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Radiohead: Bonnaroo headliners, kings of our hearts

It's almost our favorite time of year: summer festival season, which -- if you rock as hard and as incessantly as we do -- stretches from SXSW in March all the way until L.A.'s FYF in September. Right in the middle's our favorite four-day Southern blow-out, the epic Bonnaroo Festival, which just dropped its 2012 lineup. Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish and the Beach Boys reunion (!!!) are at the top of the bill, and beyond that, it basically looks like the Grammys on a farm: Bon Iver, Skrillex, Foster the People, The Civil Wars -- yup, they're all on the list.

Beyond headliners like Radiohead, here are a few of the 2012 Bonnarroo bands we'll be camping out/freaking out for.

Read more about the Bonnaroo lineup after the jump.
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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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+Will Smith's 10-year-old daughter Willow Smith is readying to release her debut album. Producer Jukebox says it will be a diverse, international album: "A lot of her music has a very big influence of everything from rock to pop to hip-hop." (MTV News)

+ Kelly Clarkson shares five things we may not know about her, including that she loves animals and has rescued everything from pigs to donkeys. She also trained to sell vacuum cleaners. Who knew? (E!)

+ Over the weekend the IHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas featured performances by Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Kelly Clarkson, Bruno Mars, Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, Usher, David Guetta, Lady Gaga and more. Wish you were there? Ditto! Peep photos/video from Friday and Saturday. (Billboard)

+ Keri Hilson worked out with young women as part of Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign, which combats childhood obesity. The First Lady also commissioned Beyoncé to rerecord "Get Me Bodied" for the cause. "Pretty Girls Sweat," indeed! (Rap-Up)

+ In case you missed it, Radiohead performed during the season premiere of "SNL" on Saturday. They'll also be playing "The Colbert Report" tonight. Check out their "SNL" appearance here. (Pitchfork)

+ DJ Shadow's The Less You Know, The Better, drops Oct. 4. A master at creating beat-driven, sonic landscapes,  DJ Shadow opens this one cinematically, before succumbing to heavier grooves that crest and recede throughout. Stream it here. (NPR)

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+ Adele returns to the top of the Billboard 200 for the 12th time with 21. She was knocked off her perch last week, but settles into Top Dog position again and is close to selling 3 million 21 albums. (MTV News)

+ Jennifer Lopez will return as an "American Idol" judge... Um, we think? A producer confirmed it, but it's not "official." Got it. (Entertainment Weekly)

+ Nicki Minaj returns to break yet another record. Hitting the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 3, "Super Bass" is the highest-charting female rap song on that chart in the last nine years. (ONTD)

+ Ready to get your remix on? Joe Jonas is awarding $2,500 to the creator of the best remix for "Love Slayer." The second single from his forthcoming FastLife album debuted yesterday. (Billboard)

+ Radiohead will release a limited-edition remix album (the themes just write themselves) for The King Of Limbs. It drops in October. (Rolling Stone)

+ More R-E-S-P-E-C-T goes out to Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, who will receive the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Founder Award next month. (Rolling Stone)

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Welcome back to Flashback Friday, in which I dig into MTV's massive archives to bring you great videos from the past. I don't know if it's today's grey sky or the fact that this humidity has me feeling ready to jump out of my skin, but I've been listening to my old Radiohead records all morning, and they are still so, so good. Nobody expresses itchy postmodern angst quite like that band of British geniuses. So let's set the time machine to 1997 and check out the award-winning video for "Karma Police."

Following the international success of their 1992 single "Creep," many thought Radiohead might be a one-hit wonder. Although it did well with critics and at home in the U.K., their 1995 sophomore effort The Bends only peaked at #88 on the U.S. rock charts. However, their 1997's OK Computer solidified their place in pop culture and music history.

Aided by its minimal, disturbing video, "Karma Police" quickly became a huge hit in the U.S., peaking at #14. (This was a particularly impressive accomplishment at a time when late-nineties "nu metal" acts like Limp Bizkit were ruling the charts.) Directed by Jonathan Glazer (who also directed that year's popular video for Jamiroquai's "Virtual Insanity"), the clip reflected Radiohead's running fascination with, and fear of, totalitarian government. Textured guitars, electronic effects, and Thom Yorke's haunting vocals combined to create a compelling sound that was both a continuation of the nineties alt-rock tradition and a progression into the new millennium. As you may know, the band hasn't stopped progressing since, with eight awesome studio albums to date (and counting!).

Watch the video for "Karma Police" below, and rock out to the sound of your own malaise.

