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Thirty Seconds To Mars Have A Frank And Open Discussion About Sex. Because Someone Has To (VIDEO)

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Thirty Seconds To Mars discuss sex versus power in their Love Lust Faith + Dreams lyrics.

By now you've had a little over 24 hours to sit with Thirty Seconds To Mars' LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS album, a grandiose, thunderous, transcendental, at times hallucinogenic, nakedly vulnerable adrenaline-fueled romp through the deepest corners of human desire. The deepest corners that can be reached by aggressive synths, roaring choruses, and gut-wrenching catharses, the likes of which haven't resonated on an album so powerfully since, oh, I don't know, Bono stood atop the Republic Liquor Store on the corner of 7th and Main in downtown Los Angeles and belted out "Where The Streets Have No Name."

And speaking of vulnerably naked and reaching deep corners... (good transition, huh?) I had a frank discussion with Thirty Seconds To Mars about the new album and one of its four main tenants: Lust. I didn't mean for it to turn into sex, but somehow it just did. We've all been there, right?

Watch Thirty Seconds To Mars discuss sexuality in LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS after the jump!

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Dear Ellie Goulding: Thank You For Being My Favorite Female At Hangout Fest

Posted 5/19/13 8:00 pm EST by in Celebrity, Music, Must See

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Dear Ellie Goulding,

You're probably not reading this because you're probably off writing graduate-level Taylor Swift songs and doing something profoundly British, but I just wanted to tell you that I saw almost every show at Hangout Fest, and you were basically my everything. Also, I don't know if you noticed, but it's kind of a sausage party around here. No shade to Tom Petty or Kings Of Leon or Afrojack or Bassnectar... or you, Trey Anastasio, but to quote the late, great 702, where my girls at? In my humble, unsolicited opinion, there weren't enough ladies on the bill, but Ellie Goulding, your Hangout Fest set, and your Vocoder, and your extremely cool creepers (so underrated) and your warm, wool blanket of a voice that sounds like the holy trinity of twinkling stars, pixie dust, and the gospel put a woman's touch on an otherwise dude-dominated festival. No shade to Macklemore, because his set was the truth, and seeing Tom Petty do "Running Down A Dream" with a drank in my hand, the Alabama breeze blowing through my hair, and, like, 40,000 of my closest new Southern friends was better than that time Demi Lovato drew a peen on live Internet TV. Your set was like church, and I needed "Lights." I needed "I Need Your Love." Not in a weird, complicated way that like Kanye needs Kim, but in a wholly, self-actualized, post-Shania Twain man-I-feel-like-a-woman kind of way. I know you know how that goes.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for that at Hangout Fest. I promise I won't stalk you, but if you see this and there's still time to get fried pickles at Gulf Island Grill or a Bushwacker and seafood tower at The Hangout, I'm only a tweet away.

Thanks again,

Tamar

+ Watch Ellie Goulding perform "Starry Eyed" at Hangout Fest.

+ Watch Ellie Goulding perform "I Need Your Love" at Hangout Fest.

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Meet The Rap Game Ed Sheeran, Discovered At Hangout Fest (VIDEO)

Posted 5/19/13 3:02 pm EST by in Music, Must See, Videos

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Meet Matt Webb, an Ed Sheeran dead ringer who dominated a surprise freestyle rap battle before Kendrick Lamar's Hangout Fest set.

Sorry, Action Bronson. There's a new ginger rapper on the come up. You probably hadn't heard of him -- and still haven't -- unless you were one of about 10,000 people under the Boom Boom Tent at the Hangout Festival waiting for Kendrick Lamar's set to start. One of the few drawbacks to having a music festival on the beach is that, well, it takes a little effort to get to paradise, and Kendrick Lamar was running about 30 minutes late to his set due to a travel delay. So Sway, who was introducing Kendrick, took to the stage to keep the masses entertained. And what better way to keep an Alabama hip-hop beach party going than to stage an impromptu rap battle?

Which is where my new favorite ginger comes in. Sway scanned the audience for any potential young MCs in the crowd. A few young hopefuls rose up and spit a few bars and quickly sputtered out. Sorry, kids. No Kanye contracts for you. Until the final MC -- a redheaded Floridian in a black tank top -- stepped up to the mic and, without even a beat to rhyme against, dropped some "8 Mile" knowledge all over the stage in what was, if I may, probably the fifth-best hip-hop performance of 2013 Hangout Fest right behind Kendrick himself, Macklemore, The Roots, and Public Enemy.

Watch the rap game Ed Sheeran win Hangout Fest's spontaneous freestyle rap battle after the jump.

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Dillon Francis Goes To A Thrift Shop, Finds Love On A Water Slide With Chrissy Teigen At Hangout Fest (VIDEO)

Posted 5/19/13 12:06 pm EST by in Celebrity, Must See, Videos

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Dillon Francis, on his "Suit & Tie" ish on a date with Chrissy Teigen at Hangout Fest.

