The only thing hotter than Chris Brown? His Jacket

At the end of his performance on Today this morning, Chris Brown threw his jacket in the crowd (the hip hop equivalent of smashing your guitar?), causing a mini riot among the girls in the front. You gotta give props where props are due: that’s some kind of crazy hardcore CB love right there. [...]

Fall Out Boy, Ashlee Simpson help aspiring keytarist

Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump and Ashlee Simpson have teamed up to record a song with Victoria Asher, better known as the keytar player in Cobra Starship, better known as “that band on Pete Wentz’s label who wrote that song from Snakes on a Plane.” Stump wrote some of the music, and [...]

Mozes, GigaOM, NewTeeVee and the 21st century drive-in

Drive-ins are scarce these days, but the outdoor movie experience is alive and kickin. Exhibit A: NewTeeVee’s Pier Screenings. Along San Francisco’s picturesque waterfront, NewTeeVee.com is projecting their most popular web videos on large screens. This month’s theme is “Citizen News”, which is fitting, since you not only make the movies, but also [...]

Feist Drafts Indie Army for Letterman

Golden-throated chanteuse, Feist performed “1-2-3-4″ on Letterman last night, which is reason enough to set your Tivo. But this performance was actually “stay up late-worthy” for the bands that comprised her choir on stage: Broken Social Scene, Grizzly Bear, The New Pornographers, The National, and Mates of State.
indieblogheaven describes it [...]

Aly and AJ, Corbin Bleu want to meet you

Their summer tour’s winding down, but there’s still time to meet Disney-certified superstars Aly and AJ. Join the meet and greet mob by texting meetandgreet to 66937, and you’ll have a chance to hang out with everyone on the tour, including Corbin Bleu and Drake Bell. If for no other reason, do it [...]

Next stop for Diddy: the Middle East

Based on this pic from Screamfest the other night, Diddy seems to have brokered peace between Kanye and 50 Cent, who described their performance as “groin-grabbingly great.”
(By the way, did anyone else forget that Diddy did anything besides own stuff and host reality shows?). Now, if he could only figure out how [...]

MTV, Myspace Presidential Dialogues

Myspace and MTV are teaming up to bring you presidential dialogues. They’re “dialogues” because in place of guys (and a lady) arguing with each other behind podiums, the candidates will speak directly with younger voters in real time. Expect a lot of awkward pandering (fingers crossed that Hillary admits to being a Hills [...]

High School Musical 2, Vanessa Hudgens might just save Disney yet

After debuting last Friday to the tune of a zillion viewers, it’s no surprise that the soundtrack to High School Musical 2 sold a megazillion copies in its first week, firmly placing it at #1 on Billboard.
Personally, I tuned in to see what equally likeable, yet ethnically diverse [...]

Help us get into SXSW 08

Only 5 months have past, and we’re already jonsing for our South by Southwest fix. (Maybe the hang over from our Firefox party is finally wearing off?). Next year, we’ve got our eyes on SXSW Interactive, but we need your help to get there!
If we get enough votes, we’ll land a spot [...]

HELLYEAH to bands: show us your riffs!

HELLYEAH, Mudvayne, and yours truly are having a contest for up and coming bands. If you win, your music will get some sweet distribution.
Entering is really easy. I’ll let Vinnie and Chad fill you in.

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