Best Friday before VMAs ever!!! I'm back at Radio City, and downstairs the yearly radio forum, which is the massive press and artist cattle call -- a one-stop shop, if you will, where if you're press or a radio DJ, you can interview boys like girls, CJ from the real world or Hanson in the same room! Or, if you're me, you can interview HONOR SOCIETY!!!

First I saw Michael Bruno -- who was wearing a bad-ass black leather jacket and asked if I remembered the Honor Roll (sooo hard!) --  Alexander Noyes, Jason Rosen, and Andrew Lee , and we headed to the "gentlemen's lounge," which is a super posh trillion-year-old bathroom that's the size of a high school gym and looks like a museum.

Ok, so sad news first -- Honor Society will not be at the VMAs. Good news: they're rehearsing for their shows back in California. (More sad news: it's still impossible to physically be in two places at once) but Honor Society did share their pick for Best New Artist -- Lady Gaga!

UPDATE: Check out Honor Society in the "Gentlemen's Lounge" at Radio City! I'll have a video of my Honor Society interview coming soon but until then, check out these photos of the guys in the gentlemen's lounge at Radio City.

What is a "TV/TV," and why MUST you have one?

1. TV/TV recently recorded with Bleu. Who is Bleu? Bleu is the producer responsible for Jonas Brothers, Boys Like Girls and Hanson. Boom -- there goes the dynamite.

2. TV/TV have already sold out shows at New York City's most exclusive venues --> The Knitting Factory, Mercury Lounge and Bowery Ballroom. ShamWOW.

3. TV/TV have cut their teeth touring with rock role models like The Bravery, Artist Vs. Poet and Anarbor.

4. You're actually already a fan. Not only did lead singer Josh Ocean appear in an episode of MTV's Made, but TV/TV tunes have popped up in the soundtracks of The Hills, The Real World, Living Lohan (SCORE!) and many more!

5. Dude. Look at them.

The studly foursome, who share a tiny apartment in NYC's East Village, have been turning out jam after electro-sleaze jam since 2006, giving you way more than five reasons to be obsessed with them. Listen to their glammed-out, big-city-Kings-Of-Leon-jamming-on-AC/DC sound, and add your name to the list of TV/TV converted!

+ LISTEN TO TV/TV HERE!

Just a few days ago I went on and on about Silversun Pickups being the second coming of Smashing Pumpkins. How weird to come to the end of Thursday and find original Pumpkins bassist James Iha on my desk, along with Taylor Hanson (Hanson), Adam Schlesinger (Fountains Of Wayne) and Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick). Together they are supergroup Tinted Windows (we warned you!) and, surprisingly enough, they kinda sound like a bubblegummy... you guessed it, Smashing Pumpkins. Or wait... is it Siamese Hanson?

Either way, it's about to get in your head with a vengeance. The ooh-ahhs in the chorus are sonic barbs -- like the ones they put on the ends of fishing hooks -- and they're about to tear your brain to shreds in the sweetest and gentlest way. This may seem like a lazy cop-out, but the honest truth is that this band combines Smashing Pumpkins' edge with Hanson's pop sensibility, Fountains Of Wayne's quirky light-heartedness and Cheap Trick's ballsy muscle. It's first grade math. And it sounds amazing. Brace yourself for pop-rock perfection.

What do you get when you cross Taylor Hanson with one of the founding members of Smashing Pumpkins? It isn't "Disarm," but it sure ain't "MMMbop" either. The answer is Tinted Windows, the pop-rock outfit formed by the middle Hanson (now a father of four), James Iha, Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger (he also wrote the Jonas Brothers' "I Am What I Am") and Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos, who joined Cheap Trick about two decades before Taylor Hanson was born.

If you're expecting Middle of Nowhere Part 2, expect to be disappointed (also, let it go already!) Their debut single, "Kind of a Girl," sounds far more like Fountains of Wayne than a screechy teeny track (thanks to no pint-sized Zac on vox.)

Watch for Tinted Windows' April 21st full-length debut on S-Curve Records (which means they'll be in the same family as We The Kings!) and SXSW performances before that.

Until then, listen to "Kind of a Girl," and Hanson fans, talk to me: Is Tinted Windows your version of the Second Coming, or are you a Hanson purist?

+ PLUS: Watch Hanson's MTV.com Live performances!

(Credit: OK! Magazine)

Although Britney's been in showbiz since before she could say "Mousketeer," she has no interest in seeing her sons follow in her famous footsteps. "I'd rather [they didn't], but I'd love them unconditionally if they wanted to," she told OK! magazine recently. "I'd just as soon they have a more normal childhood." (MTV)

+ Bad news for Maniston (or was it Jennifayer?) fans: John Mayer and Jen Aniston have reportedly put an end to their summer lovin'. (The Daily Goss)

+ Carrie Underwood to Jessica Simpson: Your boyfriend still has me on speed dial. (TMZ)

+ Meanwhile, you don't have to be a Jonas to weigh in on the Demi/Miley maybe-feud. Whether you're Team Miley or Team Demi and Selena, there's a slightly overpriced T-shirt with your sentiments exactly. (Perez Hilton)

+ The Mamma Mia soundtrack dominates the album sales charts and keeps Miley Cyrus and Kid Rock in second and third place respectively. (Rolling Stone)

+ Mirror mirror on the wall...who's the greatest boy band of them all? Contenders include the Naked Brothers Band, Hanson and *NSYNC. (Entertainment Weekly)

+ HSM star Zac Efron is so undeniably attractive that he frequently causes older women to swoon, sigh and say things like, "He is a dreamboat. If I were that age and single, I'd be in so much trouble." (MTV)