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+ Coachella 2012 announced its lineup, and it is awesomesauce. Radiohead, The Black Keys and Dr. Dre with Snoop Dogg will headline the now two-weekend fest. Reunions include At The Drive-In, Mazzy Star and Pulp. Peep the full lineup. (MTV News)

+ Blue Ivy's just a couple days old, but the rumor mill starts early when your mom and dad are Beyoncé and Jay-Z. New York's Lenox Hill Hospital says the couple didn't take over an entire maternity floor, nor did they rent it for $1 million as some speculated. (MTV News)

+ Katy Perry tweeted she won't be attending the People's Choice Awards on Wednesday, adding, "I want to thank u all for voting for me, fingers crossed! #KATYCATS." It would've been her first public appearance since her divorce was announced. She's up for seven awards. (MTV News)

+ Lupe Fiasco announced on his website that he and Pharrell Williams are planning a joint album. Fiasco is also working on Food And Liquor 2, the follow-up to his 2006 album. (Rap-Up)

+ The Shins released "Simple Song" from their forthcoming Port Of Morrow, which is due out in March. The album will be available in various formats, including a limited deluxe edition on reel-to-reel tape! (Pitchfork)

+ Two more alleged Radiohead tracks have surfaced online. A recent "leak" was discovered to be fake. Check out "Fat Girl" and "Fragile Friend," which purportedly come from a 1986 demo tape from when the band was called On A Friday. Real/sham? (NY Mag)

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+ Check out a clip from Nick Jonas' guest appearance on "Last Man Standing," where he steals the show during a choir's performance of "Silent Night." (Idolator)

+ Willow Smith's having a fun week. She just released her "Fireball" video; now watch her Jimmy Fallon interview where she talks about working with Nicki Minaj. They also race bumper cars! (Rap-Up)

+ Selena Gomez looks like a pretty, purple underwater siren in her promo shots for her soon-to-be-released fragrance. She's also asking fans to help choose the scent notes for her perfume. (Just Jared)

+ Who had the best MTV performance of 2011? Paramore, Jay-Z and Kanye West, Robyn, Adele, Beyoncé, Lupe Fiasco, Lil Wayne and more are up for your vote. (MTV News)

+ Ke$ha's tapped Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, T.I. and André 3000 for her remix of "Sleazy." It drops Dec. 13. "Get ready, this is the SICKEST and SLEAZIEST version YET," she contends. (Rap-Up)

+ She and Him's Zooey Deschanel says she's gearing up for their new record. "I've been writing a lot," she said in an interview, "So we'll hopefully be in the studio pretty soon." (Billboard)

+ Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi penned the soundtrack for the movie "We Bought A Zoo," which hits streets on Dec. 13. But you can stream the gorgeous, atmospheric album here. (Rolling Stone)

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The year 2011 featured unforgettable MTV musical performances, from big nights that included Beyonce's belly-rubbing big reveal, Jay-Z and Kanye West's surprise performance of "Otis," the five unforgettable minutes of Adele's soulful "Someone Like You" solo at the 2011 MTV VMAs to Odd Future's unhinged utter mayhem at the 2011 mtvU Woodie Awards. And then there were the concerts -- Paramore at the "Fueled By Ramen 15th Anniversary Concert: Paramore Live" and Mac Miller's crowd-killing performance of "Knock Knock" at "Mac Miller: Live In Chicago" -- and the intimate MTV-exclusive experiences like Thirty Seconds To Mars near-holy "MTV Unplugged" performance and Jack's Mannequin's Buzzworthy Live rooftop rendition of "Release Me." Looking back at MTV's year in music, there was practically an MTV live performance for every day of the year.

As 2011 draws to a close, the music experts at MTV News, MTV.com and Buzzworthy have narrowed down hundreds of MTV live musical performances from 2011 to a carefully curated list of the 16 best performances. And it's up to you to vote and decide on the best MTV live performance of 2011.

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED! Check out the nominees for the best 2011 MTV live performances after the jump, watch highlights from the best MTV live performances of 2011, and go to MTV and MTV.com on Tuesday, Dec. 13 for the results!

Starting on Monday, Dec. 12, MTV will reveal the best artists, songs and movies of the year. Come to MTV News each day to see more big reveals and check out more of MTV's Best of 2011 music, TV, movies, and news coverage.

