Two and a half years ago, Kelly Clarkson soared to number one with a pop-rock song about a guy she couldn’t do without. Now she’s hoping to do the same with what amounts to a kiss-off song. Kelly debuted her new single, “Mr. Know It All,” for fans through her website Tuesday evening. And, from…
Scotty McCreery released his new single — “The Trouble with Girls” — this morning on country radio. Perhaps more surprising was the news he shared in a phone call to WQRD, a country radio station in Raleigh, N.C. Scotty plans to go back to Garner High School for at least part of his senior year….
American Idol has announced one last chance to audition for Season 11, and it’s about as close to southcentral Pennsylvania as one could hope. The final audition city will be East Rutherford, N.J. The auditions will take place Thursday, Sept. 22, when auditioners will be asked to show up at the IZOD Center by 5…
Blake Lewis recently released a new single, “Til We See the Sun.” But this being Blake, the season six runner-up on Idol, we all know it can’t be that simple. There are, in fact, 10 versions of “Til We See the Sun” available on iTunes, including remixes, radio edits, etc., etc., including one that runs…
Crystal Bowersox will be performing in Pennsylvania in September, and fans of the season nine runner-up won’t be surprised by the event that’s bringing her here. Crystal will headline a “Rev It Up for Juvenile Diabetes” outdoor music festival and concert at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena in Bethlehem on Sept. 10. Also performing will be…
Carrie Underwood is closing in on her first number one country hit as part of a duet. “Remind Me,” off Brad Paisley’s “This is Country Music” album, moved up two spots this week on Billboard’s country singles chart. That means it passed Lady Antebellum’s “Just a Kiss” and the Zac Brown Band’s “Knee Deep,” leaving…
That loud thud you just heard was David Cook’s new album, dropping out of the Billboard 200 after only eight weeks. Ouch. I mean, that’s an awfully cool reception for a new release from a guy whose post-Idol debut went platinum (1,000,000 copies sold) in nearly the same amount of time. According to USA Today,…
Pia Toscano appeared on Good Day New York this morning to perform … what else, “This Time,” her new single and a song that seems destined to set some sort of performed-most-often-on-TV record. For American Idol fans, that wasn’t the big news to come from the Good Day appearance. Asked about her early ouster from…
Dance hit-maker David Guetta released a new single, “Night of Your Life,” Tuesday. And this one features former American Idol contestant and Grammy winner Jennifer Hudson. This morning, the song is number 31 on iTunes’ singles list, one spot above Guetta’s “Where Them Girls At,” which features Flo Rida and the red-hot Nicki Minaj. You…
Earlier this year, I wrote that Lacey Brown had just delivered the Idol musical surprise of the year with a startling good debut EP. We just got another surprise of the musical delight type, a six-track EP named “Gemini” from Jack and White. That would be White as in Brooke White, the singer-songwriter who finished…
