Well, Steven Tyler’s streak of critiques without a negative comment has hit 46. You know what? Tonight, I can hardly blame him. Hey, the Idols were good. Very good. Up until the last two performances, I was ready to call it one of the best Idol performance episodes ever. Perhaps and Idols are gaining skill…
Tired of waiting until November for each season’s American Idol winner to release an album. This year, you might not have to. At least that was the indication from Idol executive producer Ken Warwick during a conference call with the media this afternoon. Warwick said it’s possible the Season 10 champ’s album timetable will be…
First off, kudos to Ken Warwick, executive producer of American Idol. Unlike Nigel Lythgoe, he doesn’t deny the obvious. Idol has a gender problem. In a conference call with the media Wednesday afternoon, Warwick said voting in most reality shows is driven by “mums” and young girls. With the advent of text voting and, this…
Gotta say I’m looking forward to this week’s episode of American Idol. I mean it isn’t every week that the Idols are under orders to sing current music. In fact, the opposite typically happens. What was it Paul McDonald said last week? That he didn’t start performing music to make old songs sound new. Yet…
American Idol’s Season Six winner Jordin Sparks is back with a new single and a new video, which you can watch below. The song is called “The World I Knew,” from the Disney film “African Cats.” The film is a nature documentary centered on two cat families and how they teach their cubs the ways of the…
Whether you care about such programs or not, I’m sure you heard last week’s news that ABC cancelled two long-running soap operas, “All My Children” and “One Life to Live.” Well, one of the replacement shows will feature season two American Idol contestant Kimberley Locke as a co-host. The show is tentatively titled “The Revolution”…
While we await a new album from Daughtry, Chris and the guys have announced plans to release the “B Sides” from “Leave This Town” as a CD next month. The seven-track CD will be available May 10 through Daughtry’s website. Pre-orders are being taken now. The CD will include six tracks previously available for download,…
I hardly made a secret of the fact that I wasn’t a fan of Constantine Maroulis’ rendition of “Unchained Melody” on American Idol earlier this month. For one thing, I couldn’t understand why Idol would invite the star of Broadway’s Rock of Ages to perform on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame night and then…
Congratulations go out to Mandisa, whose new album debuted at number two on the Billboard Christian albums chart this week. The only album above her on the chart is “Until the Whole World Hears” from the Casting Crowns, the Atlanta-based band that has topped Billboard’s year-ending Christian album chart for the past two years. Mandisa’s…
Paul McDonald had a little more seasoning than your typical American Idol contestant. He’d been lead singer for the Hightide Blue, later renamed The Grand Magnolias. The former released two EPs — a total of 10 tracks — between 2007 and 2008. The latter released a CD just last year, touting its sound as “a…
