Season 9

Talk show host and all-around funny lady Ellen Degeneres was an American Idol judge for only one season. Ellen bowed out gracefully after Season 9, blaming her departure on an overwhelming work schedule. “This didn't feel like the right fit for me," she told People at the time. Now, Ellen’s talking more about why she left — and it’s not all ponies and unicorns. She...

Not every American Idol is having a record-breaking week like young Scotty McCreery. The Hollywood Reporter says that RCA has dropped Lee DeWyze from their label. Lee, American Idol’s Season 9 winner, sold a meager 168,000 copies of his latest album, Live It Up.

RCA — home to Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and Jordin Sparks — is used to platinum hits and Grammy noms. But...

Anyone who has listened to the music penned by Crystal Bowersox knows that much of it deals with her troubled past as the child of an alcoholic abuser. MamaSoxs debut album Farmers Daughter features songs that deal with this fact of her past with blistering honesty. Yet the personal relationship between the Season 9 American Idol alum and her beleaguered mother have healed somewhat since...

American Idol Season 9 finalist Alex Lambert once in contention for recording contracts, tours, fame, and riches is now homeless. It's true. The 20-year-old Idol finalist and star of Simon Fuller's post-Idol show If I Can Dream is now living on the streets of Los Angeles. The young, aspiring musician who had sung his way into the judges' hearts on Season 9 has taken to his twitter account to......

The reviews are in, and the verdict is... conflicted! While most critics found Crystal Bowersoxs debut album Farmers Daughter to be above-average Idol fare, everyone had a bone to pick with it, be in in the production, the songwriting, or even say it aint so! Crystals smooth vocals. Heres a critical sampler platter... do you think theyre fair? Sound off in the comments!

"If Farmers Daughter...