Today was Nick Cannon and MILF day <ahem!> on It's On With Alexa Chung. Of course, every day is a good outfit day on the show, so let's get to what Alexa wore today, hm?

Tuesday, June 24
+ Striped mini dress: Charlotte Ronson.

+ Rosette necklace: Tuleste Market.

+ Shoes: Christian Louboutin, her own.

First of all, I need to applaud Charlotte Ronson -- her clothing is amazing and often affordable, her sizes are realistic, AND she's related to Mark Ronson, which is applaud-worthy in and of itself. Anyway, looking for something similar but more summery? Observe! Topshop's backless striped mini dress. It's $100 at Topshop.com.

... Or check out this SIIIICK sleeveless striped sweater dress by McQ Alexander McQueen. It's $239.25 at Chickdowntown.com.

J'adore this gold rosette necklace by Nicole Romano. Get it for $330 at CharmandChain.com, which has the BEST selection of chunky necklaces on the planet.

SHOES! Alexa wore her own Christian Louboutin Mary Janes today. Can't afford Louboutin? OMG! ME EITHER! We have SO much in common! Check out these Marc By Marc Jacobs patent ballet flats instead. They're $180 at ShopKitson.com.

(Oh, and speaking of shoes, did Olivia Palermo REALLY re-wear a pair of TOPSHOP heels -- THE SAME shoes she wore to the CFDAs -- when she was on It's On With Alexa Chung today? THE HORROR!)

Like their Los Angeles hometown, it's always 70 degrees in the minds of hair metal band Steel Panther. It's also always approximately 1986.

Steel Panther, formerly Metal Skool, have been working L.A.'s notorious Sunset Strip harder than a stripper in stilettos, and they've accumulated more famous friends than you've got Facebook friends: Kelly Clarkson, Benji Madden, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park's M. Shadows, David Cook, and scores of other celebrities have joined them on stage to cover '80s metal classics by Skid Row, Journey's epic "Don't Stop Believin'," and LOTS of Guns N' Roses. (Steel Panther's also responsible for the cover of Aldo Nova's "Fantasy" used as the theme song of Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory.)

Watch Stix Zadinia, Satchel, Michael Starr, and Lexxi Foxxx reveal five never-before-revealed things about Steal Panther -- including the unspeakable, peanut-butter-based things they'd like to your lady area -- in this groundbreaking episode of "The 5." (It's the first one we've ever had to age-restrict! RAWK!)

Like how that felt? Pick up Steel Panther's new album, Feel the Steel when it comes out in November.

+ Plus: Watch "Death to All But Metal" after the jump!

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Tokio Hotel's new album is STILL not out yet (alas!), but at least you can get a little piece of the guys when they release their new use-a-conner t-shirts for H&M.

Tokio Hotel, along with Katy Perry, Estelle, Yoko Ono, Robyn (Robyn!!!), N.E.R.D., and more -- like Rihanna last year -- were tapped to designed safe-sex t-shirts as part of H&M and Designers Against AIDS' Fashion Against AIDS 2009 campaign.

The shirts, which are available in male and female versions (but feel free to change that up depending upon your gender-bending preferences), will hit H&M stores worldwide (great news!) on May 28. Twenty-five percent of the campaign's proceeds will fund HIV/AIDS youth awareness projects.

Lovingly, Tokio Hotel's shirts say "Rock Hard, F*** Safe." Gotta respect that kind of forwardness. Oh, and Tokio Hotel was photographed for the campaign by Daniel Jackson. Because I know you keep track of that sort of thing.

I will now leave you to your fantasies...

Which would you rather be: The Beatles or The Rolling Stones? Canadian new-wave indie mainstays Metric pose the biggest question of the past 40 years in their new single, "Gimme Sympathy."

Their answer -- which you'd think would be implied in the title, as it simultaneously references two Rolling Stones songs ("Gimme Shelter" and "Sympathy For The Devil") -- is confused by the fact that the lyrics contain the line Come on baby play me something/ like "Here Comes The Sun." So what's the answer? Who would you rather be?

Either answer plays perfectly into the title of Metric's latest album, Fantasies, which debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart.

Watch the Frank Borin (Good Charlotte, Story Of The Year)-directed video for "Gimme Sympathy," in which the band takes over a blown-out disco with irresistible hooks and an army of kids.

