As of noon eastern time Tuesday, seven of the nine songs available from Monday’s Season 14 premiere of The Voice were already charting on iTunes. Drew Cole, the 25-year-old bartender from Los Angeles, was number 12 on the iTunes rock singles chart with his version of “Sex and Candy” by Marcy Playground. Britton Buchanan was…
Mitchell Lee, a Season 13 standout on The Voice, dropped his first single since the show on Monday. It’s a heartfelt song called “Already Gone” about a man realizing the relationship he’s in has run its course, even if he and his lover haven’t run up the white flag yet. Mitchell told Voice Views “Already…
The battle for spots on Season 14 of The Voice begins Monday night. The battle for viewers begins two weeks later when ABC launches its version of the once-mighty American Idol. From the research I’ve done on rumored contestants over the past month, The Voice has assembled another talented cast of singers, many of whom…
As young as they still are, The Swon Brothers are yearning for the good old days when there wasn’t so much animosity. And that’s the focus of the new single they dropped Friday called “What Ever Happened.” The song is the first The Swon Brothers have released in which they were the sole writers, Colton…
Almost seven years has passed since Clarissa Serna released her debut album. You might say the young woman from Corpus Christi, Texas, has learned a thing or two in the interim. “I’ve become more brave in the studio and am learning to care less about how my lyrics will be perceived by others and more…
Moushumi, a Top 20 contestant from Season 10, is working on her first post-Voice album. And she’s launched a KickStarter campaign with hopes of releasing that album later this year. With four days to go in the campaign, she’s nearing her goal of raising $10,000. As for 2 p.m. Saturday, pledges totaled nearly $8,700. Based…
The only mother-daughter duo ever to appear on The Voice released a fun new single Friday. It’s a female empowerment tune called “Queen Bee” that has all the sass of some of the previous releases from 2Steel Girls. But it also has more blues and a little less country twang. “We are country folks,” Allison…
The duo known as Plake released a new single called “Cold Vibes” on Friday. On it, former Voice standout Hunter Plake proclaims he’s got better things to do than waste his time with a woman giving him nothing but cold vibes. This marks the second official single from Hunter and brother Dakota since Hunter finished…
Over the past few days, I’ve been posting blogs about singers rumored to have made it onto Season 14 of The Voice. There were several singers for whom I couldn’t find much background information, at least not enough to do a separate blog. Below is a bit about five of those contestants — DR King,…
His audition: Johnny Bliss, 26, of New York, N.Y., performed “Preciosa” by Marc Anthony, delivering the entire song in Spanish. Adam Levine turned within the first few notes, eventually followed by all the other coaches. But Adam blocked Kelly Clarkson, meaning Johnny couldn’t choose her. He decided to join Team Alicia Keys. His background: Johnny…
