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Posted: 01 Feb 2012 07:35 PM PST


'Idol' Goes to Portlandia: Put a Songbird On It!
Sadly, no one covered "Portlandia's" "Dream Of The '90s" theme on "American Idol" Wednesday night (how cool would that have been?), but the dream of the Idols was still alive in Portland this week. Sure, some auditioners' dreams got crushed, like the fast-food worker with the unfortunate/kinda-awesome name David Weed, who tried to take on [...]

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 06:12 PM PST


Week Ending Jan. 29, 2012. Songs: A "Super" Promotional Boost
Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" leaps from #8 to #2 in its sixth week. Clarkson has a pretty good promotional gig this weekend, which may help boost the song to #1 next week: Clarkson is singing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. This marks the first time in eight years that a [...]

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 06:12 PM PST


Watch 'Idol' Hopeful Brittany Zika Duet with Sara Bareilles
Brittany Zika has only received about four minutes of "American Idol" screentime so far, but already I heart this girl so hard. I loved her goofy personality and dorky horn-rimmed spectacles from the moment this "Tripster The Hipster" tripped while bounding into the Portland audition room Wednesday night,  and I was thrilled/relieved when she sang Brandi Carlile's "The [...]

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 04:07 PM PST


Don Cornelius Thank You For Fostering My Love Of Soul Music
Follow me on Facebook, Twitter. As a 1970s and 1980s kid who loved music, I was a big fan of pre-MTV dance shows "American Bandstand," "Dance Fever," and "Solid Gold." But I was addicted to "Soul Train." Wednesday's news of the tragic passing of "Soul Train" creator and original host Don Cornelius, who was only [...]

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 01:59 PM PST


Dia Frampton Shares Her Voice at Yahoo!
Underdog Dia Frampton may not have been able to stop Season 1 frontrunner Javier Colon's season-long run on "The Voice" last year. But the soft-spoken singer-songstress nearly pulled off an upset, as she was separated from Javier by only 2 percent of the public vote, and her original song that she performed on the finale, "Inventing [...]

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 12:34 PM PST


Snackin' With Sarah Sellers: 'Idol' Portland Night Viewing Nosh
Diehard "American Idol" viewers will remember Sarah Sellers as the geek-chic food blogger who made it to Hollywood Week last year. (Watch her Season 10 audition here.)  Sarah has since continued her food-blogging, and has been cooking up scrumptious snack suggestions for any "Idol" viewing party and posting them here exclusively in Reality Rocks.

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 11:50 AM PST


Adam Lambert Celebrates 30th Birthday With First Live Performance Of "Trespassing"
Adam Lambert hit a milestone birthday on January 29, his 3oth, and to prove that the 30 is the new glam, he celebrated by playing the Q Snowcase in Zell Am See, Austria. (He was the first American artist ever invited to perform at the event.) Along with acoustic renditions of his new single "Better [...]

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 11:50 AM PST


Adam Lambert Discusses His Shady Side, "Straight-Jackets," Nastiness, and Naked Love
Yesterday, Adam Lambert spoke to Reality Rocks in part 1 of his interview about the lighter side of his upcoming second album, Trespassing--what he calls the "I'll-sleep-when-I'm-dead party songs." Today, he delves into his darker side, and the sadder side of the album, as he discusses outlaw love ballads, odes to the human condition, and [...]

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 11:06 AM PST


Adam Lambert Talks Party Buses, Hot Messes, Turning 30, Finding Love & Finding His Voice
WATCH PART 2 OF ADAM'S INTERVIEW HERE Adam Lambert is preparing to release his salivatingly anticipated second album, Trespassing, and Reality Rocks recently had the chance to speak to him about it in thrilling detail. From the album's lyrical themes (love gone wrong and love gone good, being an outsider, being gay, growing up), to [...]

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 08:54 AM PST


Week Ending Jan. 29, 2012. Albums: The Idol "Loser" Who Won
Hundreds of contestants have walked across the American Idol stage, but only five have amassed three or more top 10 albums on The Billboard 200. Of these five, Kellie Pickler holds a unique distinction. She finished further back in the pack (sixth place in Season 5) than any other Idol contestant who has scored three [...]

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 08:09 AM PST


'Soul Train' Host Don Cornelius Dead Of Suicide
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Don Cornelius, creator of the long-running TV dance show "Soul Train," shot himself to death Wednesday morning at his Los Angeles home, police said. He was 75. Officers responding to a report of a shooting found Cornelius at his Mulholland Drive home at around 4 a.m., police said.