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The photo gallery from Tuesday’s episode will lead off with the duets because, hey, the duets were the most entertaining part of the evening. For my song-by-song grades from last night’s show, go here. For my recap of last night’s show, go here. The fun resumes tonight at 9 p.m. during a results show that…

Finally. We’d gone at least three weeks without a truly memorable performance on American Idol. One that I would rank among this season’s best. Tuesday night, Lee DeWyze and Crystal Bowersox ended that drought with their performance of “Falling Slowly.” Hmm, maybe Idol should keep these duets around for future years. After all, last year,…

American Idol experimented with duets during last year’s top four performance show. Apparently, producers liked the results well enough to try it again. Personally, I think the duets smack of unfairness. I mean, last year, someone was going to get paired with Adam Lambert. Two contestants were going to have the misfortune of not getting…

In the schizophrenic sort of way that nothing has quite worked out right on Idol in season nine, the lineup for this week’s top four shows makes perfect sense. Follow along. Last year at this point, the top four sang rock music. The guest performers on Wednesday’s results show are Bon Jovi and Daughtry. They’d…