Lauren Alaina performs at Tuscaloosa Amphitheater in Tuscaloosa, AL.
Scotty McCreery performs at Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach, VA.
Scott MacIntyre performs at 100 Huntley Street in Toronto, Canada.
Jason Castro performs at The Door in Dallas, TX.
Constantine Maroulis performs in Jekyll & Hyde The Musical in La Mirada, CA. Via AmericanIdol

Casey James sings “Crying On a Suitcase” on The VH1 Big Morning Buzz 10 am.

Glee Season 4 premieres tonight with ‘The New Rachel” in its new 9/8c pm time slot on FOX

American Idol Star to Rock the Finish Line Concert in Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA – September 7, 2012 – The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon announced today that American Idol star Haley Reinhart will headline the finish line concert on Sunday, September 16, following the 13.1 mile block party taking place throughout the streets of Philadelphia. Cobra Starship, who was originally slated to play, canceled due to a scheduling conflict. – Read more at Run Rock and Roll

Casey James To Appear on ‘Better’ And Reveals The Reason For His Long Hair – 19/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE artist CASEY JAMES will appear on MEREDITH CORPORATION’s syndicated television show “Better” on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th. He is expected to perform his current single, “Cryin’ On A Suitcase.” JAMES recently revealed that he is a big supporter of the non-profit organization “Locks Of Love.” As a matter of fact, the only reason that he initially grew out his signature curly blonde hair, was to donate it to the organization. Prior to his time on AMERICAN IDOL, JAMES was more frequently seen sporting a shorter ‘do around his hometown of FORT WORTH, TX. – Read more at All Access

Fashion Week NYC: Cyndi Lauper Sings, Adam Lambert Debuts Silver Hair – The end of New York Fashion Week is near, and the Tuesday (Sept. 11) shows brought an exciting array of Lady Gaga-worthy fashions and hip ’80s pop looks that prove girls still just want to have fun. Read on to see which musicians scoped out the Betsey Johnson show, who debuted a new single at the ELLE and Style 360 show, and which “American Idol” alum dyed his hair silver. – Photo with Paris Hilton at Billboard.com

Adam Lambert Switches Up His Outfit Three Times In One Day At NYFW – Sure, we’ve seen TONS of celebs at fashion week sporting their finest designer duds all over Lincoln Center, but we hadn’t seen anyone switch up their ensemble more than once a day until *drum roll* Mr. Adam Lambert. Yesterday he changed outfits not once, not twice, but THREE times within the daylight hours, and for that, we need to bow down, y’all. He started off his Tuesday wearing a distressed gray suit jacket paired with a black button-up shirt and brocade pants. He accessorized with spiky black boots, circle sunglasses (that he wore in his suit pocket), stacked rings, and silver earrings. His beauty game was on lock (per usual) with his sleek and styled silvery hair paired with dark brows, a bit of mascara, and black nail polish. Me-ow! – Read more at MTV.com

Simon Cowell talks ‘X Factor’ Season 2 changes from Britney to Demi – Always the consummate pitchman — Cowell is even putting his “X Factor” muscle behind a newly released set of Sony/Syco headphones, not coincidentally called X Headphones — the “American Idol” favorite is optimistic about the new energy contributed by Spears and Lovato, as well as the storytelling potential introduced by the absence of hosts for the first chunk of the season. Watch the video to hear when Cowell knew “X Factor” would require a reboot, as well as his explanation for the host-less format. – Read more at Hit Fix

He’ll need more garage space: Simon Cowell splashes out on his second Ferrari in a year – Simon Cowell’s lavish spending habits were laid bare in Tom Bower’s book of the music mogul, and it seems he’s not changing his cash-happy ways. He’s seemingly splashed out on a new silver Ferrari 458 Italia – just months after buying a similar black model for around £175,000. The sleek silver vehicle was spotted parked outside his Los Angles mansion. – Read more at Daily Mail

‘Glee’ Premieres Tonight: Here’s All The Season Four Scoop! – “Oh gosh! I don’t know! Bring a book to set cause there’s lots of down time,” he said. “No, there was [sing alongs]. For like the first day [there was], but that got old after the first day,” he joked. “But, no, it’s not quite the Julliard utopia that people think it is on set. No, once we’re done singing in front of camera, we’re like ‘Oh lord! I need a nap.’ We’re not like ‘Oh, where can I sing some more?’” – Read more at MTV

Glee Co-Creator Ian Brennan: Season 4 Feels More “Adult” and Goes Back to Basics – That’s the word Glee co-creator and executive producer Ian Brennan uses to describe the summer of 2011 when it was reported that stars Lea Michele, Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith would be among the graduating seniors and would not be returning Season 4. “I was like, ‘I can’t believe this is such a huge deal,’” Brennan tells TVGuide.com. “We had to do a lot of reassuring to people: Not only are you not going to miss any of the characters you love this season, but we’re probably going to follow them when they graduate. It was more of a nuisance than anything.” – Read more at TV Guide

‘Glee’ Co-Creator Ian Brennan: The Show ‘Has a New Lease on Life’ – Glee’s much-ballyhooed fourth season kicks off Thursday night as the Fox musical unspools its split location format with story lines from a proposed spinoff set in New York infused with the dramedy’s central home in Ohio. The mild reboot will see the show’s core characters — Lea Michele’s Rachel Berry, Chris Colfer’s Kurt Hummel and Cory Monteith’s Finn Hudson among them — leave the confines of Ohio and venture out into the real world, following through on a lofty goal that was established in the pilot. – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

 
  • Larc

    It would be funny if Idol drops a big bomb with their announcement and nobody that has been mentioned so far except Mariah will be on the panel.  I doubt they could have managed to arrange everything so secretly, but it would probably cause more buzz than anything else they could do.