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I first started doing yoga after I jacked up my back on Warped Tour. I was (wo)manning the Alternative Press tent, and while trying to set up in the morning, I got frustrated with something totally trivial and thought it would be a good idea to take out my aggression on a box of tour guides that was in my way. I kicked the box with my foot, and no sooner did my toes make contact with the cardboard, I was immediately struck by an ungodly pain that surged all the way up the back of my legs and up my spine. Whoopsers. After I shouted every expletive in my vernacular, I hobbled over to the tour massage therapist in the shape of a human pretzel and vowed that I'd never be in this shape again!

When I finally straightened out and returned home, I knew that I needed to start up some kind of physical activity to ensure that my muscles wouldn't atrophy before I turned 30. That was when I discovered yoga, and my life was forever changed.

After taking a couple years off, I've rededicated myself to the practice. Not only am I counting the days until I can finally nail a shoulder stand again, but I've also taken this time as a great opportunity to reacquaint myself with some of my favorite soft rock artists -- and by "soft rock," I mean "music that doesn't give me a migraine upon repeated listens."

If you're interested in increasing your flexibility and anxiety control, I highly recommend practicing yoga (do it!) and making sure the background music includes songs from Adele, Radiohead, Broken Bells and Mumford And Sons.

Finally, and if you'd like to keep up with all my musings, please visit my website and follow me on Twitter (@redpatterndress).

1.) Adele's "Chasing Pavements": For me, the hardest part about yoga is keeping my mind on the practice and not allowing it to wander in a million different directions. Thankfully, when Adele comes on the stereo, I immediately zone out and just focus on her gorgeous voice. She's like the Pied Piper of Vinyasa; I'd follow her anywhere. I also find this song's lyrics especially apropos when I get frustrated: "Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements, even if it leads nowhere?" In fact, they remind me of a mantra one of my teachers used to open class with: "It's called a yoga practice, not a yoga perfect." Words to live by.

Listen to "Chasing Pavements"

2.) Radiohead's "Karma Police": When it comes to moving and shaking, frontman Thom Yorke is a master. (I mean, didn't you see the band's semi-recent video for "Lotus Flower"? Pure brilliance.) However, I happen to find a tune like "Karma Police" is less about inducing seizures and more about slowing down my heartbeat and bending deeper into my Warrior 1 pose. After all, you have to stretch properly before you can even attempt to dance like Thom.

Listen to "Karma Police"

3.) Broken Bells' "The High Road": I don't know about you, but I miss The Shins. Thankfully, Broken Bells satisfies my taste for James Mercer's voice and affinity for spaced-out indie rock, courtesy of famed producer Danger Mouse. I love playing this in the background when I'm doing sun salutations because it makes me feel like I'm actually saying hello to the moon, stars and all the other celestial bodies floating in outer space. Far out, man.

Listen to "The High Road"

4.) Mumford And Sons' "After The Storm": Some people might find Mumford And Sons provides the perfect soundtrack for whooping it up and throwing back a couple pints with your mates, but I happen to find the band's melancholy folk rock also offers a lovely musical backdrop to Shavasana, the period of full body relaxation that closes a yoga practice. I can't tell you how many times Marcus Mumford has sung me to sleep... and I'm not just talking about the weird dreams I have about us running away to become Vaudeville performers in the 1920s.

Listen to "After The Storm"

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1.) While Tamar was down at SXSW scarfing breakfast tacos and rocking out in a karaoke cab, I was here in New York, where it was cold. Luckily, NPR got my back, and I've been exhausting their archive of free, streaming live SXSW performances all day, every day. (NPR)

2.) Confession: The first time I saw Rebecca Black's "Friday" video, I thought it was Demi Lovato's long-lost seventh cousin or something. They look vaguely alike, right? Anyway, there might be beef a-brewin' between Demi, Selena Gomez and Rebecca Black. (Hollywood Life)

3.) Snoop Dogg did a music video with Air New Zealand spokespuppet Rico, who is a ... squirrel? A badger? Do they have badgers in New Zealand? Anyway, some NSFW language at the end, kids. (Idolator)

4.) Cults, whose chillwave jam "Go Outside" served as the soundtrack to our latest Supervideo starring Emma Roberts and Dave Franco, are streaming three songs off of what I guess is their upcoming album (?). Whatever it is, it's gorgeous and demands a listen -- or a dozen. (Cults)

5.) Drew Barrymore is thanked in the liner notes of Radiohead's latest self-released album King Of Limbs. Girl must play a mean cowbell. (Spinner)

6.) We've known saucer-eyed beauty Amanda Seyfried can carry a tune since she starred in movie-musical "Mamma Mia!" Now she's covering Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs' classic song "L'il Red Riding Hood," because duh, she currently stars in "Red Riding Hood." (Nylon)

7.) In case you missed it, Britney Spears tweeted a pic of herself on the set of her upcoming video, "Till The World Ends." The photo sparked somewhat of a debate over here at Buzzworthy HQ: Doesn't the studded leather jacket make Brit Brit look a bit like Lady Gaga and/or Adam Lambert? (Twitter)

