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The record label responsible for all of your high school make-out sessions is turning 15 this year, and to celebrate, they're throwing a concert! Fueled By Ramen's 15th Anniversary Concert: Paramore Live will take over NYC's Terminal 5 tomorrow, Sept. 7, and just in case you couldn't grab a ticket, you can stream the whole thing live on MTV.com.

Joining Paramore on stage are labelmates The Swellers, This Providence, The Stereo and fun., and we'll have the entire show streaming live on MTV.com. To prep for the show, take a look at a few video interviews of your favorite Fueled By Ramen artists talking about their favorite Fueled By Ramen artists. Meta, bro.

Up first, we have Paramore discussing their Top 5 Fueled By Ramen releases, where Jimmy Eat World takes top honors (good choice!). In addition, frontwoman Hayley Williams reveals that The Impossibles' Anthology is her all-time fave. After that, check out some of FBR's biggest names (Panic! At The Disco among them) discussing what it means to sign to the prolific label. And last, check out Travie McCoy and Matt McGinley from Gym Class Heroes counting down their favorite FBR albums, which include Fall Out Boy and The Academy Is....

+ Watch Fueled By Ramen's 15th Anniversary videos below, and catch Paramore performing live with special guests The Swellers, This Providence, The Stereo and fun. at Fueled By Ramen 15th Anniversary Concert: Paramore Live, live from NYC's Terminal 5. Catch the livestream here on MTV.com tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 7, starting at 6 p.m. ET.

+ PARAMORE DISCUSS THEIR TOP 5 FBR RELEASES

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Lots of ish went down between Zac and Josh Farro and their old bandmates in Paramore when the Farros decided to part ways. But Paramore is moving forward, and so is Josh. He'll be playing guitar in his new band, Novel American, and he sat down with MTV News to talk about it.

After the fallout, ex-Paramore guitarist Josh Farro wasn't sure if he even wanted to be in a band again. But after he reconnected with old high school friends (now his new bandmates in Novel American), it sounds like he changed his mind. "I had some ideas that just didn't fit with Paramore, and I said, 'Guys, we can try these,' and they just loved them, and so that's really how it all started."

Those ideas he's talking about are a pretty new musical direction for Josh Farro. Novel American lists influences like Radiohead, Sigur Rós, and Explosions In The Sky, which definitely sounds like a combo we're interested to hear. (It also kinda sounds like a make-out playlist.)

+ Watch video below to hear Josh Farro talk about his new band, Novel American, and being on "cloud nine."

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Early arrivals to this summer's Paramore/Tegan And Sara tour might have caught a glimpse or heard some highly orchestrated, epic sounds coming in that traveling rock circus' opening act, Kadawatha; and, no doubt, they were intrigued by what they saw and heard.

Kadawatha is the musical project of singer/songwriter Daniel Kadawatha, who has shepherded Kadawatha from being a solo project, recorded in a self-painted, self-decorated trailer, to a full band featuring two (yes, two!) guys named Andreas.

Kadawatha takes emo rock and expands it to U2-size proportions. On their debut single, "Agape," Kadawatha's operatic, Bono-esque vocals are backed by a powerful arena-ready sound that calls to mind everything from Queen to At The Drive-In to Jimmy Eat World.

You can see Kadawatha live, with Paramore and Tegan And Sara this summer and hear more music at their MySpace page.

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On stage and on record, A Rocket To The Moon -- the Massachusetts emo-pop band who sound like the offspring of Fountains Of Wayne and Jimmy Eat World and just came off the Op tour with Boys Like Girls -- play ebullient, energetic rock. So it's kind of charming to see these dudes play it cool and relaxed in this episode of "The 5."

Singer Nick Santino breaks down the frankly epic, state-crossing tale of how A Rock To The Moon came together (solo shows, flights to Arizona, and skeptical drummers are involved).

Then guitarist Justin Richards reveals his sordid association with a teenage dance crew and his tangential relationship to one of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" dancers.

Hear about all that and more in the episode of "The 5" as well as their Chinese lantern-filled video for "Mr Right" below. And check out A Rocket To The Moon's On Your Side video, which was released in October.

