Ok, wtf is Ulalume? Well, it's a poem written by macabre and goth-y 19th century poet Edgar Allan Poe (you were awake in English class, right?). It's also the name of MTV's inaugural Ulalume: Howling At New Moon music festival. Wait, it all makes sense and is less esoteric than you think, or sort of.

The music festival takes place at  Columbia, Maryland's Merriweather Post Pavilion tomorrow (October 23) and while Poe was born in Boston, the poet is buried in Maryland (not too far from Poe's grave (spooky!). Plus, the Ulalume fest is Halloween-themed (New Moon! Vampires, werewolves, unrequited crushes!) and premieres on MTV, Friday October 30 at 9:00 p.m. ET. And Twilight fans take note! Cast members from New Moon will be part of this one-hour on-air special, and they will be unveiling an exclusive look at a never-before-seen clip from the highly anticipated release of the second Twilight installment.

Ok, you're not a history buff. How about a fan of groups like Paramore and AFI? Yes, Ulalume has a kick-ass line up that not only includes those headliners, but also features Dead By Sunrise the new band by Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, Kid Cudi and more (umm, rad, right? Buy your tickets here if you haven't already). Come out and celebrate all things spooky in honor of Halloween at the festival if you can make it and if not, tune into MTV next Friday.

BUT, if you don't want to wait long (and you shouldn't), we'll be rolling out bonus performances, interviews, photos and more all next week starting Monday October 26. Check into Buzzworthy and MTV.com for more. Wanna know more? Check out the official Ulalume site on MTVU and or go to Halloween.MTV.com where all our festival highlights will appear. Oh, and let's not forget the hot hostess of the show that's a bit on the jet-black gothy side as well, celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D. Check out our Ulalume video playlist below and a sexy photo of our hostess with the mmm..mostess.

Yo. This new Linkin Park video is intense. Joe Hahn -- the band's turntable guru and resident video director -- has stepped his game up in a major way. Remember that tripped-out technique that made your eyes roll back in your head on Chairlift's "Evident Utensil" and Kanye West's original "Welcome To Heartbreak?" The one that pixelates the images, bleeds the colors, and melts them all together? Yeah well, it's back in a big way.

This time around, in the video for Linkin Park's "New Divide," the revolutionary technique doesn't take center stage. It's one of many. Hahn uses the pixel melt to segue between double-vision infrared performance clips and scenes from Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen, the film for which "New Divide" is the theme. To put it plainly, the effect is stunning. And it doesn't hurt that the song walks that impossible line of epic and irresistibly catchy. Prepare to catch yourself singing "Give me reeeeeason!" under your breath all day. Watch "New Divide," now.

Like their Los Angeles hometown, it's always 70 degrees in the minds of hair metal band Steel Panther. It's also always approximately 1986.

Steel Panther, formerly Metal Skool, have been working L.A.'s notorious Sunset Strip harder than a stripper in stilettos, and they've accumulated more famous friends than you've got Facebook friends: Kelly Clarkson, Benji Madden, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park's M. Shadows, David Cook, and scores of other celebrities have joined them on stage to cover '80s metal classics by Skid Row, Journey's epic "Don't Stop Believin'," and LOTS of Guns N' Roses. (Steel Panther's also responsible for the cover of Aldo Nova's "Fantasy" used as the theme song of Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory.)

Watch Stix Zadinia, Satchel, Michael Starr, and Lexxi Foxxx reveal five never-before-revealed things about Steal Panther -- including the unspeakable, peanut-butter-based things they'd like to your lady area -- in this groundbreaking episode of "The 5." (It's the first one we've ever had to age-restrict! RAWK!)

Like how that felt? Pick up Steel Panther's new album, Feel the Steel when it comes out in November.

+ Plus: Watch "Death to All But Metal" after the jump!

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Linkin Park's "What I've Done" was so crucial to the tone and packaging of TRANSFORMERS, that Michael Bay just couldn't have made a sequel without tapping the California rapcore champions again. Only this time around, instead of pulling a pre-existing single from an album, Linkin Park have created a brand-new track, exclusively for Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.

The track in question, "New Divide," is the official theme of Transformers 2, so if you've seen the trailer, you've already heard the new screamer ("give me reeeason!"). But you're about to hear a whole lot more of it. That's because Joe Hahn, Linkin Park's resident turntablist and video director, is getting ready to drop his wild, cinematic vision of the new single.

Until it surfaces (any day now!), watch Joe in action on the set of "New Divide," setting up motion blurs, delivering enormous guns to the prop shop, cranking the smoke machines to full blast and generally "going against the flow." Find out exactly what all that means in the clip below, an exclusive MTV peek behind the scenes of the "New Divide" video. Drop by Linkin Park's website for more details on the music video and on Transformers 2!

As you can probably tell by looking at it, there's a lot to be learned from Saosin's (pronounced "say-o-sin") peculiar name. Adapted from Chinese, the first known appearance of the word is in an old proverb that cautions against becoming too attached to anything in this impermanent world. (Bummer, but probably for the best.) It translates literally as "little heart." And while little heart couldn't be any less accurate a description of the Newport Beach-based boys' pleading screamo assaults, they've faced more than their share of impermanence, undergoing three major lineup changes before they even put out their first full-length.

