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(One of the acts I would have sent home if I was a judge. Fortunately for them, I’m not.) Tonight was the first results show of this season of “The X Factor”. Eleven acts will move on to the next round and one goes home disappointed. The elimination works like this: the 10 acts moving…

On tonight’s episode of “The X Factor,” the final 12 contestants peformed, and for the first time the viewers get to decide who’s going home. While the judges are still mentoring their contestants, they don’t have a say in who continues on; but they can still take jabs at each other. First to perform was…

 Marc Martel, lead vocalist for the Christian rock band Downhere, was honored last night at the MTV O Awards 2 where fans across the country voted him the winner of Best Fan Cover for his rendition of  Queen’s “Somebody To Love” in the Queen Extravaganza competition. His audition video has drawn over 4 million views,…

Tonight was the first live show of “The X Factor”, and here’s one more thing I love: 17 contestants performed and by the end of the night, we knew which 12 were moving on to the next round. The contestants in each category performed, and then the judge mentoring that group decided which contestants were…

On tonight’s episode of “The X Factor” we found out which 16 acts move on to the live rounds. I made some predictions, and I was right about 75% of the time. We’ll start with the boys, who were in the Hamptons with L.A. Reid. I predicted that Phillip Lomax, Chris Rene, Marcus Canty and…

Last week, “The X Factor” was bumped around a bit due to baseball playoffs, but we did get to see the performances from the 32 contestants who made it through to the judges’ home round. I’d love to give you a play by play, but unfortunately the dogs ate my notes. Seriously. The dog literally…

  This just in: after a heavy fan write-in campaign, Downhere’s Marc Martel has just been added as a nominee for the MTV O Awards 2 in the Best Fan Cover category for his YouTube.com video audition of “Somebody To Love” for the Queen Extravaganza. (Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, I included it…

In this post, I shared the videos of “The X Factor” group auditions from boot camp. After the group performances, the judges whittled the contenders down even farther to 64, which by the end of tonight’s show was cut even further to 32. The contestants were given a list of 35 songs and told to choose…

I intended to post about last night’s “The X Factor” boot camp auditions, but thought I’d wait until tonight, when they all had aired. That way we can wrap up boot camp in one fell swoop. As it is, I still have to wait until tomorrow to put up the last three groups’ videos, but you can see…

Downhere’s Marc Martel appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show yesterday, and fans are raving about his performance. Mostly, about how much he sounds like Freddy Mercury, which is a good thing since he’s getting all of this attention for his audition tape for the Queen Extravaganza. The thing is that Christian music fans have known…
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