On last night‘s The Next Great American Band finale, The Clark Brothers emerged victorious and won a recording contract with 19 Entertainment as a reward.  They beat out other top three finalists

The Next Great American Band wrapped up its first and almost certainly final season tonight.  The outcome wasn‘t a huge surprise to anyone who watched the entire season, and it was a fairly well-packaged final hour of TV.  I‘ll tell you one thing – I‘m going to miss Dicko.  He might be better than Simon Cowell, in that he can be just as acidic with his wit, but he‘s also less of a curmudgeon.  So, if you want to find out the winner of

Notice the question is “Who should win?” not “Who will win?”  Those questions should be one and the same, but with what we‘ve seen from

The Next Great American Band, despite the constant criticism from everywhere, had its fair share of good to great performances.  The show had a lot of talent flow through its ranks.  Unfortunately, these performances were pretty rare. Realistically, the top five performances could all be songs by

Given the quality of The Next Great American Band, I had a lot of performances to choose from for this list.  It‘s sad, but true. 

Tonight was the final competition night on The Next Great American Band, and it‘s about time.  I‘m not sure if I‘ve talked to anyone who is truly loving the season of

Much has been made about the poor ratings received by The Next Great American Band.  When the idea for American Band was first announced near the tail end of last season‘s

The top four bands performed one original song tonight on The Next Great American Band, along with one Queen cover.  Now, the Queen cover would pose problems for any band given Freddie Mercury‘s almost unparalleled vocal range, but the bands did pretty well with the task, all things considered.  The originals, on the other hand, were a big disappointment and point to the real reason these bands have yet to hit pay dirt on their own – their songs aren‘t all that good.  Covering songs well is one thing, writing good songs is a completely different skill.

Here we are, down to the final five on The Next Great American Band, the most watched network band competition since Rock Star: Supernova.  FOX is merely being polite in letting this first and likely only season of

Rod Stewart is the man.  The final five bands performed Rod Stewart songs tonight on The Next Great American Band, but there was no sign of Maggie Mae, which was unfortunate.  I was also hoping for some old school Faces tunes, but no luck.   The final five bands have two clear favorites, who both showed off their dominance of the other bands tonight.  One of the bands is good, but not good enough.  The other two don‘t really belong.