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THANK you, America. FINALLY we get to claim a real, honest-to-God, ripped-jeans-ratty-hair-we-drink-and-smoke-cuz-we-don't-care rock band as our own. Australia got The Vines, Arctic Monkeys are British, no one wants to claim Pete Doherty, The Strokes are almost all married and living in Brooklyn now, and Jack White could count, but I don't even think he's from this planet.

Billy Boy On Poison is from the place where America's dreams go to die... No, not Orlando. LOS ANGELES. And their balls-to-the-walls brand of gritty, all-American rock rebellion reeks of their Sunset Strip musical upbringing. In the good way. Appropriately, songs about sinnin' and sexin' are on the agenda of this band that takes their name from A Clockwork Orange.

You may already know that Kiefer Sutherland signed Billy Boy On Poison to his Ironworks Records label and that he co-directed their "On My Way" video -- their single that was also featured on Gossip Girl -- but there are a few more things you may not know about the band. Like did you know they're REALLY INTO HERBAL CIGARETTES? "Jazz cigarettes," I'm assuming. And finally, they're also REALLY into Taylor Swift and the Jonas Brothers. Harboring a secret soft spot for Disney artists? What's more American than that?

+ Watch "On My Way" after the jump, and check out their debut album, Drama Junkie Queen, out today.

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If you haven't seen CobraCam.tv -- Cobra Starship's foray into oddball Internet television -- yet, you'd best correct yourself. Their perfectly-tuned sarcasm is hilarious enough to make even the die-hardest of fans wonder if maybe Gabe, Ryland, Alex, Victoria and Nate picked the wrong profession.

Their ongoing, A.D.D.-addled set of deadpan vignettes consistently crack you(/us) up with uncensored backstage action, fake infomercials, farts, treadmill slam dunks, bizarre fantasy scenarios, gruesome surgeries and more.

Below you'll find an exclusive MTV interview (conducted by Alex Suarez!) with one of Cobra Cam's recurring characters, Vincent Twice. The brutally enthusiastic sportscaster who takes his name from a  B-list muppet, sits down with Suarez to talk Gossip Girl, Golden GIrls, Leighton Meester and, of course, Cobra Cam. Watch the interview below and catch up on all the extra-curricular Cobra Starship action on CobraCam.tv.

+Something tells us that if Fergie isn't willing to slow to down to give Josh Duhamel a babezorz, there are a MILLYUN guhls who would KILL for that job. Tick tock, Fergs. You better step it up! (Hollywood Rag)

+ Check out this new song by Cobra Starship featuring Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester AND co-written by American Idol's Kara DioGuardi. We're not mad at it -- it's kind of cute, and to be honest, we sanction just about anything that's comes out of the mouth of Cobra lead singer Gabe Saporta. <LICKITY LICK> (RyanSeacrest.com)

+ Yesterday, we told you about the mini version of Beth Ditto. Now, a new single off The Gossip's forthcoming album Music For Men has just dropped, called "Heavy Cross." B Ditts, we heart ye. (Tripwire)

+ Never mind that Britney released "Blackout" two years ago, and that the song "Radar" was featured not only on that album but also on her most recent album "Circus" -- the song will now be her next single. Wonder if she's going to make a video for it? (Dean Kelly)

+ Uh oh. Amy Winehouse is scheduled to perform in St. Lucia today. Do you think our favorite thirsty turtle will make it all the way through without fainting? (People)

+ Nudie photos are all the rage these days.  First there were Cassie's nibbly bits on parade. Now, is that really Rihanna? Her bum looks all sorts of hot, but that don't mean you should go snappin' pics of it! (The Blemish)

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I don't know what it's like where you are, but over here in NYC we're deep into the nicest day we've had all year. Major sunshine and big smiles all around. It's perfect weather for the endlessly optimistic power-pop of Two Hours Traffic. The Canadian quartet started out as kindergarten playtime buddies, and they recreate the same five-year-old wonder that brought them together in their irresistibly sunny songs.

But don't get the wrong idea here. Though their tunes are loaded with jangly guitars and sweetheart harmonies, Two Hours Traffic still knows exactly how to get down to business. Their flowery melodies and bucking backbeats add up to unstoppable combos of Beach Boys breeze and Strokes-y swagger. That one-two pop punch has already landed the band among the TV soundtrack elite, earning them airtime on Gossip Girl, The Ghost Whisperer, Smallville and The OC.

