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Kris Allen and Adam Lambert both grace the cover of the November 28th issue of Billboard magazine, and you're either an Adam Lambert fan, a Kris Allen fan, or both, so here's the Kris Allen/ Glambert cover for your enjoyment... for you entertainment, even! The Billboard issue takes a careful look at the upcoming album releases by Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, and Allison Iraheta and the impact that Idol and their record sales could have on the music industry.

Read Billboard's article on Adam Lambert and his upcoming album, For Your Entertainment, and watch their video interview with Adam Lambert, where the Idol runner-up declares that glam is back.

(Credit: Robert Sebree/ Billboard)

The 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards are happening now in New York City -- a mash-up of music's famous faces, and on-point performances. And we're liveblogging it all on the MTV Buzzworthy blog. Stay here for the backstage, birdseye, and middle-of-it-all 2009 mtvU Woodies report. And watch the 2009 mtvU Woodies Friday, December 4, at 10 p.m. ET on mtvU, MTV, MTV2, and Palladia.

10:51pm -- We're off to the after party, see ya, it's been a blast! For more Woodies gossip, party reports and general madness check in with Buzzworthy tomorrow or check out highlights from the show on the Woodies site right now. We have tons of photos, red-carpet looks, rehearsal performances (some of which you saw here earlier today) and more. PEACE!

10:23pm -- Matt & Kim can't go anywhere without throngs of admirers following them. They're pretty much the Brangelina of the Woodies. Except they don't own several kids and possibly hate each other.

10:14pm --  is swaying along to "Treat Me Like Your Mother." Jack White looks like a cross between a pissed-off vampire and The Crow. In a way that works, though.

10:09pm -- is taking the Woodies to the church of bad news on all-white instruments. Allison Mosshart's on a square guitar, and I'm pretty sure it's got the devil inside.

10:04pm --Mary-Louise Parker drops an eff-bomb while intro-ing the Dead Weather! RAWK!!!!!!

10:02pm -- and Kim (of Matt & Kim) are exchanging phone numbers on the floor, David Cross is catching up with Matt Pinfield, and and , present, and they're each dressed totally future-forward. They're dropping Woodie of the Year.

9:51pm -- Jamie Tworkowski wins the Good Woodie for To Write Love On Her Arms, and dedicates the award to people battling depression and drug addiction.

9:43pm -- drops some knowledge on the Clipse. The vibe is straight-up old-school -- no tricks, no autotune, no stunts. Just hype hip-hop. And , bossin' behind shades, centerstage. Appropriately the crowd is dancing on barstools.

9:37pm -- The men of are launching tiny burgers into each other's mouths and ordering extra whiskey shots. A saucer-eyed, autotuned Janelle Monae intros the Clipse as the crowd yells out "You're beautiful!"

9:33pm -- Matt & Kim win Video Of The Year, and as their friends in the crowd toss their drink about 40 feet in the air, M&K bypass the stairs, crawl on top of the crowd, and rush the stage. They accept the award, thank pretty much everyone in one swoop, and Kim takes another dive off the stage.

9:27pm -- Death Cab just performed meet "Meet Me On The Equinox" to a mesmerized crowd but pretty much got the U2 reception when they did "Sound of Settling"

9:23pm -- MTV alumni Jon Norris and Matt Pinfield are catching up on the floor.

9:18pm -- David Cross has crown shoved into his pocket, and he's telling a Tom Cruise Scientology joke, for those of you who don't know what Dianetics is.

9:12pm -- Overheard, P.O.S telling someone "I just hope I looked cool," after someone congratulated him on his performance.

9:10pm -- P.O.S.just rapped over live flipcup percussion.

9:06pm -- Asher Roth gives out the Best Performing Woodie to Green Day. They're not here to accept so Asher stagedives instead.

9:04pm -- I'm down on the floor where all of the talent's seated, not at tables but at dozens of narrow glittery bars. There's a 1:2 ratio of kegs to celeb bar, and Oh The Story has their own personal shot waiter. Wisely, one member of Oh The Story cut himself off and ordered a diet coke.

