(Credit: Rene Cervantes)

Yesterday, when writing about AFI's personable appearance on "The 5" I remarked about how friendly and un-goth the dudes in AFI came off.

In this exclusive set of MTV photos the boys split the difference between their personas and their personalities. Yeah, there's a certain darkness to 'em, but they also seem like some normal, everyday rock dudes. Maybe it's Davey Havok's fuchsia shirt? Drummer Adam Carson's friendly facial expression? I don't know. Or maybe it's just the lack of eyeliner.

+ Check out the entire set of AFI's exclusive MTV photos here.

LIGHTS: We have followed her adventures in the silent wasteland in Audio Quest; we've learned things we didn't know about her in "The 5" interview, we've discovered her "Halloween Horrors." And now, now we get to look at her!

This charismatic one-stop-electro-pop-shop posed for MTV photographer Rene Cervantes in these exclusive MTV photos. They're a little but funny/playful, a little bit goth and a little bit other-worldly; a lot like her music.

+ Check out the entire set of LIGHTS' exclusive MTV Photos here

(Photo Credit: Brian Appio)

Skillet has been all over radar here at Buzzworthy HQ. We wrote up their (literally) breakout video -- the escape-themed "Monster" -- for being awesome a couple of weeks ago. Then we followed up by asking them to tell us "The 5" things we didn't know about them. And they complied. Now, we get these stunning Skillet photos to ponder. It's an embarrassment of MTV Skillet-related riches.

Check out these exclusive MTV of John Cooper and his gang of hard-rocking monsters. Skillet's album, Awake, is in stores now, and their Awake & Alive tour. Check for dates at their Myspace.

+ Check out the entire set of Skillet's exclusive MTV photos here

(Credit: Gregg Delman)

A couple of weeks ago you got to know the enchanting Elly Jackson, the woman behind the enchanting electro act La Roux. Well, now you get some pictures, too.

In her edition of "The 5," La Roux talked openly about her deep affection for David Bowie, who, I have to say, she shares a striking resemblance to in these pics. Check out this enigmatic collection. And make sure not to smoke cigarettes, despite the fact that she is enjoying one.

+ Check out the entire set of La Roux's exclusive MTV photos here.

(Credit: Gregg Delman)

It's Little Boots! We have the pictures to prove it. This British electronic pop chanteuse has a new set of photos up on MTV (you can see the whole gallery here). As LB (aka Victoria Hesketh) plays the wall in this lovely set, you get a sense of the beguiling, enigmatic charm that permeates her music.

On songs like "New In Town" and "Magical" you get the sense that you're dealing with someone very sweet, very seductive and just a little bit dangerous. And dang it if these pics don't convey the very same thing.

(Credit: Jesse Angelo)

Be still your collective beating hearts! What do we have here. Why, it's some brand-spanking-new Boys Like Girls photos. Taken by photographer Jesse Angelo, the photos capture BLG (that's what the experts call 'em) in all their post-Killers/androgynous/a-little-bit-dangerous-but-maybe-you-could-be-the-one-to-get-them-to-settle-down-glory. It's a coy, brash and flirty set, much like the Boston band's 2009 full-length, Love Drunk.

I'm just an amateur when it comes to diving the body language of rockers in photographs, but I'd award MVP to singer Martin Johnson in this set. He seems to be fully loving the camera's glare.

+ Check out the entire set of Boys Like Girls' exclusive MTV photos here.

Despite a blossoming love affair with Russell Brand, Katy Perry has been seen being all Elvira/I-Have-A-Cure-Disintegration-poster-hanging-on-the-wall-of-my-soul at the Sonia Rykiel show in Paris on October 4.

Real talk: It's working. Katy Perry might have blown up with a look that resembled a piece of watermelon Bubble-Yum come to life, all greens and pinks, and fruit-as-sex metaphors and whatnot. But she's been rolling through Paris, usually accompanied by Rihanna, like some kind of vampire/Blade Runner robot (or the lost female member of Tokio Hotel?) and it's A. GOOD. LOOK. Wonder if this means Katy's follow up to One Of The Boys is gonna be all doom and gloom and synths? Yes, please?

Dark and gloomy Katy Perry is a total departure from diving-into-cake Katy Perry of a year ago at the 2008 Los Premios. Not that we mind that Katy Perry either. Watch the video here.

YAY! It's (almost) FINALLY time for Nickelodeon to pull the sparkly curtain back and reveal Spectacular!

But until that happens tonight at 8pm ET, check out an exclusive photo gallery of Nolan Gerard Funk, who plays Nikko, watch my Buzzworthy interview with Nolan, find out more about Tammin Sursok, catch up with Simon Curtis, and use the time between now and 8pm to make up your own dance to "Break My Heart."

(Credit: Candice Lawler)

No, see, I said "new," NOT "nude," potty brain! Anyway, here are eight more reasons to love David Cook (as if you needed more), eight more sides of the man, all of them good, obviously.

+ Check out brand-new MTV photos of David Cook (who showed up EARLY to the shoot!) and (re-)watch his Buzzworthy video interview, to find out what goes on in his talented mind when he's staring down the lens -- in this case photographer Candice Lawler's camera.

From here on the ground, the Paramount Studios lot looks like part world of warehouses, part junkyard, and part microcosm of American cities and landmarks. Fake Midtown Manhattan juts up next to not-Ukranian Village Chicago -- that's next to a fake hospital with no patients or doctors, which sits flush with studios, stages and sets the size of airplane hangers, where movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Top Gun, Mission Impossible, The Ten Commandments (heard of it?) and the Hitchcock classic, Rear Window were filmed.

Sitting down on stoops and steps can prove problematic on movie sets -- what looks like concrete may be cardboard, and brick might actually be breakaway glass. For example, this “Brooklyn brownstone” looks a lot like the one I live in back in “real” New York. Except this brownstone is Brooklyn, New York, 90038, surrounded by palm trees, not pigeons. The "bricks" are made of paint and something that looks like professional-grade Contact paper, and the back of this not-brownstone is propped up by freshly cut wood two-by-fours, nuts, and bolts.

Unlike real brownstones, this get-up’s on wheels. And also unlike real Brooklyn brownstones, the Jonas Brothers will be performing live on this one this Sunday at the VMAs.

Also, unlike most brownstones, which fit maybe 100 people if you’re really pushing fire codes, the Jonas Brothers are somehow going to squeeze close to 1,000 rabid JB fans into this one. How are they going to pull that off? I'm no Hitchcock, so don't ask me.

Watch the VMAs this Sunday, September 7 at 9pm sharp to witness the Jonas Brothers-go-to-Hollywood movie magic live. (Plus, watch Kevin Jonas share his brownstone dreams -- you and me both, Kevin! -- in this video from Jonas Brothers: Live & Mobile.)