Get the stockings and ugly sweaters ready for Tuesday’s all new Christmas themed episode! To get everyone in the holiday spirit, the Glee Vevo account uploaded two performances from the episode called “Extraordinary Merry Christmas.”

In my opinion, the performances are great and definitely put me in a cheerful mood. I can’t wait for the holidays to arrive!

Here is “All I Want For Christmas Is You” sung by the incredible Amber Riley.

Also, here is “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” which features the entire glee club!

Check out the full performance of “I Kissed a Girl” from tomorrow night’s episode of the same name. Those girls sure show the boys how it’s done for this week’s music assignment: ‘lady music week’.

What do you think of the all girl performance?

Get out your wallets, Gleeks, because another album is coming your way! Amazon has put up the tracklisting and pre-order details for Glee: The Music – Volume 7.  

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. “You Can’t Stop the Beat”
2. “It’s Not Unusual”
3. “Somewhere”
4. “Run The World (Girls)”
5. “Fix You”
6. “Last Friday Night (TGIF)”
7. “Uptown Girl”
8. “Tonight”
9. “Hot For Teacher”
10. “Rumor Has It/Someone Like You”
11. “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”
12. “Constant Craving”
13. “ABC”
14. “Control”
15. “Man In The Mirror”

The album costs around $11.99 and will be released on December 6th! What songs are your favorites? Let us know in the comments!

After much hype, the performance of the Adele mash-up that features songs “Rumor Has It” and “Someone Like You” was released earlier today on YouTube. All I can say is wow.

The performance, sung by Amber Riley and Naya Rivera, was the 300th performance done on Glee! Writer Ali Adler tweeted earlier that what happens after the performance will be surprising! I personally think this is easily the best song Glee has ever done!

What are your thoughts? Sound off in the comments!

As Glee: The Complete Second Season is nearing a release on DVD and Blu-ray, videos of the extras have surfaced. View the hilarious extras we found below:

Glee Season 2 will be released on September 13th and can currently be pre-ordered on Amazon.com for only $34.99.

As anyone who’s anyone has heard, the Glee: The 3D Concert Movie premiere happened over the past few days, and you know what that means… press!

Loads of hilarious, hilarious interviews have been flooding the net, but here are a few from MTV, Celebs.com, and Myspace, summed up in one big post!

Here, the cast does a fabulous “musical recap” of the Glee 3D movie:

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If you want to win some rare autographed Glee merchandise and help me pay my college tuition at the same time, read on! I’m currently in competition at bublaa.com, and if I can have the largest “bubble” by July 15, then I’ll win $10,000 to help pay for college! Joining my “Gleeks” bubble is quick and easy, and if you help me win the contest, I’ll give away a Glee prize pack of merchandise that I’ve collected over the past two years of running GleeFan.com!

Update (7-14-11): With all of your help and a Tweet from the amazing Jenna Ushkowitz, I’m currently in 2nd place! If I can get back into 1st before 1pm EST Friday, I’ll definitely be mailing out the prize package to one very lucky Gleek.

The prize package includes:
1) A cast photograph signed by Chris Colfer (Kurt), Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina), Kevin McHale (Artie) and Amber Riley (Mercedes)!
2) A Glee calendar signed by Broadway legend Idina Menzel, known on Glee as Rachel Berry’s mother, Shelby Corcoran. She’s also known for originating Maureen in RENT and Elphaba (the lead) in Wicked.
3) A rare writer’s draft of the pilot script from September 26, 2008, including unaired scenes and original character descriptions. This script was given to me directly from Fox, and they are extremely rare. You can see a couple pages of it here.
4) A rare red Glee hat, also direct from Fox’s publicity staff.
5) Glee, The Music: Volume 1 on CD. Own the very first Glee soundtrack, including songs like “Don’t Stop Believin’.”

