+ Miami-based heavy metal band Black Tide are doing a lot of trash talking about our boys from Tokio Hotel, and guitarist Zakk (uh… right) has gone so far as to put together a playlist of songs he thinks are way better than anything TH could ever do. Sounds like someone’s totes jelly of Bill’s hair (and, oh.. the 40 or so awards like this one they’ve won for being so awesome)?! What do you think about Black… who? (The Rad Report)

+ Hollywood Records confirms that sister act Aly & AJ have officially changed their name to 78 Violet. Huh? (Tommy2.net)

+ This week’s Most Awkward Moment award goes to the barista who works at the Aroma coffee shop in the Valley. Said barista had NO IDEA that the person standing in front of him ordering a chai latte was NICK. JONAS. AGH!!!!! Are you kidding me??? You could recognize that puss a mile away! (Celeb Snacker)

+ Katy Perry is fearless in fashion and is utterly unremorseful — check out this editorial spread she did for Canadian magazine Flare. (Styleist)

+ Even though my Production Assistant was slightly unimpressed by MGMT’s recent concert in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I’m totally going to check out their recently remastered Time To Pretend EP that was just released. There is NO pleasin’ some people. (The Tripwire)

+ It’s hard not to mention the emotional Michael Jackson memorial service held today at the L.A.’s Staples Center. MTV has the entire show on demand, plus every scrap of MJ memorabilia you could ever want, to help you immortalize the King of Pop. (MTV)

+ ON franSAY, see voo PLAY?! Britney’s in Paris for the European leg of her cash cow Circus tour, and she’s done a lot more than just change her hair color and her pantyhose. (The Blemish)

This is faithful Buzzworthy Blog reader tokio_charlotte, who was one of Buzzworthy’s VERY first commenters back when, like, I practically had to beg even my Mom to comment. Anyway, tokio_charlotte is AWESOME and hilarious, and she’s made an appearance on Buzzworthy before, and she’s kind of like Buzzworthy’s unofficial mascot, since she’s funny, cool, completely consumed by pop culture, and she listens to everything from Fall Out Boy to Miley Cyrus to the Jonas Brothers to NPR. Um, and Tokio Hotel. But more on that in a second…

From what by following her Twitter, tokio_charlotte watches more movies in like a week than most people see in two lifetimes, and she changes her hair color more than most people change their undies in a week. Anyway, in response to the piece I wrote on the dreaded, feared return of scrunchies (booo — Scrunchies are to me and Buzzworthy what Mom Butts are to Alexa Chung), tokio_charlotte Tweeted me this photo of herself wearing a Scrunchie, not realizing that I didn’t realize SHE HAS A TOKIO HOTEL TATTOO. ON THE BACK OF HER NECK!

tokio_charlotte got her Tokio Hotel tattoo on february 19, 2008, a few months after she turned 18. Incredulously, she also got the tattoo BEFORE she saw Tokio Hotel live in concert for the FIRST TIME on August 19 of 2008. Gotta respect cojones like that.

Anyway, I’ve been missing our Buzzworthy Tokio Hotel mutual admiration society, and I thought I’d share the love via tokio_charlotte’s INSANELY hardcore Tokio neck tat (which is the second Tokio Hotel tattoo I’ve seen up close and personal!) Proceed to adore tokio_charlotte and her amazing musical tastes and tat…

Do you have any band tats? Also, Tokio Hotel fans — HI! I’ve missed you guys! :< And, because it’s pretty much monsooning outside here in Times Square, let’s watch the “Monsoon” video after the jump, shall we? Take your pick. Regular or live!

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While Tokio Hotel wasn’t at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards (unfortunately), they were there in spirit (kind of) and in song!

Who caught “Ready, Set, Go!” during the reel of Breakthrough Performance Male nominees? Specifically during Robert Pattison’s Twilight clip? Oh. You did. Of course. (Spoiler: He won!)

Watch Vanessa Hudgens and Jonah Hill intro the Breakthrough Performance Male Award, and, inadvertently Tokio Hotel! Also, since Robert Pattinson won, that kinda means Tokio Hotel did too, right? Yeaaahhh… Because that’s how it works!

