Submitted photo. Baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan is this yearâs Artist-in-Residence for the Litchfield Jazz Festival. GOSHEN — Litchfield Jazz Festival announces the 2012 Artist-in-Residence for the 17th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival. The honor goes

Kris Allen takes a break from his album cover photo shoot! Lauren Alaina To Host CMT Teddy Awards – MERCURY NASHVILLE artist LAUREN ALAINA is set to host the first-ever CMT TEDDY AWARDS airing on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14th at 8a (ET/PT) and 11a (ET/PT). The

FROM the moment Javier Colon sang Time After Time at an audition of singing reality show The Voice early last year, the judges cum mentors, as well as TV viewers, knew they were watching someone with real talent. He went on to win the competition, pickin

Feb 12th 2012 5:00PM Several current and former GRAMMY nominees, winners and stars, musical and otherwise, walked the red carpet into one of the most exciting events in music Friday night. MusiCares, a foundation... Read More » Feb 11th 2012 11:50PM As t

Kris Allen rose to stardom singing covers of other people’s songs on American Idol, so it’s only fitting that he returned to his roots by performing some covers we might not have expected from the Kidz Bop judge. The drunken dubstepper had the ladies at

American Idol winner Kris Allen performed songs from his new album at The Mint in L.A. last night. Here is the entire concert with great close-up footage of Kris including all the banter. Thanks to john_socal!

Kris Allen performed at The Mint last night in Los Angeles, introducing a slew of new songs that will appear on his upcoming album due later this spring. Newly introduced songs Monster, Better With You, Out Alive, Teach Me How Love Goes, and Vision of Lo

American Idol winner Kris Allen was at the Mint last night where he performed some songs from his latest album. Will you stan for the vision of love? Yes Kris! Here’s the video from one of loyal readers john_socal #circlekris! (I will post the rest of h

Kris Allen will play a sold-out concert at The Mint tonight, in Los Angeles. X-Factor’ rapper Astro’s appearance on ‘Person of Interest’ — EXCLUSIVE VIDEO – t’s safe to say that most musicians on reality show competitions don’t hope to get eliminated dur

Submitted photo. Saxophonist Erica von Kleist, of West Hartford, will perform with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra March 2 in a tribute to Cannonball Adderley. HARTFORD, February 2, 2012 – The Hartford Symphony Orchestra 2011-2012 Jazz and Strings Series

Listen to a 30s snip of Kris Allen’s “Vision of Love” the song that will likely be the first single off of the Season 8 Idol winner’s next album. Pretty falsetto! But that’s all I got until the full version is released! Listen to the 30s snip below Audio

Obviously this guy is going to win. He embodies every single male American Idol winner since Season 5: Taylor Hicks, David Cook, Kris Allen, Lee DeWyze and Scotty McCreery. Sure win. Watch the video here: How does this post make you feel? WGWG! I can see

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - NOVEMBER 06: Adam Lambert and Brian May of Queen perform onstage during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2011 live show at the Odyssey Arena on November 6, 2011 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Back on February third, American Idol contestant Adam Lambert was all set to take center stage as Queen’s new lead singer for their Summer tour. But, according to Mr. Lambert’s Twitter, his words about the EMA’s were taken out of context and created unne

These sound like rough demos, rather than finished ones. I really like Parachute and think that has a lot of potential. I’m not crazy about Forget About You, but others on my twitter deed are saying how catchy the melody is. I hope we find out if these a

Adam Lambert is a known Queen fan, especially when it comes to the late Freddie Mercury. In fact, the singing sensation performed this singer's anthem We Are The Champions with Kris Allen and the remaining members of the celebrated group on American Idol

Conveniently headline-grabbing Gaga rumors aside, speculation that Lambert might be Queen’s top choice for the job had run rampant ever since the band backed established Queen fan Lambert during a 2009 Idol appearance—which you can see below by placing a

Adam Lambert wrestles with his demons in this much-anticipated music video. Glambert's second album, Trespassing, is out this Spring. You can dine out on the town whenever it strikes your fancy.

One of the benefits of being a big, bright, shining star? You can dine out on the town whenever it strikes your fancy. That said, it boggles our ...