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+ Kanye West's forthcoming G.O.O.D. compilation's roster is growing. Pusha T, Frank Ocean and Jay Electronica are the latest additions to join Yeezy, Big Sean and Mannie Fresh in the studio. It's due out in the spring. (Billboard)

+ We already knew Beyoncé was a pretty fly momma, and now scientists have named one insect species after her. The bootylicious fly, Scaptia (Plinthina) Beyonceae, has a gold-toned bottom. 'Nuff said. (E!)

+ Jay-Z, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Vampire Weekend, Janelle Monáe and Adam Levine are apparently among Barack Obama's campaign wish list of celebrity endorsers. #rockthevote (MTV News)

+ Watch St. Vincent's performance from "Conan." She gave a nod to Elvis Costello's "Radio Radio," prior to launching into her own "Cheerleader." (Pitchfork)

+ Peep Adam Lambert on "Tonight Show With Jay Leno," where he premiered "Better Than I Know Myself" from his forthcoming album, Trespassing. (Neon Limelight)

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Tags Adam Lambert, Adam Levine, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Big Sean, Buzz Bites, Elvis Costello, Frank Ocean, Janelle Monae, Jay Electronica, Jay-Z, John Legend, Jon Brion, Kanye West, Mannie Fresh, Pusha T, St. Vincent, Vampire Weekend

It's that time of year again; when MTV throws a spotlight on the underground sounds making the most noise on college campuses across America. It's the annual mtvU Woodie Awards and, as always, you'll play a huge role in determining who goes home with the hardware.

The sixth annual mtvU Woodie Awards will air live -- for the first time ever in Woodies history -- on Wednesday, March 16, at 12AM (ET/PT) on MTV, MTV2 and mtvU from the Austin Music Hall in Austin, Texas, during the South by Southwest Music Festival.

But there are no Woodies without you. So check out the list of 2011 of mtvU Woodie Award nominees and vote now!

WOODIE OF THE YEAR: The artists who made the biggest splash on the college music scene this past year.
Black Keys -- "Tighten Up"
B.o.B. -- "Airplanes"
Arcade Fire -- "The Suburbs"
LCD Soundsystem -- "Drunk Girls"
Wiz Khalifa -- "Black & Yellow"

BREAKING WOODIE: For the first time ever you can (broad)cast your vote for your favorite BREAKING artist nominee via Twitter or Facebook. Tweets and posts will be tallied up until the night of the show on March 16. Go to the Breaking Woodie voting page for details on how to vote using Twitter and/or Facebook OR go directly to Twitter and Facebook and create a post post. All posts must include an official Twitter handle (@artistname) AND #Woodies.
Local Natives
Sleigh Bells
Two Door Cinema Club
Wavves

BEST VIDEO WOODIE: These music videos are so incredible we'd watch them even without the music.
Vampire Weekend –- "Giving Up the Gun"
Duck Sauce –- "Barbara Streisand"
Gorillaz –- "Stylo"
Chiddy Bang -– "Opposite of Adults"
Black Keys – "Tighten Up"

PERFORMING WOODIE: For those artists who take to the road and never let up, always giving that memorable live performance night in and night out.
The National
Girl Talk
Matt & Kim
Robyn
Mumford & Sons

LEFT FIELD WOODIE:They resist classification. They came out of left field, and we're still not sure what section of our favorite jams playlist to put them in. Just when you may think you have them pegged, they surprise you once again.
Die Antwoord
Lil B
Yelawolf
Das Racist
Kanye West

COLLEGE RADIO WOODIE: What's the best college radio station in the land for 2011? Support your favorite now!

Tags Arcade Fire, B.o.B., Black Keys, Chiddy Bang, Das Racist, Dev, Die Antwoord, Duck Sauce, Girl Talk, Gorillaz, Kanye West, LCD Soundsystem, Lil' B, Local Natives, Matt And Kim, mtvU-Woodie-Awards, Mumford & Sons, Robyn, Sleigh Bells, The National, Two Door Cinema Club, Vampire Weekend, Wavves, Wiz Khalifa, Yelawolf

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Earlier this year, Vampire Weekend tried their hand at a cover of Rancid's ska-punk classic, "Ruby Soho." Now, we find the New York indie-pop band ending the year with a cover of a U.K. pop smash, with their take on Cheryl Cole's "Fight For This Love."