8.) Our friends over at MTV Hive interviewed Sammy Hagar, the legendary second frontman of Van Halen AND, more interestingly, an alien abductee. He says, "It was real. [Aliens] were plugged into me. It was a download situation. This was long before computers or any kind of wireless [...] it was like, 'F***, they downloaded something into me!' Or they uploaded something from my brain, like an experiment. " (MTV Hive)

9.) The Chemical Brothers, whom we haven't heard from in a minute, have scored the upcoming adventure-thriller film "Hanna," and people are calling the soundtrack the best album from the Brothers in a decade. If the track "The Devil Is In The Beats" is any indication, we're apt to agree. (SoundCloud)

10.) This salsa-dancing dog is a better dancer than everyone. (BuzzFeed)

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Hi everyone! I am so excited to count down this week's hottest cyber-happenings, so let's not waste any time...

1.) Remember last week when I told you about Radiohead's new video for "Lotus Flower," featuring the interpretive dance stylings of lead singer Thom Yorke? Well, the WWW definitely heard me -- and ran with it. (Gammasquad)
(But Thom, if you're out there reading this: You look delicious.)

2.) British chanteuse Adele, she of the magnificent pipes and killer fashion sense, pretty much blew David Letterman's mind during her performance of "Rolling In The Deep" on the Late Show Monday night. (Idolator)

3.) Some guy named Justin Bieber, who apparently is really famous for his hair or something (?), got a haircut and it made the world end. (BuzzFeed)

4.) Lady Gaga has an official release date of Feb. 28 for her "Born This Way" video. Time to place your bets on whether she keeps with the prophylactic-inspired sartorial choices. (Buzzworthy)

5.) The Oscars are this weekend! In case you missed any of the 10 films nominated for best picture -- or perhaps some other 40 other films released last year -- this video will tidily spoil each of the endings for you. (Urlesque)

6.) Timmy, who became Internet famous for his rousing rendition of Ke$ha's "Tik Tok," is back with an adorable performance of Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me," which would lead some to believe that he's Team Britney were it not for the LADY GAGA BRACELET he's wearing. (Mashable)

7.) You guys, Hipster Little Mermaid has been quietly assembling an army of Hipster Disney Princesses to remind the world that they are better than all of us. (Tumblr)

8.) Psychic Sylvia Brown says Michael Jackson is much healthier in the afterlife and Princess Di is really happy for William and Kate. Just an update. (PopEater)

9.) I'm not a gold digger or anything, but I mean, if you propose to your girlfriend in a mall food court, what did you really expect to happen? Gentleman, file this FAIL away for future reference. (Videogum)

10.) Proving once again that he is the world's most gracious loser, David Archuleta made a super poised and mature video blog about being dropped by his record label, Jive. (Perez Hilton)

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Move over, Britney. There's a new heir to the Video Dance Break throne. And his name is Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead.

Radiohead fans the world over awoke this morning to some amazing news: Radiohead's just-announced album The King of Limbs is officially available for download, along with a video for its first single "Lotus Flower." The song is a smooth rolling jam, girded with a low throbbing bass line and the kind of jangly, off-kilter drum track that Radiohead is known for.

Shot in black and white, the accompanying video for "Lotus Flower," for all intents and purposes, is a performance clip, featuring Thom Yorke in a steampunk-esque bowler hat and his, um, unconventional dance moves. Thom writhes and wriggles, marches in place, spins and pantomimes as he mouths his falsetto vocal. It's no Brian Friedman-choreographed dance opus, but for true Radiohead fans, it's just about perfect.

+ Watch Radiohead's "Lotus Flower" video. The King of Limbs is available for download now.

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You probably know Miranda Cosgrove mostly from her role as the titular character on the Nickelodeon show "iCarly." But if you've had the pleasure of listening to any of her music, especially "Kissin U" from her 2010 album, Sparks Fly, you'll know she's quite the burgeoning pop star as well.

In these exclusive interview clips, Miranda talks about both sides of her career. In the first clip, she chats about the thrill of getting to meet Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, via her producer Dr. Luke. In the second clip, she discusses the weirdest "iCarly" fan video she ever saw. WARNING: It's gross!

While we had the opportunity to pick her brain, we also got Miranda to tell us about what she's listening to these days (Radiohead is "ruling her iPod"), what her favorite karaoke song is (Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" or Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"), and whether she's team "Twilight" or "Hunger Games. ("Twilight" FTW!)

+ Check out Miranda Cosgrove interview clips and her latest video "Dancing Crazy" below. Miranda Cosgrove's High Maintenance EP comes out March 15.

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