The two contestants with American Idol connections are still alive on Platinum Hit — the show where the voice doesn’t matter nearly as much as the song-writing. And where host Jewel and judge Kara DioGuardi will dish out more critiques in a minute of screen time than we got from all three Idol judges in…
Tim Halperin made the top 24 on American Idol in Season 10. And he might have missed out on Idol’s big stage, but he’s back with a new video. The video for “The Last Song” was released today, complete with some neat special effects, like Tim climbing into his piano. And he’s determined to get…
Apparently, actress Nikki Reed of Twilight fame showed up on the red carpet at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday night sporting a sparking engagement ring. And since she was in the company of American Idol finalist Paul McDonald, that’s led to lots of reports that the two of them are engaged. Paul confirmed the two…
For those who haven’t watched NBC’s The Voice to this point, here’s a primer on what’s happened so far. The concept: Four musician mentors — Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine — pick a team of eight contestants, then try to groom the winner of The Voice. How it started: Potential…
Kimberley Locke from Season Two of American Idol is about to release a new single and is asking fans to help determine which song gets released. Head here (or play the video below) and you can hear snippets of three new dance tunes recorded by the 33-year-old Kimberley, who finished third on Season Two of…
The new Billboard music charts were released Thursday, and they delivered good news for Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina. Scotty seemed shocked last week when told his single was number one on iTunes most downloaded chart. Well, his “Love You This Big” wound up debuting at number three among digital downloads on Billboards, following only…
As has become tradition with American Idol finalists, Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina appeared on Today’s summer concert series. This morning, Scotty performed his single “Love You This Big” while Lauren performed “Like My Mother Does.” The two also did a duet of “I Told You So.” That’s the Randy Travis song that he and…
When the new Bravo show “Platinum Hit” debuted Monday night, everyone knew there would be one strong connection to American Idol. After all, the two celebrity “faces” of the program are host Jewel and lead judge Kara DioGuardi, who spent two years in that role on Idol. And good ol’ Kara shows no shyness about…
The best way to sum up Tuesday’s episode of NBC’s The Voice would be to say that the voices won out over the flamboyant, at least in most cases. In the process, we were reintroduced to another likely front-runner, 22-year-old Jeff Jenkins from Jones Creek, Texas. Jeff looks in dire need of one of those…