This weekend they add MTV's own Camp'd Out to their list of credits. The two-hour docu-drama follows a group of Broadway stars through the grueling paces of a competitive theater camp. Two Hours Traffic's "Stuck For The Summer" is the official theme song!

See what all the fuss is about in their barn-burner "Stuck For The Summer" video and then tune in to MTV this Saturday at noon to see Camp'd Out!

+ Words cannot even BEGIN to describe how amazing these pics are of the crap from the foiled Michael Jackson Auction Collection (just LOOK at the picture above!!!  And remember those creepy life-size white people we told you about??) Uh. Effing. MAYzing. Especially the side-by-side comparison of MJ/Macaulay Culkin paintings. That one gave us the heebie jeebies. (Slog)

+ Hm. So, Jennifer Hudson's manager and publicist are now denying those preggie rumors we told you about yesterday. But. We're not actually hearing it from J. Hud herself. Hmmmmmmm... (Lifeline Live)

+ Oh, FOR THE LOVE! Evidently we're the only ones not watching Ray J.'s show on VH-1. It broke serious records on Monday, making it the most-watched show that day on ALL of cable, and the channel's most-watched show EVER. SIZE DOES MATTER! (Singersroom)

+ Alicia Silverstone is making a Clueless sequel? Is this even remotely a good idea, Tai?? (Star Magazine)

+ What is with all these Gossip Girl stars coming out with albums?? Now Leighton Meester?? (PopEater)

+ In case you were wondering, Tila Tequila is STILL dating bald eagle Billy Corgan. You're welcome. (Agent Bedhead)

+ We're hoping that you guys caught our favorite distress signal with red hair, Lindsay Lohan, on Ellen today. Three words: skinny, scattered, sad. What happened to the girl from The Parent Trap??? We want her back. (Scandalist)

You just need to watch Pink's latest video, "Please Don't Leave Me," directed by Dave Meyers, to assume that she's probably been spending a LOT of time filling up her Netflix queue with some of freakiest horror films of the past century. There's some Misery business, a glimmer of The Shining, and even a little Monkey Shines for good measure in this twisted tale of romance gone horribly, hideously awry. Oh yeah, and did you ever see What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? Don't. You'll sleep with the lights on for a week.

Watch Pink's "Please Don't Leave Me" for an honest -- albeit ostensibly exaggerated -- look at a woman unafraid to admit her relationship issues and do it in wardrobe pieces that match her album's Funhouse theme, with a little Clockwork Orange thrown in for added traumatic effect. Oh yeah, the dude in the video? That's Eric Lively -- brother of Gossip Girl's Blake Lively! Anyway, you've gotta respect Pinkfor her willingness to air her dirty laundry and shortcomings -- even if you don't wanna be anywhere in her general vicinity when she's chopping veggies.

+ We hear we HEAR that Madonna and Jesus Luz's steamy love affair may be taking a bow. (Limelife)

+ Photographer Terry Richardson can get just anybody to act filth it up for his lens. The latest to fall under his naughty spell? Gossip Girl-ies Blake Lively and Leighton Meester -- who share separate ends of a Twizzler -- and the rest of the cast. In the words of Tracy Morgan, "Somebody's gonna get pregnut!" (Rolling Stone)

+ My Chemical Romance to entire Twilight franchise: We're just not that into YOU. (Just to use that joke... again.) (MTV Movies Blog)

+ GRRR. That's it. Taylor Swift looks perfect absolutely 400% of the time. (Allure)

+ Yay, Kelly Clarkson! Woo, Glenn Cocoa! Kelly's new album, All I Ever Wanted, debuted at #1. Now let's just forget My December ever happened, mkay? (LA Times)

+ Will the new Jonas Brothers album be called Lines, Vines, And Trying Times? (Buzzworthy!)

+ Here's something gross enough to make you puke twice: Fred Durst is STILL TALKING ABOUT HOOKING UP WITH BRITNEY SPEARS! (MTV News)

Looks like Nate Archibald... err, Chace Crawford (not to be confused with the former NBA baller) learned a few things about moving money around from his no-good dad. But why's he gotta take sweet, innocent Leona Lewis down with him? (Probably for the same reason he bagged all those Gossip Girls too... THOSE CHEEKBONES! THOSE ICY EYES! THAT SCRUFF!)

Watch Leona Lewis and Chace Crawford break the law for love in Leona's brand-new video, "I Will Be," co-written by Avril Lavigne and directed by Melina, who also directed Katy Perry's new "Thinking of You" video.