The original version, by the "X-Factor" judge, singer and British tabloid fixture, is a surging and uplifting dance-pop anthem that wouldn't sound out of place next to any of the singles from the last Kylie Minogue album.

Vampire Weekend's cover, recorded at BBC Radio 1, features a full horn section and a guitar line that sounds like it was lifted from The Strokes' "What Ever Happened." Singer/guitarist Ezra Koenig doesn't sound as convinced as Cole that this is a love affair worth fighting for, adding some ambiguity to the original's statement of intent.

+ Listen to Vampire Weekend's cover of Cheryl Cole's "Fight For This Love."

Tags Cheryl Cole, Kylie-Minogue, Rancid, Song You Need To Know, Vampire Weekend

Who cares what a bunch of critics, writers, and music experts think about the music they loved this year? We wanna know what music YOU loved this year! Buzzworthy wants you, our loyal readers, to pick your favorite music, musicians, and music moments of 2010. From the most unbelievable videos to the songs you played over and over again, to the artists you obsessed over and the albums your year wouldn’t have been complete without. Buzzworthy obsessed about music all year long. Now it’s time for you to pick your favorites.

2010 was a HUGE year for music videos. In her "Telephone" video, Lady Gaga gave us an inside look at the prison for bitches, where inmates fashion cigarette rations into eyewear. And she taught us to never take her to a diner. Katy Perry made us look at board games (and whipped cream) in a whole new way in her "California Gurls" video, featuring Snoop Dogg. My Chemical Romance's "Na Na Na..." video was a wild goose chase through a Technicolor desert, Eminem and Rihanna burned the house down (literally) in their "Love The Way You Lie" video. And Beyonce also burned the house down too as an extremely desperate housewife in her "Why Don't You Love Me" video. Kanye West shattered our conventional notions of music videos when he released his 35-minute short film, "Runaway," inspired by such music-movie greats as the The Wall and the works of Picasso, Fellini and Greek mythology.  We The Kings' "We'll Be A Dream" video, featuring Demi Lovato, made us feel like we were living in the ultimate teenage dream. 30 Seconds To Mars' "Hurricane" video, a late entry, took us into a dark, mysterious underworld of New York City... and the mind of Jared Leto. Vampire Weekend's "Giving Up The Gun" put Joe Jonas, RZA, Daft Punk Jake Gyllenhaal and Lil Jon all in the same video (finally!). The Rube Goldberg machine and OK Go rigged up in their "This Too Shall Pass" video featured over 700 household objects expertly aligned and timed in their jaw-dropping science fair winner of a video.

So which video of 2010 was the most epically unforgettable, most Buzzworthy, most mind-blowing video that shocked you and rocked you, and was like no other video you’d ever seen before?

Vote now for the Most Epically Unforgettable Video of 2010! Voting ends Sunday, Dec. 26 at 11:59PM. We'll announce the video you picked as the Most Epically Unforgettable Video of 2010 on Tuesday, Dec. 28!

(Credit Eminem & Rihanna: Kevin Mazur/EM/ WireImage)

Tags 30 Seconds To Mars, Beyonce, Buzzworthy's Best Of 2010, Demi Lovato, Eminem, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, My-Chemical-Romance, Poll, Rihanna, Vampire Weekend, We the Kings

Legendary NYC house producer/DJ Armand Van Helden and legendary hip-hop/electro DJ A-Trak are some pretty heavy hitters on their own. But together, they form...Duck Sauce? That's right, named after one of the seven wonders of the world of condiments and dedicated to making ecstatic dance music that celebrates the two DJ/producers' roots, Duck Sauce has been an underground sensation for a little while now. But with this new video for their single "Barbra Streisand," the secret is gonna be out.

"Barbra Streisand" was directed by So Me, who was behind Justice's critically lauded "D.A.N.C.E." clip. Duck Sauce's video is basically a love letter to New York City: its energy, its people and, most of all, its music.

Keep your eyes peeled for cameos from the likes of Kanye West, Chromeo, DJ Premier (of Gang Starr), ?uestlove of The Roots, Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend and many, many more.

Check out Duck Sauce's "Barbra Streisand" video below. WARNING: SOME SLIGHTLY NSFW LANGUAGE AND IMAGERY

Tags A-Trak, Armand Van Helden, Chromeo, Duck Sauce, Ezra Koenig, Justice, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Questlove, The Roots, Vampire Weekend, video

Oh, it's Lindsay Lohan dressed up as a nun, licking a .357 Magnum! It must be Wednesday. The soon-to-be-jailbird has taken a break from sending subliminal shots at the legal system via manicure and has shown up in the above promo poster for her upcoming film Machete.