After losing original singer Anthony Green, drummer Pat McGrath and bassist Zach Kennedy, Saosin eventually settled into a more permanent roster of Cove Reber (vox), Beau Burchell (guitar, vox), Justin Shekoski (guitar, vox), Chris Sorenson (bass), and Alex Rodriguez (drums). That's a whole lotta vocals, right? I wasn't kidding when I said "assault." Lately, every Saosin song is a flag-waving, fist-pumping, eyes-clamped, teeth-bared battle cry. A rare quality that attracted the attention of Capitol Records and landed the band on tours with Avenged Sevenfold, Coheed And Cambria, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance and tons more. In fact, they're on the road right now with The Used. Here are some dates you can look at while Saosin emote us out with "You're Not Alone."

With Road To Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes finally out, Chester and Phoenix drop a few hints about Linkin Park's next album.

Watch the video below, see what they had to say about getting Linkin Park fans to help name the live CD/DVD,  and about getting bitten by the Twilight bug.

You, and your BFFs and every girl in your school PLUS your mom aren't the only ones DYING (yet paradoxically living FOREVER!) for tonight's premiere of Twilight! Even Linkin Park's psyched for the book, movie and the soundtrack, which they're featured on.

See what Chester and Phoenix have to say about being part of Twilight, and find out more about their upcoming CD/ DVD, Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes.

And happy TWIDAY, everyone who's not currently standing in line, tickets in hand, locked in Cullen-strength death-grip clutch! (AND PRETTY PRETTY ROSALIE PLEASE no spoilers, because I'm not seeing until this Wednesday, when my sister and I are seeing it the TwiMAX version!)

Linkin Park's new CD/ DVD, Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes -- shot at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England in June of 2008 -- is mere minutes away from its November 25 release. So Chester and Phoenix sat down to answer a few questions about LP's latest live effort and handing over the baby-naming duties, once again, to Linkin Park fans.

Check out the interview below, and stay tuned for more Buzzworthy interviews with Linkin Park.

Panic At The Disco's Beatles-inspired "Nine In the Afternoon" video also inspired a 2008 VMA nomination for Best Direction.

Panic will be at the 2008 VMAs. And if they win, director Shane Drake -- he also directed two videos up for a 2008 Best Rock Video VMA -- Paramore's "crushcrushcrush" and Fall Out Boy's "Beat It" -- will share the honors. Shane, one of the most creative and prolific directors of the decade, also directed Panic's "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" video, which won them the Video of the Year award at the 2006 VMAs.

In the Best Direction category, Panic's up against Erykah Badu's "Honey," Linkin Park's "Shadow of the Day," Rihanna's "Take a Bow," and Pussycat Dolls' six-time-nominated "When I Grow Up" video. Do you think "Nine In the Afternoon" retro-nuevo style can beat out the competition?

Watch "Nine In the Afternoon," check out Buzzworthy's behind-the-scenes footage of Panic at the video shoot, and tell us if you think Panic can pull it off.

Also, please tell us which member of PATD -- Brendon, Ryan (happy day-after-your-birthday, by the way), Spencer, or Jon -- will show up to the VMAs looking the most like George Harrison/ Devendra Banhart?

Attention budding directors, design nerds, After Effects tinkerers and Tay Zonday fans. Six new 2008 VMA categories have just been announced, and you'll be glad to know (or at least I am), that Erykah Badu, Death Cab for Cutie, and Weezer did not get overlooked.

Erykah Badu's "Honey" homage is up for three out of the six new categories, Death Cab for Cutie's meat locker love song "I Will Possess Your Heart" is up for two, and Weezer's "Pork and Beans" squeaked in too. Good damn thing too, because it would've been a crime if that gem had been overlooked.

The new categories focus on video design, direction, and ... DANCE! They're sorta like the technical Oscars, but more exciting. And speaking of the Oscars, the new categories are:

+ Best Art Direction: Welcome, MGMT and White Stripes!

+ Best Choreography: Two Chris Brown videos up in here. Big shocker there. And Adele and Gnarls Barkley make an appearance!

+ Best Cinematography: Breakneck competition here between Badu, Death Cab, Katy Perry, White Stripes and Pussycat Dolls, who now have SIX nominations -- the most of any artist this year.

+ Best Direction: Panic At the Disco, and Rihanna pick up their second noms of the year. Link Park picks up their third.

+ Best Editing: Will Katy Perry, Erykah Badu, Death Cab, and Ne-Yo get served by Weezer's "Pork and Beans"?

+ Best Special Effects: Coldplay enters the race with "Violet Hill," and so Kanye doesn't throw a fit, his "Good Life" video's in there too.

Check out the full list of new categories and nominees, check out Buzzworthy's interview with "Pork and Beans" director Mathew Cullen, and watch the epic meme montage yet again.