Blog Posts by Lyndsey Parker

photo: FlickrMuch ado has been made in the media lately about late-night television's ever-revolving hosts. But before Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers get too comfortable over at NBC, they should be warned that two new rising stars may be coming for their seats someday: Nate Ruess and Andrew Dost, from the Grammy-winning rock band fun.

When playing at San Francisco's Nob Hill Masonic Center on the final night of the Yahoo! On the Road U.S. tour, fun.'s onstage banter was as entertaining as their musical highlights (which, incidentally, included "Some Nights," "We Are Young," "Carry On," and a crowd-rousing cover of the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want"). And when keyboardist Andrew took on the dual roles of Paul Shaffer and Ed McMahon between songs, it made for some pretty good late-night comedy.

Coming to a city near you? Maybe not...The 2013 American Idol Live! Tour hasn't even begun, but it may already in serious trouble.

The tour was scheduled to launch June 29 in St. Louis (10th-place finalist Curtis Finch Jr.'s hometown), but now all dates scheduled before July 19 have been canceled. "Idol" fans in such tour stops as Tulsa, Kansas City, Detroit, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, and even the seemingly "Idol"-friendly tourist hub of Las Vegas better recheck their calendars...and revisit their point of purchase.

photo: FoxFollowing veteran "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson's only slightly surprising resignation announcement earlier this month, and Fox reality chief Mike Darnell's resignation last week, Randy's Season 12 co-star and former client, Mariah Carey, and Nicki Minaj have both confirmed that they too won't be returning to "Idol" next year.

"W/ global success of “#Beautiful” (#1 in 30+ countries so far) @MariahCarey confirms world tour & says goodbye 2 Idol," Mariah's PR firm, PMK-BNC, announced via Twitter on Thursday. Mariah has yet to tweet anything herself, as of this writing, although she retweeted PMK-BNC's post.

Midas Whale on the "Howling" setI've said it before and I'll say it again: The day that folk-rockers Midas Whale were knocked out of this season's "Voice" Knockout Rounds was The Day The Music Died.

But thankfully, that actually wasn't the death of Midas Whale. Jon Peter Lewis (an "American Idol" top 10 finalist from Season 3) and his musical partner Ryan Hayes have since launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund their post-"Voice" debut album, and now they've released their lovely first official music video, for the original song "Howling at the Moon."

Twenty One Pilots in Seattle [photo: Flickr]Yahoo! On the Road tour's Seattle show on an epic bill with Gossip, Willy Moon, and Capital Cities. There, they gave 1000 percent to their excited Northwest fans, doing backflips, climbing up the balconies, leaping off speakers, rocking matching skeleton hoodies, doing a double drum solo, and even giving a fake encore. To say these guys have personality would be putting it pretty mildly.

Before Twenty One Pilots hit the stage running, Yahoo! Music caught up with Tyler and Josh in their Moore Theatre dressing room, and hopefully their wonderfully skewed personalities came shining through in the following transcript of their delightfully sarcastic interview. Someone really needs to give these guys their own "Monkees"-style sitcom. But until that gets greenlit, read on...

When the Yahoo! On the Road tour swung through Boise this Tuesday for a special show with Grammy nominees the Lumineers and cult roots-rock band Dispatch, the reaction from locals made the Beliebers and Directioners at respective Justin Bieber and One Direction concerts seem positively apathetic.

Fans swarmed various Boise locations the day before to collect ticket vouchers to get into the concert. And on the day of the show, hours before the doors even opened, they were camped out in lawn chairs in front of the Revolution Concert House, ready to get inside.

And once they made it inside, these fans were some happy campers, indeed.

Team Adam's Judith Hill & Sarah Simmons are eliminatedThere was a time, not too long ago, when I was predicting a "Voice" Season 4 finale between two Team Adam contestants: R&B powerhouse Judith Hill, who'd seemed like this season's chosen one from the very start, and exquisite hippie-rocker Sarah Simmons, another early frontrunner. Team Adam totally seemed like THE team to beat.

But that time has sadly passed, because Team Adam was all but decimated this week. On Tuesday's top eight results show, both Judith and Sarah were sent home.

Capital Cities in Seattle [photo: Lydo Le]L.A. buzz duo Capital Cities, aka Ryan Merchant and Sebu Simonian, recently performed at the Yahoo! On the Road tour's Seattle show on an epic bill with Gossip, Willy Moon, and Twenty One Pilots. There, they got the entire audience dancing with their groovy originals like "Farrah Fawcett Hair" and "Safe & Sound," as well as totally unexpected, and totally awesome, cover songs like Sinead O'Connor/Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U," the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive," and Madonna "Holiday."

But before Capital Cities' Seattle dance party commenced, Yahoo! Music caught up with Ryan and Sebu in their Moore Theatre dressing room, to talk about their background writing commercial jingles; their unusual collaborators (everyone from a famous rapper to an NPR voiceover icon); and of course, everyone's favorite subject, Nutella.