nine weeks ago, Casey Abrams was a favorite to win American Idol. Haley Reinhart, his special musical friend, was an afterthought, a longshot, sure cannon fodder on a show that preferred guys with guitars. Flash forward to mid-May. Casey is gone, finishing sixth. Haley? She’ll be performing with the top…
Steven Tyler might be debuting his new video Thursday on American Idol, but I’m a whole lot more interested in the return of Jordin Sparks to the Idol stage. She left it as the season six champ, at age 17, the youngest winner ever on the show. She’s 21 now and about to release a…
One’s a fixture at this awards show; the other isn’t. But between now and June 7, you have a chance to vote for Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson for CMT Music Awards. Of course, Kelly’s got a nomination because of that splendid “Don’t You Want to Stay” duet with Jason Aldean, which climbed all the…
Hey, nice week on the Billboard charts for season five contestant Mandisa, the most successful Christian artist Idol has produced to date. Her third album had slipped to number eight on the Christian album chart last week. This week, it rebounds to number three, trailing only “Awake” by Skillet and “Hundred More Years” by Francesca…
The show is nearly a year away, but four former American Idol contestants are coming to York in April 2012 as part of the 2011-12 season announced today by the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center. The show is a tribute to Motown, and it will feature Michael Sarver from season eight, David Hernandez from season seven,…
Jacob Lusk seemed the obvious choice to go home on American Idol this week. He got a lukewarm response from Idol’s easy-to-please judges when he tried singing both parts of the “No Air” Jordin Sparks/Chris Brown duet. His Wednesday night efforts got a rating of 6 — on a scale of 10 — from Idol…
This week, Haley Reinhart performed an unreleased song by Lady Gaga. At the urging of Jimmy Iovine. After getting the star’s blessing to sing it. Next week, Lady Gaga will be mentoring the Idols. Hold it? Another mentor in the year without mentors? Guess so. And I guess Gaga quickly forgave the show for that…
Well, what do you know? American Idol found itself a judge. He’ll praise when it’s merited. He’ll criticize when it’s merited. And he’ll do the latter without being mean. He just delivered on-point critiques for all 10 top five performances. He even rated one performer as a 6, which isn’t real good, on a scale…