I thought our list of reasons why we love Dillon Francis was pretty detailed and basically exhaustive to begin with. Dude loves cats, he's bros with Diplo (callll meeee!), I mean... he's adorable, he made one of the funniest music videos since "The Real Slim Shady," (did I mention the cats?) and he got to his Hangout Fest set with just minutes to spare. How could a dude get more perfect? Oh yeah -- he's into thrift shop.

Before he reported for duty as a special guest correspondent at Hangout Fest, we took Dillon Francis to a local thrift shop here in Gulf Shores, Ala. In keeping with the spirit of Macklemore (and, you could say, to echo the refrain of the 2013 sequester -- budget cuts, people), we wanted to save a few bucks but still spruce Dillon up before he met up with his Hangout Fest celebrity co-corespondent for the weekend, Chrissy Teigen!

Watch Dillon Francis visit a thrift shop and go on a date with Chrissy Teigen after the jump!

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PHOTOS: People At Hangout Fest Who REALLY Love America

Posted 5/19/13 8:02 am EST by in Must See, Photos

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Hangout Fest go-ers come to Gulf Shores, Ala., for acts as diverse as dance music kingpins Afrojack and Bassnectar, Southern rock legends of old -- Tom Petty -- and new -- Kings Of Leon -- and hip-hop heavyweights like Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore. The three-day festival of live music attracts sun-hungry concertgoers from all across America... And speaking of America, if there's been one overarching dress code note that many Hangout Festers clearly got, it was this: Wear your American pride, wear it often, and wear it well. Because for every guy in flip-flops, every girl in a florescent bikini top, and for every dude in cargo shorts or Spin Doctors/ velvet Cat In The Hat hat, there were throngs of people in American-flag-themed anything and everything close behind. American flag bikinis, board shorts, backpacks, hats, American flag things I couldn't identify (seriously, one dude was wearing an American flag... mini wind sock?), American flag... apparel of all stripes... er... and stars! And why not? We're on one of the best beaches in America with some of the biggest names in American music -- Stevie Wonder, The Roots, and, again, Tom Petty. Dude's so quintessentially American that he might as well be on our dollar bill.

So take a look at some of Hangout Fest's proudest, most patriotically dressed music -- and America -- lovers. They're the most unmistakably American, and for that, we salute them.

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Kings Of Leon, Public Enemy, Macklemore Riding An Inflatable Whale, Chrissy Teigen On A Water Slide & More Reasons You Should REALLY Be At Hangout Fest

Posted 5/18/13 10:09 pm EST by in Music, Must See, Videos

I've been at Hangout Fest for two days so far, and my biggest complaint is that the three-day music festival on the Gulf Shores of Alabama (Google it, and then Google plane tickets, because this place is paradise) is just three days and not a week. So far, if you were here (and I was!), you caught Kendrick Lamar's roof-raising set, Kings Of Leon's life-affirming, South-reclaiming headlining Hangout set, The Roots flawlessly busting through "You Got Me" before covering GUNS N' ROSES, Delta Rae's scorching-hot performance (seriously, these people are Southern rock salvation AND they covered Fleetwood Mac), Public Enemy making it rain old-school hip-hop on Alabama and, you know, stuff like Chrissy Teigen on a waterslide! Because she's here, and why not?

Check out some of my favorite things that went down at Hangout Fest, and don't miss the third and final (sniff!) day of Hangout Fest -- we'll be streaming it live all day!

+ PUBLIC ENEMY PERFORMING "FIGHT THE POWER" AT HANGOUT FEST:

+ DELTA RAE PERFORMING "DANCE IN THE GRAVEYARD" AT HANGOUT FEST:

+ KINGS OF LEON PERFORMING "FANS" AT HANGOUT FEST:

+ KENDRICK LAMAR LEADING A CROWD OF THOUSANDS IN A CHANT OF "P**** AND PATRON"

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+ MACKLEMORE RIDING AN INFLATABLE WHALE WHILE PERFORMING "THRIFT SHOP" AT HANGOUT FEST:

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+ SUPERMODEL CHRISSY TEIGEN RIDING A WATERSLIDE!

... AND I MET THESE GUYS:

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Check out everything that went on at Hangout Fest 2013, including interviews, performances and getting chill from the Shores at Hangout.MTV.com.




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11 Photos Of The Absolute Best Things People Wore At Hangout Fest

Posted 5/18/13 6:04 pm EST by in Must See, Photos, Videos

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This is Malcom. He's from Florida, he's 22, he's wearing head-to-toe Spandex, and he confirmed that his Hangout Fest outfit is absolutely "hot as f****."

Here are my three favorite things about festivals, in this order:

1.) Live music, duh.
2.) Shameless festival eating: Fish tacos, fried shrimp basket, funnel cake, repeat until food coma is reached.
3.) WEARING WHATEVER THE F*** YOU WANT!