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+ Rick Ross, Common and Lupe Fiasco will perform the influential "The Message" with creators Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel and Scorpio during "The Grammy Nominations Live -- Countdown to Music's Biggest Night" on Wednesday. (Billboard)

+ The rumors are true: M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj will appear on Madonna's forthcoming album, due in 2012. "Summond to NYC by bitchesses > MADONNA and NICKIMINAJ," M.I.A. tweeted. (MTV News)

+ Dear Lady Gaga, could you stop being fantabulous for just a sec so the rest of us mortals can feel OK about ourselves? Peep her in pretty pastels for Elle here, and her fancy Vanity Fair spread here. (ONTD)

+ Last night Momma Monster also announced the official release date of her "Marry The Night" video via Twitter. Catch it on E! Thursday. (@ladygaga)

+ B.o.B. dropped a new mixtape, "E.P.I.C. (Every Play is Crucial)," which features Eminem, Lil Wayne, T.I. and Mos Def. Grab the free mix here. (MTV News)

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+ Nicki Minaj will receive Billboard's "Rising Star" Award on Dec. 2 during the magazine's sixth annual Women in Music event. Jazmine Sullivan took the prize last year, and Lady Gaga was the recipient in 2009. (MTV News)

+ Speaking of Gaga, y'all catch her Thanksgiving special? She also dropped a holiday EP, A Very Gaga Holiday, and she's on the cover of Spain's V magazine. Here's a sneak peek. (Just Jared)

+ Watch Florence + The Machine cover Drake, whose Take Care topped the Billboard 200 last week. FATM performed Drake's title song for BBC 1 Radio's "Live Lounge" on Friday. (Billboard)

+ Demi Lovato joined the cover game as well over the weekend. Check out her rocking "Moves Like Jagger" during her hometown Dallas performance over the weekend. (Just Jared Jr.)

+ Lupe Fiasco released his "Friends Of The People" mixtape. Grab the free tunes here. (Rap-Up)

+ Congrats to Lily Allen and hubby Sam Cooper, who welcomed their first child, a baby girl, on Friday. (Billboard)

+ While many of us were gobbling Thanksgiving meals, "American Idol" Season 10 contestants choked. First, Scotty McCreery flubbed a lip sync, and later Lauren Alaina missed National Anthem lyrics during a football game. #whoops (Neon Limelight)

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The year 2011 is quickly, sadly, drawing to a close. Except it's not sad! We're moving ahead with the speed of an iPhone 4S! And before you let separation anxiety and fear of change get the best of you -- no one looks adorable pouting in a party hat -- let's take a moment to reflect on the year in pop music. Being MTV Buzzworthy, the home of all things pop, we took an exhausting, in-depth look the biggest trends in pop music in 2011. It wasn't an easy job, but... it's actually our job! So, here are the songs, sounds and stars who were all over pop music in 2011.

EPIC COVERS
+ Everyone covered and/or remixed "Marvin's Room": Drake did it first, but Chris Brown remixed it, Teyana Taylor covered it, and R&B singer Sammie covered it. Paula DeAnda put out "I Can Do Better," and even CODY SIMPSON put his spin on "Marvin's Room" with "Evenings In London." But no one did it better than JoJo. Even Drake agreed.

+ Everyone covered Lil Wayne's “How to Love”: Justin Bieber made an acoustic remix of "How To Love", Demi Lovato covered "How To Love" on VH1's Top 20 Live, pop solo singer Tinashe and R&B singer Brandon Hines (who is INCREDIBLE, btw) all covered Weezy's heartbreaker.

+ Taylor Swift covered EVERYONE: Over the course of her seemingly endless "Speak Now" tour, Taylor covered Britney, T.I.'s "Live Your Life," Eminem, Nelly, Usher, Bieber, Shawn Colvin, Jimmy Eat World, Switchfoot, Nicki Minaj, Flo Rida, Uncle Kracker (!!!) and even Bryan Adams, often bringing out artists as surprise guests.

EPIC VIDEOS
+ Pop stars put out videos like MACHINES: Beyonce put out SIX official videos this year! Eight if you count her Live At Roseland DVD performance videos. Rihanna and Pitbull put out five videos, six if you count "Fly" with Nicki Minaj. Britney put out four videos, Lady Gaga put out FOUR videos (probably five, since "Marry The Night" is due out any minute, and six if you count her "The Lady Is A Tramp" duet with Tony Bennett, Bruno Mars released four videos, and Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj put out three videos each.

+ Everyone made SUPER dramatic, cinematic videos: Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" video featured a heartbreaking ending we didn't see coming, Dr. Dre's "I Need A Doctor" video featured a car crash, death and a return to life, Britney's "Criminal" video was shot like a modern-day Bonnie & Clyde, and Rihanna's "We Found Love" terrified us in a very Darren Aronofsky kind of way.

EPIC TOURS
+ 30 Seconds To Mars played everywhere: Seriously, these guys played 135 shows in 2011 alone. By the time December 7 rolls around, they'll set a world record for most shows played within a single album cycle. Top that.

+ Britney Spears lap-danced everyone: Every seat in the house on Britney's "Femme Fatale" tour is a good seat, but one seat in particular was the best seat in the house. The chair (actually, it's a bed?) Britney put centerstage, upon which very special guests were treated to a lap dance. Very lucky fans got a lap dance from Britney, and so did some celebrity VIPs: Britney gave Joe Jonas a lap dance, Jason Trawick got a special ride, and DJ Pauly D enjoyed a lap dance from Britney too.

