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Margaret Berger, Jordin Sparks, Erika Jayne + More: 5 Must-Hear Pop Songs Of The Week
by Brad Stern | February 12, 2013 at 7:35 pm

It's Tuesday! Time for another round of "5 Must-Hear Pop Songs of the Week"! This week's roundup sees new releases from two "Idol" alums (one from America, one from Norway!), some big-mouthed irreverence from a promising, punky up-and-comer, a good ol' club cut from a dance floor favorite, and a celebration of a disco diva's [...]

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Skrillex, Zedd, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis & MGK & A$AP Rocky Are Vying For 2013 Woodies! VOTE NOW!
by Rachel Brodsky | February 12, 2013 at 7:04 pm

Vote for the 2013 Woodies nominees! The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards are less than a month away! Yep, mtvU's annual celebration of who's who in indie/underground/college music is heading back to Austin, Texas, on March 17. But you can't just go and have an awards show without nominees, right? Well, we've got plenty of those, [...]

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Demi Lovato’s New Song, ‘Heart Attack’: The Preview Video & Cover Art ARE NOT Giving Our Hearts A Break!
by Jenna Hally Rubenstein | February 12, 2013 at 6:06 pm

We're currently having heart palpitations over Demi Lovato's new song, "Heart Attack." Calling all Lovatics! We are having ACTUAL HEART PALPITATIONS over Demi Lovato's brand-new "Heart Attack" cover art and preview video. Demi's set to release her new single and revealed its inspiration in a short trailer that just dropped today in a manner so [...]

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Justin Bieber Takes His Little Brother And Sister On Vacation: Raddest Big Brother EVAR! (PHOTO)
by Jenna Hally Rubenstein | February 12, 2013 at 5:01 pm

IT'S THE BIEBER CLAN! Having Justin Bieber as your big brother has to be pretty unbelievable (or unbeliebable). Because if you WANTED to, you could just up and meet your favorite celebrity through his mad connections (okay, well, maybe JB's little bro Jaxon and little sis Jazmyn are still too young to appreciate a chance to meet [...]

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Star Spotting: Britney Spears Is A Golden Goddess In Her ‘Scream & Shout (Remix)’ Video (PHOTO)
by Jenna Hally Rubenstein | February 12, 2013 at 3:31 pm

Oh, just Britney Spears giving FIERCE face on the set of her "Scream & Shout (Remix)" video. In case you missed the memo, Will.i.am and Britney Spears' "Scream & Shout" has a brand-new remix featuring Diddy, Hit-Boy, Waka Flocka, and Lil Wayne. So, it goes without saying that they kinda had to create a video because, well, [...]

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Rihanna’s ‘Stay’ Video, Featuring Mikky Echo: The Saddest Bath In The World
by Jenna Hally Rubenstein | February 12, 2013 at 2:21 pm

Rihanna takes a sad bath in her "Stay" video. It's been a great week for fans of Rihanna's Unapologetic ballad "Stay." Not only did she nail her stark, stunning "Stay" performance at the 2013 Grammys, but she picked up her seventh Grammy Award that night, too. And if you didn't already have enough Rihanna action [...]

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Buzz Bites (2/12/13): Watch Justin Timberlake Rap During ‘Cry Me A River’ + Cover The Jacksons’ ‘Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)’
by Althea Legaspi | February 12, 2013 at 2:00 pm

Watch Justin Timberlake sing (and rap) "Cry Me A River." + Watch Justin Timberlake's perform "Suit & Tie" with Jay-Z, a cover of The Jacksons' "Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)," and "Cry Me A River" (where he drops a verse from Hova and Kanye West's "Paris") at his Hollywood Palladium post-Grammys concert. (Rap-Up) [...]

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Video Premiere: Nervous Nellie, ‘Gloves’
by David Greenwald | February 12, 2013 at 11:00 am

Nervous Nellie has a "revealing" vision quest in their "Gloves" video. "The gloves are coming off," Henrik Jonzon sings on Nervous Nellie's "Gloves," and the Swedish band's new video for the track definitely does not hold back. The stop-motion animated video trails a primitive paper figure through a camping trip gone wrong, as a supernatural [...]

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Video Premiere: Paramore, ‘Now’ + ‘MTV First: Paramore’ Interview
by David Greenwald | February 12, 2013 at 12:23 am

Paramore's ready to hug it out in the explosive "Now" video. "Lost the battle, win the war," Hayley Williams sings as she preps for all-out combat in Paramore's "Now" video, premiering tonight on "MTV First: Paramore." We thought we'd witnessed some pretty epic laser tag matches in our day, but this is the real thing [...]

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Star Spotting: Kevin and Danielle Jonas Are The King And Queen Of Fashion Week (PHOTO)
by Byron Flitsch | February 11, 2013 at 10:59 pm

Kevin and Danielle Jonas show us how to DOMINATE New York Fashion Week. Does Fashion Week have a royal court like a high school prom? We're guessing not. BUT if it did, Kevin and Danielle Jonas would totally be the King and Queen of Fashion Week! Look at the two of them OWNING this moment, [...]

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