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+ "Beautiful Girls" singer Sean Kingston has been moved from the trauma unit to the ICU after a Jet Ski accident in Miami this past weekend. He was rushed to an emergency room after he and a female passenger collided with a bridge on Sunday. (RapFix)

+ Panic! At The Disco singer Brendon Urie broke his ankle during a Panic show this weekend... and just kept going. He later posted photos of the injury on Twitter, but beware before you look -- not pretty! (Buzznet)

+ We're pouring some out for Pink after the singer was spotted in Malibu on Saturday, looking so pregnant that it hurts to watch. Hang in there, girlfriend! (PopEater)

+ Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson were seen out with their son, Bronx, in California this weekend, and they've got to be the most civil separated couple ever. With their divorce still pending, these pix have us hoping they change their mind. (TheFABlife)

+ Avril Lavigne threw out the first pitch at a Tampa Bay Rays game this past weekend, and whoops, she also tossed out a few curse words to the crowd after a technical glitch during a postgame concert. We guess you can take Avril out of the skate park, but you can't take the skate park out of Avril. (ONTD)

+ Iconic poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron passed away on Friday in New York after a lifelong battle with drug addiction. Best known for his work "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," Scott-Heron is arguably the first-ever hip-hop artist. (Rolling Stone)

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We always knew Butch Walker had some pretty sharp producing skills, having worked on albums with Pink, The Academy Is... and Weezer, but we had no idea his carving handiwork extended beyond the recording studio.

In celebration of Butch's latest solo album I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart, the former Marvelous 3 frontman auctioned off various pre-order packages on eBay. The most expensive of the bunch went for a mere $25,000 and auctioned off the following to one lucky super-fan:

• A signed collector's edition vinyl, CD and lithograph
• An exclusive T-shirt
• A personal Facebook or Twitter message
• An instant download of three new Butch tracks, and... wait for it...
• A weekend in Butch's spare bedroom where the winner will collaborate on a song that will appear on his new album and a chance to play the song live on stage together during Butch's next tour

Now, not many people have $25,000 burning a hole in their pocket—well, not many people except Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie, who bid on the extravagant package.

See what kind of American Psycho-esque action happened when the two frontman met up and Butch took an axe to—er, walked Brendon around the Walker compound.

Tags Brendon Urie, Butch Walker, Panic At The Disco, video

"Buddy jogging" is so ridiculously '80s. Also ridiculous? Fall Out Boy's slightly postmodern, totally self-aware new video, "A Weekend at Pete Rose's (Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet)," directed by Shane Valdés.

Obviously the video's a salute to A Weekend At Bernie's (no, you don't need to dig too deep nor be a film historian to figure that out), and it's my favorite new video inspired by a movie. (Last week that honor went to  LMFAO's "La La La," but clearly they've been trumped.)

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Tags Brendon Urie, Fall Out Boy, LMFAO, Panic At The Disco, Pete Wentz, Spencer Smith, video

No, Pete Wentz doesn't *necessarily* die in Fall Out Boy's highly hush-hush new video "What A Catch Donnie" and no, "What A Catch, Donnie" isn't *necessarily* their last video.

"What A Catch, Donnie" is all Patrick Stump's Elton John-ian vocal acrobatics (and Elvis Costello's guest vox, don't hurt), set against a misty, wistful Hemingway/ Decemberists backdrop of nautical metaphors. It's kind of like the movie Castaway but with 100 percent better art direction and no volleyball or whatever that busted thing was.

The "What A Catch Donnie" video was shot off the waters of Los Angeles by Alan Ferguson. Speaking of cameos, watch for Panic! At The Disco's (SO... hard to remember whether or not to use the "!") Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith.

Tags Andy Hurley, Brendon Urie, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Fall Out Boy, Joe Trohman, Panic At The Disco, Patrick-Stump, Pete Wentz, Spencer Smith, video

You know you're in the presence of top-notch marketing when an "ad" not only absorbs you into its highly-produced, trippy video love-in, but the spot also gets away with omitting its brand name. Watching the new Coca-Cola segment -- part of the company's 2009 "Open Happiness" campaign -- I see big-name performers, I see fantastic production, I see a wacky-ass drug trip (whoops!), but I don't see "Coca-Cola" anywhere. Ah, the powers of branding...

Like Coke's legendary "Hilltop" commercial (watch it from last week's "Open Happiness" preview, if you're unfamiliar), this up-with-people number goes far beyond "jingle"; in this case, with producers Polow Da Don and Butch Walker (who co-wrote the "Open Happiness" track with Cee-Lo Green).

Yeah, it's all fun and "happiness" until Travis McCoy gets smacked in the face with a jump rope, isn't it?

OK, that's only one element of this 'toon-time craziness, directed by Alan Ferguson, which you should definitely watch below. Be prepared to follow a zebra-printed Cee-Lo down a yellow brick(ish) road, encountering a Newsie-clad reporter in the form of Panic at the Disco's Brendon Urie, along with Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump. And last up is crazy-hip schoolteacher Janelle Monae, who gets down with her similarly-coiffed students after her lesson.

Tags Brendon Urie, Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes, Janelle Monae, Panic At The Disco, Patrick-Stump, Polow-da-Don, Travis McCoy

You're probably too young to remember this, but in 1971, the "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)/ I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" ad campaign blurred the line between advertising, propaganda, and pop music, and made the entire globosphere DESPERATE for an icy-cold soda. (I'm not old enough to remember it PER SE, and GOD KNOWS if I were old enough to remember it, I'd be running off to my weekly Botox appointment later today.)

Anyway, the songvertisement, also known as Coca-Cola's "Hilltop" commercial, sold over 1 million copies in a year, was donated to the Library of Congress in Washington DC in 2000, and was selected by British TV channel ITV as the greatest TV ad ever made.

Fast foward to now, and "Open Happiness" -- a collaborative Coca-Cola spot recorded by Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo Green, Panic! At the Disco's Brendon Urie, Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Janelle Monae, and Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes -- could be this generation's "pop" music (excuse the pun) for the offspring of "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" set.

Will "Open Happiness" have the same monumental impact of its predecessor? We're about to find out.

Watch a 30-second sneak peek of the "Open Happiness" video, directed by Alan Ferguson, starring Cee-Lo Green, Brendon Urie, Patrick Stump, Janelle Monae, and Travis McCoy, and stay tuned for the full-length video, coming soon.

+ Watch the 1971 "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) commercial after the jump!

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Tags Brendon Urie, Cee-Lo Green, Fall Out Boy, Gnarls Barkley, Gym Class Heroes, Janelle Monae, Panic At The Disco, Patrick-Stump, Travis McCoy