Idol Headlines for 06/18/10 – The Evening Edition

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Tim Urban will be sleeping over at the If I Can Dream House this weekend. He’ll be staying in the guest room with cameras tonight and tomorrow night.  He’s set to arrive later tonight after Idol tour rehearsals are over. via Twitter.

Adam Lambert Phones In From The Road: The Glam Nation Press Conference

Adam Lambert certainly doesn’t phone it in onstage…but he’s not averse to phoning journalists while on the road with his Glam Nation Tour. So on Friday, June 18, while en route to his concert at the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Michigan, the Glamerican Idol conducted a telelphone press call with journalists to discuss his first solo tour, his new “If I Had You” video, and, of course, his latest hairstyle.

Check out full audio clips above of Adam’s entire press conference

Yahoo Music

‘American Idol’ Contestant Siobhan Magnus on Meeting Hanson, Corsets and Writing Music

Do you know what your tour set looks like yet? Are you going to do any Hanson songs?
I’m not, only because it just didn’t fit really with kind of the mood of my set. It’s only three songs and it just had to be just right. I can’t explain it, but I wouldn’t want it to be in the wrong context.

So it’s going to be kind of a darker set? Like you did with ‘Wicked Games’ on the show?
Yeah, it will definitely be something that I think the fans will like. I’m really excited for it.

Can you give away one of the songs you’ll be singing?
I’d rather not. I like to keep things surprises. But I am doing a song that came out really well on the show and I get to do the whole song and not just a minute and a half version. [Laughs] It’ll be a lot of fun.

TV Squad

More Headlines after the JUMP…

According to Jive Music, David Archuleta has a big announcement next week. Read the tweet.

David Archuleta will be appearing on the 3oth Annual Tejano Music Awards hosted by Paul Rodriguez on July 11,  at 7 pm in San Antonio TX.  Read more HERE.

A CAPITOL FOURTH (2010)

The multi-award winning A CAPITOL FOURTH will be hosted by Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Jimmy Smits, with unrivaled performances by some of the country’s best-known musicians, including multiple Grammy, CMA and ACM Award-winning country music superstar Reba McEntire; country music sensation Darius Rucker; singer David Archuleta (American Idol); actor and singer John Schneider; and renowned classical pianist Lang Lang with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of top pops conductor Jack Everly (additional talent to be announced). A CAPITOL FOURTH will air live in HD from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol before a concert audience of hundreds of thousands, millions more at home and to our service members around the world on the American Forces Network. A CAPITOL FOURTH can also be heard live in stereo over NPR member stations nationwide.

Airdate : 07/04/2010 Time : 8:00 – 9:30 pm
Airdate : 07/04/2010 Time : 9:30 – 11:00 pm

PBS

Adam Lambert ‘Caught Off Guard’ By Reaction To His Half-Shaved Head

“I was just talking about it with my makeup artist, who helped me shave a tiny piece of my hairstyle — it’s just 3 inches up the side of head! And it’s not bald, just very short,” Lambert laughed during a conference call Friday (June 18). “I didn’t think that was newsworthy! It caught me off guard and made me laugh that E! Online and MTV and People wanted to report on it. I’m flattered that they find it that important.”

MTV

United Airlines Launches Inaugural Flight Into Africa

United Airlines (Nasdaq: UAUA) launches its first-ever service to the continent of Africa on Sunday, June 20, with the 10:10 p.m. departure of United 990 between Washington and Accra, the capital of Ghana.

United 990, a Boeing 767 aircraft, will arrive at Kotoka International Airport in Accra the next day at 12:40 p.m. U.S.-bound service from Accra begins June 21 with the departure of United 991 at 11 p.m., arriving in Washington the next day at 6:25 a.m.

Joining United on the first flight will be The Honorable Daniel Ohene Agyekum, the Ghanaian ambassador to the United States and American Idol Finalist and recording artist, Elliott Yamin.

The Street

Kelly Clarkson’s Video Diary of her Trip to LA for the Idol Finale

Kellie Pickler on Her ‘Traditional Country’ Sound, Rascal Flatts Tour

Kellie Pickler loves to talk to her fans at Q&A’s and autograph signings, so at her CMA Music Festival event this year in Nashville, she decided to do both of the above and throw in an acoustic performance to boot.

Fox411 Country caught up with her at Opry Originals: The Shop on Broadway where fans were lined up outside the door for a chance to meet the former “American Idol” finalist, waiting to get their stuff signed, bringing everything from photos of the country star to red high heels.

