The iHeart Radio festival begins tonight in Las Vegas. Adam Lambert takes the stage with Queen at around midnight, PDT. Keith Urban, Katy Perry, Elton John and more are on the bill. You can stream the whole thing live HERE.
Today’s Scotty McCreery lyric. Can you guess the song from his upcoming album, See You Tonight? “We can rock it out or we can lay low, get caught up in the night and the kissin’ slow.”
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Welcomes Paris Las Vegas Headliner Taylor Hicks For One-Night-Only Guest Performance Sept. 25 – “American Idol” winner and Paris Las Vegas headliner Taylor Hicks will take the stage with the smash-hit musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET on Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Harrah’s Las Vegas Showroom. Hicks will perform alongside the cast for a special encore during the show’s finale. Tickets are available for this one-night-only performance at the Showroom box office, by visiting MDQVegas.com or by calling (702) 777-2782. – Read more at Pitch Engine
Tim Allen is an Allison Iraheta Fan
Actor, Tim Allen, complemented Allison Ireheta on the Tonight Show last night. The American Idol season 8 alum has been sitting in with Ricky Minor and the band this week.
How NBC’s ‘Million Second Quiz’ Grabbed Personal Info From 300,000 People – To get on the show, hopefuls who might have hung up on pollsters or telemarketers fielded such questions as, “Tell us about the most important relationships in your life,” and “What would your friends say are your worst qualities?” They were asked about their highest level of education, their cell phone providers, whether they owned a lucky charm and what it was, and what clubs they belonged to. They were asked if they had experienced any setbacks in life, and whether they considered themselves street smart or book smart. – Read more at The Wrap
Carrie Underwood Closes Blown Away Chapter, Honored to be Soundtrack on Emmy Awards This Sunday – Carrie Underwood celebrated the #1 success of her song “See You Again” with a party in Nashville yesterday afternoon, and she said that song marks the end of the Blown Away chapter for her, but there would be no shortage of things happening this fall to keep her busy. “I have The Sound of Music, which I will be recording for that, and the Willie Nelson duet happening, and even some surprises along the way,” she teased. – Read more at The Country Vibe
Carrie Underwood celebrates 18th No. 1 single in Nashville – “It was such a blur,” Underwood said of her first No. 1 song “Jesus, Take the Wheel.” “I went from nobody looking twice at me to people on the street knowing my name, and they know a lot about me. I was like, ‘Oh, is this good? I have a No. 1.” I never followed charts. I just heard stuff on the radio and liked it and bought it. I never thought about whose No. 1 and how many weeks it was No. 1. I just assumed that happened for everybody. It was like, ‘This awesome. People are asking me questions and they seem to be happy for me so I should be happy, too.’ Now I know there’s so much more involved. There’s a lot of work, and I didn’t get to appreciate that in the beginning of my career as much as I do now.” – Read more at The Tennessean
Simon Cowell Quietly Shopping His Beverly Hills House For Sale – When Simon Cowell bought his Trousdale Estates home two years ago for about $15.5 million, the property wasn’t an active listing. And now, he’s apparently trying to sell the home the same way — as a pocket listing. Local agents confirmed to The Huffington Post that Cowell, Mr. X Factor, is allowing the 7,265-square-foot home to be shown to qualified buyers and is asking in the $20 million range. – Read more at Huffington Post
First Look: Nashville Flashes Back to Rayna and Deacon’s Dreamy Past — Plus: Angry Outburst! – ABC’s Nashville will flash back to Deacon and Rayna’s much happier days in its Season 2 opener (airing next Wednesday), then juxtapose that with the guitar player’s much darker present-day situation. In the first season premiere clip below, the country-fried drama revisits the soft-focused day Deacon that sprung a big ol’ surprise on his first-time CMA-nominated honey. – Read more at TV Line
Dancing with the Stars’ Bill Nye: The Judges Have Made Us the Underdogs – Did you think the judges were a little too hard on you? Nye: It took me about a day to get over it. It was not like, “Your posture still sucks, and you’re still pigeon-toed and you’ve got to work on that.” It was, “I just couldn’t wait for it to be over.” … Tuesday night, after the hours of funk, I went swing dancing. I went out dancing to remind myself that dancing is fun. – Read more at TV Guide
