I am the bringer of sad news today because I am here to tell you that Axe won’t grace us with his witty AMERICAN IDOL  review this week. Snif! (But he will be back… eventually) As a consolation prize (at least I hope it’s a consolation), I will be ta more

Here is how difficult of a night it was to assess on American Idol on Tuesday: Lauren Alaina gave both the best and the worst performance. Dedicating a cover of Martina McBride's "Anyway" to victims of the recent tornadoes in Alabama, the aspiring country more

Of course -- of course! -- I'm sick of Randy Jackson and Jennifer Lopez acting like American Idol   is this super-complicated jigsaw puzzle and that James, Scotty and Lauren have SUDDENLY SOLVED IT. But as the judges stuck nearly word-for-word to the more

What do avant-garde pop princess Lady Gaga and '60s doo-woppers The Coasters have in common? Nothing. But both were a part of tonight's Top 4 performances on 'American Idol.' So I guess there's that. The final four took to the stage for another two-for- more

Wednesday (May 11) night's "American Idol" was supposed to be Songs of Leiber & Stoller, but the "Idol" producers looked at one of the greatest songwriting teams in the history of American popular music and decided they didn't have enough songs to fil more

This week has largely been advertised as "Lieber & Stoller" week, which means some updated doo-wop-y songs that usually tell a story. For their second song of the night, though, because they can't just sing one full song and let the show be an hour, t more

Last night, 60 million 'Idol' fans texted, called and Facebooked in their votes for the Top 5 and tonight, we learned whose run was cut shot, but not before multiple plugs for J.Lo's new album, a Lady Antebellum performance, a surprisingly fun Gordon Rams more

If the expression "preach!" (you know this one, gleeks) was made for an  American Idol  contestant, it would've been made for Jacob Lusk. We've seen many soul singers on the show, but he wasn't toeing the Chris Brown line, nor the Brian McK more