If you tuned into our live "blogcast" of last week's Grandpamy's award show, or were one of the dozen others who watched the show to it's entirety, you probably remember the ending sucked...hard.
Besides Herbie Hancock anticlimactically winning the years' Best Album honor, the build-up to a phenominal, jaw-dropping finale was electrifying the viewing audience and then...nothing. Show over. Balloons falling. A great show instantly turns into a suck-fest. We were left wondering "What happened?" and "Honestly, that COULDN'T have been their plan...could it?"
Well, thankfully for the Grammy's, this time it wasn't.
Chris Sligh, the chubby, curly-haired, American Idol finalist is able to claim something this week that past A.I. winners Taylor Hicks and Ruben Studdard can not: he has a record deal.
The Charleston, SC native was picked up by Atlanta-based Christian label Brash Records recently. Sligh's first single "Empty Me" is availible for radio play this week. His full-length LP will drop on May 6th.
I will be the first to admit that I have never heard of him prior to this news. I have checked out a few of his tracks however and I now dig his voice quite a bit. Feel free to judge me by that. And that alone.
Rockworms mini-poll: Will we ever heard from Chris Sligh following this album?
First off, to get it off my chest and out there...Thriller 25th Aniversary came out yesterday and...WHAT you didn't go pick it up? Its the highest selling album of all time! Get on it!
OK, on to the news. First up and always exciting, Madison House and AEG Live are setting up a new concert festival named Rothbury, aptly placed in Rothbury Michigan. While its no Bonnaroo, acts are shaping up to look like DMB, John Mayer, and Snoop...
Keeping in the festival spirit, why should you go to the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, OH? No, not for the Kid Rock concert...RotR is going to be the first show in SEVEN YEARS for the Stone Temple Pilots...as long as Scott Weiland don't go to rehab...I say no no no (sorry, couldn't help it)
And in the honor of laying down a newsie you may not even care about, Aretha is pissed at Beyonce. Apparently Beyonce's introduction of Tina Turner as the "The Queen" is a title Aretha feels she owns and deserves....whine whine whine.
First off, looks like The Game is going to jail. For what? If you don't know, The Game is on his way to the big house for pulling out a fire-arm...IN A SCHOOL ZONE! I guess we can't expect any less from a man who thought it would be awesome to get a tattoo of "LA" next to his eye. The Game has stated that he felt he was being targeted because of his celebrity status. Umm, I'm pretty sure its because he pulled a gun out IN A SCHOOL ZONE!!!!
OMG! Lenny Kravitz is Feclempt ...sorry, but when else can a white Irish boy use yiddish? Lenny's chillin in the hospital with what seems to be a case of bronchitis. As a non-fan, if it keeps him off of a stage....
And since we are ROCKworms, I feel it necessary to point out that Iron Maiden's Rockin World Tour is in full swing....nuff said, check it out.
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