Popeater — Filed under: Music News, Interviews, Exclusives Who: Ian Axel Video: 'This Is the New Year' Hails From: Fair Lawn, New Jersey For Fans Of: Ben Folds, Ben Kweller Why He's About to Pop: You may not recognize Ian Axel's face just yet, but if y... more info

Altsounds — The Frontier Touring Company are pleased to announce that due to an overwhelming demand a second Sydney show has been added to **Ben Folds'** May 2011 Australian tour. Folds will now play a second show at Sydney's State Theatre on Saturday 14th May. ... more info

Mjsbigblog — Blake Lewis new music video! He tweets, “So nice to sleep in my own bed. Now to start 2011 off right. Refreshed and Refined! Watch out for my end of year Blog and new music video coming with in the next 2 weeks.” *** Bucky Covin... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Committed, the gospel-inspired group from Alabama has won The Sing-Off! The Oakwood University group apparently stole the hearts of Nick Lachey‎, Ben Folds, Shawn Stockman and Nicole Scherzinger. So what's up with these guys? Here's one of their pe... more info

My Old Kentucky — Darren Jessee started Hotel Lights after many years of writing songs, playing drums and touring with Ben Folds Five. Darren co-wrote Brick and Song For The Dumped. After leaving the now-famous pop group, Jessee moved from North Carolina to New Yor... more info

Altsounds — **Ben Folds and his band **are set to tour Australia in May 2011 in support of his latest album, the acclaimed **Lonely Avenue**, a collaboration between him and bestselling novelist **Nick Hornby**, which was released on Nonesuch Records in Septembe... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — You might know Merton as the YoutTube sensation piano playing guy that plays on Chatroulette and was rumored to be Ben Folds but then Ben Folds sort of proved he is not Merton by covering Merton. Anyway, Merton is... more info

Guardian Music — Last time was all about fessing up to messing up. This week we're after songs in tune with imperial dynastiesHello to you all. Another topic, another heated debate. If I was going to write a series of head-spinningly wonderful pop records (and whose ... more info

Guardian Music — The idea of making a playlist of songs about mistakes only came about because of a mistake, yet many of the song choices it provoked have been brilliant – strange, but beautiful and trueMistakes are wonderful things because they open up so many p... more info

Mjsbigblog — Did you guys watch The Sing-off last night? I blogged the American Country Awards (can’t get those two hours of my life back, unfortunately) so I’m just catching up with the premiere on Hulu this morning. What did you think? Th... more info