The Voice Blind auditions were taped last week. The warm up comic Cory (same dude warms up Idol crowds) uploaded a few short videos of the crowd getting pumped up via music.

Call Me Maybe gets the crowd excited.

Tim McGraw Duets ‘I Like It, I Love It’ With Scotty McCreery as Surprise in Charlotte – Tim McGraw had a special guest at the Charlotte, N.C. stop of his Brothers of the Sun Tour on Sunday, June 24. After performing alongside wife Faith Hill in Nashville on Saturday, he brought out local boy-done-good Scotty McCreery to sing the second verse of ‘I Like It, I Love It.’ To say that it was met with a resounding applause from the crowd would be putting it mildly. – Read more at Taste of Country

Backstage Crash With Adam Lambert

Marcus D successfully backstage crashes Adam Lambert’s dressing room at Alice’s Summerthing at Golden Gate Park – June 24, 20

Alice 97.3

Adam Lambert Extra – This month’s Pride issue of GCN is now available on our app and in print across the country with our cover star Adam Lambert talking openly about his journey as an openly gay popstar. We got some great stuff from Adam that we couldn’t quite squeeze into the final piece so below check out Adam talking in detail about his new album, Pharrell Williams and his loyal fanbase. Still not enough Adam? We’ll have a track-by-track review of Trespassing online on Monday! – Read more at GCN.ie

‘The Voice’: Cee Lo Green Concerns Bird Activists With Cockatoo Plans – The singer is being urged not to replace his season two mascot — a cat — with an endangered bird species out of fear that stress from the show could cause the bird to self-mutilate. Cee Lo Green’s plan to judge the third season of NBC’s The Voice accompanied by a cockatoo is drawing heat from an animal rights group concerned about the bird’s welfare. – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

NBC Series Saved by Delayed Viewership – Negative reports about the performance of “Smash” generally took into account only how it had fared on the first nights that it was shown on NBC. As is now the case in prime time, however, a show’s true popularity can no longer be assessed by instant analysis. The first-place 18-49 ranking for “Smash” occurred in what is known as the “live+7” ratings, which include playback of recorded television shows over one week. On average, “Smash” added 2.5 million viewers over seven days of playback and averaged a 3.3 rating in the 18-49 category. No 10 p.m. network show did better in that category. Two CBS dramas, “Hawaii Five-O” and “C.S.I.,” each scored a 3.3 also.- Read more at The New York Times

 
  • Anonymous

    This isn’t bad, although I felt she got a little screetchy in her upper register

  • Axxxel

    Like “playful” Adam Lambert… usually he is a tad more serious in  interviews. Maybe he is just happy to be back on an US stage after being abroad for a short while.

  • YankeeFan08

    Billboard:  Adam Lambert Talks Gay Pride, Being a Reluctant Role Model

    http://bit.ly/OhHPBt

    Articulate and thoughtful as usual.

  • http://twitter.com/youtweetmetoo it’s me

    Yay, SMASH!

  • halo9125

    One has to wonder how these songs leak. No wonder it’s so difficult for artists to make money off of album sales.

    Having said that- I love this track, it sounds very current- wtg Pia :)

  • http://twitter.com/eilonwya10 Eilonwy

    Cee Lo rents his cat? Really? Does it mean he only has it when he’s on the show and the cat goes back to someone’s home or some animal shelter or pet shop the rest of the time?

    Cee Lo Green rents his cat: NY Post article.

    It’s a professional cat that hires out through a pet-acting service and has its own trainers. So while it has a home, it’s presumably working other jobs when not with CLG, rather than moping around, batting dispiritedly at catnip mice.

    ETA: According to the FAQ for the cat’s agency, ordinarily when one rents a cat, one actually rents a team of identical cats. One cat knows how to lie still, one cat knows how to walk from point A to point B, and one cat will allow itself to be held without ripping a stranger’s arm off. I now feel like I demand an awfully far-ranging variety of skillz from my lone amateur house cat.

  • fuzzywuzzy

    Jason Farol, Kelly’s remaining contestant on “Duets” has uploaded videos of him singing at a recent visit to the Little Company of Mary Hospital in San Pedro, Ca.

    Hallelujah:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi5V6yqW7qc

    Breakaway:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyusq9lDdCk&feature=relmfu

    He’s pretty good within a narrow range, and he still has problems in enunciating lyrics well. His voice almost disappears when the melody is too low.
     

  • http://twitter.com/tinawinabina Tinawina

    I don’t like that song for Pia.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/2GSMAIVVJS4KFW5L3XHBUO46DA LUCIE

    Scotty was so smiling when he came out last night with Tim. He looked as comfortable there as he would be in a small venue with 100 people. He is being acknowledged by his peers as well as the fans. 

  • OffLeash

    Fascinating! 

  • Anonymous

    That’s what always impressed me about Scotty. He doesn’t seem to be nervous at all no matter how big the event, occasion, or person he is singing with or to. People always say “don’t be nervous.” That is easy to say, but hard to do especially for a teenage kid who before Idol had played for only small crowds. Not being nervous is always hard to do for any artist no matter what age. Scotty always seems cool, calm, & collected which is amazing not just looking at the teenage contestants that come from talent shows, but new artists in general.

    IMO Scotty being able to not show nerves for 70,000 people like during CMA Fest means this is the career he was meant to have no matter what happens to him in the future.

  • Anonymous

    Cute interview with Adam.  I think I was smiling throughout the entire thing :-) 

    Adam seems very low maintenance with regards to his “demands”.  Carrots and crackers, that’s it?  He even brought his own water LOL

  • Anonymous

    LOL at the rented cat!

  • Anonymous

    I guess the Tacoma show was totally last minute. That bar is known for having local bands, and the local bands do their own marketing, hanging their own flyers etc. So, hopefully Girl on Fire has done it’s work! I wonder why they threw that show in at the last minute. Maybe to give them a chance to warm up before hitting the Canadian festivals. That concert is not even listed on James’ official website.

  • http://twitter.com/goneCountry33 Gadfly

    Actually Scotty said it was because of some contractual problem with another show he already booked that he cant perform with Brad in Raleigh

  • justmefornow

    Probably a warm up, I agree, since they’ve been off for a month. Maybe they’re trying out new material, didn’t James say originally they would be doing some other covers as well?
    Funny thing about “Girl on Fire”. They are signed to an Indie label ‘Hollywood Waste’ and are on their 3rd album.
    It’s amazing the amount of bands on Indie labels making music without national recognition. These Idols are truly given a golden opportunity with AI and need to make the most of it.

  • Larc

    Actually Scotty said it was because of some contractual problem with
    another show he already booked that he cant perform with Brad in Raleigh

    Thanks, Gadfly.  I hadn’t heard that.  I wonder if it’s a Raleigh performance.  The only one I know he has is at the NC State Fair in October.  That one has been sold out for months.  Scotty will be opening for Brad in Charlotte on September 14.

  • Anonymous

     Well I guess that explains why their name is as big as James’ on the poster.

  • http://twitter.com/Loretta31 Loretta

    Ahh Scotty was so into it with Tim.  Loved
    Like Kris cover of the Beach Boys
    YESSSSSSS James back on tour.  Come to NY please.
    Adam is so incredible in interviews.  I could listen and watch Adam just talk for hours.  Very entertaining.