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  • 'American Idol' Season 15 Recap/Review: Second Auditions Bring Back the Soul, Music

    American Idol's premiere week continued on Thursday night (Jan. 7) as the judges and the entire show's cartel moved on to Little Rock and San Francisco. This episode, logically, had less of a nostalgia factor and less hype surrounding it than Wednesday night's proper premiere, but the talent was far more consistent and impressive. There were plenty of Top 24 contenders in the mix.
  • Arcade Fire Tour, New Album Planned for 2017, According to Kickstarter Campaign

    Arcade Fire's last album Reflektor and its coinciding tour may only seem like a recent memory, but it seems like Win Butler, Regine Chassagne and co. are gearing up for a new tour and album next year. In a Kickstarter campaign for Haitian charity Ghetto Biennales, Arcade Fire offered up two pairs of VIP tickets for their next world tour, with an expected delivery date of November 2017.
  • Clay Aiken Slams 'American Idol' Judges, Season 15 Premiere as Worse Than a Root Canal

    Clay Aiken may have launched to fame on season 2 of American Idol, but he's no longer a big fan of the show. Despite appearing on the season 15 premiere on Wednesday night (Jan. 6) to help with the auditioning process, the "Invisible" singer live-tweeted the show and quickly dissed the current judges, Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban.
  • 'American Idol' Season 15 Recap/Review: Top 5 Auditions from Denver and Atlanta Premiere

    American Idol's 15th season is officially underway, and the show kicked off with a nostalgic flair that emphasized its own importance throughout American pop culture and the music industry over the last 14 years. Welcoming back alumni like Taylor Hicks, Kris Allen, Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard to help with the auditioning process, the show itself started with an emotional opening, featuring impressionable children and teens watching former Idols with and dream of being on the show themselves. No, shut up. You're the one crying.
  • Jack White's Early Song 'Itchy' Arrives Online with Third Man Records Vault Series

    Before Jack White went solo and played with The Dead Weather and The Raconteurs, there was The White Stripes. And, before The White Stripes, there was a Detroit rocker in the '90s who played with various bands and friends. Now, for the first time, fans of White's and of Third Man Records can hear music from this time with a newly resurfaced rare track, "Itchy."
  • Selena Gomez, Chris Stapleton Added to 'SNL' Season 41 Musical Guest Lineup

    Chris Stapleton won over the masses with his heartfelt performance alongside Justin Timberlake at the 2015 CMA Awards, and now the "Tennessee Whiskey" singer is gearing up to do it again on Saturday Night Live. On Tuesday (Jan. 5), SNL announced its full performance lineup for January and it includes Stapleton alongside Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Adam Driver as well as Selena Gomez with UFC fighter Ronda Rousey.
  • Kanye West Raps 'Gold Digger' in Full 'American Idol' Season 15 Audition [WATCH]

    American Idol has always been about making a superstar out of someone undiscovered, but for its 15th and final season, FOX enlisted one of music's biggest producers and rappers for his own shot at the Idol crown: Kanye West. After months and months of teasers and snippets, on Tuesday (Jan. 5), just one day before the Idol premiere, West's full audition with "Gold Digger" has arrived online.
  • Tori Kelly Covers 'Seventeen', Talks 'American Idol' Season 9 Rejection & 'Unbreakable Smile'

    Tori Kelly may be one of the biggest new names in pop music, with hit singles ("Should've Been Us," "Nobody Love") under her belt and a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, but things weren't always so easy for the 23-year-old star. On the cover of the February issue of Seventeen magazine, the "Hollow" singer opened up about her early career rejection, including a failed run on American Idol and managers thinking she was too "vanilla."
  • Shawn Mendes, Selena Gomez, Nick Jonas Top Forbes 30 Under 30 List

    If it seems like the music industry is being dominated by younger and younger artists and leaders, well, that may not be so far off. On Jan. 4, Forbes published its annual "30 Under 30" list featuring the biggest and youngest names in the game. Some of today's biggest artists such as Shawn Mendes, Selena Gomez, Fetty Wap, Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas made the cut for the 2016 edition.
  • Dave Cobb Taps Chris Stapleton, Miranda Lambert, John Paul White for 'Southern Family'

    Dave Cobb has had a massive 2015, with Chris Stapleton's debut album Traveller sweeping the CMA Awards and Jason Isbell's new album Something More Than Free racking up critical acclaim. Looking to the new year, the country producer will continue with his impressive output with his own compilation concept album Southern Family, which not only features Stapleton and Isbell but country favorites such as Miranda Lambert, Zac Brown and Shooter Jennings.
  • Taylor Swift 'Out of the Woods' Video Teased Ahead of 'New Year's Rockin Eve' Debut

    Taylor Swift dominated 2015, and she's looking to end the year with a bang. Tonight (Dec. 31), her sixth 1989 single "Out of the Woods" will debut on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest. Ahead of her new visual's premiere, the "Wildest Dreams" singer shared a snapshot of her clip, and it looks like it's going to be an intense, dirty and possibly gritty clip.
  • Kings of Leon's New Album on Way for 2016 as Band Records in L.A.

    Fans of Kings of Leon: get ready. A new album from the "Use Somebody" rockers seems to be on its way for 2016. This week, Caleb and Nathan Followill gave an interview ahead of their Nashville New Year's Eve concert and revealed that they have begun pre-production on their seventh studio album.
  • Harry Styles Solo? One Direction Singer Files Four New Songs as Lone Artist

    Zayn Malik may not be the only One Direction singer to go solo, it seems as though Harry Styles is eyeing his own career as well. In the wake of 1D's indefinite hiatus, the boy band's (arguably) biggest star has registered four new songs under his own name, fueling rumors that he's looking to release an album in the new year.
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