‘American Idol’ season six runner-up Blake Lewis checked in with fans on his blog at MySpace (@blakelewis) on Wednesday (June 25). The Bothell beatboxer writes:

I planned for Wednesday to be my day to rehearse for tonight’s Canal Room show, cause we were leaving on Thurs. to play Vegas. Ring, ring, ring went the phone. Iain my manager baring the news. Arista isn’t picking up the second option. Meaning, I’m not doing another record with them. I’m totally fine with this… I was just wishing they would have put the word out to me over the last couple months, because lets face it… Waiting SUCKS!!!! I could have known this 2 months ago, when all of RCA was going through their changes. Oh well. I guess the right time was now. No biggy. I’m still with 19 Recordings and I got a tour and new record on the way. Now I’ll I need is a home for my music. Some place warm and tropical… seriously though… Got to be a place where they actually respect my craft and electronic music. Getting RCA to do remixes for my record was like pulling teeth AND I had friends do the mixes for next to nothing. They turned out great and are rising on the Billboard charts. ‘How Many Words’ is in the top 40. HOLY SH**!!!! its currently 29. So freaking pumped. People been shakin there booties to some electro Brake.. hehe Thanks to all the DJs playing my song. Lovin you right now!

‘American Idol’ season six runner-up Blake Lewis checked in with his MySpace (@blakelewis) friends on Monday (June 23) with the following message:

Hey everyone, I’m currently at an airport in Connecticut waiting to head to NY.

Tomorrow night I will be headlining a show at The Canal Room. I’m really excited to play my first solo show in the big Apple. Hope those that are in the area can make it out. It’s just me, my guitar, piano and loop pedals.

I’ll try and post a new blog tonight about what has been going on with me. Much has happened this week.

Much love and hope to see you soon.

Blake

‘American Idol’ season six runner-up Blake Lewis checked in with his MySpace (@blakelewis) friends on Friday (June 13) with the following bulletin:

Hey guys,

So in a week or so, I will be heading my way to the beautiful city of New York to play and intimate show. I’m so freaking pumped I can’t even believe it.

I just put together a new pedal board with lots of cool, tweaky fx and I can’t wait to get my butt to NY.

The show is at the Canal Room on the 24th and I hope that I see as many of you there as possible. This will be a stripped down performance of just me, myself and I. Loop Pedals, Guitar and Keys.

Hope to see you all there.

Love, Peace and Beats.

- Blake

Blake Lewis checked in with fans on his blog at MySpace (@blakelewis) on Wednesday (May 14), where the ‘American Idol’ season six runner-up voiced his frustrations with getting radio play of his debut album ‘Audio Day Dream’. Lewis writes:

So I had been doing the whole radio promo tours and let me tell ya. I’ve never really been a fan of the radio, but always wanted to be a radio DJ. ‘Strange?’ You say. Trying to get them to play my jam has been so grueling. Don’t get me wrong, I loved being apart of ‘American Idol’ and all, but if I have to talk to one more DJ that doesn’t really care about my music and wants to know what Simon Cowell or Sanjaya is like, I’m gonna poo my pants. What happened to DJs playing music that provokes emotion? Or even music they like. I’ve talked to most of them and they just do what the next do. There is hope I feel. Still some magic is running through the air. A couple amazing singer/songwriters and producers are fighting there way through the waves, hoping to see the shore, as am I.

‘American Idol’ season six runner-up Blake Lewis checked in with fans on his blog at MySpace (@blakelewis) on Thursday (February 7) with the following message:

It’s 11pm, I’m in a hotel on sunset, just got into LA and already today I had a three hour meeting with my new business manager, finished my new tattoo on LA Ink, by Kim Saigh and just had dinner with my sharks (Lawyers). What a great day. Grammy weekend. Time to party.

Sorry it’s been so long my friends. I have finally had a couple of weeks off and by off I mean I’ve super busy catching up with family and friends at home. I haven’t been online because I don’t have internet at my new casa. I finally bought my house and KJ my best bud and drummer moved in last Thursday. What a great feeling to have a place to rest my head. We combined our studios and within the next few weeks, we will have it up and running. So far I’ve painted a couple rooms, torn out the base boards and bought a couch. It’s coming together just great. Dad came over and helped me paint. Felt like old times for a minute. I use to paint houses as side jobs as a kid and now my house has seen the best of it.

I’m here in LA for business with my record label and 19. We are in talks of the new single and I couldn’t be more happy with the news. Finally my dream has come true and the label has listened to my pleas. HOW MANY WORDs does it take for me to say that HOW MANY WORDs should be the new single. Well finally it caught on. Don’t know when It will hit the radio, but hopefully within the next month you should be hearing it on the airwaves. STOKED!!!!!! Thanks to you great friends.

Thanks for reading. More to come when Comcast gets there sweet ass over to my place and hook me up with some of that Informational Super Highway ish.

Peace and Vibes - BL

‘American Idol’ season six runner-up Blake Lewis visited the MySpace offices in Beverly Hills to chat about his debut album ‘Audio Day Dream’, preferring to be trapped in an elevator with Randy Jackson over the other ‘Idol’ judges, wanting to be top MySpace friends with Pee Wee Herman, and Blake’s song ‘My MySpace’. The video at MySpace has since been removed.

Blake Lewis checked in with fans on his blog at MySpace on Friday (January 4). The ‘American Idol’ season six runner-up writes, “Just wanted to thank everyone that has made 2007 a special year. Lookin back at this year is a trip!! So much of every second was spent pursuing my art. That’s amazing. I owe a lot of thanks to all the fans of ‘American Idol’, that really showed there love for me on the show. Thanks to all my friends that have stuck by me from day one. Thanks to all my new friends and creative partners that helped me out on the record. Thanks to Mom. Thanks to Dad. I Hope 2008 is as kind to you as 2007 was to me.”