As one might be able to tell from the title, "Machete" is not a Hallmark Family Movie of the Week. Rather, it is director Robert Rodriguez's ("Grindhouse," "Sin City") latest homage to '70s exploitation flicks, promising tons of sex and violence (and probably machetes).

Between this, her upcoming turn as a porn star in the film "Inferno" and her real-life jail term, Lindsay is pretty much trumping everyone when it comes to, "What did you do with your summer vacation." So kudos, homegirl.

We leave you with Vampire Weekend's "Giving Up The Gun" video, below. Machete is out September 3. (Note: We do not condone gun use. Whether we condone Lindsay Lohan dressed as a nun carrying a gun is a matter of taste and remains to be seen.)

Tags Aerosmith, Lindsay Lohan, Star Spotting, Vampire Weekend, video

If Louis XIV could time travel to 2010, he'd get the hell out of boring old Versailles and go hang out somewhere more awesome, like L.A.! His favorite band would clearly be Vampire Weekend, and he'd go undercover as Ezra Koenig. He'd play some chess, overuse some ChapStick and do what any red-blooded heterosexual male would do -- hit up In-N-Out burger (Animal style!), tool around in an old car with the top down (except the car would be new to him, you know? Because he's from the 17th century?) and hang out with chicks in bikinis at a pool. Basically, life would be one big anachronism.

All of this would culminate in him beating up a surfer on the beach.

Those fictitious ruminations also double as most of the plot points in Vampire Weekend's new video!

Watch Vampire Weekend's "Holiday" video.

Tags Ezra Koenig, Vampire Weekend, video

+ UPDATE: Watch the video here!

You know what's always a good look in the summertime? Ray-Ban Wayfarers. You know what's an even better look? Wayfarers with powdered wigs. It's very "Summer of '69" meets summer of (17)'76 meets Colonial Williamsburg meets hipster Williamsburg (aka Hipster French Quarter). It's a look not done enough, IMO. Thankfully Vampire Weekend puts an end to that nagging lack of mainstream Continental Congress chic in this sneak peek of its new video, "Holiday," off the group's latest album, Contra.

Watch a sneak peek of Vampire Weekend's "Holiday" video, and stay tuned for the premiere Thursday, May 27, on MTV and MTV.com.

Tags Vampire Weekend, video

If you own a computer, there's no way you missed the fact that the track listing for the Eclipse soundtrack was just revealed. It reads like your cool cousin's iTunes "Recently Played" list. Florence + The Machine, Metric, Vampire Weekend, The Black Keys and more indie-rock-inspired artists and singles all add a musical element to the "Twilight" saga's third installment. And adding some serious music-cred gravity to the Eclipse soundtrack's offerings is Muse -- author Stephenie Meyer's favorite band. (And possibly yours too.)

Muse's contribution to the "Eclipse" soundtrack is a brand-new song, "Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever)." And while "Twilight" and "New Moon" both featured Muse songs, "Eclipse" marks the first time Muse lent a brand-new song to the franchise's soundtrack.

The "Eclipse" soundtrack is out June 8, (though TRILLIONS of you obviously preordered it), but we've got a sneak peek of Muse's "Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever)" video right here. Watch it and stay tuned for the video premiere on MTV.com Thursday, May 20.

Tags Black Keys, Eclipse, Metric, Muse, Twilight, Vampire Weekend, video

Well aren't these guys a walking Ocean Pacific ad. Here we have Joe and Nick Jonas on the set of the TV movie "Running In Circles." The two bros (literally) look like they're getting a jump start on the summer with their boat shoes, their khakis rolled up, just their overall California dreaming vibe.

It looks a bit like all that time Joe spent hanging out with the boys from Vampire Weekend on the set of their "Giving Up The Gun" video might have rubbed off on the middle Jonas brother, and he's passed the sartorial sensibility on to his younger brother. The resemblance between these two and VW front-man Ezra Koenig is starting to get a bit eerie; and they're certainly embracing the whole West Coast Prep look currently being popularized by the indie rock band.

Tags Ezra Koenig, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Star Spotting, Vampire Weekend