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Nigel has compared Lauren Alaina to Kelly Clarkson, and while I don't think she's quite there yet, the girl sings with a maturity that belies her age.

Jacee Badeaux, a sophomore at Lafayette High's Performing Arts Academy, sang a little song about wasting time.

Longtime Aerosmith collaborator Marti Frederiksen reports that the group has been very productive during its first few days of writing for a new album at his studio Monrovia, California.

Reunited Dutch hard rockers SLEEZE BEEZ - who performed live last June for the first time since going their separate ways in 1995 - have recorded a new song for the first time in 16 years - a cover version of JOURNEY 's classic power ballad "Faithfully" . You can now listen to the track in the YouTube clip below.

It was clear that in the wake of Raising Sand, his 2007 Grammy Award-winning collaboration with Alison Krauss, that Robert Plant was not done exploring American roots music.

American Idol has never exactly been Masterpiece Theatre , nor has it ever been known to be cool and trendy .

Jan. 11: Steven Tyler, left, Jennifer Lopez, center, and Randy Jackson, judges on the FOX show 'American Idol' take part in a panel discussion during the FOX Broadcasting Company Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif.

Following in the footsteps of Stephen Stills, Bonnie Raitt, Chrissie Hynde, Jimmy Buffet, and Carole King , guitar legend Jimmy Page made the pilgrimage to Fidel Castro's fiefdom this week.

The second week of "American Idol" auditions brought our judges to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the first visit to the beer-and-cheese-loving Midwestern town busted out of the gate with a surefire star in the making, as well as the by-now-familiar slow-motion glamour montage complete with Steven Tyler yelps and profane bleeps.

Led Zeppelin was the definitive heavy metal band. It wasn't just their crushingly loud interpretation of the blues -- it was how they incorporated mythology, mysticism, and a variety of other genres -- into their sound.