  • Incipit

    Well, they only have one more day left to make their ‘Big Announcement’ this week. The longer they wait, the more they will be scooped…and it turns into a ‘Big Yawn’ – since everyone already knows.  

    Eh. Tired of the Circus. Not interested in The Voice or XFUS – they can cannibalize each other. I’ll probably check back when AI is actually going to go live…see if this is a year to watch the show.

    Meanwhile, 

    David Cook told someone at the Summerfest M&G that he would be playing in the Chris Evert Pro/Celeb Tennis thing again – (those games are a hoot) and here he is on their participants page - 

    Chris Evert/Raymond James Pro/Celebrity Tennis Classic Participants - October 26th – 28th, 2012 

    - so that’s for sure three dates he won’t be in Singapore in October. Heh. The last two yrs, David has gone straight from this event to The RMDH event in NYC – last year, Archie was also there. I’m thinking it’s possible DC will do that again too.

  • Larc

    But they haven’t announced it.  Unless Katie got some inside info, there’s no way she could know for sure.  If the 4 she named are definitely in, I’m thinking I won’t like 50% of the panel.  Well, I really like Randy, but not as a judge.  He’s already proved over 11 seasons that he’s no good at it.  Nicki may surprise me, but I expect her to be obnoxiously classless.  With any luck, the pluses of Mariah and Keith will be able to overcome the negatives of Nicki and Randy.

  • mjsbigblog

    LOL. That’s just Katie Couric repeating the reports! How would Katie have inside info? She knows as much as the rest of us.

    That’s Zap2it TROLLING TROLLING TROLLING for hits.  LOL. 

    Katie was using a reporters trick. She was prolly hoping Jlo knew something and would spill something official.

  • jersey

    Not sure where to post this so I chose the headlines thread :-). Pentatonix is on tour and I saw them at B B Kings in Manhattan last night. Here is a picture of the crowd that Mitch posted using

    http://instagram.com/p/PhYWn-iZ0H/

    If you get a chance to go see them,GO. They put on a fantastic show! Their sound fills the room. Their vocals are amazing. The place was packed and the crowd was very mixed. I would say there were slightly more women but not by much. All ages. A few kids but mostly over 21 crowd. You also wil not feel out of place of your in, say, your 50′s :-).

    They did a medley of songs from the sing-off, some original stuff from their EP, and plenty of other covers. They also gave a break to Scott, Mitch and Kirsty while Kevin and Avi lead an audience participation song. Fun. They sang happy birthday to an audience member with Pentatonix style and thrilled one audience member by bringing her up on stage and singing “Let’s Get It On” to her, by Marvin Gaye.

    ETA: Sorry, ipad crapped out on me! Try again from my laptop! The opening act was a woman named Julie Easterlyn. She’s originally from Georgia but now lives in Boston. I’m wondering if she was a Berklee student. Anyway, she was also fantastic. She’s a “loop artist”. She records her voice doing all kinds of gymnastics and layers her vocals over top of the sounds. Its pretty amazing stuff.

    MJ, I think they’ll be in Boston this week. If your not busy, (LOL) you might want to check them out. I took only crappy video on my iPhone so i have no vids to share, sorry.

  • jersey

    Double post.

  • Chris

    I think she will always have to be careful. Technique only gets you so far when the root cause is damaged vocal chords. She may have to go on self empossed vocal rest on off days, no jibber jabbering with friends or fans 24 hours before a concert. Basically if she wants to sing, that has to be the priority.

  • djafan

    moved :)

  • Jazz_11

    LOL.. So Katie Couric at ABC stole the thunder from Fox?? Wow… I’m imagining now the Fox network executives picked up the phone and calling Katie or her producers … What do you think you’re doing stealing our thunder??  It would be funny if Fox decided to have 3 judges than 4 judges.. OPPS..

  • Jazz_11

    Yay for Adam going to South Africa. Finally his fans get to meet or see his live performances. Happy for them!!

  • http://twitter.com/LexieONeill Lexie O’Neill

    Hmmm…we do recaps over at Idol Forums…can certainly share:))  Thanks for asking!

  • http://twitter.com/LindsayKempFan Not fit to print

    LOL! I would love to see that happen but journalists have no shame.

  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    I really enjoyed the Glee episode!

  • KelseyW

    That race concert will be Haley’s first time back in PA since the Idol tour. If only it took place in an area closer to where I live then I might be able to go. Sigh.

    It sounds like this is a great opportunity for Haley to introduce her music to new ears though. I can wait a bit longer to see her live again.