Hannah Goebel had turned four chairs in the blind auditions and looked like a potential front-runner on Season 14 of The Voice. But in the final battle round show of the season Tuesday night, Carson Daly announced the Nashville pop-soul singer-songwriter had left the show for personal reasons. Hannah took to Facebook after the show…
First of all, wouldn’t it be nice if The Voice mixed up the performance arrangement for the battle round once in a while? I mean, this is a show that decided the blind auditions needed to be freshened up and introduced a silly gimmick called the block. Yet every season, during the battle round,…
Britton Buchanan and Jaclyn Lovey were the youngest duo to take the stage Monday night on The Voice. They also scored one of the night’s biggest hits on iTunes. As of midnight, their cover of “Thinking Out Loud” had already cracked the Top 150 on the iTunes overall singles chart. It was also sitting…
The Voice paired up 12 singers during the third night of the battle round on Monday. But only three went home. That’s because another three — Miya Bass, Jaclyn Lovey and Kaleb Lee — were rescued from elimination by steals. That leaves just one steal — Alicia Keys has it — entering the final…
Just when I was about to applaud American Idol for cutting all the drama from Hollywood Week and focusing on the music, the drama returned. We had a group that couldn’t agree on a song. We had a group plagued by a stage mom. We had a group that stopped working together at one…
In one two-hour episode Monday night, American Idol breezed through the first two rounds of Hollywood Week. If you had trouble following who stayed and who went, this photo gallery might help. It includes singers featured on the opening day in Hollywood. I’ll be back later with recap of tonight’s show. THEY ADVANCED THEY DID…
At long last, Trent Harmon has announced a release date for his debut album. The Season 15 Idol champ will release “You Got ‘Em All” on May 19. The album will drop more than two years after Trent was crowned Idol on the show’s final season on FOX. That marks the longest gap ever between…
Kat Robichaud recently released a video tribute to one of her idols. And “A Song for David Bowie” — released March 15 — has already racked up more than 14,000 views on YouTube. “It was hugely cathartic for me to write this song and sing it on a beach with a bunch of other Bowie…
Manny Cabo from Season 9 of The Voice has released a new single with a special message. The song is called “Hate Has No Home Here,” and Manny makes it clear on Facebook that he’d like the song to become a movement. He wrote the single with Bonnie Warren, who he met at a songwriter’s…
American Idol introduced viewers to at least 11 more contestants who earned golden tickets during Sunday night’s final audition episode. But the show very little background on two of the night’s most impressive singers. When Mylon Shamble said she’d be auditioning with “Stand By Me,” the judges initially wondered if there wasn’t a more…
