For those country music fans who might have forgotten: Scotty McCreery is performing in the area Thursday night. The Season 10 Idol winner is performing an 8 p.m. show at the American Music Theatre. And while the orchestra seating for the show is essentially sold out, plenty of good tickets remain. Tickets are $69, and…
One of the more bizarre career twists for a top-finishing American Idol finalist came after Season 8, when Danny Gokey “went country.” OK, he sang a couple of country tunes on the show — “I Hope You Dance,” “Jesus Take the Wheel.” But he was known mostly as a singer of blue-eyed soul. It’d be…
Cassadee Pope fans will find a new song available for download Tuesday (July 8) on iTunes. The song is a cover of “Animal in Me” and it’s part of a tribute album to Motley Crue by the Nashville Outlaws. That’s right, less than two years removed from winning Season 3 of The Voice, Cassadee hasn’t…
The Philly area singer who made it all the way to the Top 8 on Season 6 of The Voice has launched an indiegogo campaign. Audra McLaughlin, 22, is looking to raise $25,000 in the next two months. She’s hoping to use the money to travel to Nashville to write and record music. She’s even…
Kris Allen will release a new album, “Horizons,” next month. Pre-sales begin tomorrow (July 8) on iTunes. Those who pre-order get an instant download of the first single, “Prove It to You.” And it’s a tender and lovely first single, featuring harmonies by a Russian singer named Lenachka and proving that you don’t have to…
The 2Steel Girls from Season 3 of The Voice are planning a new album. And they’re looking for help financing it via a Kickstarter campaign you can learn about here. That campaign has a goal of $22,000 and had raised $6,000 as of Monday morning. The drive continues until July 21. 2Steel Girls is the…
This week brought a new single from Season 2 Voice contestant RaeLynn. And tomorrow night, the 20-year-old country artist is the headliner at the Moon Township Independence Day Celebration outside Pittsburgh. RaeLynn — real name Rachel “RaeLynn” Woodward — was the very first artist we met on Season 2. Then 17, she auditioned with “Hell…
They might not be a couple anymore. But that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped making music together. I’m talking about Paul McDonald from Season 10 of American Idol and actress Nikki Reed of Twilight fame. They’ve just announced that they’ll be releasing a debut album, “I’m Not Falling,” next week (July 8). It’s already available for…
rowdy Miranda Lambert-Carrie Underwood duet “Something Bad” appears on Miranda’s new album. But the concepts for the action-packed video for the song apparently came from Carrie, the good girl who frequently takes on a dark side when it comes to music videos. CMT posted an interview with Trey Fanjoy, director of the “Something Bad” video…
The post-Voice debut album from Tessanne Chin landed today. “Count On My Love” features 10 tracks, including a pair that had previously been released as singles — “Tumbling Down” and “Everything Reminds Me of You.” The reception? As of 11 a.m., the album was sitting at number 10 on iTunes albums chart. It was number…
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