As many of you already know 2012 is upon us and American Idol is right around the corner. I will still be LIVE blogging all of the audition and performances episodes this year and hopefully Queen Angie will fill in for the results as she has done for so many years now.

There are a couple of important changes to the blog for this season. The first is the shoutbox is no longer on the sidebar. It has it’s own page and you can access it by clicking the SHOUTBOX tab on the navigation bar at the top of the site. Recent Posts and Recent Comments were also removed from the sidebar. I will be looking to put them back in the future.

The second change is logging into the site. The preferred way to login now is via social networking credentials on the sidebar. If you want to login the old way you will need to CLICK HERE and bookmark the page. The link to the old login is no longer on the navigation menu.

I am looking forward to the upcoming season and seeing some of the regulars returning to the site. As always thank you for your continued loyalty and please leave your thoughts or concerns in the comments.