Along with a lot of other people (mostly all the sane people on planet Earth), comic actor Seth Rogen apparently does not care much for rapper Chris Brown and his famous, girlfriend-assaulting, green-room destroying, tantrum-throwing temper.  Nor does he seem to look highly upon the Grammys for continuing to celebrate and award Brown, despite his odious behavior.  And Rogen let them both have it through a series of raunchy jokes while hosting the Independent Spirit Awards last weekend.

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While many stars, singers, and celebrities are remembering Whitney Houston now that she has passed, perhaps the most touching tribute/ remembrance thus far was Jennifer Hudson’s stirring and reverent cover of “I Will Always Love You” at Sunday night’s Grammy telecast.

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The 2012 Grammy Awards were held in Los Angeles on Sunday night, held under the shadow of Whitney Houston’s Saturday passing, a fact that cast a pall over the normally exuberant and self-congratulatory event.  But while the ceremony was a bit more muted than in previous years, there were no shortage of big wins or big performances, as soul singer Adele won all six awards she was nominated for, while the Foo Fighters nipped at her heels with five wins out of six nominations.

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Big news for fans of Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band—the Boss and company have announced that they will be performing at this year’s 54^th Annual Grammy Awards, which, by my calculations, makes this the first time in 54 years that the Grammys will actually be worth watching.

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It’s that time of year again, when the meaningless award system known as “The Grammys” begins to dole out awards to people  like Katy Perry and the Foo Fighters.   The awards show won’t air until February 12, 2012, but the nominations were announced last night, during a concert which featured two performances by Lady Gaga (go ahead and sigh loudly right here).

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Somehow, THE MOST IMPORTANT NIGHT IN MUSIC EVAR YOU GUYZ OMG! snagged its highest ratings in nearly a decade last night, according to Billboard.   The 53^rd Annual Grammy Awards, the celebration which marks the most recent evening in which the music industry can pat itself on the back while it continues to slowly, publicly die.

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Apparently, there’s an actual reason to watch the Grammys this year—in between a multitude of cutaway shots to Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and whatever hellish podpeople Will Smith has sent forth from his loins to enslave the populace, there will be a special performance by none other than Bob Dylan.

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Well, the 2011 Grammy nominations were announced last night during a special on CBS, and gosh dang heck, wouldn’t ya know it, they kind of, well, sucked. ‘Sucked’ in that way in which you can tell the Grammy organization continued to trend downward by nominating musicians not for their artistic worth, but for buzz, albums sold, and pop culture currency (of course, I could totally be wrong, because Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream isn’t really a cynical mishmash of ProTool’d modern pop clichés, meaningless lyrics and hyperslick session musician pap, but indeed is one of the five greatest albums recorded in 2010).

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You all know her as the loud-mouthed and pint-sized “Guidette,” Snookie, from MTV‘s Jersey shore. It turns out that she can be fantastic interviewer on the Grammys red carpet, too! (Also, by fantastic we mean hilarious.)

MTV put Snookie (aka Nicole Polizzi) out to interview bands and most likely without her knowing who any of the ones they’ve requested her to talk to, they got some entertaining footage. In the clip below, you’ll see Snookie ask Phoenix if there are “Guidos” in France and tell one of them they look like Twilight‘s Robert Pattinson, which is “good” according to the Jersey Shore star.

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