Fox News

David Hernandez’s Upcoming Performances

Season 7 finalist David Hernandez has a very busy couple of weekends ahead of him. This Sunday, June 20 at 7pm, David will star as Prince Charming in a modernized version of Cinderella called “Cinderella Rock.” The musical was written and directed by Season 9 semi-finalist Todrick Hall and it will be held at The Majestic Theatre in Dallas, Texas. For tickets, visit LiveAtTheMajestic.com.

Then, David will dart to the west coast and perform at the world famous Viper Room in West Hollywood, CA on Saturday, June 26th at 7:30pm. The show will include original material off David’s upcoming album, and artists Dezmond Meeks and Joey Sykes will also perform. To get tickets to the show, visit dezmondmeeks.com.

AmericanIdol.com

Bonus ‘Idol’ sales numbers: Kelly Clarkson, Adam Lambert, Fantasia, more.

Several of you have been asking for information on American Idol albums and tracks that aren’t currently on any of the Nielsen SoundScan charts I see each week. SoundScan graciously has provided information on some of those releases.

USA Today

Taylor Hicks talks about the BP oil spill on MSNBC (from earlier today)

BWW TV: Young & DeGarmo ‘Dance on Broadway’ on the Wii!

On June 11, HAIR stars (and former American Idol alums) Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo teamed up with Ubisoft for the launch of Ubisoft’s Dance on Broadway video game for the Wii at the Nintendo Store at Rockefeller Center. Young and DeGarmo hosted a meet-and-greet with fans where they played the video game – which includes the songs “Aquarius” and “Let the Sunshine In” from HAIR – and gave BroadwayWorld a special demonstation, competing against one another for ‘Dance on Broadway’ champion of the day. (Young went undefeated).

Broadway World

EXCLUSIVE! Ryan Seacrest Invites Sasha And Malia Obama To ‘American Idol’ During Dinner With Mom Michelle!

“Michelle was at the restaurant having dinner with four other adults, including her handlers, and her daughters. They were left alone and in privacy. People who had pre-existing reservations were allowed to keep them, but anyone coming in off the street was asked to go to an adjoining pizza joint,” an insider tells HollywoodLife.com.

Cue Seacrest. “Word got out that Ryan was in the building, and the daughters wanted to meet him. They noticed him right away,” says our source. “Which was arranged. Ryan invited the whole family to a future taping of American Idol, which they were over the moon about.

Hollywood Life

Thousands show up for Archuleta book signing

REXBURG — If you thought David Archuleta could only pack a concert hall, you should have been at Deseret Book Thursday evening.

Fans swarmed to get their copies of Archuleta’s book “Chords of Strength” signed, in what was the largest crowd the store has ever seen.

“The line goes down to Odell’s (Furniture), and has for 2 hours solid,” said Mike Jenkins, store manager, after the signing had started. “My guess is several thousand people will come through by the end of the night, probably 2 or 3.”

He wasn’t far off. According to Deseret Book employee Ashley Jensen, 1,500 to 2,000 people came through the store Thursday after Archuleta started signing at 6 p.m., though official numbers won’t be available until next week. Jensen also said 233 copies of Archuleta’s book were sold on Thursday, numbers she said were, “definitely above normal.”

Rexburg Standard Journal

 
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  • LK10

    I am dying that I can’t go to the Rexburg DA concert tomorrow night! I will just have to hear about it from others….. :(

  • dhunken

    steph6449:
    06/18/2010 at 10:59 pm

    TodaysCountry: Check out @DannyGokey ’s new video for ‘I Will Not Say Goodbye.’ This is one very powerful video. Well done Danny. http://bit.ly/ckwKnt

    This is a powerful video and Danny sounds amazing on it. I think this is one of the best vocals Danny has done. He really has come into his voice since the end of Idol. I am extremely pleasantly happily impressed. Thanks for posting steph6449.

  • cookcricket

    Nope! It wasn’t Taylor I was being critical of, but the media and their habit of trying to make celebrities more authoritative than they actually are. The opinion of celebrities outside their specific areas of expertise isn’t a whit more valuable than the opinion of your average “man on the street.” If the celebrities are big enough, the visual media especially will often feature them more prominently than true experts in some matters.

    Please excuse the tirade. It’s a pet peeve of mine.

    Oh larc, I think I love you!! Here, here!!!

