Scotty McCreery won at the end of last night's American Idol finale. Before they announced the winners, the drawn-out show show featured performances from Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, and Bono and The Edge,…   Read Story »

Iggy's appearance on FOX's tailspun talent show last night is somewhat surprising; his choice of wardrobe less so (as always he prefers to just "stay like I am"). At least it might be surprising?…   Read Story »

This music video is hilarious because A) it has Lambert singing his awful song while walking through an Apocalyptic nightmarescape. How romantic?! SING TO ME WHILE WE RUN IN TERROR, ADAM LAMBERT! And…   Read Story »

Hot off of covering Lykke Li, American Idol's remaining hairstylist victims Adam Lambert and the Not Adam Lamberts kept it indie for this week's Ford commercial challenge with New Magnetic Wonder's…   Read Story »

This week (disco week) Lil and Anoop were eliminated. Sorry Lil and Anoop, pack your knives and go to graduate school. Before the curtain fell they hammed it up with Adam, Allison, Kris, Danny, and…   Read Story »

As Simon Cowell likes to say, American Idol "is a singing competition." It's a show where four judges who are varying degrees of witty, clueless, lucid, and the dawg pore over the minute inflections…   Read Story »

The young woman, Paula Goodspeed, was found dead in her car outside the celebrity judge's house last night. She appeared on the show in 2005 as one of the unwitting contestants who's used for comedic…   Read Story »

Of course we have no authority when we say that, hence mentioning the star-making competition just twice this year. Fortunately, now we have Gabe and Lindsay at new sister site Videogum to pick up…   Read Story »

None of us are doing a good job of keeping tabs on American Idol, but Stereogum's usually up on its Lionel Richie. We have history together. Where else will you get frame-by-frame analysis of the…   Read Story »

Last night Simon, Randy, Paula, Ryan, and the City of Brotherly Love did their damndest to get people psyched about the waning American Idol, and didn't quite succeed. Probably because of its recent…   Read Story »