Last night on the American Idol results show, season 7 winner David Cook returned home. David was there to promote his second album, “This Loud Morning”, which drops on June 28. Cook performed the first single off his new album “The Last Goodbye”, which seems destined to be a radio hit. You can buy the [...]

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On Wednesday night, the Top 7 American Idol contestants took the stage to perform their favorite hits from the 21st century.  Lauren Alaina chose to sing Sara Evan‘s “Born to Fly”. Lauren’s performance was adequate.  It wasn’t great, it wasn’t awful.  It was just sort of “there”.  She’s a good singer, she just needs to [...]

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Last night on American Idol, the Top 7 contestants got to sing their favorite tunes from the 21st century.  Stefano Langone went with “Closer” by Ne-Yo. What a disaster.  That had to be the worst song choice in Idol history…terrible.  I felt like I was watching some kind of exercise video with the way Stefano [...]

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It was 21st century music night on American Idol last night and the Top 7 finalists took to the stage to sing their favorites.  Casey Abrams sang Maroon 5‘s “Harder to Breathe”. Wow, this dude is a little bit odd, but he killed that one.  It was a little pitchy here and there, but who [...]

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Last night on American Idol, the Top 7 took to the stage to belt out songs from the 21st century.  Jacob Lusk performed “Dance with My Father” by Luther Vandross. Jacob, your 15 minutes are up, buddy.  It’s time to go home.  I know this was a very emotional song for him to sing given [...]

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The Top 7 finalists took the American Idol stage last night to pick their favorite songs from the 21st century. Haley Reinhart chose to go with “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele. This was a really solid performance from Haley.  She’s got some mad pipes, I’ll give her that.  I would pay good money to [...]

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The Top 7 took the stage on American Idol last night to belt out some tunes from the 21st century.  It should come as no surprise that rocker James Durbin chose to wail away on Muse‘s “Uprising”. Man, who is this guy sleeping with?  Last week, he got to bring out a special guest guitarist [...]

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The Top 7 contestants took the stage last night on American Idol to sing popular songs from the 21st century. Our country crooner Scotty McCreery came out singing the LeAnn Rimes song “Swingin’”. Really, could Scotty have chosen a safer song?  He pretty much took no risks in picking this one.  When will Scotty get [...]

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James Durbin decided to go out on a limb last night and sing Sammy Hagar‘s “Heavy Metal” from the epic, 1981 movie with the same name on the American Idol Season 10 Top 8 live show last night. Yes!  Throw up your rock fist, baby…this was HOT!  He even brought legendary guitarist Zakk Wylde with [...]

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Jacob Lusk sang Simon & Garfunkel‘s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” on the American Idol Season 10 Top 8 show featuring songs from the movies last night. Well, that was disturbing.  The dude can sing, but I’m going to have nightmares about this performance.  Did we just see his O-face?  What is up with this guy? [...]

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Haley Reinhart performed Blondie‘s smash hit “Call Me” from the film “First Monday In October” on the American Idol Season 10 Top 8 live show featuring songs from the movies last night. Wow.  Finally…a performance that was rocking out!  The beat was driving, the vocals were kicking, and the outfit was smoking!  This is probably [...]

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It was movie night last night on American Idol, and the Season 10 Top 8 finalists each chose music that had been featured on the silver screen. Casey Abrams went with “Nature Boy” (WOOOOOO!) by Nat King Cole from the movie “The Boy with Green Hair“. What the hell did I just witness?  That was [...]

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