Hey! After Cute Is What We Aim For, Meg & Dia, Breathe Carolina, Every Avenue and Anarbor hit the stage at NYC's Fillmore / Irving Plaza tonight, all of the Take Action Tour bands will be running a jeans drive and doing an acoustic performance tomorrow at the DoSomething.org offices (address below)!!!

First off, I gotta tip my hat to DoSomething.org for having one of the most straightforward URLs on the internet. None of this "AOL" ambiguity. Do something. Dot org.

Also, while my hat is off, I tip my toupee to Hopeless Records. The non-profit Sub City subsidiary (!) signs bands only on the condition that they fulfill certain pro-social commitments throughout their recording and touring process. In their nine years of existence, Hopeless has raised more than 1.5 million dollars for more than 50 charities. That's $1,500,000.

Finally, I tip my dandruff to the bands on the Take Action Tour, who are clearly in it for more than free Ed Hardy t-shirts. Super cool of them to show up and get people excited about a good cause. People like me. That's right. You heard it here first. I'm excited about jeans. Here's them deets.

Take Action Tour Jeans Drive
THURS FEB 19, 4-6 PM
24-32 Union Square East | 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003

RUN! Bring jeans! Or at least wear cute underwear! More tour dates after the jump!

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Remember that one episode of The Hills where everyone met up a swish hotel bar and did shots? Wait... let me elaborate -- recall, please, The Hills, Season 3, Episode 6 (air date 9/15/2008, for those of you keeping track), when Audrina organized a super-massive party featuring a performance by The White Tie Affair. (And Justin Bobby NEVER SHOWED, natch.) Nowww it's all coming back, right?

Anyway, The White Tie Affair falls under the tutelage of Audrina at Epic Records, and Audrina herself was on hand on the tres L.A. set of their new-new video, "Candle (Sick and Tired)." Also there: superfan Stephanie Pratt, and Good Charlotte's Joel and Benji Madden, who make quick cameos in the new video. Watch it below, and check out an old-school Buzzworthy interview with The White Tie Affair.

While Total Finale Live was getting live for last time (and tipsy too!) just a few feet away, I got a chance to talk to Joel and Benji Madden about growing up Good Charlotte throughout the years on TRL.

See what the Madden brothers had to say about coming back to the show for the last time and the way the show acted as a social network in the days before Facebook and MySpace even existed (can you IMAGINE?).

Total Finale Live is halfway over, but the party's barely started backstage. Here's everything you won't see on camera that's happening backstage right now...

+ 10:30-something? WTRL? The show's OVER? I'm off to go get these interviews up for you -- Good Charlotte, TAI's Sisky, Nelly, and more. Read the always-hilarious Jim Cantiello's play-by-play of the show for more!

+ 10:01 Ludacris chills on the couch in the green room and watches 50 Cent perform while Kid Rock looks on, smoking a cigar.

+ 9:58 Just when 50 Cent is finally making his way toward the studio, Kid Rock shows up.  "Ohhhh. I never met this guy before," Kid says.  When the two greet each other, Kid Rock tells 50, "Eminem always tells me I need to meet you when I'm in Detroit."

+ 9:52 Hilary Duff was reminiscing about her first TRL experience -- standing in front of the big window facing Broadway while the fans cheered for her on the street. "I didn't ever want to leave the window!"

+ 9:44 50 Cent and Diddy met each other during a MTV News interview outside of the studio. 50 joked to Diddy about trying to get his spot producing shows at MTV, then they both laughed about who's making the most money.  After Diddy left, 50 had a question for the crowd in the hallway -- "Ok, be honest. Who's cooler? Me or Puff?"

+ 9:34 Justin Timberlake was dancing in his dressing room to Snoop's "Drop It Like It's Hot."

+ 9:27 Snoop Dogg is patiently posing for photo after photo after photo....

+ 9:20 Ludacris is signing a TRL yearbook while JC Chasez chills in the VIP room.

+ 9:16 Teyana Taylor's testing out the TRL photo booth!

+ 9:10 We The Kings are talking shop with Joel and Benji Madden from Good Charlotte.

+ 9:00 The Academy Is ... bassist Adam Siska was the man behind the Pete Wentz mask!

+ 8:45 Snoop Dogg says he thinks they should convert the times square studio in to a club (and he should be made part owner for coming up with the idea). Also, Nelly says he's gonna miss the energy of TRL and seeing the fans and artists coming together in such a way.

