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    • SNL GPA: Rihanna and Shy Ronnie Keep It Real

      By Caryn Ganz | Amplifier – Mon, Nov 1, 2010 6:32 PM EDT

      The last time Rihanna visited "Saturday Night Live" she introduced us to her new sidekick, an introverted nerd MC with a bladder-control issue named Shy Ronnie (Andy Samberg). The duo returned this weekend in "Ronnie and Clyde," where a bank robbery goes awry due to Shy Ronnie's unwillingness to enunciate ("Boner alert" may be our new favorite Rihanna lyric). In addition to playing one heck of a sexy gangsta, Rihanna delivered two solid performances:

      Song 1: "What's My Name"
      -10 for lack of Nuno! Rihanna appears to have traded in her touring guitarist Nuno Bettencourt for some new dude. What gives?! UPDATE: Is that indeed Nuno!? Rihanna's publicist says the former Extreme guitarist is indeed still playing with Rihanna, but the web is split.
      +4 for paying attention to the stage set-up and creating a Kanye-esque backdrop that didn't look like the typical "SNL" stage
      +3 for singing live
      -1 for singing live off-key
      +2 for wearing four different outfits at once, including short-a-loons
      +1 for

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    • Phish’s Halloween Costume: Boogie Rockers Little Feat

      By Daniel Kreps | Amplifier – Mon, Nov 1, 2010 5:00 PM EDT

      Throughout the last decade and a half, jam band Phish have dedicated one of their October 31st sets to covering a classic album by another artist. The band calls it wearing a "musical costume," a little "trick or treat" gift to fans that sure beats handing out thousands of mini-Snickers bars to concertgoers, and previous Halloween outfits include full renditions of the Beatles' "White Album," Talking Heads' "Remain in Light," the Who's "Quadrophenia" and a handful more LPs that are requisites of any good iTunes library. This year at Atlantic City, New Jersey's Boardwalk Hall, however, Phish donned a musical costume that caught most fans off-guard, covering country-fried blues-rockers Little Feat's 1978 live album "Waiting for Columbus" -- or that double-LP with the tomato-headed lady on the cover that's in your dad's dusty record collection but you didn't actually steal for your own shelf.

      Last year on Halloween, Phish performed the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main St.," which obviously

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    • Reality Show Singers Butchering Nirvana Are in Our Head, Help!

      By Caryn Ganz | Amplifier – Fri, Oct 29, 2010 9:26 PM EDT

      Meet Nevruz, the Italian X Factor contestant who pooped in our ears this morning.

      Though Courtney Love and Frances Bean Cobain have attended American Idol tapings, the show hasn't gotten its hands on any Nirvana material -- yet. But The X Factor is headed to U.S. shores this year, and overseas they've been able to take on Cobain. Voila:

      "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Japan

      "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Greece

      "Lithium" from Portuguese American Idol

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    • Akon Banned From Aussie Arena Over One Wise Thing He’s Ever Done Onstage

      By Caryn Ganz | Amplifier – Fri, Oct 29, 2010 7:29 PM EDT

      Akon has done a few ill-advised things while performing: In April 2007, he engaged in inappropriate, overly enthusiastic sexual dancing with a 14-year-old at a Trinidad concert (he later apologized). In June 2007, he picked up and hurled a 15-year-old fan who he believed threw an object at the stage (he was later sentenced). However, halting a Melbourne, Australia show in 2009 after rival gangs began fighting in the audience seems to have been one of the more intelligent decisions the singer has made.

      Still, that somewhat altruistic action is giving Akon trouble right now: he's been blocked from performing alongside Flo Rida, Ciara, and Soulja Boy at the Summerbeatz festival at Australia's Rod Laver Arena on November 25. "What happened at Hisense was a one-time thing," ticked-off promoter Dwayne Cross said, referring to the brawl at the Laver's sister arena. "It could have happened from someone at a Neil Diamond concert having too much to drink." (A fair point!) "Our audiences are

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