Quentin Alexander had one of the most crazy and controversial runs in American Idol history, due to a heated verbal exchange between him and judge Harry Connick Jr. last Wednesday (an incident that likely...

This week, Joey Cook was sadly eliminated from American Idol, but she leaves the show with great memories, great friends (especially her fellow New Orleans native, Quentin Alexander), and really...

British singer-songwriter Greg Holden is mainly known for “Home,” the Phillip Phillips song he co-penned with Drew Pearson, which became the most successful American Idol single of all time (with 5 million...

“With this band, every gig is like a battle. It feels like we’re going to war a little bit. Whereas with the Libertines, we go to war with each other,”...

Happy St. Jedward’s Day! Yes, infamous X Factor U.K. alums Jedward (aka John and Edward Grimes, aka the “double divas of Dublin”) are back, and they’re here at Yahoo this...

Seventeen-year old Jacob Whitesides broke out as a YouTube star (his channel has 10 million views and counting), but before that, he was gigging in his father’s band in East...

Big Machine label head Scott Borchetta officially debuted as the new American Idol in-house mentor this Thursday, and he definitely made his presence felt, doling out sage advice in between anecdotes about...

Stacy Francis was the token villainess of The X Factor USA Season 1, even if that was a role she never wanted to play. She started off on the show, which was...

That fateful evening, onstage at Los Angeles’s Shrine Auditorium, elder-statesmen keyboard icons Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock joined new-school new-wavers Thomas Dolby and Howard Jones (the former in a powdered...

New Orleans bounce music icon Big Freedia, who’s toured and collaborated with everyone from the Postal Service to RuPaul and has been kicking open doors for bounce artists and LGBT...