What matters more? The singing or the preparation to sing? On this show, it seems like the latter is king. What is ostensibly America’s biggest singing competition has transformed this season into ... http://www.starpulse.com/news/Andrew_Payne/2012/03/22/ more

The Top 10 take on Billy Joel; Erika chops off her Van Pelt http://tvrecaps.ew.com/recap/american-idol-season-11-billy-joel-night/

It’s Billy Joel night on American Idol! Yay! (That’s a completely non-ironic yay, by the way. We love him.) And in a totally logical turn of events, the person helping Jimmy Iovine mentor the contestants this week is Diddy, because when you hear “Billy Jo more

  Wednesday night’s  American Idol  aimed to put the country in a “New York State of Mind” by featuring the songs of  Billy Joel , and to quote Steven Tyler: “If you can’t sing Billy Joel, you can’t sing at all.” Or, in the case of Hee more

It's a sobfest as American Idol opens tonight. The footage shows that the contestants who remain are incredibly sad about last week's loss of Shannon Magrane . But as the opening song says, "and so it goes." Tonight the Top 10 will be performing number more

Every week on “American Idol” someone new reveals an amazing voice, proving that with ten contestants left, this is anyone’s game. http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/03/21/american-idol-season-11-10-finalists-compete-tv-recap/?mod=WSJBlog

I'm not entirely sure whether or not to be excited for Billy Joel week on American Idol . I like some of his music, but his best songs are the ones that heavily feature the piano, so I'm curious to see how this will translate to a singing competition. more

HitFix's Daniel Fienberg recaps the "American Idol" Season 11 Top 10 Performance night featuring the music of Billy Joel. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/the-fien-print/posts/recap-american-idol-top-10-performance-billy-joel-night