+ Plus: Tokio Hotel talks vampires! And Cinema Bizarre talks Twilight! Yay! More Germans who love wampires! And, did you get your Tokio Hotel H&M shirt yet?

Amazing Baby is a tribe of beautiful Brooklyn weirdos on a hardcore vision quest. On their debut full-length, Rewild, the sonic explorers glam out in the far reaches of a dozen imagined mini universes, introducing mystical creatures (”The Narwhal”), gruesome danger (”Bayonets,” “Deerripper”) and fantastic real estate (”Invisible Palace”). In league with fellow Brooklyn heavyweights MGMT and Chairlift, Amazing Baby have been generating high-intensity buzz since the first sky-ripping growl of their neo-psychedelic revolution.

Amazing Baby’s latest single, “Smoke Bros,” is a cosmic boogie about starving cannibals that’s half smirk, half snarl. The single’s heady pomp and swagger is pure T.Rex, but its outer space guitar sounds and cynical edge are pure Brooklyn, 2009. Don’t miss this new glam-rock (hey, aren’t Tokio Hotel kinda glam…?) juggernaut.

Watch the mind-blowing video for “Headdress” below, to get a feel for the level of Arcade Fire intensity we’re dealing with here, then download “Smoke Bros” for free on Amazing Baby’s website.

Last night I got a super-fun invite to the opening party for the brand-new H&M location on 86th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York’s Upper East Side.

I cruised past the free drinks, chicken-curry-pea-wrap things, cross-dresser Andre J in heels and full beard (whatever it takes), Estelle in a peacock dress (hooray!), and lots of look-at-me-type doe-eyed girls dressed like Alexa Chung to get an up-close-and-personal look at Tokio Hotel’s H&M x Fashion Against AIDS collabo t-shirt, which are in stores today, along with more designs by Katy Perry, Estelle, Yoko Ono, Dangerous Muse, N.E.R.D., Robyn, and more musicians, designers, and noteworthy names.

So, here’s the Tokio Hotel t-shirt, in all of its glory!

The shirts say “Rock Hard, F+++ Safe,” and they retail for $16.90. AND, they were right on the same table next to Cherry Tree Records labelmate/ Buzzworthy idol Robyn!

Aside from free condoms (weeeee!), there were also little boxes of pins with Bill and Tom on them. Don’t think for a second that I didn’t swipe a couple of those…

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During a unit on the ’60s, my high school sociology teacher brought in a set of photographs that he’d taken at our school as a new teacher, 40 years before. Each one came with an exaggerated story about cigarettes in the bathroom, girls being sent home for going bra-less and the like.

The photo that made the biggest impression on the class was of a hulking weirdo in a flannel shirt and what looked like shop glasses. Despite his tough-looking shoulder-length hair, he was the biggest goon we’d ever seen.

But Mr. Lemon told a different story. Apparently this guy had been the biggest deal in his class by a long shot, and spent four years being chased by all the ladies. We were blown away. How could a few decades have changed people’s taste SO much?

Well, check out this 26-year-old video, in which KISS — one of the biggest bands of their time — manage to stop all MTV programming and pull an exclusive segment, just by taking off their make-up for the first time. That was 1983. Amazing how fast things change, eh? Can you imagine such a thing making you scream? More importantly, can you imagine what your kids are gonna think when they get a look at Bill Kaulitz? WEIRD!

With no further ado, we open the MTV Vault and travel back in time with (deceased original VJ) J.J. Jackson, to see KISS, unmasked!

Congratulazioni, Tokio Hotel! Your favorite German band won Best TRL Artist Of The Year at the MTV Italy 2009 TRL Awards in Trieste this past weekend.