Here’s all you have to do to be entered to win:
1) Signup for free at bublaa.com. You can even make an account using Facebook Connect to make a speedy process even quicker!
2) Join my “Gleeks” bubble. (This is important because I’ll need to have the biggest bubble by the time the contest ends to win.)
3) Go to the Gleeks bubble’s conversations section and find my “Win rare signed Glee merch! Details inside…” topic! Then leave a reply with some way that I can contact you. It can be your Twitter, Facebook URL, email address, etc. Just so long as I can use it to get in touch with you, you’ll be entered to win!
4) Check back on July 16th to see if I won! If I win, then I’ll be randomly selecting a lucky winner to receive my Glee prize package.

Right now I’m neck in neck with another bubble, so EVERY member is extremely important! When you’re done entering, please get a friend or family member to join as well, because a few extra people will make or break the competition at this point! I’ve seen the Glee fandom come together in the past, and I cannot express how thankful I would be if I actually won the competition. As anyone in college can tell you, student debt is the worst, so I would be incredibly grateful if you guys could help me out! You have no idea how much it would mean to me.

If you want to keep up with my progress in the competition, you can follow me on Twitter @GleekRob as I’ll be Tweeting how things are going. Remember that I’ll only be giving away the prize pack if I win, so if I win, you could win too!

Thank you all so much. Please don’t let this amazing opportunity pass you by!

Lea Michele, Amber Riley and Dianna Agron take on the May issue of Marie Claire magazine with four different covers — one for each actress and one with all three ladies looking stunning and posing in matching navy dresses:

Watch a video from the photoshoot where the girls share what they can’t leave the house without, what they’d take with them on a desert island and their worst fashion period:

Visit the Marie Claire website to see how you can win a VIP trip to see the Glee Tour in Los Angeles this summer as well as other awesome Glee prizes!

I now present to you, a HUGE HUGE round-up of every Season 2 spoiler you could ever need in your life! If you haven’t been keeping track of all the interviews, press events, panels, and just general hype, have no fear! This post is brought to you by TheGLEEkSpot’s tumblr, with the latest news added!

New Characters:

• Kurt gets a boyfriend. An “everyday guy.” He’s going to be struggling with his sexuality and Kurt is going to help him through this. Ryan wants them to be prom king and prom king. This plot line is apparently delayed past the first few episodes.*
• A christian country singer (a la Carrie Underwood) is supposed to come on. No word on how big this role is going to be. She’s also supposed to have a pretty big problem with Kurt and his boyfriend being gay.
• Sam Elliot will be played by Chord Overstreet. Sam is a football player. Finn will take Sam under his wing, and will utlimately become Finn’s rival. He will also have a special relationship with Quinn.
• Mercedes gets a love interest, too. A “male version of herself” (Can you say killer duets?)
• Charice will be guest starring as a foreign exchange student and a rival to Rachel. Her character, Sunshine, will start out very small but as the season progresses she will get bigger. Charice starts filiming on July 28th with the rest of the cast, so she will be in the first episode.
• Dot Jones will playing Shannon Beiste (pronounced BEEST) the new football coach, replacing Ken Tanaka, who will no longer be on Glee.
• Cheyenne Jackson will be replacing Idina Menzel’s role as the new coach of Vocal Adrenaline. This will be a major, recurring role.
• John Stamos will have a recurring role as Emma’s dentist boyfriend.
• Javier Bardem will appear as a rock star who befriends Artie. “We’re going to rock the house,” the 41-year-old Gleek tells EW. “We’re going to do some heavy metal — Spanish heavy metal, which is the worst.”
• Comedy legend Carol Burnett is said to be in the works for the role of Sue Sylvester’s Nazi-hunting mother. Nothing is confirmed yet, but really, how could they pass up Carol Burnett?

*They’re saying that Sam Elliot is NOT Kurt’s boyfriend. Our theory? They’re pulling back on all the hype so Sam can have a surprise “coming out” moment. The same way Idina being Rachel’s mother was a surprise.

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Glee will once again be attending the San Diego Comic-Con! Since last year’s panel, Glee has exploded into an international phenomenon, winning at the Golden Globes, SAG awards, and People’s Choice Awards, just to name a few. The fanbase has exploded, twitter accounts gaining thousands of followers, and the actors have become household names. Some people questioned why Glee first came to the five-day long convention, but their return to Comic-Con was all but imminent. This year, the panel will feature actors that were absent from last year’s.

