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Josiah Hawley says goodbye to the Swon BrothersIt was another rough night for the rookie coaches, and for the boys, on "The Voice" this Tuesday.

Last week, Shakira lost her first contestant, Garrett Gardner, and Usher lost Vedo. On this Tuesday's live results show, Shakira had to say goodbye to another one of her team members, Kris Thomas, and Usher bid farewell to Josiah Hawley.

This now leaves Shakira and Usher with only one team member each. Meanwhile, the three-person teams helmed by veteran coaches Adam Levine and Blake Shelton remain intact for another week.

Last night, "The Voice" top 10 competed, and while there were many great performances on Monday, the episode clearly saved the best for last. Is it too soon to start rooting for a Sarah Simmons/Michelle Chamuel finale?

Willy Moon (Photo: NBC)If you’ve found yourself humming the anthemic “yeah yeah, how you like me now” chorus that set a rainbow of colorful iPods a’bouncin’ in Apple’s recent TV spot—you’re not alone. The artist responsible for the foot-stomping tune, Willy Moon, has managed to carve out a name for himself in short time as both an innovative soundmaker and style influencer.

Moon, 23, has engineered his image since leaving his native New Zealand for London at age 18. A self-described “autodidact” who dropped out of school at age 16, Moon traveled Europe and settled for some time in Berlin, where he was inspired by retro pop music and began writing his own material in earnest.

Returning to London, he adopted a sharply groomed, midcentury suit-and-slicked hair look to offset his modern-sounding musical production—a combo that attracted attention right away when he released his first single via MySpace in 2010. He scored a record deal with Island Records, who put out his first EP.

By 2012 he caught the eye of rock

"I feel like new blood. I feel like something special," French Montana says as he sits in a conference room at Interscope Records in Santa Monica, Ca. He's responding to a question about how it feels to be a new artist on the legendary Bad Boy Records that over the years has boasted a roster that included Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans, 112, Black Rob and Danity Kane.

"Honestly, I feel like people want to see new blood," he continues. "I feel like everybody got something to bring to the table and Puff is like Phil Jackson. He's gone show you what way to go to get to the championship."

Puff aka Sean "Diddy" Combs has indeed provided some guidance for the Bronx-bred, Moroccan rapper. Though French has been putting out mixtapes for years, he releases his official debut "Excuse My French" Tuesday via a partnership deal with Bad Boy, Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group and Interscope.

Sebastian Bach is returning to reality TV! [photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty]In a singing-show era when most networks are scrambling to stunt-cast celebrity judges, ABC has flipped the script and greenlit a sure-to-be-amazing new talent show called "Sing Your Face Off," which — in the grand and noble tradition of novelty shows like "Celebrity Duets," "Gone Country," and "But Can They Sing?" — will feature a wonderfully random assortment of semi-famous faces on the stage, not behind the judging table.

Please note, before you read on, that this is not The Onion. This is an actual, factual Yahoo! Music article that you're reading right now. This show is real.

Olivia Newton John has put her deluxe Florida home up for sale. The star of Grease and Xanadu is asking $6.2 million for the property, which she and her husband John Easterling bought in 2009 for $4.1 million. Since then, the couple has put $2 million into renovations, according to the blog for real-estate listing site Redfin.

All photos: MLS