Over the weekend Kris Allen performed in Santa Rosa, CA as apart of the local radio station’s Chris-Mix show.
Homie rapped Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” in it’s entirety during his set that night.
This is not to be missed, check it out!
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Kris Allen Performs at Star 101.3’s Jingle Ball
I attended Star 101.3’s Jingle Ball this past Friday night at the Masonic Center in San Francisco.
Kris Allen (along with his bandmates Cale Mills and Chris Torres) performed an acoustic set for the crowd. In my honest and completely biased 0pinion, Kris has never sounded better.
His set that night included a couple holiday tunes that I brought back to share with the class!
Enjoy!
“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”
“The Christmas Song/We Wish You A Merry Christmas”
Kris Allen Fans Raise Money For Music Empowers
It takes extraordinary fans to do extraordinary things. Most fans attend live shows to see their favorite performer, maybe buy a t-shirt, and sometimes will wait after the show for an autograph. Fans of American Idol-winner Kris Allen have taken their support of the singer to a new level.
Alright With Music was formed by fans of Kris Allen that hope to raise $25,000 for the Music Empowers Foundation by December 31. 
“Kris has taught us about the important work done by the Music Empowers Foundation, which provides funding to non-profit organizations that offer innovative music programs in under-served areas,” the group stated in a press release earlier this week.
Music Empowers founder Andy Davis said that the foundation is “incredibly honored” by the current fundraiser.
“Kris has become an amazing advocate for music education,” Davis said in a press release. “This year, his support of organizations like Music Empowers has helped to bring music education programs to about 100,000 kids.”
So far Alright With Music has already managed to raise over $9000 for Music Empowers.
Alright With Music originated earlier this year as Team Alright With Moo, a group of fans that raised over $25,000 this past June in honor of Allen’s 25th birthday for Heifer International.
To learn more about Alright With Music and how you can donate, please visit their website.
For more information on Kris Allen, check out his official website.
Originally posted on BlogCritics.
Kris Allen Performs New Song “Leave You Alone”
Kris Allen is wrapping up his last night on tour with Lifehouse, and during his set tonight he played a new song called, “Leave You Alone.”
Check out the performance below!
What do y’all think? I like it a lot!
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Tour Talk With Kris Allen
As his tour with Lifehouse comes to a close this week, Kris Allen took some time to talk with me about being on tour the past year supporting different artists, the “Alright With Me” video he did for his fans, and what he thinks is the biggest misconception about his music.
I caught your show the other night in San Francisco, it was great.
Thanks, that was a really fun show.
My friend mentioned after the show that her favorite part about your set was that you’re converting Lifehouse fans in about eight songs or less.
Tell her thanks. That’s kind of what we’re trying to do.
Can you tell while you’re performing that you are drawing people into your music?
I feel like we can tell. It takes about three or four songs. You know they’re like, “Oh, this is fun,” and by the end they’re like “Wow, that was a lot of fun!” And it’s always cool when you can win over the dudes. Girls are probably the best fans that you can have, but when you can win over the guys at a show, especially the older guys, it’s awesome.
Very cool. You’ve supported different bands this year on tour. Is it a feeling of “same thing, different band” or is the vibe different on each tour?
I think it’s a different vibe, you know? We were out with totally different kinds of artists. We went out with Maroon 5, and Keith Urban, and now Lifehouse. Also, I think the vibe really depends on the venue. With Keith, we were playing those monster fairs with like 10,000 people there. With Maroon 5, it was like smaller outdoors stuff, but still pretty big. And with Lifehouse we’re doing theatres. It’s been a blast, it really has been for every one of them.
Is it more intimidating to play a small intimate show or a large venue?
The most intimidating crowd to play for is about five people. When it’s super small and you’re just sitting in a room with friends and they’ll go “Hey Kris, sing us a song,” you’re like, “Oh no, I can’t do that.” It’s really weird.
In the beginning of the tour you had “Man In The Mirror” on the set list, and then switched it out for Tears For Fears’ “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” what was behind that decision?
I think that it was a conscious decision to say you know what, “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” is a little more upbeat of a song. And we’ve been playing “Man In The Mirror” forever. It was just nice to play something new, and I think when we introduce new stuff into the set everyone gets excited about it. It may not be perfect at first, and it may not even be that great, but we get excited about playing new stuff. Continue reading Tour Talk With Kris Allen
Video: Kris Allen & Lifehouse Perform at the Masonic Center
Last night I attended Lifehouse’s “Smoke And Mirrors” tour with special guest, Kris Allen. One of my favorite bands, one of my favorite Idols…as you can imagine, I had a pretty awesome time.
I brought back some video clips from the show to share!
The first two clips are from Kris’s set. I filmed part of the “Everybody Wants To Rule The World/The Way You Make Me Feel” mash-up . I also taped Andrew DeRobert’s guitar solo during “Is It Over.”
Enjoy!
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Song By Song Review: Lee DeWyze — Live It Up
This past New Music Tuesday, Lee DeWyze’s major label album debut, Live It Up hit store shelves. As an American Idol fan, the day the winner’s album comes out is always fun for me.
After listening to the album a couple times through, I felt the best way to talk about the album was to talk a little about each song. So here we go!
Track 01 — “Live It Up”
I feel like “Live It Up” really encompasses what the album is about, and more so sets the overall tone of the album. In a way, this entire album feels like a relationship, which I will expand on later, and “Live It Up” is that first meeting/first date. 
This track was originally supposed to be DeWyze’s first single. I do understand why it was swapped last minute. I do think that it’s a better song than “Sweet Serendipity,” but I don’t know how well it would fair on the radio.
Track 02 — “Sweet Serendipity”
Before the album came out, I reviewed “Sweet Serendipity” for BlogCritics, and for what it’s worth, the song has grown on me since that initial review.
Now, it’s still not my favorite track on the album. I still think it sounds very similar to Kris Allen’s “Live Like We’re Dying,” but my big issue that I have with the song is all the ad-lib singing, where the chorus could have been incorporated. I really noticed this during the live performances, and I just think if the extended chorus was added in before the ad-libbing it would make it that much more sing-a-long friendly.
Track 03 — “It’s Gotta Be Love”
Never judge a song by it’s cheesy title. Or it’s 30-second snippet, that upon first listen did the song absolutely no favors.
I actually really like this song. It has a fun melody, that will make it a great song to perform live. DeWyze is very honest in his songwriting about those feelings you get after you meet someone and spend time with them for the first time. Granted, the lyrics “my knees are weak, my heart skipped a beat” are cheesetastic, but the song as a whole is good.
Continue reading Song By Song Review: Lee DeWyze — Live It Up
Kris Allen Tweets “Alright With Me” Music Video
Kris Allen just tweeted a thank you to the fans, and in his last tweet included a link to a music video for “Alright With Me (A Thank You To The Fans).”
The video was directed and edited by Matthew Leonard. This is seriously better than any video treatment I could have imagined for this song! I can’t believe that Kris and KAB pulled this off without fans finding out! So awesome!
Check it out!
Absolutely love it!
Kris Allen Talks To Ryan Seacrest on KIIS FM
Season eight winner American Idol winner Kris Allen talked with Ryan Seacrest earlier this morning on the radio about his current tour.
Take a listen!
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New Season 10 ‘American Idol’ Promo
The latest American Idol season 10 promo featuring the past nine winners has hit the web!
Check it out!
I love hearing about the Idol’s lives before they went on the show, so I am just loving all these promos. I hope Idol does them all a solid and has each of the past winners on this season to promote their music.
Just sayin’!
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