Album release day has arrived for James Durbin, and fans are apparently loving what they’re hearing. The Season 10 rocker’s debut album — Memories of a Beautiful Disaster — is available for download today (at iTunes, you get two bonus tracks) and will hit stores tomorrow. James co-wrote five of the album’s 11 base tracks. …
Anyone who can do basic math knew this was coming. It’s double elimination week on The X Factor, where I imagine producers decided we need twice as much motivation to tune in since it’s Thanksgiving week. Or maybe they decided we needed twice as much motivation to tune in again after that Rock Week farce….
There wasn’t a single American Idol nominee at the American Music Awards Sunday night. But that didn’t mean they weren’t present for the annual event. The evening’s performers included Daughtry, which has a new album this week, and Kelly Clarkson, who just released her fifth. And the evening’s presenters included Adam Lambert, who turned in…
Adam Lambert has announced that his second studio album will be released in the spring of next year. The album will be called “Trespassing” and will feature a song by the same name that he wrote with Pharrell, Adam told fans via Twitter last night. Today he revealed the name of his first single from…
Not surprisingly, Stacy Francis spent most of her Friday conference call with the media talking about that bizarre eliminaton episode of The X Factor rather than her career moving forward. On one hand, she was hoping Astro’s attitude might buy her at least another week in the competition. On the other, she reminded people that…
Simon Cowell got it wrong. Again. Near the end of Thursday’s results episode of The X Factor, he justifiably scolded the kid rapper known as Astro for his attitude. Then, instead of casting the vote that would have turned Astro’s fate over X Factor viewers, he decided to send him through to the top nine…
I was a little surprised to see this when I checked out the music charts Thursday morning. Without the benefit of a smash country single, Scotty McCreery’s “Clear As Day” album is outperforming Kelly Clarkson’s more recently released “Stronger” on the Billboard 200. Scotty dropped from 12 to 14 on the Billboard 200 this week,…
In an hour, we’ll be down to nine contestants on The X Factor. Who will be the show’s Rock Week victim? LeRoy Bell is my pick. Not because he did the worst last night. Far from it. But because he performed first on a two-hour show that moved at a snail’s pace and because all…
Dear Simon: Do away with theme nights on The X Factor. Please! For one thing, they make your show look like more of an American Idol knock-off than it already is. Then there’s this: Rock week was a mockery. Astro, aka Brian Bradley, still rapped. Chris Rene sang reggae. You had the gall to criticize…
A week ago, The X Factor looked like a three-contestant showdown between Drew Ryniewicz, Josh Krajcik and Melanie Amaro. Then LeRoy Bell performed “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Then Astro does his own version of the rap tune “Lose Yourself.” Then Rachel Crow pulls off a big — and utterly surprising —…