EVERYTHING GOT EMO AND/OR OKAY
+ Hip-hop got introspective: For every swag-brag record there were real-talk, real-problems introspective tracks, like Jay-Z and Kanye West's “Welcome To The Jungle” (and most of Watch The Throne, for that matter), Eminem/ Bad Meets Evil's "Lighters," and Lil Wayne's "How To Love," plus sad songs by Drake (most tracks, but especially "Doing It Wrong"), Kid Cudi's 2 Be Continuum's navel-gazey "No One Believes Me," and Lupe Fiasco's conscious "Words I Never Said."

+ Pop music got introspective: I'm okay, you're okay, we're all okay, okay? was a recurrent theme in pop music, from Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" to Demi Lovato's epic "Skyscraper" to  Pink's "F****** Perfect" reminded us that we all have insecurities, and that we're all perfect the way we are.

Check out more of the biggest pop music trends of 2011 after the jump!

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Patrick Stump wants everyone (and their mother) to know he's obsessed with his hometown of Chicago. Personally, I'm partial to New York, but if anything could convince me to move it would probably be Patrick's catchy new single/ode to his hometown, "This City." (Do they make more dudes like that in Chi-town?)

As we mentioned when we brought you the preview, there's not much of a plot happening in "This City." Mainly we see Patrick dancing around in a dapper suit while the camera adds fake fire and turquoise smoke effects around him. Occasionally he lets his enthusiasm take over and allows himself one (or three!) "Jersey Shore" fist pumps as he sings his city's praises: "Cause this city/Is my city/And I love it/Ya, I love it/I was born and raised here/I had it made here/And if I have my way I'm gonna stay here for life." In the midst of all the special effects and camera filters, Patrick is shown in front of city buildings and parks, giving the video a bit more context.

Lupe Fiasco turns up next, and his verse is an honest look at his hometown's pros and cons. Decked in a chill gray hoodie, Lupe rhymes, "In parts of my city certain colors can't step/Sadly I'm talking about the color of your skin." Regardless, Fiasco is a Chicagoan through and through: "Despite all the above, I love this city."

Sometimes you don't need giant explosions or a winding love story or choreographed dancing to prove your point. Sometimes, as with "This City," all you need is Patrick Stump in the middle of Chicago singing about how great it is. His suit doesn't hurt, either.

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Things can get a little dicey when a frontman tries to go solo. But as huge fans of both Fall Out Boy and lead singer Patrick Stump, we're pretty sure that this tale of "Frontman Goes Solo" is headed toward a happy ending.

Today we bring you a video preview of Patrick Stump's first single, "This City," off his forthcoming album Soul Punk, out Oct. 18. To help him on his ode to his hometown Chicago, Patrick has called on rapper and fellow Chicagoan Lupe Fiasco. This isn't Lupe and Patrick's first joint effort -- the two collaborated years ago when Stump produced Fiasco's song "Little Weapon." Now, Lupe returns the favor in a big way.

In "This City," we see a dapper-looking Stump snapping and dancing his way through the chorus. Right off the bat, dude is super happy and excited to be singing about his hometown (What up, Chi-town!): "This city/Is my city/Ya, I love it, I love it/I was born and raised here/I had it made here." We see photos of Chicago building facades and street lights tinted by grainy camera filters, as well as a few black-and-white vanity shots of Patrick, which we're not mad at one bit.

While Patrick Stump's "This City" preview doesn't offer much of a storyline except for "Here's me in a suit singing about Chicago," we don't actually care. Stump is solo, and we love it.

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Love is a powerful drug. It's been known to transform enemies into friends, sorrow into joy and, in the case of Lupe Fiasco, old ladies and cops into your girlfriend. At least, that's what happens in his new video for "Out Of My Head," the third single off his latest album, Lasers.

The video opens with Mr. and Mrs. Fiasco in bed together, clearly happy to be starting their day with a snuggle. Lupe leaves her as he goes out into the world, but she remains in his mind's eye. Pretty much every woman he sees turns into her! Did his girlfriend get a job as a cop, or is his mind playing tricks on him? When he reunites with his lady love later, we find out his day was actually terrible -- he got peed on, ticketed and sized up like he was a common criminal -- but none of it mattered, because he was thinking about her the whole time, with Trey Songz smoothing things out on the hook.

Watch Lupe Fiasco's "Out Of My Head" video below and marvel at love's ability to turn even the crappiest of days into a walk in the park. (The sexy, sexy park.)

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It's been four months since the former Fall Out Boy frontman released his debut EP, Truant Wave, which was filled with posi-core soul-punk anthems such as "Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)" and "Big Hype," and we couldn't be happier that the Boy is back with a new song, featuring Lupe Fiasco.

The two collaborated years ago when Patrick Stump produced Fiasco's song "Little Weapon," and it looks like the rapper (and fellow Chicagoan) is returning the favor on "This City." More soul than punk, the song is an ode to their beloved Chi-Town, highlighted by lyrics like: "You can take my picture/You can take my name/But you're never going to take my city away." We wouldn't dare, Patrick.

Looks like you can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.

Patrick Stump's debut solo album, Soul Punk, is out later this summer.

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