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MTV will take its irreverent Video Music Awards to Miami this year. The live event, in its 21st year, will be held Aug. 29 at the AmericanAirlines Arena, the cable television network announced Friday. It will be the first time the show is held outside Los Angeles or New York, which has hosted the awards in recent years. But because the Republican National Convention is scheduled for Aug. 30 to Sept. 2, having the VMAs in New York would have been difficult, said the VMA’s executive producer, Salli Frattini. “There were very, very limited venue possibilities in New York because… Read more »

Fountains of Wayne are the latest victims of MTV’s super-sensitivity following the infamous Super Bowl halftime show. Fountains of Wayne made a video for the song “Mexican Wine” that originally showed twin ten-year-old girls jumping up and down saying they were going to perform “‘Mexican Wine’ by Fountains of Wayne!” The new version doesn’t have the girls saying that, and while they do lip-synch the song, at no point does it show them lip-synching the words “Mexican Wine.” A source tells the New York Post that MTV wouldn’t show the video because the girls were saying the word “wine.” An… Read more »

Britney Spears is getting into that “Leaving Las Vegas” frame of mind. The singer is going to stage her suicide in her new video for “Everytime,” as a way to respond to rumors and reports that she’s teetering on the brink, seeking help, in therapy or otherwise disturbed. Call the clip Britney’s funhouse mirror – it’ll reflect her life, but distort it, too. Spears’ follow-up to “Toxic” – her first #1 single since 2000’s “Oops!… I Did it Again” – will be shot in Los Angeles but set in Sin City, home of her quickie marriage. Though “Everytime” is a… Read more »

Just as sound bites get reworked into tunes that multiply over the Internet – Remember all the songs based on Howard Dean’s yelp? – a widely seen TV ad is getting the hack-and-slash treatment. The target is Pepsi’s current promotion giving away 100 million free song downloads from Apple’s iTunes Music Store. The company promises one in three bottlecaps on certain Pepsi products carries a code for a free iTunes download. Pepsi is airing a 45-second spot featuring 16 crestfallen music downloaders who have been sued by – and settled lawsuits with – the record industry for illegally snagging songs… Read more »

Jennifer Lopez is being sued for copyright infringement for her video “I’m Glad,” an homage to the 1983 film “Flashdance,” by the real-life welder and dancer who was the inspiration for the film. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleges Lopez illegally depicted the life of Maureen Marder. She had refused to grant sequel rights or to permit any further use of her story or identity after the film became a success, according to her attorney Robert Hefling. “She is penniless, disabled with a spinal injury, and trying to raise a teenage daughter,” Helfing said… Read more »

A track from Marilyn Manson’s recent Nothing/Interscope album, “The Golden Age of Grotesque,” will be featured on the new “Spawn Armageddon” videogame, Billboard has learned exclusively. “Use Your Fist, Not Your Mouth” will be included in the game, which arrives in stores Nov. 26. “If any artist epitomizes my antihero Spawn, it’s Marilyn Manson,” says Todd McFarlane, creator of the noir comic character and head of McFarlane Enterprises. Manson previously contributed “Long Hard Road out of Hell” with the Sneaker Pimps to the 1997 “Spawn: The Movie” soundtrack. Software company Namco Hometek is using one minute of the song in… Read more »

A Chicago-based web radio host claims he has video footage of both Hell On Earth’s performance, and what is purported to be the suicide that accompanied it, this past Saturday night (October 4), according to the St. Petersburg Times. Shane Bugbee, who hosts an Internet show called Radio Free Satan and has interviewed Hell On Earth frontman Billy Tourtelot, says he uploaded footage of both the band’s show and what appears to be a “sickly-looking” man committing suicide through “some sort of asphyxiation.” Bugbee revealed he won’t confirm the authenticity of the death without more proof. “You know, until a… Read more »

Blink-182 recently spent the night in jail. No, not as inmates. That was their teenage years (Tom DeLonge when he was 18, Travis Barker 15, to be specific). The older, more mature Blink-182 were only behind bars for the sake of work. The punk trio shot their latest clip, for the new single “Feeling This,” at the abandoned Lincoln Heights Jail north of downtown Los Angeles. “The idea is that it’s a very institutionalized school,” singer/bassist Mark Hoppus explained on the set. “It’s kind of a combination of prep school and reform school, and it’s very repressed and kids are… Read more »

The video for R.E.M.’s new song “Bad Day” will premiere Friday at 7 p.m. ET on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” show. In the Tim Hope-directed clip, group members Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills appear as newscasters. The track is drawn from R.E.M.’s upcoming hits collection, “In Time,” due Oct. 28 via Warner Bros. It can also be viewed on a new R.E.M. Web site, Morningteam.com (http://www.morningteam.com). “Literally, it’s about a series of small weather hitting a city – in other words, people have hurricanes in their living room, or monsoons just in one room of their house,” Mills… Read more »