Let's focus on that third one. I'm down here in Gulf Shores, Ala., at Hangout Fest (live music, gorgeous beaches, infectiously friendly folks, and fried shrimp -- so, basically, heaven on Earth). It's day two of the fest, and in between shows like Delta Rae and Public Enemy (and tacos), my colleague Gil Kaufman and I had a chance to comb the beautiful beaches of Gulf Shores, Ala., and scout out our favorite festival-goer outfits. Actually, they weren't hard to miss because, well, you'll see why. We snapped photos of the people doing it the rightest (and, in some cases, the tightest) in the festival fashion department, stepping it up from just "bathing suit and flip-flops" to, you know, half-naked superhero with vintage Nintendo Power Glove not seen since 1989, girl honoring the Earth by wearing full Native American regalia (oooookay), and guy in a skintight spandex floral jumpsuit because WHY THE HELL NOT?

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Mary and Todd are from New Orleans. they're dancers for Brassft Punk. Mary's a mummy, and Todd's wearing Speedos custom-made for Hangout. Now that's what I call commitment.

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This is Leah, who dressed in a Native American headdress "because I was feelin' the Earth." As one does!

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Me: "Lemme guess.  You're a Flava Flav fan."

Chris, from Maryland: "F*** YEAH!"

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Grouplove fans Kate, Jacob & Keenan, who MADE Kate's cape. If there were awards for Most Fun People At Hangout Fest, they'd win it, hands down.

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Jacob & Keenan have matching tattoos that say "BFF" in the "Back To The Future" font. I wasn't kidding about the Most Fun People At Hangout Fest, was I?

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Dude, Jacob has a VINTAGE NINTENDO POWER GLOVE! Are you LISTENING, Kanye West? 

Check out more photos of people at Hangout Fest who put a lot of thought into their outfits after the jump, and get festival fashion tips for dressing like your favorite band at MTV Style.

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Watch Vinny Photobomb, Like, Everyone At Hangout Fest (VIDEO)

Posted 5/18/13 2:09 pm EST by in Celebrity, Music, Must See, Videos

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It's empirically true that everyone on the internet (which is everyone I know) loves a good photobombing. And it's also widely agreed upon that celebrities photobombing is even more fun than regular photobombing. (Jennifer Lawrence, you have my utmost respect!) But if you wanna know what the most fun thing of all is? Trolling the beautiful beaches of Gulf Shores, Ala., with Vinny Guadagnino of "Jersey Shore" and "The Show With Vinny" (some choice "Show With Vinny" quotes here at Remote Control, by the way) at Hangout Fest, asking the extremely kind festivalgoers (Seriously, the Hangout Fest's "Be nice or go home" motto is the truth -- people here are ultra nice, and it's starting to rub off on me) if I could take their picture, and then having Vinny pull a Kanye in front of the camera.

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Twenty One Pilots Strap On A Camera At Hangout Fest & Show You What It Looks Like To Do A Backflip On Stage In Front Of Thousands Of People

Posted 5/18/13 12:16 am EST by in Celebrity, Live Performances, Music, Must See, Videos

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Twenty One Pilots bring the backflips to you at Hangout Fest.

The heat here on the beautiful sandy beaches of Gulf Shores is so intense that it's caused me to sweat in dark and impressive places, but this beach is so beautiful that I don't even care. (Thank GOD for those frozen lemonades -- I think they're saving lives out here.) Not to put too fine a point on it, but the sun really loves Alabama and live music so much that I'm pretty sure it's elected to vacation here at Hangout Fest. But speaking of the heat here at Hangout Fest, there was no hotter scene at Day 1 of the three-day festival of surf, sun, beautiful beaches, beautiful people, and, most importantly, live music than the scene at Twenty One Pilots' performance in the Hangout Fest Boom Boom Tent.

Around this time last year, Twenty One Pilots was playing house shows. But the crowd they drew at Hangout Fest looked like this:

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And it wasn't even lunch yet.

But did I mention that at this time this year, they're, you know, opening up for Fall Out Boy on their arena tour? Twenty One Pilots are definitely kind of a big deal. And if you've seen them perform hits like "Car Radio," "Holding On To You" and "Guns For Hands," you’re well aware that each song is like its own piece of pounding, passionate, adrenaline-packed performance art, blending Twenty One Pilots' signature blend of skateboarding moves (minus the board), inadvisable yet perfectly executed daredevil acts like scaling scaffolding and backflipping off of drum rises, and melodic rap-rock post-punk moves that feel like younger, nimbler second comings of Zack De la Rocha and Anthony Kiedis. You've seen them drum simultaneously on trampolines hoisted up by audience members, right? And have you seen anyone else ever do that live? Right. No.

Watch Twenty One Pilots do a perfect backflip at the Hangout Fest, and watch their Hangout Fest performances after the jump!

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