So, there’s good news and bad news. The good: Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Mark Salling, Heather Morris, and Naya Rivera will be attending the panel and answering fan questions, alongside Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy. The bad: Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Dianna Agron and Cory Monteith will be MIA. Jane Lynch will be absent as well; apparently she had a scheduling conflict.

Now, before you take drastic measures: “Last year, we brought down Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Matthew Morrison, and Dianna Agron. Because we have such a large cast and we can’t bring everyone every year, this year we decided to bring down some of the cast who didn’t get to go last summer,” A Fox spokesperson tells Entertainment Weekly.

Makes sense, right? To quote Sue Sylvester: “We’re giving everyone a chance to be a star! Find your voice, stomp that yard, all that crap!”

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Here’s a video of Amber Riley getting ambushed into singing with Stevie Wonder on Good Day LA. I don’t think she saw that coming.

Here’s her scheduled interview with the hosts.

Cory Monteith, Lea Michele and Amber Riley stopped by the Elvis Duran Show on z100 while they were in NYC. The radio show hosts asked them questions about fame, took some calls from fans and even gave Amber her first donut from Dunkin’ Donuts. :)
Download it with the link below or watch it on YouTube. Part 2 for the YouTube format is after the jump. Thanks to Angela for uploading it and submitting it to us!
Enjoy!

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Amber Riley and Cory Monteith stopped by Nasdaq to ring the closing bell. Why? To celebrate Fox ordering the back 9 of Glee, of course!

Here’s a video via The Associated Press:

Also, you can check out one of our partner sites, BuddyTV, for some more pictures, here.

Recently, you submitted questions for Glee‘s Amber Riley. Now we have her answers for the questions that were chosen to be a part of this fun Q&A. If you like the Q&A, let us know in the comments section! We would like to thank Amber for being nice enough to answer the fan questions and we will hopefully have more in the future!

Enjoy the Q&A and feel free to comment! All questions after the first 4 are after the jump. :)

Q: “What’s your most memorable moment between you and your cast mates, and why?” – Melanie
A: I think the night we saw the first commercial had to be the most memorable for me. It was the first time it felt real.

Q: “Hi Amber! First let me say I love you on Glee, and I can’t wait for more Mercedes! Secondly, I have to wonder since three of your principle cast mates have already debuted on Broadway, is it something you plan/hope to do in later life?” –Korey
A: I have always wanted to appear in a musical, because I love acting and singing equally, I just think it will be a great fit! But we shall see :)

Q: “Hi Amber, “Bust Your Windows” was awesome. You are definitely a triple threat! You’re voice is so soulful and powerful. I remember in an interview Lea saying, “Take a Bow” by Rihanna was kind of hard to sing. Did you feel that way about any songs you sing this season?” – Eunice
A: Yes, I don’t consider myself a “gritty” singer as they say. I have a softer toned voice and I’m not a belter by nature. So doing songs like “Bust Your Windows” was kind of difficult. I had to dig deep from a different place.

Q: “Amber, I heard your rendition of “Bust Your Windows” and I have to say, your voice is unforgettable. When or how did you first start singing?” – Lucy
A: I was actually 2 years old when mother discovered how much I loved music and how easy it was for me to pick up the songs that she would sing. My first performance was at a park. I just remember singing and a lot of clapping at the end, but I was only 4 at the time.
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Update: The Q&A is up! Check it out, here.

How would you like for Glee’s Amber Riley to answer one of your questions? Well that just might happen! We are now taking fan submitted questions for Amber Riley, who plays everyone’s favorite diva, Mercedes Jones. If you have a question about anything from singing to going on tour, make sure to send it in by 11:59pm EST on the night of Thursday, August 13th. To send in your question, email it to me at rob@gleefan.com or leave a comment here with your name and email. We are going to pick some of the best ones and send them on to her to be answered.

Then remember to check back later to see if your question was answered when we post the entire Q&A. Good luck!