+ 8:40 No Pete Wentz, but definitely a man wearing a Pete mask when Fall Out Boy came down to the TRL studio during the show. The guys had just a few minutes to make their rounds before everyone went down to the street for their performance.

+ 8:37 As Justin Timberlake went to his dressing room, Diddy walked out of another room and greeted manager Johnny Wright.

+ 8:35pm Justin Timberlake just came in the TRL studios... one VIP saw him and told her friend, "oh my God. Justin Timberlake is here."

+ 8:27 Benji and Joel Madden were doing an interview at the TRL stage door when Joel's ex, Hilary Duff, walked by within inches! Looked over her shoulder straight-faced and blew by.

Y'all, I'm like sitting here up to my knees in Puffs Plus (the extra-aloe kind), bawlin' like a bambino over the last-ever afternoon episode of TRL, which aired today.

And when the All-American Rejects weren't busy pulling up the floor boards (hey, we're gonna need those for the TRL finale this Sunday!), Damien and Lyndsey counted down the top 10 live performances of TRL's 10-year history.

Chart toppers included a medley of Snoop Dogg classics, Alicia Keys' 2007 performance of "No One," and  Outkast "Hey Ya"-ing on Halloween in 2003.

But it's most fitting that the princess of TRL, Britney Spears, whose 2003 performance of "Me Against the Music," came in at #7, right beneath TRL's crown prince, Justin Timberlake and the rest of consummate TRL boy band *NSYNC, who made it to the #10 spot for their 1998 performance of "Tearin Up My Heart." Meanwhile JT's 2002 solo performance of "Like I Love You" won him the distinguished honor of the #1 top TRL performance ever.

+ Watch Britney, Justin, and *NSYNC's performances, and check out more of the all-time biggest and best live TRL performances. And don't miss Justin himself -- plus JC Chasez (bringing us two steps closer to an *NSYNC revival!), Backstreet Boys, Snoop, Beyonce, Ludacris, Nelly, Diddy, Hilary Duff, Good Charlotte, Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy, 50 Cent, and more this Sunday, November 16 at 8pm ET on Total Finale Live.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go pull myself together and then go downstairs and loot! (Maybe the photo booth hasn't been swiped yet!) See you Sunday!

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We’re just bittersweet DAYS from the real-deal last-ever episode of TRL -- this Sunday, November 16 at 8pm ET. So, here’s everything you need to know about who’s performing and appearing on the star-studded two-hour boo-hoo fest that’ll close the door on TRL forever-ever.

OLD-SCHOOL PLAYERS:
Old enough to remember Carson Daly? (Come on. You’re not THAT young!) Good. because the pioneering TRL host will be back in the house to co-host the night's farewell festivities, along with Damien Fahey. And a parade of co-hosts and VJs, including Lyndsey Rodrigues, Vanessa Minnillo, Dave Holmes, Jesse Camp, Hilarie Burton (Peyton!!), Susie Castillo, La La Vasquez and Quddus (soooo hot! – ed.) will be stopping by to reflect, reminisce, and see how their old dressing rooms held up.

PERFORMERS:
Beyonce/ Sasha FIERCE will be performing live, which is simply unMISSABLE, speaking of which, so is the Backstreet Boys' performance (minus Kevin –- frowny face! It's been too long guys, and you've so shown me the meaning of being lonely!) Anyway, ALSO Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Nelly will be teaming up for a one-night-only three-way performance, not to be outdone by the monied, the powerful 50 Cent’s live performance or Fall Out Boy’s in-studio performance.

ALSO APPEARING:
Diddy -- the unofficial godfather of TRL -- will make his 37th (and final!!) TRL appearance. A glittering Mariah Carey will be there too, as well Justin Timberlake AND JC Chasez, which is like two-fifths of *NSYNC! Country-pop princess Taylor Swift, the always-glam Hilary Duff, Good Charlotte's Benji and Joel Madden (cordially, I’m sure), Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, and Korn's Jonathan Davis will all be in the soon-to-be-shuttered TRL studio to give the show the send off it deserves, while Christina Aguilera and Travis Barker will join the party via the magic of satellite, however that works.

+ Too depressed to remember that Total Finale Live is this Sunday, November 16 at 8pm ET? Embed this noise, AND come back heyah to the MTV Buzzworthy blog this Sunday for celebrity interviews, photos, and more behind-the-scenes access to the big TRL farewell.