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Watch Macklemore And Ryan Lewis' 'Can't Hold Us' Performance From The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards (VIDEO)

Posted 3/17/13 9:30 pm EST by in Celebrity, Live Performances, Music, Must See, Videos

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Macklemore and Ryan Lewis go beyond the thrift shop racks in their explosive 'Can't Hold Us' Woodies performance'

In case you thought Macklemore was just a novelty act, well you probably shouldn't go trying out for "Jeopardy" or anything, because there's clearly a lot you don't know. And if any Macklemore skeptics caught the duo's 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards performance of "Can't Hold Us," it's impossible to imagine a world in which the explosive act didn't turn those haters into firm believers as the duo struck out with an aggressive L.L. Cool J "I'm Gonna Knock You Out"-style H.A.M.-fisted vengeance for a performance that went 100 degrees beyond bananas -- this ish was bananas foster, as in ON FIRE.

The "Thrift Shop" rapper and his sidekick DJ/producer proved that they're just as good at turning up and shaking up a crowd as they are at poppin' tags on bargain circle racks in their dramatically aggressive Woodies performance. And if the ceiling can't hold 'em, to paraphrase the song's lyrics, the Woodie Awards could barely hold back the thousands of fans whipped into a frenzy by Ben Haggerty's breakneck rap skills. Even the white tank felt like a salute to Eminem, whom Haggerty, in top rhyme-spitting, speed-rapping form, could battle any day. And yes, you're free to hate on me for drawing that comparison, but you're also welcome to watch their Woodies performance and then tell me I'm not wrong.

Watch Macklemore And Ryan Lewis' "Can't Hold Us" performance From The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards after the jump!

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Spoiler Alert: Paramore On The End Of 'Lord Of The Rings,' Wallpaper Kills 'Star Wars,' Haim Explain 'The Breakfast Club' & More At The 2013 Woodies (VIDEO)

Posted 3/16/13 3:16 pm EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Must See, Videos

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Too busy to watch all of the "Harry Potter" movies? Paramore help you skip to the end.

The whole concept behind the Woodie Awards is music college kids love. And what else do college kids love besides music? Besides Shakespeare, always going to class, turning in papers a day ahead of schedule, and not doing drugs? Movies! Which is why I asked some of the all-star musicians at the 2013 Woodie Awards about movies. But who's got time to watch an entire movie when you could be tweeting and watching cat videos? Which is why I asked those musicians to skip to the point and spoil the endings of popular movies. Missed the end of "Lord Of The Rings"? Paramore sums it up tidily. Never seen "Legally Blonde"? Hayley Williams explains it all. Don't know what happens in "Star Wars"? Let Wallpaper bring you the closure you need. Twenty One Pilots share a pivotal moment in "Titanic." Haim recaps "The Breakfast Club" like their last name was Ebert. And you'll never guess what happens in the end of "Ernest Goes To Jail," so just let Woodie winner A-Trak tell you, for God's sake.

Watch Paramore, Wallpaper, A-Trak, Haim, Twenty One Pilots and more Woodies musicians spoil the endings of famous movies at the 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards:

Get the complete list of 2013 Woodie Awards winners, check out Woodies photos, and don't miss the 2013 Woodie Awards Sunday, March 17, at 8/7c on MTV & mtvU, featuring performances from Zedd, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and twenty | one | pilots, coming at you from SXSW!

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Dillon Francis, On 'Bootleg Fireworks' And How To 'Gallon' And Get Kicked Out Of Any Grocery Store At The 2013 mtvU Woodies (VIDEO)

Posted 3/16/13 1:50 pm EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Must See, Videos

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Dillon Francis explains a surefire way to get kicked out of any grocery store, guaranteed!

Dillon Francis is EDM's consummate Renaissance man -- he's a gifted visual artist (he started out in visual arts before his music career exploded), DJ, producer, musician, remix master (PLEASE release that Justin Timberlake remix PRONTO), and you can thank him for making moombahton that thing you can't stop telling everyone you've obsessed with. If Haley Joel Osment sees dead people, Dillon Francis sees the new permutations of electronic music you didn't know existed, except everyone actually believes him. And while cat may be a total a******, that cat definitely didn't learn his ways from his owner, who took me inside all of his heads when he shared the inspiration behind his "Bootleg Fireworks (Burning Up)" video (from Calvin Harris' Fly Eye Records), in which he slapped his face all over the best parts of the internet.

"I was in London, I'd just made the song 'Bootleg Fireworks,' we released it. I was watching this TV show where this commercial came on where this girl was walking where she had a TV on her head and this guy's head. So I immediately called my manager and was like 'my face on a girl's body, pogoing, take it, go.' We sent it to these guys MENZ, and they sent us back the treatment," Dillon explained backstage at the 2013 mtvU Woodies, where unfortunately he didn't win either of the Woodies he was nominated for, but he won in my heart, especially after he turned up to the Woodies at SXSW -- where most people dress like they slept in a dumpster behind Urban Outfitters (BUT IN A CUTE WAY!!!) -- in a Mormon suit.

