The Next Great American Band Spoilers and Recaps

• Finalewatch 07: 'The Next Great American Band'

  Fri, 21 Dec 2007

  Look, let's face it: This was 50 minutes of filler eating up time until we could get to the real point of the show -- telling us who had won. Some of it was enjoyable, some of it was pointless, and some of it was awful.

• 'The Next Great American Band': And then there were three

  Fri, 14 Dec 2007

  The formula's a bit different tonight on The Next Great American Band.

• 'The Next Great American Band': Original sins

  Fri, 07 Dec 2007

  We finally get back to the original song component on the Next Great American Band, and it makes all the difference in the world.

• 'The Next Great American Band' does the right thing

  Fri, 30 Nov 2007

  A couple of the bands got flack from the judges for cutting things out of their songs on The Next Great American Band.

• 'The Next Great American Band' lives up to its name

  Fri, 23 Nov 2007

  I don't tend to expect much great music from reality shows like The Next Great American Band or American Idol or all the rest. On a good night, I figure, there will be some decent -- or at least not painful -- music.

• 'The Next Great American Band': We wuz robbed!

  Fri, 16 Nov 2007

  OK, what the hell happened here, America? Because the band you voted off from The Next Great American Band rocked, and the bands that are still going... well, some of them aren't really floating my boat.

• 'The Next Great American Band': Original, orschmiginal

  Fri, 09 Nov 2007

  The Next Great American Band goes to one hour this week, and they've dumped the "original song" component of the competition. I didn't realize they were looking for the Next Great American Cover Band. I don't know if the producers always planned to cut the show down to an hour, or if this move was brought...

• 'The Next Great American Band': If only they could sing...

  Fri, 02 Nov 2007

  Two bands got cut from The Next Great American Band this week, and I was shocked at who they were. They seemed like two of the most potentially popular bands on the show, playing the sort of music you'd hear on the radio today -- and forget about three seconds after the song was replaced by a commercial. Who knew the American public liked idiosyncratic, personal music? Certainly not most record companies ...

• 'The Next Great American Band' does Dylan

  Fri, 26 Oct 2007

  Covering someone else's song can be a tricky thing.  Sometimes it works brilliantly -- think Talking Heads doing "Take Me To The River," or Johnny Cash doing "Hurt" -- and sometimes it's painful (see: any cover by William Shatner) On The Next Great American Band, our competitors have to interpret another artist's work (this week: Bob Dylan) as well as performing something of their own. Let's see how they did.

• Premierewatch: 'The Next Great American Band'

  Fri, 19 Oct 2007

  The last thing I thought we needed was yet another performance-based reality series where America votes to find the next big whatever. Between American Idol and Dancing with the Stars and America's Got Talent and heck, two competing can-you-remember-the-words-to-the-song shows, I figured the genre was kind of tapped out. But I just watched The Next Great American Band, and you know what? It doesn't suck.