9:00pm -- A production assistant carrying the next Woodie just rushed the award backstage.

8:59pm -- David Cross and the Clipse are having a heart-to-heart. Intense!

8:57pm -- Just walked by David Cross, who's dressed like he's going to a Superbowl party.

8:55pm --  gives out the Best Music On Campus Woodie -- an award she promises will lead to getting laid more -- to an ecstatic Hotel Of The Laughing Tree whose friends are freaking out on the floor behind me.

8:46pm -- Amber Tamblyn intros via Twitter. Passion Pit is clearly a crowd favorite -- we've got people on top of people's shoulders, air drumming (like the Rush scene in "I Love You, Man," but far far cooler...)

8:42pm -- 3Oh3! is presenting the Left Field Woodie... DRESSED AS LADY GAGA AT THE VMAS!!!! The red dress and the white bird's nest mask thing! Reference was made to soiled panties! :O  wins it and makes a Woodie joke and drops a KRS-One lyric!!!

8:28pm -- Never Shout Never has the shortest acceptance speech ever: "Power to the people!" Talks least, says most!

8:26pm -- Zooey Deschanel, darling as always in a darling dress, cracked a joke about not taking off her clothes as they swept up Matt & Kim's castoffs. She's presenting the Breaking Woodie Award, which goes to Never Shout Never!

8:23pm -- Pete Wentz, red solo cup in hand, is going rogue. Give that guy a mic and he'll take a mile. He just cracked a swine flu joke and dropped the "douchebag" bomb as he kicked off the 2009 Woodies!

8:21pm -- How'd do you get to college parties? BIKE there! Matt & Kim just biked here from Brooklyn straight into the lobby of the Woodies. They brought some friends who aren't just singing backup, they're stripping down to their skivvies for lessons learned. Undies party!!! Extra points to Kim -- she jumped up onto the drumkit and WALKED ON TOP of the crowd!!!!

8:15pm -- Jack White and the didn't walk the red carpet -- they basically ran it. Jack White needs a role in "Eclipse." Dude is whiter than a natural-born Cullen.

8:10pm -- Never Shout Never's Christofer Drew wins Best Dressed at the Woodies. Hands down. That Mickey Mouse sweater deserves its own award.

8:03pm -- Woah... just ran down the red carpet! No sign of ...

8:01pm -- What's a college party without flipcup! The mtvU Woodies have their very own flipcup game going on at one of the bars. , just took aim. Isn't that how you get swine flu?

6:58pm -- The red carpet is under way, and I just caught up with breaking band Sparks The Rescue, who informed me that votes aliens are the new vampires.

The "American Idols Live!" tour may be done and gone -- booooo -- but Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, and Allison Iraheta are onto bigger and better things. Adam Lambert is putting the gloss on his debut album, featuring the Twitter- and Idolsphere-busting single, "Time For Miracles" from the upcoming disaster flick, 2012. Kris Allen is living life as a winner, about to release his debut, and covering his favorite shower song, "Hit Me… Baby One More Time." Meanwhile Allison Iraheta's "Friday I'll Be Over U" could catapult her into the ranks of Pink, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, and Fefe Dobson (and did I hear a little Berlin in there? "The Metro," anyone?)

But let's look back at a time when it was easier to get Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, and Allison Iraheta all together in the same room (without Simon Cowell, hm?)

Check out this Walmart Soundcheck interview with Allison Iraheta, Adam Lambert, and Kris Allen, to see the always amicable Idols, on the "American Idols Live!" tour, discuss spending life on the road together, and the good-natured teasing that goes with the territory.

I love the New York Times, but they've been kinda weirding me out lately. Have you seen this paranoid anti-kid campaign they've been running for the past couple of months? Every week a new article pops up warning parents about the unseen dangers associated with Twitter, Facebook (apparently the sites contribute to sleep deprivation?) and -- I wish I was joking -- hugging.

