The leaves are leaving the trees and the kids are back in school. It's starting to look like Woodie weather out there, no?

MTVU's annual award show--held this year on December 4th--honors those artists who put it down on college campuses everywhere; celebrating the music the kids listen to while studying to become the future leaders of America, etc. And the best part about this show? You can vote to determine who wins!

This year features a really healthy crop of artists. Let's take a gander at some of the categories and nominees, shall we?

For the Woodie of the Year Award, for the artist who made the biggest splash on college campuses this year, we've got Asher Roth, Kings Of Leon, Drake, Silversun Pickups and MGMT.

In the category of Breaking Woodie, which honors up and coming artists who have made headway with the kids, the nominees are Grizzly Bear, Never Shout Never, Wale, La Roux, Friendly Fires and Passion Pit.

Probably my favorite category, Left Field Woodie, which features artists who defy classification, features nominees like Amanda Blank, Major Lazer, Janelle Monae and P.O.S.

You can also vote in the categories Performing Woodie, Good Woodie and College Radio Woodie, BMOC Woodie and Best Video Woodie.

With the underground success of Diplo and Switch's Major Lazer project, the line between electronic dance and reggae has never been more blurred. And now Terry Lynn is here to make it even blurrier.

Lynn, a Waterhouse, Kingston, Jamaica singer, has teamed up with the Last Gang label (home to MSTRKRFT) to make stunning dancehall, with an emphasis on dance. Where most contemporary reggae relies on the skittering beat of dancehall rhythms or the slow, soulful pace of more traditional reggae forms, Lynn employs a powerful, Daft Punk-like thump and wallop behind her toasting.

Check out her incredible video for the Daft-Punk-referencing jam "Kingstonlogic," off her Kingstonlogic 2.0 album. It's a clip that both embraces her local culture while backed by a sound that reaches across borders and blurs lines. And stay tuned for the premiere of Terry Lynn's "Jamaican Girls" video this Thursday on mtvU.

Kingstonlogic 2.0 from Rickards Bros. on Vimeo.

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Holy summer. Major Lazer has June, July and August on lock with Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do, his non-stop set of deep, nasty habanero riddims. Also, Major Lazer is a cartoon soldier (see photo at right).

I don't know how it took this long for the G.I. Joe PSA vibe to infiltrate the music world. The anti-booze/reggae-cop clip (watch it after the jump) was club-ready six years ago! But, as much as this dude may look like an extra on "Porkchop Sandwiches (NSFW)," Major Lazer's on a level all his own.

Masterminded by Mad Decent M.I.A. DJ/producers Diplo and Switch, the cartoon hero is the latest player in an explosive resurgence of Jamaican dancehall music. In case you're all "Bwah? What's a dancehall?" Dancehall is kinda like reggae and afrobeat's loose-lipped party animal little brother. Bob Marley and Fela Kuti meet Ali G. The rhythms are faster and hit harder. The vibe is darker and wilder. The Caribbean humidity is thicker.

The brand-new "Hold The Line" video is the ultimate marriage between summer heat, blinding banger beats, and Saturday morning cartoons. Major Lazer surfs through space, dodging explosions, punching thug face and busting Voltron vampire ass.

Do yourself a favor and click play. But before you do, JACK YA BASS, BWAH.

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