Have you heard Taylor Hicks’ new album The Distance yet?  This is the type of album that I think Taylor should have made a long time ago and I was really happy with it.  Unlike a lot of other albums today, this doesn’t try to use gimmicks to be appealing.  Taylor’s vocals are th...

Before I get into the track-by-track of Taylor Hicks’ The Distance, I have to 'fess up and say that Taylor doesn’t do a whole lot for me. That has less to do with him, I think, than the style he’s working in. A lot of talented people work in the blues/old-school blue-eyed soul fields, but thos...

I just came back from the private opening of the American Idol Experience at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios and I had a blast.  I’m thoroughly exhausted but it really was a lot of fun.  Disney really knows how to put on a show and I am extremely grateful to them for the fabulous...

Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, Judges, Reviewcaps, Contestants, Performances (S08E01) it's that time of year again: American Idol auditions. It's the good, bad and tone-deaf all vying for their chance to be the next Taylor Hicks! Or... you know, someone else. So let's get started: We open up with...

Tampa Bay Online asks: "Which American Idol non-winner will have the most successful career?"... CAST YOUR VOTE FOR CLAY ! Associated Content - it's David vs. David on American Idol finale - No other singer on the competition has been able to recreate a moment like this on the show since Clay Aiken ...

Why do they even call the show American Idol anymore? They might as well call it Fail At Releasing An Album Then Have a Role on Broadway Idol. VFTW winner Taylor Hicks joins the long line of Idols who received a Broadway role. He'll be performing as Teen Angel in Grease, singing "Beauty School ...

I have little to no idea what "skunk rock" or "grebo" are, but I like the The Guardian 's query about musical genres that need to be resurrected. After the jump, a list of some forgotten styles I think the young folk of today would be wise to embrace--sounds and aesthetics that could bring this coun...

It was 40 years ago, and the city of Memphis didn’t want the band to play. At least that was the official stance the mayor and Board of Commissioners took in a unanimous resolution passed August 10, 1966, to express “official disapproval” and “advised The Beatles that they ar...

We don't quite get the obsession of Radar Magazine with Taylor Hicks (they seem to know more about his sex life than the creepy obsessed Soul Patrolers), but they let us all in on a possible tidbit. Their speculation is that the girl who was pictured romping on the beach with Taylor a little while b...

LBFCA - Clay Aiken is the "Jingle Jazz Man!" Check out the Broads' hilarious adaptation of Clay's Jazzy Christmas medley On NBC's Today Show - Heartsaiken4ca posted the following Clay mention at The Clayboard : My friend called tonight to tell me she saw a young boy, about 6 or 8, sing on the Today ...