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Imagine, if you will: A late summer house party set in L.A. Beer pong, laughing, and dancing. Attendees include Mayer Hawthorne, M83 and Mac Miller, to name a few. To top it all off, Drew Barrymore's photographing the whole thing.

This really did happen, people. And we've got video to prove it! Drew Barrymore recently shot a photo feature for V magazine featuring nine bands -- Mayer Hawthorne, Mac Miller, M83, Spank Rock, Warpaint, The Drums, The Peach Kings, Lord Huron and Audra Mae & The Almighty Sound -- 100 percent of which happen to be some of our favorites. Go behind the scenes of the photo shoot in this exclusive video, where we catch Mac Miller showing off his moves, Mayer Hawthorne letting loose (his bow tie's undone -- serious relax mode), and the girls of Warpaint donning some plastic animal masks (why not?). And yes, people end up kissing -- you know that means it was a great party.

The Spring Preview 2012 issue of V magazine is on newsstands now, and for more on what to expect from Drew Barrymore's photo spread, check out the Drew-directed supervideo for Best Coast's "Our Deal."

+ Go behind-the-scenes on the set of V Magazine's House Party, shot by Drew Barrymore, featuring Mayer Hawthorne, M83, Mac Miller, Warpaint, Spank Rock, and more.

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Tags Audra Mae & The Almighty Sound, Buzzworthy Exclusive, Drew Barrymore, Lord Huron, M83, Mac Miller, Mayer Hawthorne, Spank-Rock, The Drums, The Peach Kings, video, Warpaint

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For his new video, "The Bike Song," Mark Ronson has continued to explore the strange, retro-futuristic, truly global world that he introduced with his charming clip for "Bang Bang Bang."

Working again with director Warren Fu, Mark Ronson visually mixes cultural references and world cultures (Japanese, French, British) with the same flair he uses when mixing musical genres: with abandon and tons of style.

"The Bike Song," which features Kyle Falconer and Spank Rock, sees nods to films like "Tron," movements like the Mod revolution of '60s London and '70s European cinema. Over a breezy, sample-delic beat, the song finds Falconer singing about shrugging off the the weight of the world and taking to the road on his beloved cycle.

The real stars of the show are the fabulous hairdos on display, with Spank Rock (the MC for the New York rap duo of the same name) rocking a relaxed blowout and Ronson sporting a platinum blond fade.

It's another dizzying, fun, visual ride with a great soundtrack. Check out "The Bike Song" video below. The track is featured on Ronson's upcoming Record Collection album, due out September 28.

Mark Ronson & The Business INTL: "The Bike Song" from Warren Fu on Vimeo.

Tags Mark Ronson, Spank-Rock, video

It would be easy to just peg Amanda Blank as a raunch-rapper; a purveyor of sex-crazed rhymes in the vein of Lil' Kim or Trina, shot through an electro-indie prism. But there's a lot more going on here.

Blank is a Philly native who came up through the same eclectic scene that helped produced artists like Diplo and Spank Rock (both of whom she's collaborated with on her debut album I Love You).

While their certainly is a lot of NC-17 material on her album, the more interesting aspect is the way in which she delivers it. Blank's flow is super-tight; she has control over the kinetic electronic beats that she raps on. And she's not at all one-dimensional; some of her stuff veers towards feisty electro-rock in the vein of Le Tigre.

Check out Blank's video for "Might Like You Better" below. And if you like what you hear, vote for her in the mtvU Woodie Awards. She's nominated for Left Field Woodie!

Tags Amanda Blank, Diplo, mtvU-Woodie-Awards, Spank-Rock, video

The name Amanda Blank may not immediately ring any bells in your head, but you know all of her friends. The foul-mouthed Philadelphia rapper who creates performance art as part of Sweetheart, frequently collaborates with the likes of Spank Rock, Diplo, M.I.A., Santigold and Ghostface Killah. Now, for the first time, she's striking out on her own, repping Philly with a set of club-clobbering dance singles.

Her debut album, I Love You, is due out on Downtown Records on July 19, but lusty leading single "Might Like You Better" has been fouling up the MySpace airwaves for ages. The chorus does not recall Romeo Void's 1980s classic "Never Say Never," from which the lines "I might like you better/ If we slept together" are borrowed, but instead rides a pounding beat to orgasmic euphoria. In other words, sex doesn't sell Amanda Blank. Amanda Blank sells sex. That sounds dirty and illegal, but so do her songs. And that means, among other things, that this ultra-stylish cheesesteak-city-spitter is about to be all up in your radar, not to mention your business. You don't mind, do you? Course not.

Tags Amanda Blank, Diplo, Ghostface Killah, M.I.A., Santigold, Santogold, Spank-Rock

This is it! The final tour diary from the lovely and amazing 3OH!3. And babies, let me tell you, it sure does deliver. This time around, Nat and Sean are checking in from Panama City Beach, Florida, where they were a major factor in the insanity that is MTV Spring Break 2009. Dive right in (they did!) to your last weekend of 3OH!3, in which they stay up all night, declare their love for men, toss their cookies, and crash their Jet Skis. Must be Spring Break!

PANAMA CITY BEACH your lovely shores are stocked full of hot bodies and no reservations. We were just in Cancun and it was pretty g*ddamn epic, so we were trying to top it here.

