Watch The Dead Weather's "Treat Me Like Your Mother" video, but please keep in mind, this is NOT how real-life bullets work. It's also NOT how you settle the dispute that may arise when you show up in the desert wearing the same leather jacket as someone else. It's also not the best way to handle relationship issues -- this is how you handle relationship issues, right Kanye? Also, I really hate gratuitously violent videos, but I am intrigued by the concept of a modern-day spaghetti Western with a possible Electra complex.

Watch "Treat Me Like Your Mother," the latest video by superband The Dead Weather -- The White Stripes/ The Raconteurs' Jack White, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age, Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes, and The Raconteurs and Alison Mosshart of The Kills. Super-cinematic directorial brushstrokes courtesy of filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, who directed the movie Sexy Beast, countless TV commercials, Jamiroquai's "Virtual Insanity" and Radiohead's "Karma Police."

We were raving about Thenewno2 back in January -- don't you love when people do that? Qualify their amount of into-a-band-ness by the length of time they've known about them? Great, because that's exactly what I'm doing right now -- and at first their mellow, lo-fi sound was part of the appeal.

Now, check out duo Dhani Harrison (yes, yes, the late George's son) and Oli Hecks' brand-new Adria Petty-directed video, "Yomp," off their new album, You Are Here. It hits a bit harder and more psychedelic and taps a White Stripes/ Queens Of The Stone Age vein while playing a moody and dark game of Dia de los Muertos dress-up.

Little did Billy Idol know, when he opened his 1982 career-maker, "White Wedding," with the lines, "Hey little sister, look what you've done," he was sending a message to future sister-band, Meg & Dia.

"Hey little sister, who's the one you want?" He sang. "Hey little sister, who's your superman?" Billy Idol himself is the obvious answer to that question, when asked of two '80s babies with a DJ dad. And when Idol follows up with, "There's nothin' pure in this world/ Look for something left in this world," it's obvious what Meg & Dia have to do: "Start again."

And that's what they did. Their brand-new video, "Black Wedding," is a loose adaptation of Billy Idol's vintage punk anthem, complete with screaming chorus, snarling lips and haunting gothic imagery. Like Idol, Meg & Dia's vision of the perfect wedding looks a whole lot more like a funeral (the wedding dresses are wooden boxes!) than anything you'd see on Bridezillas.

But the Aaron Platt (One Republic, Queens Of The Stone Age)-directed video takes the darkness further than Idol ever did. "Black Wedding" is a full-on weeping funeral march, with vultures hovering and ashes falling like snow. A major, major amazing creep-out. Very Tim Burton.

Watch "Black Wedding," the first single from Meg & Dia's upcoming album, Here, Here and Here, right... here? Go!

You hear all the time about how hard the latest rapper is -- come up from the projects of Queens (50), the streets of L.A. (Game), the suburbs of Pennsylvania (Asher Roth!), or some such undesirable place. K'Naan grew up in The Lake Of Blood (aka Wardhiigleey), a district of Mogadishu only a stone's throw from the heart of the Somali Civil War. He also did a Nelly Furtado collab. Tough.

The Somali MC, who learned English from Nas and Rakim CDs sent back by his New York City cab-driving dad, isn't afraid to rub his individuality in your face (Bundle up my whole style is so cold/ I glow like old guys who go bald/ My flow got no front in the vocal/ Your flow got no button it's so old!). But he's more interested in spreading positive politics and educating through entertainment. Look:

I'm from the most risky zone - oh/ No place is more shifty global/ More pistols, Russian revolvers/ We shootin' all that is normal.But it ain't just because we want to/ We ain't got nowhere we can run to /Somebody please press the undo/ They only teach us the things that guns do.

Listen close and learn the new global "ABC's" the same way K'Naan (whose name means Traveler) did: through hip-hop.

+ Country singer Carrie Underwood is sorry she led the world to believe that Jessica Simpson's beau (and Underwood's ex) Tony Romo still has her on speed dial. "I would never mean to say anything to hurt anybody or stir up anything, because I'm just not about drama ... at all," said the American Idol winner, who then reinforced her point by privately apologizing to Jess publicly asking for Jess' forgiveness in the current issue of Elle.

+ Who knew that The Hills gals were also Halloween queens?! Check out Lauren Conrad's tribute to 1920's glam, plus admire Audrina Patridge's ability to show her true colors. (Remote Control)

+ Sultry come-hither stare? Check. Flowy white negligee? Check. Perfectly wind-blown hair? Check. Britney Spears, looking smokin' H-A-W-T on the cover of her new album, Circus? Checkmate. (Newsroom)

+ And speaking of Britney's new look, you won't want to miss these pics of the singer on Halloween. (Just Jared)

+ Like Fat Joe before him, Barack Obama thinks brothers should "pull up their pants." And, presumably, do the rock-away. (MTV News)

+ And, in sadder news, Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, died today at the age of 86. Obama, who recently suspended his campaign to spend time at her bedside, issued a joint statement with his sister calling Dunham "the cornerstone of our family." (Reuters)

