Kat Perkins, a Season 5 standout on The Voice, has a new single and fans will be delighted to discover there’s more new music to come. The single is a hard-driving rocker name “Drive,” and Kat told FM94 in Little Falls, Minn., that she approached it with a pretty simple mission. “Growing up in rural…
After Jonny Gray cracked the Top 12 on Season 5 of The Voice, he launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new album. You might say it went pretty well. Fans contributed more than $31,000 to the cause. This weekend, Jonny delivered the results: A 12-track album called “Promises Broke.” “After a year long wait…
Anthony Riley, the singer who dropped out of Season 8 of The Voice for personal reasons, has died at age 28. A close friend said Riley committed suicide, according to Philly.com. He was found in a Philadelphia apartment building on Friday. Named Philly’s Best Street Performer by Philadelphia Magazine in 2014, Riley looked like an…
Hudson is supporting marriage equality through a video released last week. The video is for her song “I Still Love You” from the “JHud” album she released back in September. In the video, a young man has invited his father to his wedding. But it isn’t until the last minute that the father decides to…
We’re less than a week away from the CMT Music Awards where Carrie Underwood will perform and has five nominations in three categories. Other singing shows stars figure to play prominent roles as well. American Idol judge Keith Urban has two nominations and is also among the country artists who will perform. And RaeLynn, formerly…
Kellie Pickler released a new single Tuesday and the song might be an indication that she’s going back to the pop-country sound that served her so well on her first two albums. The song is “Feeling Tonight” and it’s the first single from her upcoming fifth album. It’s also the first song she’s released that…
James David Carter planned to celebrate his birthday last week with the release of a new album. Well, that album finally hit iTunes Wednesday, more than a week later than expected. But fans of the former contestant on The Voice didn’t seem to mind. The album, “Songs on the Radio,” cracked the Top 10 on…
On The Voice, the finalists are typically the only contestants who get to record and release a single at the end of the show. In Season 8, there was one lucky exception: Mia Z, the 16-year-old from the Pittsburgh area who consistently impressed the show’s judges with her range and with her passion for singing…
Melanie Martinez has a knack for turning out music videos that turn into YouTube hits, and she’s done it again. The Season 3 standout on The Voice just released a new single “Pity Party” and its accompanying video. In about 24 hours, the video already has nearly 70,000 views. The song, released this morning, is…
have some catching up to do on releases I missed while blogging about American Idol and The Voice simultaneously this spring. Among the catching up: Juliet Simms, runner-up on Season 2 of The Voice, has released a video for her song, “End of the World.” You can check it out at right. It’s done throwback…
