Rihanna performed at Palace of Deportes in Mexico yesterday, January 24th. You can read the review of the concert here (English) or here (Spanish). Also, check out photos from the performance below!

Rihanna performed at Palace of Deportes in Mexico yesterday, January 24th. You can read the review of the concert here (English) or here (Spanish). Also, check out photos from the performance below!

It was a dream night for teenage music lovers as pop stars Rihanna and Chris Brown hit the stage in Auckland. Reviewer Karen Tay checks them out.

Rihanna & Chris Brown
Where: Vector Arena, Auckland
When: Monday, October 27

The crowd at pop concerts seem to get younger - and tartier - every year.

Take for instance, the teenybopper walking on the stairs at Auckland’s Vector Arena. From the back, she looked all of about 14, and was wearing a skirt the size of a handkerchief, from which almost everyone behind her got a good view up.

Young lady, does your mother know you’re wearing a G-string?

Skirt looker-upper girl gave a glimpse of what the rest of the evening entailed. Even on a school night, the teens - many of which were wearing matching clothes - were out in full force to celebrate the double billing of Rihanna and Chris Brown.

Brown is the kind of good looking brotha that appeals to both 12-year-old boys and 16-year-old girls, who combined to scream in such deafening tones they drowned out a good portion of his first song.

No matter, because what really impressed was the fact that he descended, god-like, from the roof with a team of dancers dressed like ninjas.

They proceeded to rev up the crowd with club favourites (Yo) Excuse Me Miss and With You, which prompted the plenty of girly sobbing.

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It was a dream night for teenage music lovers as pop stars Rihanna and Chris Brown hit the stage in Auckland. Reviewer Karen Tay checks them out.
Rihanna & Chris Brown
Where: Vector Arena, Auckland
When: Monday, October 27
The crowd at pop concerts seem to get younger - and tartier - every year.
Take for instance, the teenybopper walking [...]

Rihanna, “Good Girl Gone Bad; Reloaded” CD, in stores Tuesday.

Singer Rihanna is holding true to the idea that some CDs are so good they deserve to be released twice. Her “Good Girl Gone Bad” that gave us “Umbrella,” “Hate That I Love You” and “Don’t Stop the Music” is back for a new go-around, with the original CD in its entirety along with bonus tracks “Take a Bow,” a cover of Maroon 5’s “If I Never See Your Face Again” featuring Maroon 5, and “Disturbia.” The bonus DVD features behind-the-scenes footage. (Kevin C. Johnson, pop music critic)

Rihanna, “Good Girl Gone Bad; Reloaded” CD, in stores Tuesday.
Singer Rihanna is holding true to the idea that some CDs are so good they deserve to be released twice. Her “Good Girl Gone Bad” that gave us “Umbrella,” “Hate That I Love You” and “Don’t Stop the Music” is back for a new go-around, with [...]

Rihanna: “Take a Bow.” Another instant #1 and a song that completely dominated the iTunes singles chart up until that American Idol finale. This is one of those awful tacked-on ripoff tracks on a forthcoming special edition of Rihanna’s album, but unlike most of those shady bonus-tracks, this one can hang with just about anything on the rest of the album. I’ve never much liked Rihanna’s ballads because her voice is too icy and hard-edged to tackle anything resembling actual human emotion; she’s generally a whole lot better off with robotic dance-pop. “Take a Bow” works, though, because it the wronged-woman sentiment at its hard couldn’t be more cruelly expressed. “You’re so ugly when you cry,” she sniffs on the first verse, before sarcastically applauding whatever big speech the guy is giving her. She lets a few vague glints of humanity creep through (”Don’t tell me you’re sorry when you’re not / Baby, when I know you’re only sorry you got caught”), and there’s a subtly regretful undercurrent running through the thing, but this whole thing is basically what you don’t want to ever hear from a girlfriend. The track is one of these gleamingly professional and satisfying Ne-Yo/Stargate things, but the stately piano-and-strings construction doesn’t even has that vaguely comforting acoustic guitar running through it the way “Irreplaceable” did. Rihanna, meanwhile, sounds more confident every day; it’s fun watching her turn into an honest-to-God star. 7.6

Source: The Village Voice

Rihanna: “Take a Bow.” Another instant #1 and a song that completely dominated the iTunes singles chart up until that American Idol finale. This is one of those awful tacked-on ripoff tracks on a forthcoming special edition of Rihanna’s album, but unlike most of those shady bonus-tracks, this one can hang with just about anything [...]

Rounding out a phenomenal bill Rihanna’s “Umbrella” provoked the first massive singalong of the night, and her sultry pop on “Don’t Stop the Music” also ensured maximum grooving. N.E.R.D. played a strong set capped by “She Wants to Move,” while Lupe Fiasco’s “Superstar” was the best intro the show could have. However, captain Kanye truly made one small step for man and one giant leap for pop stars of all kinds.
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Rounding out a phenomenal bill Rihanna’s “Umbrella” provoked the first massive singalong of the night, and her sultry pop on “Don’t Stop the Music” also ensured maximum grooving. N.E.R.D. played a strong set capped by “She Wants to Move,” while Lupe Fiasco’s “Superstar” was the best intro the show could have. However, captain Kanye truly [...]

Kanye West’s ‘Glow in the Dark’ tour opens in Seattle

Kanye West has tried to keep the design and theme of his new tour shrouded in secrecy, but the cat’s out of the bag now that the nationwide trek opened at Seattle’s KeyArena on Wednesday night. EW.com was on hand for the premiere of the “Glow in the Dark” tour — which also features Rihanna, N.E.R.D., and Lupe Fiasco as opening acts — and can offer a preview of what audiences across the country have in store over the next few months.

It’s as “big” a production as you might have expected from all the anticipation West has been building up, but maybe the biggest conceit is how minimalist it really is, in that West spends his entire 83-minute performance alone on stage. Indulging in metaphorical dialogues with a computerized voice and rapping and dancing in front of a giant LED screen full of star fields and spacey desert landscapes, West is attempting to pull off the hip-hop equivalent of a Broadway one-man show.

More details and — WARNING — spoilers, after the jump.

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Kanye West’s ‘Glow in the Dark’ tour opens in Seattle
Kanye West has tried to keep the design and theme of his new tour shrouded in secrecy, but the cat’s out of the bag now that the nationwide trek opened at Seattle’s KeyArena on Wednesday night. EW.com was on hand for the premiere of the “Glow [...]