Tokio Hotel beat out the Jonas Brothers (sniff!), Sonohra, Marco Carta, and hometown heroes Lost (the band, not the TV show) to win Best TRL Artist Of The Year. No, Tokio Hotel wasn’t on hand to accept the award (are you kidding? Do you really not think I wouldn’t have been WALLPAPERING Buzzworthy with new Tokio Hotel photos if the guys were there in person?), but Bill Kaulitz himself, wearing a beanie with just a few dreads peeking out and looking decidedly pixie-like (though definitely different from the look that inspired the Bill Kaulitz Buzzworthy makeover), sent a pre-recorded message. In English! With hints of Italian! Your boy speaks like EVERY language!)

Read Bill Kaulitz’s acceptance speech for the Best TRL Artist Of The Year Award — it’s no giant Premios tongue, or rollin’ deep in a monster truck (loud and dangerous wins the race!), but it’ll certainly do.

+ Plus: Check out Tokio Hotel’s H&M Fashion Against AIDS t-shirt. And, can you BELIEVE Bill made Buzzworthy’s glammest guys list?

With everyone all is-he-or-isn’t-he-ing over American Idol finalist Adam Lambert’s sexuality, we here at the MTV Buzzworthy Blog are firmly entrenched in Team Glambert and could care less if he’s gay or not as long as he keeps keeping his glam gun set to stun.

But friends, Adam Lambert wasn’t the first man in music to get glittery and glossy, wield an eyeliner pencil, nor keep his skin positively pristine.

And so, to celebrate Adam Lambert, the most glam man (or woman!) on TV, let’s take a look at some of the glammest guys in music history!

From Prince to Perez, from the Backstreet Boys to the most glam Jonas Brother of them all, see who else made the list!

Boy George: The godfather of early ’80s glam, Boy George and the Culture Club — their 1982 single, “Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?,” off the album Kissing To Be Clever, went to #1 in a dozen countries — were never afraid to play with musical genres, gender, or with makeup, obviously. Unfortunately, Boy George tumbled for drugs and false imprisonment of a male escort and is currently in prison. Whoops! Video: Culture Club | “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?”

Marilyn: One of Boy George’s contemporaries, British pop star Marilyn, born Peter Robinson, also saw brief gender-bending fame in the ’80s. Marilyn was featured on the 1984 all-star Band Aid jammy-jam “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” had a massive falling out with Boy George, and claims that he had an intense affair with Gavin Rossdale back in the day. Gavin denies his involvement with Marilyn, but one thing that’s undeniable was that Marilyn was the master of the perfectly arched brow — the killer app in any glam guy’s tool kit.

Backstreet Boys: The liberal use of lip gloss, eyeliner and, hair products that the Backstreet Boys featured in their 2005 video, “Just Want You to Know,” was strictly due to the fact that they were portraying fictitious ’80s hair band, Sphynkter… or was it? And I defy you to find something NOT glam about zebra car seat covers. Video: Backstreet Boys | “I Just Want You To Know”

Freddie Mercury: No one pushed the glam envelope (glamvelope?) harder or farther than the late, great Freddie Mercury. Known as one of the most commanding, theatrical, and flamboyant performers of all time, even David Bowie considers him one of the edgiest performers ever. Equally at home in a tight t-shirt and jeans or a skin-tight court jester’s catsuit and a crushed velvet cape, Freddie Mercury popularized the cop ’stache and ambiguous sexuality while unintentionally paving the way for Lady Gaga to appropriate her namesake from Queen’s 1984 hit, “Radio Gaga.” Video: Queen | “Radio Gaga”

Bill Kaulitz: Please. As IF we would leave Bill Kaulitz off a list of glam guys. The trademark hair and makeup alone are award-worthy, as is the fact that his life is one big series of angular, intense, and amazing poses. Also, Bill deserved his own giant tongue just for the makeup he wore to the MTV Tr3s Los 2008 Premios Awards. Video: Tokio Hotel | “Monsoon” Live on TRL

Perez Hilton: Though he’s worn a most un-glam tenty Sherlock Holmes cape… thing… and a Hello Kitty shower cap… and shorts that looked a lot like lederhosen, the self-proclaimed Queen of All Media earned back tons of glam points when he wore an ARETHA HAT, designed by Mr. Song Millinery, to his South By Southwest party in March 2009.