  • cookcricket

    Goodness, I wish something would be confirmed with this whole Casey/Bachelor thing. I just can’t see him agreeing to do this if he knows what it’s all about.

    On the other hand he could bring some actual class to the show, and um, I’d probably tune in…

  • mozart4898

    dhunken:
    06/19/2010 at 1:07 am

    This is a powerful video and Danny sounds amazing on it. I think this is one of the best vocals Danny has done. He really has come into his voice since the end of Idol. I am extremely pleasantly happily impressed. Thanks for posting steph6449.

    Lol like I’ve said…Danny was my favorite during my not-so-invested time of watching in S8. Pimped backstory or not, he’s got a wonderful voice and that song really shows it (I think the video is stretched too long with the addition of the other audio clips – not that they don’t fit, but I think it gets to be too much). I think I’m gonna be buying his album here quite soon…what I’ve heard, I’ve liked quite a bit.

    Casey on the Bachelor…I don’t really see how it would actually ruin a musical career for him, but I *do* see how some people would start to see him as a reality TV fixture or something. Doesn’t much matter to me either way – I wouldn’t watch the show except maybe once or twice if I was bored, and if he does get a recording contract and I like his music, I might buy it…him going or not going on that show wouldn’t change that for me.

  • Nina1

    Goodness, I wish something would be confirmed with this whole Casey/Bachelor thing. I just can’t see him agreeing to do this if he knows what it’s all about.

    If he ever actually did this, I would be excruciatingly disappointed in him. It would kinda indicate the “15 minutes” is more important than the music. I don’t believe this is true. He is not culturally mainstream enough for it to work for the producers. He’s a musician, not an insurance broker! As of now he has no money and possibly no suit. Nah, this is just a funny… and it did make me laugh.

  • Nina1

    I don’t really see how it would actually ruin a musical career for him,

    Picture Casey strumming romantic songs to various beauties in candle lit settings, as he gazes deeply into (all of) their eyes. The Bachelor is seriously cheesy. Makes Idol look like the Met. or Shakespeare. Or something.

  • girlygirl

    Saturning morning mediabase update:

    POP

    49 44 Adam Lambert If I Had You 641 520 121 2.026
    +20 spins
    +23 bullet
    +.104 AI

    75 64 Kris Allen The Truth 234 141 93 1.232
    +15 spins
    +17 bullet
    +.012 AI

  • TwigLA

    It was a perfect example of celebrities being “groundlessly” considered by the media to offer an opinion.

    I was really impressed when Kris was interviewed before one of his concerts at either a radio or TV station last week and asked to comment on the Gulf spill situation. He said he doesn’t have all the facts and has been too busy with the tour to keep up with all that is going on, so he was not in a position to comment. He did say he thought it was a terrible situation.

    Girlygirl, nice to see that jump for ‘The Truth’. I still would like to know which version is charting and if they are combining them in both airplay and sales. I hear more and more stations are playing the album version.

    Re: Casey on the Bachelor. I think it’s bogus and some fan generated pipe dream. I think it’s a terrible idea.

  • BootStar

    Chris Harrison was obviously joking about Casey. He tweeted virtually the same thing about Ryan Seacrest being “the Bachelor” the day before. Harrison was hosting Ryan’s “Purse Party,” where Casey was the guest performer that day. It was just a joke.

    If you’ve watched any interviews with Casey lately he comes across as VERY frustrated that he’s busy doing stuff that isn’t music. He constantly says he’s a “musician,” that’s what he’s been doing every day for the past 10 years, and that’s what he wants to be doing *right now.*

    Casey on The Bachelor? That’s about as likely as Adam Lambert landing his own show on Fox News.

  • steph6449
    This is a powerful video and Danny sounds amazing on it. I think this is one of the best vocals Danny has done. He really has come into his voice since the end of Idol. I am extremely pleasantly happily impressed. Thanks for posting steph6449.

    Lol like I’ve said…Danny was my favorite during my not-so-invested time of watching in S8. Pimped backstory or not, he’s got a wonderful voice and that song really shows it (I think the video is stretched too long with the addition of the other audio clips – not that they don’t fit, but I think it gets to be too much). I think I’m gonna be buying his album here quite soon…what I’ve heard, I’ve liked quite a bit.

    Hope you do check it out.
    Danny’s even better live. If he ever comes near you for a concert date, go see him! Very fun, entertaining show and he consistently sounds great in live performance.

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