May 20, 2015 The goofy dude with the hats, Sawyer Fredericks, bested Michigan roots rocker Joshua Davis to win the NBC vocal competition, 'The Voice' Tuesday night.
Davis, who penned an original song about the people in Michigan for the show, wound up third, and performed a duet with Sheryl Crow on the finale.
May 15, 2015 Reported by Sal Cirrincione in Vancouver
45 months after ending their 360-Degrees tour in eastern Canada, U2 started their Innocence & Experience tour on the other side of the country, in Vancouver at the Rogers Arena.
May 12, 2015 Paul McCartney will apparently play graduations, especially if the graduate being celebrated is the son of his current wife, Nancy Shevell.
Seems, Nancy threw a party for her son Arlen at the Interlachen Country Club in Winter Park, Florida Saturday, and Paul decided to get on stage and join Josh Walther and the Phase5, the band hired for the evening.
May 11, 2015 The duo brought a boatload of catchy ’70s and ’80s pop hits to stoke the embers of a Saturday night dance party for an audience of about 7,500 at Van Andel Arena.
By Tricia Woolfenden | Local Spins
May 11, 2015
May 7, 2015 Errol Brown, frontman for the band Hot Chocolate, died yesterday after a battle with liver cancer at his home in the Bahamas. He was 71.
May 6, 2015 Popular YouTube musician Mike Tompkins teaches the Muppets to cover Echosmith's "Cool Kids," a capella.
May 6, 2015 If you've ever walked around downtown Grand Rapids, occasionally (and especially during ArtPrize) you'll see street musicians performing along Monroe Center or Division Street.
What if you walked by one of these musicians and realized, "Holy crap, that's U2!"
That's what happened to some NYC subway riders last night.
May 5, 2015 Traverse City's Joshua Davis seems to have saved his best performances for when it counts the most on NBC's singing competition, 'The Voice'.
Davis wowed judge Pharrell Williams with a Zydeco, New Orleans style take on the U2 classic, 'Desire'.
May 5, 2015 Remember the days of 'sensitive' hair metal, when rockers like Extreme toned it down with heart warming ballads?
Jack Black and Jimmy Fallon do, and for The Tonight Show, they recreated the classic 'More Than Words' video shot-for-shot, and they're serious about it.
As serious as Jack Black can be, I guess.
May 4, 2015 Once again, a current huge pop hit has a problem with its source.
Mick Ronson, the writer for the Bruno Mars collaboration 'Uptown Funk' said he will add five writers to the song writing credits after it became clear the song borrowed a hook from an '70s R&B hit.
Three Dog Night's 'Joy to the World'
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