Watch Dillon Francis discuss his "Bootleg Fireworks" video and explain how galloning works at the 2013 mtvU Woodies after the jump.

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Haim Murder Harmonies, Share Everything But Their Full-Length Album At The 2013 mtvU Woodies Festival (VIDEO)

Posted 3/16/13 2:27 am EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Must See, Videos

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Haim's still looking for Prince, while we're still looking for that full-length Haim album.

Este, Alana and Danielle Haim share many things -- parents, clothes, instruments, an intense love of the forgotten MTV show "Spider Games." They've shared a stage with Mumford and Sons and Kesha (not at the same time), they share a love of Prince as well as subconscious knee-jerk reactions to Kanye West references, the adoration of, like, most legit music fans in all of the U.K., and they currently share the title of raddest band on this Haim-forsaken planet (Mumford agrees) with their inimitable, badass blend of '90s-meets-'70s-meets-Boy-Krazy-meets-Grace-Jones-meets-Susannah-Hoffs-meets-Wilson-Phillips-drinking-a-peyote-yerba-milkshake-meets-Nick-Cannon-in-"Drumline" sound. (Trust me, when you watch them go Genghis Khan on the drums while murdering harmonies and making a guitar beg for mercy at the Woodies, you'll agree that that's the most accurate assessment of their eccentric talent, which is akin to a musical Higgs boson, which is to say that they're mysteriously revealing the truth of the existence of musical perfection. And God or something. Crazy, stupid Ryan Gosling-talented.)

But one thing Haim will not share is their full-length album. Yet. And not like I or any other Haim fan is anywhere near the proximity of being over their Forever EP or upcoming Falling EP, but, like, I also can't wait... forever for that full-length, ladies.

+ Watch Haim discuss their upcoming full-length album at the 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards after the jump.

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mtvU Woodies Performer Zedd Wrote The Perfect Song, Because He's Good At Almost Everything (Except Math) (VIDEO)

Posted 3/16/13 12:39 am EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Must See, Videos

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Zedd is good at EDM, hugs, and being husband material.

You'd think that an artist handpicked by Skrillex to share his EDM throne, the same guy who dropped the beat to Justin Bieber's "Beauty And A Beat," whom Lady Gaga's entrusted with her next album, who's become permanent owner of the dance charts with monster dance tracks like "Clarity" and "Spectrum," the very same MTV Artist to Watch who can shake the foundations of an entire club with brain-melting BPMs, back a rock band on drums, or effortlessly rearrange an EDM track into a melancholic emo torch song buoyed by a string section and grand piano -- which he plays, too, obviously (HOW HAVE YOU NOT WATCHED HIM DO THIS ON LETTERMAN?) -- well, you could be forgiven for thinking that a guy so obviously good at everything most people aren't even a teeny bit good at might be a bit of an aloof jerk with an ego problem (because you might have an ego problem if you were good at basically everything). But you'd be wrong: Zedd is the sweetest, most perfectly lovely guy to come out of any gifted and talented program and become a one-man EDM sovereign nation, and it only makes it more painful that he's extremely easy on the eyes (I'm trying to say that Zedd is empirically attractive -- I MEAN, HELLO, JUST LOOK AT HIM, and like WE GET IT, ZEDD, YOU'RE GOOD AT ALL OF THE TIHNGS), blatantly intelligent, and utterly charming. (It's like he listened to R. Kelly's "I'm A Flirt" and then did absolutely none of those things because he innately knew better.) Like, this is the kind of guy who'd help you with your homework without doing it just to try to get in your pants. But not your math homework. Because it turns out the one thing Zedd's not good at is math. (And I don't even fully believe that.) One thing he is good at? Making monster EDM tracks like "Clarity" and sending brains into sensory overload with his expertly orchestrated, perfectly synchronized, multifacted, multilayered live shows that feel like a free fall into another galaxy's electro bacchanalia. (He also claims that he's not good at cooking, which is fine, because I'll take care of the cooking when we get married.)

+ Watch Zedd discuss writing "Clarity" and "Spectrum" and be generally totally charming at the 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards after the jump.