Anyway, confident as I am that Twitter is no more a threat to the youth of America today than the "S" volume of the encyclopedia was 50 years ago, I sorta hope the NY Times doesn't get their hands on this new Millionaires single ... The name of the song is "Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid," and the video really lives up to its title. What an easy target for the anti-hug brigade!

But there's a whole lot more to this story than three half-naked California girls popping corks and throwing piles of cash around the club. The story of Millionaires is actually pretty incredible (NY Times take note!). The super-abridged version is that one day, sisters Melissa and Allison Green were screwing around on GarageBand with their girl Dani Artaud. The next day they were MySpace superstars. (Their whole story is here!)

Since then, Millionaires have toured the States, played the Bamboozle and shared a stage with Shwayze and 3OH!3. AND! "Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid" is now the official theme song of MTV's Teen Cribs! At this rate, Millionaires are gonna outgrow their name before the year is out. Watch their "Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid" video before they become Billionaires.

To some, happiness is a string of back-to-back King of Queens reruns. To others, a frosty Big Gulp, or a new Anne Geddes calendar is the key to contentment. To Goldfrapp, "Happiness" is a man -- who looks slightly like Jarvis Cocker -- in a white suit bunny-hopping from street to street. And few things make us happier than sitting back and allowing Alison Goldfrapp's soft, breathy vocals and Will Gregory's dreamy compositions to transport us to a trance-y, zen-like place.

Check out "Happiness," the first single off the electronic pop duo's fifth album, Seventh Tree. And if all that bounce starts to get you all queasy, distract yourself by taking stock of Allison's multiple outfit changes and silently thanking her for not re-wearing that fugly cape-thing she sported at Glastonbury.

The word "fanboy" has finally earned its rightful place in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. And given their predilection toward petitioning, online uprisings, and other acts of civil disobedience, we suspect that either Jonas Brothers fans, Tokio Hotel fans, or some rare combination of both had something to do with this.

And speaking of Tokio Hotel fans, congrats to TokioHotelAmerica.com -- they're now the official U.S. Tokio Hotel fansite. And, because we like our fandom fair and balanced, we're pretty sure the girls at Jonasbrothersfans.com know more about the Jonas Brothers than the Jonas Brothers know about the Jonas Brothers. (Meanwhile, Taylor Hicks might also be behind the site.)

The third chapter and ultimate moral of the MTV/Jonas Brothers/ Buzzworthy story is as follows: Believe and achieve, ladies!

But first, let's catch up: Last week, bazillions of you hardest-core Jonas Brothers fans got together to try to flood the MTV.com site until "When You Look Me In the Eyes" hit the #1 spot.

Yessss, we know that tons of you were involved (and yessss, we know you're going to try again), but one fan -- Allison from Austin -- caught our attention with her nearly eight-minute-long YouTube video.

So, yesterday, in response to all the MTV/JB love, we had Allison on TRL via Webcam, and sealed the deal with a surprise phone-in from the Jonas Brothers themselves. One dedicated fan representing all that JB love, getting a supreme-dream phone call from the JoBros? Heartwarming!

Watch the clip below, or, if you have a really long attention span (God bless you, and know that we envy you), here's a longer clip.

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Last week, our personal favorite Jonas Brothers fan, Allison, helped band together other obsessive JB fans online in an attempt to get "When You Look Me In the Eyes" to the #1 spot on MTV.com -- and caused our video comment counter to completely freak out in the process. (For the record -- because we know a lot of you guys are talking about it -- we definitely know there were tons of you involved and that Allison didn't personally plan the entire thing -- her YouTube video just happened to catch our attention. So don't hate, 'kay? That's not very Jonas of you!)

Anyway, JB obsessoids, you talked, we listened, and Allison's gonna be calling into TRL today to share more of her JoBro love on behalf of JB fans everywhere. So, tune in today at 3:30p.m. EST to see what she's got to say about Nick, Joe and Kevin.