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All Musical March Madness Finalist Ed Sheeran Wants Is A 'Best Redhead' Category At The 2013 MTV Movie Awards! (VIDEO)

Posted 4/10/13 6:46 pm EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Must See, Videos

Maybe we don't say this enough (and at the risk of sounding like Chandler on "Friends"), but could we love Ed Sheeran any more?? On top of writing and performing songs with globally famous acts like One Direction and Taylor Swift, the March Musical Madness finalist has got the finest self-depricating sense of humor on the planet (see his "Lego House" video for further proof). And sure, we listen to (and plot ways to meet) Ed on the reg, but right now we're feeling especially warm and mushy about Ed saying how he hopes there will be a "Best Redhead" category at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. Which is SUCH a good idea.

So, who made Ed's nominee list? Oh, just Emma Stone in "Gangster Squad," Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty," the tiger from "Life Of Pi," and Zach Galifianakis in "The Campaign," who isn't quite a redhead, but has, as Ed puts it, "a twinge of the ginge." Oh, Ed, now you're just making us blush.

Remember to watch the 2013 MTV Movie Awards this Sunday, April 14, at 9 p.m., and vote for your favorite finalist in MTV's March Musical Madness!

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Watch Austin Mahone Choose Between Demi Lovato And Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake Versus Justin Bieber & Blondes Or Brunettes In 'This Or That' (VIDEO)

Posted 3/28/13 11:00 am EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, MTV Featured Artist, Music, Must See, Videos

Austin Mahone played a game of "This Or That" with MTV Buzzworthy.

Watch Austin Mahone make tough calls in a game of "This Or That."

We're not about playing favorites here at Buzzworthy (we love all of our pop stars equally), but that doesn't mean we can't play a harmless game of "This Or That" with the next available celebrity, right? And after watching Austin Mahone SLAY audiences at MTV's latest Artist To Watch showcase, we thought, why not ask the "Say You're Just A Friend" singer and Taylor Swift tourmate a few questions about his preferences? Because clearly Austin's a young stunna, and stunnas are often faced with hard decisions, like picking faves between Demi Lovato and Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber, and sweet versus salty. Watch it below!

Watch Austin Mahone play "This Or That" after the jump.

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Watch Thirty Seconds To Mars' 'Up In The Air' Trailer, Starring A Pink Mechanical Bull, Zebra, And A Wolf, Naturally (VIDEO)

Posted 3/21/13 9:00 am EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Must See, Videos

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Thirty Seconds To Mars' "Up In The Air" trailer is highly cryptic, and we're highly intrigued.

Where Thirty Seconds To Mars go, something epic will surely follow. And now that the band has officially introduced their new single, "Up In The Air," from a mysterious little place called OUTER SPACE, in true Thirty Seconds to Mars spirit they just released their "Up In The Air" trailer -- which you can watch again and again and again below. And the only thing predictable about it is its impenetrability and that it feels worthy of the type of intellectual symposium the likes of which I haven't felt since I tried to figure out Matthew Barney's "Cremaster Cycle" at the Guggenheim. Don't believe me? Well, get ready for a pink mechanical bull.

Watch Thirty Seconds To Mars' "Up In The Air" short film trailer, and watch Thirty Seconds To Mars discuss the "Up In The Air" video in an exclusive Buzzworthy interview 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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Timeflies' Rez And Cal Reveal The Source Of Their Musical Magic At The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards (VIDEO)

Posted 3/15/13 10:33 pm EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Must See, Videos

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We suggest you brace yourself for Timeflies' forthcoming single, "I Choose You." 

It's only been a mere 24 hours since last night's 2013 mtvU Woodies Festival and still, my FOMO ("fear of missing out") is raging AND I'm still crushing HARD on Woodies cohost and Woodie Of The Year recipient, Machine Gun Kelly. Add that to a totally on-point performance by Timeflies, one of our Favorite Breakthrough Artists of 2012 (and our numero uno face crush these days!), and we're like, not gonna even make it through the rest of the evening. Luckily for us, Buzzworthy's Tamar Anitai caught up with our future boyfriends the "Swoon" singers before taking the stage during the festival.

Watch Timeflies discuss their musical genius, the best fan mail EVER, and their forthcoming new single at the 2013 Woodie Awards after the jump!

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Tegan And Sara Talk 'Heartthrob,' Inspiring The Gay Community, And Cohosting The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards With Machine Gun Kelly (VIDEO)

Posted 3/15/13 9:26 pm EST by in Celebrity, Interviews, Music, Must See, Videos

 Tegan and Sara chat with Tamar Anitai at the 2013 Woodie Awards.

2013 mtvU Woodie Awards co-hosts Tegan and Sara talk "Heartthrob" and inspiring the gay community.

It's been a monumental year for indie-pop sisters Tegan and Sara, and it's only March! Though they've been circling the pop music circuit for well over a decade with staple indie-folk albums like The Con and So Jealous, the girls have recently graduated to full-on fame with the release of their seventh studio album, Heartthrob (please immediately add "Closer" and "Drove Me Wild" to your "Crush Nostalgia" playlist, btw). But perhaps the most incredible thing about the sisters (besides their near-perfect, always-changing hair) is how un-pop-star-like they are -- in short, we can't get enough of their adorable self-effacing manor and whip-smart wit (and leather jackets -- please give us your leather jackets). Now Tegan and Sara are taking center stage with MGK as the cohost for this year's 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards (catch it this Sunday night at 8/7c on MTV & mtvU), and recently sat down with Buzzworthy's Tamar Anitai to discuss the making of Hearthrob, inspiring the young gay community, and cohosting the Woodies with MGK.

Watch Tegan and Sara discuss Heartthrob, inspiring the gay community, and cohosting the Woodies with Machine Gun Kelly at the 2013 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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