Idol surprised us with guest stars two weeks ago, when Stevie Wonder and Hulk Hogan showed up on stage with the contestants. Idol surprised us with group performances last week, with a pair of duets, a trio and a debut performance by the Band on the Run (James Durbin, Casey Abrams, Paul McDonald and Stefano…
That’s just great. I thought maybe Steven Tyler would watch his judging colleagues and decide to judge someone one of these days. Instead, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson decided to mimic the resident rock star on rock and roll night and praise every single performance. The closest the judges came to criticism Wednesday night —…
Rock and roll Hall of Fame night arrives on American Idol. Which means tonight’s show should be a ballad-free zone. Which couldn’t come at a better time since two of our top three contestants — Pia Toscano and Scotty McCreery — seem stuck in ballad land. And since two popular guys — Casey Abrams and…
Update: “Holy Bananas! My album out tomorrow!” So tweeted Kimberly Caldwell earlier today. Holy, bananas indeed. It’s been eight years since she was eliminated from Idol. Eight years waiting for a debut album. That’s a lot of anticipation. Her interview about the album is still available at Walmart Risers, where you can order the album and…
Paul McDonald is still battling to become the Season 10 American Idol. But that didn’t prevent the Grand Magnolias, the band he performed with pre-Idol, from releasing a new single Tuesday to benefit the relief effort in Japan. In fact, the endeavor is likely to be a whole lot more successful because the band’s former…
A night after her rousing duet with Steven Tyler at the Academy of Country Music awards show, Carrie Underwood was back on stage in Las Vegas Monday night. This time she was being honored — one of several female country artists saluted during the filming of “ACM Presents Girls’ Night Out: Superstar Women of Country.”…
American Idol’s most successful Christian artist releases her third CD Tuesday. Make it her fourth if you count Christmas CDs. Mandisa is back with “What If We Were Real,” an album she called her most honest yet in an interview earlier this year with the Associated Press. Frustrated by weight gain, Mandisa says she started…
There’s a lot to look forward to this week on American Idol. For starters, it’s rock-and-roll Hall of Fame week, which means the steady diet of ballads we’ve been served so far in the finals should come to an end. Oh, and you know all that filler footage we’ve had to sit through the last…
Well, Carrie Underwood won’t win a third straight Entertainer of the Year crown at the Academy of Country Music Awards tonight. But she provided an early and unexpected highlight for the show, when she showed up on stage with red streaks in her hair and launched into a two-song duet with Idol judge Steven Tyler….
Her first name means exotic flower, and Naima Adedapo certainly brought some freshness to American Idol during Season 10. Unfortunately, that originality also included a reggae version of Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing” that didn’t register with the judges or Idol’s voting public. And so Naima was eliminated from Idol Thursday night, though she will…
