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As my Christmas present to you (and myself), I will not go into full detail about the final episode of The Next Great American Band, which aired Friday night to a little bit of fanfare (I think?). Instead, I'll just let you know that the next-generation bluegrass pickers the Clark Brothers were voted the winners, and that the Google Blog Search results for the phrase "DMHO was robbed" were zero at the time that this post went up. [Archives / Photo: Reality TV Magazine]

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You would think that The Next Great American Band would at least rate a live finale, but no: The last episode of the series, during which the winning band was crowned, was actually taped Sunday night. I feel so much less guilty about my decision to eschew liveblogging of the show for a night of holiday-themed karaoke now! (Spoilers at the link, in case you don't want to be surprised in four days. However, I would like to point out that the tipster is looking forward to "next season." Yeah, good luck with that.) [MJ's Big Blog]

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Oh no! The just-voted-off Light Of Doom is claiming that the music supervisor for The Next Great American Band totally screwed them over during Queen week, a.k.a. the week that led to their exit from the competition: "The show's music director Ricky Minor arranged ALL of the music for us this week. The big drums in 'We Will Rock You' were his brilliant idea and NONE of the kids wanted to use them. In fact we didn't even want to play that song at all. We chose 'Stone Cold Crazy' and 'Tie Your Mother Down.' " When we can't believe in low-rated battle of the band competitions, what else is there?? I ask you. [Vote For The Worst]

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"The Next Great American Band" Staggers Toward The Finish Line

It was kind of embarrassing when the host of The Next Great American Band touted the two million votes received by the show's phone lines last week, although you had to give him credit for trying: Compared to this year's record sales, after all, two million does sound like a big number. (Which makes one wonder: Is the prize of a record deal really all that great? Another question for another time, I suppose.) Anyway, with only three bands remaining, each band got to perform three—three!—songs; two covers selected by the show's powers that be and one original. And the post-show voting would be not for the purpose of saving a band from getting voted off, but to allow one band to declare victory! Which fanbase would sacrifice its Friday night for the chance to make their band No. 1 on one of prime-time TV's lowest-rated shows? More »

2:30 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By mjohnston
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Latest by n/a: clark brothers are actually i think one of the better performers. i felt dot dot dot could have really been a great first American band winner...but my heart is to clark since dot has left. denver could never be marketed more »

More Next Great American Band spoilers. Come on, there are only two episodes left! Surely you can bring yourself to care at least a little bit, especially since this particular spoiler has resulted in the Vote For The Worst faithful deciding to abandon the show en masse. And when they've left... [Vote For The Worst]

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Dot Dot Dot Is Gone Gone Gone

On what I think/hope is the third-to-last episode of The Next Great Fox Ratings Disaster American Band, the four remaining acts took on the catalog of Queen. Would the staunchly Christian Denver and the Mile High Orchestra scrub the "gay" from Freddie Mercury's compositions? Would teenage metallers Light Of Doom predictably cover "We Will Rock You"? Would I actually hope for a Dot Dot Dot performance? Would this episode's ratings get trounced by the ones pulled in by a Don't Forget The Lyrics repeat? The answer to all four of those questions is yes! More »

2:30 PM on Mon Dec 10 2007
By mjohnston
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Latest by Maura Johnston: @dennisobell: Well, consider the context. I'd take their competentcy (and I didn't think it was *that* dull) over 2/3 of the other remaining bands' lack thereof. more »

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"The Next Great American Band" Is No Longer Tres Bien In Our Book

Last Friday, the five remaining bands took on the catalog of Rod Stewart, a choice which raised many questions. Would the noxious Denver and the Mile High Orchestra somehow make Rod's cover of Tom Waits' "Downtown Train" even worse? Would the teen metallers Light Of Doom play a "funny" version of "Forever Young"? Would something happen on this week's episode to make me even less enthused to keep tuning in? One of those questions can be answered with a definitive "yes!" More »

11:30 AM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By mjohnston
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Latest by Dead Air ummm Dead Air: @SomeSound-MostlyFury: I was pretty sure you were, but for whatever reason I wanted to be snarky and "oh-so-witty and dry" and just deride bass solos. more »

Reading the spoilers for this week's episode of The Next Great American Band actually made me say "Oh no!!" to my empty apartment. This just goes to show that if you spin yourself as "Christian music's premier big band," the heartland will gladly overlook a lot, such as colossally suck-ass versions of Rolling Stones songs. Bah! [MJ's Big Blog]

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The Six Remaining American Bands Roll Around The Stones' Catalog