We met up with our boy Benny Blanco at the airport in Atlanta on the way -- he came down from NYC to hang out and DJ for us. If you don't know, Benny is the illest beatmaker and producer in the world right now. His s**t is insane. He's done Britney, Spank Rock, B.o.B. and I co-produced "Don't Trust Me" with him. We are in love with him. He's in love with us. It's one of those things. Don't judge.

We got into the hotel and worked on the set until we couldn't keep our eyes open any more.

Wake-up call. We went to the beach to record a bunch of interviews for the different MTV networks. We said some dumb s**t probably, maybe some smart s**t intermingled in there. Probably mostly dumb s**t. Over to the beach to check out the stage and soundcheck. It was a rad setup -- mad people already and they were going off for our sound check. I threw cookies out to the crowd for some reason. People seemed stoked.

We started the show and s**t went OFF!!! There were something like 6-7,000 people on a BEACH... in FLORIDA... under the SUN... with all sorts of cameras and loud speakers. It was so much fun out there. We went crowd-surfing with our little pink and blue inner-tubes. Benny killed the set.

We got done and went straight to renting Jet Skis. Good idea. We crashed going like 45.

MTV SPRING BREAK ---  I love spring break now. So much. Man, that was a fun day...

+ See it all for yourself, tonight at 8pm ET, on FN Spring Break Rules!

Tags 3OH!3, B.o.B., Britney Spears, FNMTV, Spank-Rock, Spring Break

Four years ago there was a Spike Jonze (duuude, have you seen that Where The Wild Things Are trailer yet?!?!?)-directed  Adidas commercial called "Hello, Tomorrow," that was so aimlessly, supernaturally dreamy, that it was sort of a shame when whatever show you were watching kicked back in. The clip came accompanied by an equally dreamy soundtrack -- a sleepwalker of a song, also called "Hello, Tomorrow," by Squeak E. Clean (Jonze's brother) and Karen O.  The collaboration was such a success that Squeak E. Clean (aka Sam Spiegel) went on to produce Show Your Bones, the second album from Karen's band, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Now Squeak E. Clean has paired up on a more permanent basis with Ze "DJ Zegon" Gonzalez, to form N.A.S.A., but the collaboration doesn't end there. N.A.S.A.'s first record is actually all collaborations. Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon provide ambient background for vocals from an incredibly wide range of performers, including David Byrne, RZA, Tom Waits, George Clinton, Kanye West, Karen O, Santigold, Spank Rock, John Frusciante and many more. Like, very many more.

As for this "Gifted" video, it's directed by Three Legged Legs, a group whose cartoony sci-fi style isn't so far off from Spike Jonze's new project. It's a mind-bending space adventure that perfectly matches the tone and rhythm laid down by super collab Kanye West, Lykke Li and Santigold. Watch "Gifted," right here, and keep an eye out for more brilliance from N.A.S.A.

Tags David Byrne, George Clinton, John Frusciante, Kanye West, Karen O, Lykke Li, N.A.S.A., RZA, Santigold, Spank-Rock, Tom Waits, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Reasons it's good/ weird to be young and sorta rich and famous: you get free dinners, tons of free champers, and probably armloads of free jeans. Sometimes all in the same night and in the window of store overlooking New York City's Fifth Avenue and very cold, possibly hungry fans.

Such was the scene last night at the opening of Diesel Planet -- Diesel's largest store ever. To celebrate the kingdom of denim, Diesel invited Cobra Starship's Gabe Saporta, Ryland (that's him in the scarf in that photo I took, which is a totally terrible pic, I admit), Naeem Juwan of Spank Rock (such a nice dude, BTW), plus Dan Keyes of Young Love (I now have a crush on him), Louis Epstein of Jump Into the Gospel, Theophilus London, and Jarrod Gorbel of The Honorary Title (BTW, Jarrod looks like a perfect combo of Emile Hirsch and Gael Garcia Bernal, and my crush is mounting exponentially as I type this) to eat together.

Anyway, they all "supped" a fancy table in the window -- weird, right? -- like some sort of strange psychological experiment/ museum exhibit, while cold fans looked on, though I don't think they minded  because they were pretty stoked to be just a sheet of glass away from Cobra. I was freezing and sick, so I went upstairs and poked around and found a black bag and black leather jacket and some shoes I REALLY want. And speaking of shoes, I also need to add that Gabe had on some amazing hi-top Nikes with gold pyramid studs. Gabe, where you get dem?

Weren't there? Understood. Check out the video below, and if you need more fashion in your sweet lifestyle, see who I saw at the Richie Rich fashion show on Wednesday and at the MAC x Hello Kitty party earlier this month!

Tags Cobra Starship, Dan Keyes, Gabe Saporta, Jump Into the Gospel, Naeem Juwan, Ryland Blackinton, Spank-Rock, The Honorary Title, Theophilus London, Young Love

We bundled up all nice and warm-like last night and hit the red carpet at the mtvU Woodie Awards, where we pelted Fall Out Boy (dudes, Joe Trohman is looking like an emo Jesus these days), Gym Class Heroes -- who'd just finished shooting a video with Kelly Rowland -- Spank Rock, The Academy Is…, Peter and Bjorn of Peter, Bjorn & John (duh) and more celebs with enough questions to make 'em wish they'd entered Roseland Ballroom through the side door. Read more...

Tags Celebrity, Interview, Interviews, mtvU-Woodie-Awards, Music, News, Show-Me-Action, Spank-Rock, TV Shows