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Woodies Performers twenty one pilots Share Their Advice For Justin Bieber: Drop The Camo Pants (VIDEO)

Posted 3/15/13 8:52 pm EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Must See, Videos

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twenty | one | pilots talk fan art and Justin Bieber's pants.

twenty | one | pilots came to the 2013 mtvU Woodies prepared for their share of the performing duties -- the 2013 MTV Artists to Watch and Musical March Madness entrants spent most of 2013 touring the U.S. and Japan, crushing stages and blowing minds with their two-ring circus act, which includes bank-robber ski masks (that somehow manage to work in a not-terrifying way), pianos that serve as both instruments and trampolines, and pumped-up pandemonium. They only just put out their frenetic, complex Vessel album of punk poetry this past January, but out on the road -- where they're earning legions of fans who send them artwork inspired by their confessional lyrics -- Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun perfected the kind of raw, anarchistic spontaneity that only a band with an innately rebellious rock ethos can. These boys came to the Woodies prepared, which left them plenty of time to relax before the big show and... consider Justin Bieber's recent dustup with the British paparazzi.

Turns out that Tyler Joseph can totally relate to Justin Bieber's primal instinct to throw elbows: "As a dude, half of my life is walking around wanting to get in a fight." (Save it for the stage, Tyler.) He also had some sound advice for Justin -- less camo pants. I personally disagree, but then again I don't pee in a bottle, so Tyler's probably better equipped to dispense bro-to-bro tips.

+ Watch Woodies performers twenty | one | pilots discuss fan art and share advice for Justin Bieber at the 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards:

Get the complete list of 2013 Woodie Awards winners, check out Woodies photos, and don't miss the 2013 Woodie Awards Sunday, March 17, at 8/7c on MTV & mtvU, featuring performances from Zedd, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and twenty | one | pilots, coming at you from SXSW!

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Macklemore And Ryan Lewis Talk Wedding Plans, Thrifting (Obviously), And Their Epic 'Can't Hold Us' Video At The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards (VIDEO)

Posted 3/15/13 7:37 pm EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Must See, Videos

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Woodie performers and winners Macklemore and Ryan Lewis on the best thrift stores and singing at gay weddings.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have sold more than 4.5 million singles of their ballin-on-a-budget anthem, "Thrift Shop," which claimed the top chart spot in eight countries (which probably unofficially counts as world domination), played "Saturday Night Live," Letterman, Sasquatch, and, most recently, a packed schedule of SXSW gigs, including one very important one -- a headlining gig performing at the 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards in Austin, where they won Branching Out Woodie. Their summer schedule is quickly filling up with back-to-back festivals. But they still hit pause on poppin' tags on vintage collars and getting you hooked on horns to turn up to the Woodies press tent to talk, well, thrifting, obviously, for starters.

Though they come from Seattle, both Ryan Lewis and Macklemore agreed that Portland's got the best thrift shops. I also schooled them in the fan phenomenon that is the Macklemore thrift shop challenge -- Macklemore fans head to a thrift shop with, of course, $20 in their pocket, find the weirdest/ coolest/ best merch (tiny wicker chair, bigass coat, keyboard that may or may not be functioning, velvet dog paintings, Velco shoes?) $20 can buy and photograph and post the results online.

Watch Macklemore and Ryan Lewis talk about Macklemore's wedding plans, gay marriage, and their "Can't Hold Us" video at the 2013 Woodie Awards after the jump!

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Paramore Talk Fan Love, Friendship Bracelets & Surprise Proposals At The mtvU 2013 Woodie Awards (VIDEO)

Posted 3/15/13 5:04 pm EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Must See, Videos

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Paramore brace themselves for more in-concert proposals with "Still Into You."

Just one sleep after playing their late-night SXSW comeback show at the Warner Sound Captured showcase, Paramore stopped by the 2013 MTVU Woodies Festival to catch me up on performing again and on their upcoming eponymous album. (And yes, Hayley's hair was absolutely everything, but let’s get to the music. This ain't a hair blog.)

"It felt like the first real Paramore show, especially in the States. It was super late at night. We played at 1 a.m., that's like 10 hours past my bedtime," Hayley said.

The release of Paramore is less a month away, and the group isn’t rehashing or reheating old subject matter: "There's a lot of different new territory we’re exploring that I think people aren't gonna expect," Taylor said.

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Interview: Woodies Host Machine Gun Kelly On His Big Woodies Nomination, 'Champions' And '50 Shades Of Grey'

Posted 3/13/13 7:44 pm EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Must See

Buzzworthy's Tamar Anitai Twitter chats with Woodies host MGK.

Buzzworthy's Tamar Anitai gets cuddled by Woodies host Machine Gun Kelly!

The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards are about to get laced up and, well, c***-punched when Machine Gun Kelly hosts the show with cohosts Tegan and Sara. Now that we're both in prime Austin/Woodies territory, I caught up with the Bad Boy rapper for a sit-down Twitterview, where he filled me in on "Champions," his chances of winning the coveted Woodie Of the Year award, and his thoughts on "50 Shades Of Grey."

Check it out below, and don't miss the 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards, airing this Sunday, March 17, at 8 p.m. ET on MTV and mtvU!

Read our Twitterview with Woodies co-host MGK after the jump!

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