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Today’s Idol Appearances:

Jordin Sparks, Matt Morrison, Chelsie Hightower and Mark Ballas perform on “A Capitol Fourth” Washington DC, Airing on PBS stations at 8 pm (check listings)
Jennifer Hudson performs on Macy’s 4th Of July Fireworks Spectacular in NYC, airing on NBC, 9/8c
Alexis Grace, Michael Sarver and David Hernandez perform at the Red White & Boom fest – McKinney, TX
Bo Bice performs at the Heritage Festival, Slidell, LA
Casey James performs at Freedom Fourth, Albuquerque NM
Crystal Bowersox performs in Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta GA
Diana DeGarmo performs at Salute 2 America, Atlanta, GA. Diana goes on at 8:45 and it airs on Channel 2
Gina Glocksen performs at the Bolingbrook Golf Club, Bolingbrook, IL
Josh Gracin performs at Blaze at the Ballpark, Ogden UT

Pia Toscano has been added to the Interscope records website. Check it out HERE.

Popstar Magazine has posted a ton of videos and photos from the Summer With The Stars shows in Cancun Mexico last month. Ruben Studdard, Tim Urban, Aaron Kelly, Michael Johns, Chris Richardson, Brandon Rogers, Mikalah Gordon, Sanjaya Malakar, Kristy Lee Cook, Didi Benami and Anoop Desai took part. Watch HERE.

‘The X Factor’ sneak-peak set for MLB All-Star game

Now that American Idol’s on vacation, the lane’s wide open for music mogul Simon Cowell to pitch his new show to America. And what better time and place to do that than at the 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game on Fox? His singing reality competition, The X Factor, is getting a “world premiere preview” on July 12 just before the game at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

Is the next American Idol from Portland?

The good. The bad. The really bad.

They were all at the Rose Garden for the first ever American Idol auditions held in Portland.

Close to 7, 000 people performed for the reality show’s producers Saturday.

Season 7 Idol, Chikezie, will marry his fiance Linda Iruke on Sunday July 10 in Los Angles. Check out their online wedding site HERE. Of course, the wedding registry is included!

Kris Allen tweets, “About to work on a demo for Shut That Door (or whatever the title is). This song is so much fun!” “Shut That Door” is a new song Kris has been previewing in live performances.

Today’s Idol Appearances

Fantasia and Jennifer Hudson perform at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans LA. More information HERE.
Casey James to Billy Bob’s Texas, Fort Worth. More information HERE.
Lee DeWyze performs at Brighton Music Hall in Brighton, MA
Bo Bice performs at Choctow Casino in Pocolo, OH
Bucky Covington performs at Wild Bill’s in Duluth GA
Kellie Pickler performs at the Jam in the Valley in Los Angeles, CA
Ruben Studdard performs at Rogue Tavern in Birmingham, AL
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Season 9 Top 12 contestant, Lacey Brown is auditioning for The Voice. She tweets, “It’s official guys, I’m trying out for The Voice. But I wanna be on Blake’s team.”

Scotty McCreery shot a music video yesterday, now Lauren Alaina tweets that she’s on her way to shoot HER music video for her single “Like My Mother Does”, she tweets, “On my way to my video set for #lmmd (: im so excited! Glad its a pretty day”

Haley Reinhart tweets, “Weeeeee time for take off!! Season 10 tour.. Here we come baby” The Idols are heading to Salt Lake City to get ready for their first concert there on July 6.

Well, maybe not Scotty McCreery. Yet. He’s reportedly filming a music video for his “I Love You This Big” single in Los Angeles at 5 pm PDT today.

David Archuleta will appear on Good Things Utah… tomorrow on ABC Channel 4. 10 am MDT.

David Cook performs on Lopez Tonight
Brooke White performs in the Lot Cafe in Hollywood, CA
Bucky Covington performs at the Iron Horse Saloon in Ormond Beach, FL

David Archuleta will sing “God Bless America” at the Reebok 2011 Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game on July 9 at 6 pm. More information HERE.

Adam Lambert will appear at the VH1 DoSomething.org awards airing August 18 according to an official tweet.

‘American Idol’ Summer Tour Preview: Season 10’s Top 11 Interview Each Other (Video)

Scotty McCreery is looking shooting his music video in Los Angeles tomorrow at 5 pm. The casting agency put out a call for fans to take part in the shoot. Read the casting call HERE.

Via @RCAPromo: “New York Lee DeWyze fans! @LeeDeWyze will be performing “Beautiful Like You” tomorrow on “Good Day New York”! 9am EST on Fox!”

It’s Day 2 of the X Factor US live auditions in Seattle Washington. Follow all the action @TheXfactorUSA

David Cook wrote with Springsteen guitarist

Follow the XFactorUSA twitter for up to the minute reports from today’s X Factor live auditions in Seattle. The first show is just getting underway.

Carrie blogged to her fanclub members today that she’s officially starting to record. She wants to keep writing, but TPTB have OK’s a bunch of songs that are “solid as a rock” and ready to go. She’ll be working in the studio tomorrow. She also plugged David Cook’s new album in her blog! – reporting Windmills