American Idol runner-up Alejandro Aranda has announced a fall tour. A pre-sale for the nearly 30-date jaunt begins Tuesday at 10 a.m. (code: SCARYPOOL PARTY). Tickets go on sale to the public Friday at 10, and that tour includes stop in Philly (October 29) and Baltimore (Nov. 1). Alejandro is also dropping his first post-Idol…
Former Voice standout Noah Mac has a new song and a new sound. And this summer, he’ll have a new album too, called “Pretty Boy.” The new song is “All She Want Is Gold” and dropped Friday. “I can’t tell you how proud of this I am,” Noah wrote on Instagram. “This song specifically represents…
Season 1 Voice standout Nakia waited seven years after the show to release the Blues Grifters album he’d started working on before auditioning. That full-length album, featuring covers by blues greats, landed last summer. Now Nakia and The Blue Grifters are back just a year later with a six-song live album called “Real. Live. Blues.”…
LiLi Joy, the talented teen we met on Season 16 of The Voice, has released a debut single. The song is called “Sink” and comes alive thanks to a haunting vocal from LiLi. “‘Sink’ is about feeling trapped in your own head,” says the 16-year-old from Chino Hills, Calif. “You feel like there’s no way…
Kameron Marlowe dropped his debut single recently. It also wound up being the first song he ever wrote. The Season 15 contestant from The Voice said “Give You Up” was inspired by a phone call he got from someone with whom he used to be in a relationship. “She was talking to me and tried…
Brooke White’s new single “Calico” now has a matching music video. If you missed the single release from a couple of weeks back, “Calico” is short for California country. That’s the brand of music the former Season 7 American Idol standout will be serving up on her new album, also called “Calico ” and due…
With two straight number one country singles to his credit, Scotty McCreery has a new song on the charts. And Scotty released the music video for “In Between” this week. The video provides fans a glimpse at Scotty’s life, as he flies from show to show, interacts with his fellow musicians and enjoys family time…
Catie Turner is probably best remembered from Season 16 of American Idol for her quirky qualities. But the 19-year-old from Langhorne, Pa., just dropped her first post-Idol EP. One that should confirm that there’s an at-least-sometimes serious songwriter behind that offbeat personality. The six-song “The Sad Vegan” EP also takes Catie in more of a…
Answers are trickling in about Season 17 of The Voice. Fans of the show surely know by now that Adam Levine is out and Gwen Stefani is in. The Voice announced this week that the show will return on Monday, Sept. 23. And filming of the blind auditions will begin Monday. three months before the…
Melanie Martinez released her longest trailer yet — and her first snippet of music — from her upcoming “K-12” album and film. A one-minute teaser for the project aired during Monday’s MTV Movie Awards. The trailer features Melanie and her school mates on what appears to be a terrifying bus ride. At another point,…