+Check out the entire set of A Rocket To The Moon photos here.

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Kansas City kids Vedera throw together a couple of different tropes for their "Satisfy" video. I will now enumerate them for you thusly:

1. The bros-hanging-out-at-the-clubhouse vibe of Paramore's awesome "That's What You Get" video.
2. The playing-twice-as-fast/filmed-at-a-slower-speed effect popularized by Spike Jonze and Weezer in the video for "Undone (The Sweater Song)."
3. The appearance of completely inappropriate footwear given the action taking place. Check singer Kristin May rocking the ankle wrap heels while on what can only be described as a hike (one is reminded of Gaga wearing stilettos while using crutches in her "Paparazzi" video).
4. The near-skinny dipping at the end, artfully rendered in R.E.M.'s "Nightswimming" video and playfully played in Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle."
5. Not so much a music video trope as just silliness: May straight chucks her cell phone while hiking. At least take the SIM card, Sis!

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We just got finished watching the newest video by the The White Tie Affair ("Allow Me To Introduce Myself...Mr. Right") and all we can say is..."Wow." Not since Fiona Apple splashed around in a soft-core hot tub have we appreciated so many bare limbs and so much low light. (It's like Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle" video, except with more lyrics and fewer clothes!) But then again, that's exactly what we've come to expect from White Tie Affair, the synthed-out Chicago act (think: Fall Out Boy meets David Bowie) is almost enough to distract us from the fact that lead singer Chris Wallace looks just like Derek Zoolander. Anyhow, watch, listen and learn. And don't be afraid to get wet.

Want more White Tie Affair? Check out our exclusive interview with the band and flip through these photos to see whether Chris has what it takes to pull off "Blue Steel."

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Reggie and the Full Effect is the product of mastermind James Dewees, former keyboardist of emo icons the Get Up Kids and drummer for metalcore heavyweights Coalesce. The multi-talented musician began RATFE as just a side project and laced his sugary lyrics with bouncy, synth-driven melodies that tend to get stuck in your head.

Lighthearted and playful, RATFE albums play like a Dewees-only inside joke that he manages to let everyone in on: Greatest Hits 1984-1987 was actually RATFE's very first album. The second disc was titled Promotional Copy, which confused music stores into sending shipments back (probably not a good idea from a record sales standpoint). The third album Under the Tray, "hid" the CD from buyers by placing it under the tray (duh!). And the fourth album was called Songs Not To Get Married To -- decidedly Dewees' most serious album, which he wrote during his bitter divorce (he later told AMP magazine that the seriousness is the joke, whatever that means).

Now, four albums later, Dewees is back -- but he's not laughing anymore. Well, not as much anyway. He gave Alternative Press details on his newest (and still laughably-titled) album Last Stop: Crappy Town:

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Is We the Kings' "Check Yes Juliet" the sorta-second-coming of Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle"? The latter will always hold a special, immutable place in that chamber of our hearts where we hold power-pop ballads near and dear. And even though "Check Yes Juliet" is a love song and not a "cheer up Charlie" post-punk anthem, it reminds us of "The Middle," and both videos feature outdated cars and culminate in a solid high school party.

We should also note, "Check Yes Juliet" is also Boys Like Girls' "The Great Escape," Version 2.0 -- swap one chorus for the other, and they both work. (Also, director Alan Ferguson shot them both.)

Bonus: Cute We the Kings photos.

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No disrespect to the rest of the hard-working guys of Jimmy Eat World, but we'd really like to have lunch with Jim Adkins. Not in a sexual way. (You know, because lunch can be sexual.) Not in a creepy, stalkery way. Just like, we'd maybe like to go to Subway or something with him, because he seems like the chillest, most non-A-hole-ish guy in alt-rock.

These guys have been going at it for over a decade, modestly putting out one tight power-punk album after another. And you never see these guys falling down drunk outside of Area or Stereo or hear about them making out with people who have famous sex tapes. And you know -- that has its time and place, but it's just not with JEW.

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