Thursday night’s Atlanta, Georgia stop of the Jennifer Hudson/Robin Thicke tour had a few surprises.

Both Jennifer Holiday and Jen’s Season 3-mate Fantasia Barrino took the stage to perform duets with Jennifer.

Here’s Jennifer and Fantasia singing their duet “I’m His Only Woman” from Jennifer’s album, Jennifer Hudson. You’ll have to excuse the fanboys hyperventilating [...]

Kelly Clarkson appears to be freaking out some blue bloods in this 30 second sneak peek for her new video of her latest single, “I Do Not Hook Up.”

You can see the whole thing on MTV starting at 6 am Monday morning.

The American Idol Top 7 were on hand at Dodgers Stadium Thursday night to throw out the first pitch at the Dodgers vs Giants baseball game. Check out the pictures. Does anyone know the significance of #09?

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I’m not gonna make assumptions about Danny Gokey’s intentions.   Actually, I sorta don’t care what he’s up to in his off hours, but some of you might find this interesting.

Christian singer, Rachael Lampa, posted the following on her blog:

Anyhoozer, so I get a call that a fan of mine [...]

From Good Day LA–after the recap, Simon Cowell tells Terri Seymour in a post-results show interview that he thought this week was the only time for the save because Anoop Desai would have probably been in the bottom next week, and “I wouldn’t have wanted to save him.”

He also says despite making the decision [...]

Our own PJ was visiting LA and got into the Idol performance rehearsal on Tuesday, attended TV Guide’s Idol Tonight on Wednesday, and waited in the standby line for the Idol results show and managed to snag a spot in the mosh pit…

Read PJ’s behind-the-scenes re-cap right here..

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I won’t go too much [...]

David Cook to Run for Brain Cancer Charity

In the midst of a busy tour schedule, David Cook is planning to take a break à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ well, technically a run à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ for a cause close to his heart on May 3 in Washington, D.C.

Cook, 26, whose brother Adam has been battling [...]

Idol Season 5 contestant, Elliott Yamin, is out on the road promoting his new single “Fight For Love” from his upcoming album of the same name, due out on May 5th.

His first single, “Wait For You,” from his debut album Elliott Yamin was a hit, climbing to #13 on the Hot 100 back in [...]

I’m hearing from a reader who has a friend at tonight’s LA Dodgers baseball game that the Idols are there and got to throw out the first pitch!   Pretty sweet.

Speaking of the Top 7, Richard Rushfield told a group of post Idol chatters today on his LA Times

This is a little freaky.

When I first started this blog, back in November of   2005, I was in contact with an Idol auditioner named Miranda Tozier-Robbins who had made it in front of the judges at the Season 5 Boston auditions.   She blogged about her experiences HERE.

She had [...]

The new episode of Jon Peter Lewis’s American Nobody show is up

Check it out right HERE.

Scott MacIntyre has a secret on the latest installment of “Idol Recap in Crappy Pictures”.   Sky Elobar once again handicaps this week’s results (sorry Sky, you were wrong! Heh) and this week’s musical [...]

Kelly Clarkson sang the National Anthem at the New York Yankees opening game at their new stadium today.

Love me some Kelly, but she coulda nixed a few of those vocal runs…

Last night’s dramatic judges’ save of Matt Giraud means no contestant interviews or press conference quotes this afternoon.

So instead, I’ve got some post show coverage from FOX LA that has Terri Seymour discussing last night’s save with the judges.

Apparently the Kara and Paula really wanted to use the save, Simon Cowell not [...]

I’ll post my review of this week’s iTunes singles soon. In the meantime, here are some links to download (and links to video to re-watch the performances!)

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Allison Iraheta – à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t Want to Miss a Thing – [...]

So I did switch my pick from Anoop Desai to Matt Giraud, and I managed to join the list of 55 people who came in first in this week’s Idol Pool.

Congratulations to us all! Check out the list after the jump.

And a super congratulations to our current overall pool leaders:

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