Kanye West: Aside from hanging out with a guy who wears an Aretha Hat and spending an inordinate amount of time fantasizing about models, when he’s not ruining awards shows or claiming he’s not gay, Kanye West spends an inordinate amount of time discussing fashion, attending fashion shows, and basically giving himself over to fashion. And being very very fashionable. He also changed his name to Martin Louis The King, Jr. and was recently named hip-hop’s best-dressed man. Video: Kanye West | “Gold Digger”

George Michael: Shown here catching a nebulous orb of glam, George Michael’s been and stayed glam throughout the years. Whether prancing about in nut-huggers and a pro-life t-shirt and doing the jitterbug (see: the entire “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” video) during his Wham! days, or being all James Dean-y as Faith-era George Michael, George wrote the prescription for the perfect rugged-glum look: well man-icured facial hair, sculpted brows, sunglasses, and earrings. And speaking of prescriptions, George Michael’s affinity for drugs and public toilets led to some majorly un-glam photo opps. Whoops! But, hiring Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, and Naomi Campbell for his 1990 video, “Freedom ‘90,” was one of the glammest moments in guy-glam history.  Video: George Michael | “Freedom ‘90″

++ CHECK OUT MORE GLAM GUYS AND SEE WHICH JONAS BROTHER IS THE GLAMMEST AFTER THE JUMP!

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Tokio Hotel’s new album is STILL not out yet (alas!), but at least you can get a little piece of the guys when they release their new use-a-conner t-shirts for H&M.

Tokio Hotel, along with Katy Perry, Estelle, Yoko Ono, Robyn (Robyn!!!), N.E.R.D., and more — like Rihanna last year — were tapped to designed safe-sex t-shirts as part of H&M and Designers Against AIDS‘ Fashion Against AIDS 2009 campaign.

The shirts, which are available in male and female versions (but feel free to change that up depending upon your gender-bending preferences), will hit H&M stores worldwide (great news!) on May 28. Twenty-five percent of the campaign’s proceeds will fund HIV/AIDS youth awareness projects.

Lovingly, Tokio Hotel’s shirts say “Rock Hard, F*** Safe.” Gotta respect that kind of forwardness. Oh, and Tokio Hotel was photographed for the campaign by Daniel Jackson. Because I know you keep track of that sort of thing.

I will now leave you to your fantasies…

After a long week of smiley emoticons and exclamation points, it’s high time we talked about some stuff that just plain old sucks.

It’s not hard to make a good album cover. Pretty much all you need is an unassuming photo and an inoffensive font. If you’re an artist, all you have to do is draw a picture and put your name on it. That’s why it’s so hard to understand how these bands went so horribly wrong.

I won’t actually presume to call this the “Top 13 Worst Album Covers Ever” because, like most things, there are just too many bad ones out there to even bother rating. But I will confidently say that I have no idea what these bands were thinking when they sent their cover art to press. Feel free to add your own least favorites below. And tiny eyes, beware. There’s some slightly NSFW/ LIFE stuff in here too…

Kevin Rowland - My Beauty: Kevin Rowland, you of Dexys Midnight Runners/ “Come On Eileen” fame, I have never heard your music, and I think it’s safe to say that it’s because your album cover is offensive to women.

Boned - Up At The Crack: Really, Boned? If that’s your real name.Can I ask you a question? WHY?

Jim Post - I Love My Life: Jim Post, I don’t believe you. Look at your miserable face and creepster cop ’stache.

Mike Bones - A Fool For Everyone: Apparently Mike Bones is such a fool (for everyone) that it put him in the hospital. I suppose that’s his excuse. That, or apparently basing the idea for his album cover off Kevin Rowland’s. (See above.)

Brad Paisley - Play: I guess you sorta gotta hand it to whoever taught that stupid guitar how to ride a swing. That’s actually amazing, Brad Paisley.

Vanilla Ice - Vanilla Ice Is Back: The only way this album cover could be worse is if it was true.

+ MORE INCREDIBLY AWFUL ALBUM COVERS — SOME NSFW/ LIFE AFTER THE JUMP!

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