Its ratings are lower than WWE SmackDown! and just barely ahead of the Law & Order: CI reruns that New York's myNetworkTV affiliate shows on Friday nights, but The Next Great American Band continues to soldier on, boosted no doubt by the writers' strike turning TV into even more of a wasteland than it normally is. With seven bands to go, the latest episode had the bands tackle the Rolling Stones' catalog, and the results were—unsurprisingly—mixed. More »

12:30 PM on Mon Nov 26 2007
By mjohnston
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Latest by mishaps: I thought from the pic that this was about Alan Cumming recording a rock album. more »

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Franklin Bridge Gets Sent Back To Philadelphia

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It's the slowest news day ever, so here's a maybe-true spoiler for The Next Great American Band! If it's true, the producers sure are going the "shock elimination to goose ratings in a big way" route early. And yes, Dot Dot Dot will be ruining a Lieber and Stoller song on the telly tomorrow night. I'm rooting for "Is That All There Is?," myself. [Vote For The Worst]

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Only One Band Was The Lunatic We Were Looking For

This week, The Next Great American Band not only cut its airing time down to an hour, it devoted said hour to the works of Billy Joel, an American singer-songwriter who has a longstanding, complicated relationship with my psyche. I was all set to tune into my TiVoed version of the show on Saturday, only to find that between 8 and 9 p.m. Friday, my DVR been recorded reruns of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, thanks in part to a) the writers' strike screwing up the program guide and b) the fact that Band is kind of low on my season-pass priority list. (Hey, at least it's there, which is more than I can say for the rest of America.) Happily, though, the copyright infringers and spoilers who populate the Internet came to my rescue! More »

11:30 AM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By mjohnston
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Latest by Chris Molanphy: Disagreed on Franklin Bridge -- they were way better this week, lyric fuckups or no -- and my money's on Cliff Wagner getting the boot. The band's great, but the rules of the show totally frustrate what they're about, and more »

Spoilers for tomorrow night's episode of The Next Great American Band have been revealed, thanks to the show being taped two days (!) in advance of its being aired, thus giving the few people who actually care enough to watch even less of a reason to tune in. (I know that the ratings are awful, but I'm really, really worried that the writers' strike might result in the bands-eliminated-per-week tally dropping down to one.) So here's the bad news: Apparently the world will have to sit through another week of that schmoe from Dot Dot Dot mugging and grinding for the camera. Noooooo! [MJ's Big Blog]

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That Guy From The Hatch Is A Sore Loser With A Point

Friday's episode of The Next Great American Band was the first episode where bands were eliminated, and during the whole thing I kept thanking my stars for the two-bands-getting-kicked-off-at-once format. Especially since one of the bands was, shall we say, less than grateful when it was announced that they were going home. Take it away, the Hatch, and your dismissal of the show's low ratings and bad demographics! More »

11:00 AM on Mon Nov 5 2007
By mjohnston
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Speaking of The Next Great American Band, spoilers for tonight's episode have made their way out to the Internet, and if they're true, there's a lesson to be learned from this week's eliminations: The smaller your audience, the less likely your call-in votes will be swayed by the alleged "hotness" of a crummy band's frontman. (I've said too much, haven't I?) [MJ's Big Blog]

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As it turns out, one of the members of The Next Great American Band's all-strings, no-drums outfit The Clark Brothers is no stranger to the CBS Television City stage that the show is taped on; he played fiddle for Carrie Underwood when she performed on American Idol last season. I'm not sure if this speaks more to the power of Idol synergy or more to the fact that Band is shaping up to be something of a flop. [rickey.org]

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The Answer Of Who Will Be Eliminated This Week Is Blowin' In The Wind

This week's episode of The Next Great American Band introduced the show's American Idol-like phase, where the remaining bands go head-to-head in the hopes of winning the love of a small sliver of America. (Ratings on the show plunged 20% from the week before, coming in behind WWE SmackDown.) This week, the remaining bands had to embark on the near-impossible task of covering one of American music's biggest icons—think I'm Not There, only the part of Cate Blanchett is played by Michael Keaton's kid. Badly. More »

10:30 AM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By mjohnston
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Latest by brasstax: @revmatty: Denver is terrible. Even at the height of Cherry Poppin Daddies mania, they'd have been big duds. I hope America is at least half as over that shit as I am. more »

A quick spin through the TiVo listings for the next two episodes of the Fox talent show The Next Great American Band reveals that the first two episodes will force the remaining bands to apply their chops to the catalogs of—oh boy—Bob Dylan and David Bowie. That is, if it doesn't get canceled before then, although the prospect of Michael Keaton's kid covering "Blue Jean" is making me wonder if a mercy killing might be necessary for all our sakes. [Official MySpace]

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