+ Actress Jennifer Hudson joined 100 celebrity friends (like Oprah, Missy Elliott and Fantasia) and family members in mourning for her mother, brother and nephew at a private memorial service in Chicago this morning. (E! Online)

+ Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard got stung by a scorpion twice ... and lived to tell about it. (Spinner)

+ Meanwhile, despite what those crazy Brits (and Perez Hilton) would have you believe, rapper Lil Wayne was not involved in a crazy gang-related gunfight last weekend. In fact the rapper's alive and well. And, apparently, bitching about how music these days is soooo uninspired. (NME)

+ Is Miley Cyrus really going out with a super-hot, much older male underwear model?? And is he really Taylor Swift's former beau? Or is this all just one big ploy to make Nick Jonas jealous? If so, we can think of at least seven things wrong with that. (LAT)

+ After working it with Missy Elliott, the Pussycat Dolls learn how to put their thang down, flip it AND reverse it. (MTV)

+ Jack White describes what it was like to "Bond" with Alicia Keys. (Rolling Stone)

+ Amy Winehouse exposes her husband's ding dong, gives whole new meaning to the term "overshare." (The Sun - UK)

+ Avril Lavigne releases her new clothing line. You'll know it's hers because of its unique punk rebelliousness! And because it has her face plastered all over it. (ONTD)

+ Frances Bean (a.k.a. daughter of Kurt Cobain/Courtney Love) throws herself a Super Suicide 16 party. Yay? (Scandalist)

+ LL Cool J is all about the hip-hop in Exit 13. Not surprising, considering he totally represents Queens. (MTV)

Of course they're awesome, they're the Foo Fighters, after all. And the Dave Grohl-led group has a long and storied MTV Video Music Awards history.

Prior to this year, the band has 14 nominations to their credit. In 1996, their "Big Me" was up for five Moonmen and they walked with the Best Group Video honor. Much deserved, mind you, because of its most excellent send-up of classic Mentos commercials, not to mention Dave's braids. (Watch it after the jump.)

Since then, despite netting two nominations in 1997 for "Monkey Wrench," three in 1998 for "Everlong," two in 2000 for "Learning to Fly" and two in 2005 for "Best of You," they haven't been able to take home the hardware again.

Will that change this year as they go up against Paramore, Slipknot, Linkin Park and Fall Out Boy for the Best Rock Video honor? They've got the Sam Brown-directed "The Pretender" in the running, so it's entirely possible that they will finally add another Moonman to the shelf so that the first one will finally have someone to canoodle with on long winter nights. Read more...

+ Don't believe what that prankster Joel Madden wrote on his Good Charlotte blog -- he and baby mama Nicole Richie are still happily unmarried. Those so-called wedding photos? That was just Joel "monkeying around." (Joel's Good Charlotte blog profile)

+ 50 Cent apologizes for calling Shawty Lo (of D4L) a one-hit wonder. Judging by the success of Lo's new record, "Dey Know," the term "two-hit wonder" is, perhaps, more appropriate. (MTV)

+ Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA shows non-believers that chess and hip-hop go together in da hood. Checkmate, yo! (Sydney Morning Herald)

+ Outkast-turned-solo artist Big Boi hypes up his upcoming new album be equating it to...yard work? "Right now, we're just putting the sod in the front of the house. We almost done." Presumably, all that's left is for Big Boi and Raekwon to get rid of all the weed(s). (MTV)

+ A word to the wise: if you throw a bottle at the Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, be prepared to duck. (NME)

+ Forbes' 35th-most-powerful celeb Miley Cyrus still needs to learn not to bring her camera to bed with her. (Think Fashion)

+ The Jonas Brothers try to convince British teens to keep it in their knickers. (Telegraph.co.uk)

Typically, music videos take quite a bit of work to make. But for Queens of the Stone Age's latest clip, frontman Josh Homme and his bandmates didn't even have to show up for it.

In "3's & 7's," the neo-psychedelic rockers go virtual with a video completely made up of the avatars from Rock Band, the video game where you can be a member of Fall Out Boy, Beastie Boys or Blue Öyster Cult without the talent or band practice. (But you also probably won't get groupies either.)

Take a look at "3's & 7's," and see how the video game version of QOTSA compares to the real thing:

+ Plus: check out QOTSA's last animated video "Go With the Flow," Buzzworthy's first look at Rock Band at the VMAs last year, and Cartel's first Rock Band experience.

Tony Hawk rolled into TRL on Monday to talk, of course, about his latest game, "Tony Hawk's Proving Ground," but we also caught him backstage for a few minutes for a little one-on-one time.

The Birdman bigged it up to Ryan Sheckler and told us about rearranging his son's bedroom around his Wii. He also indulged us in a little game of Fantasy TRL where we asked him to pick one video that oughta be on the countdown but ain't. His response: Queens Of the Stone Age's "Burn The Witch," directed by Liam Lynch, who's known for his breakthrough hit "United States Of Whatever" and as the guy who created the old-school MTV puppet show "The Sifl & Olly Show," if you were alive during the 1990s. (He also does the weekly Podcast, "Lynchland"). Read more...