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Saturday, May 5, 2012
O Music Awards Return To Break A Jay-Z World Record
As Webby Award-winning show returns on June 27, one lucky band will vie for the chance to snatch Hov's Guinness title for Most Live Concerts In 24 Hours.
By MTV News staff
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MTV's groundbreaking and Webby-award winning O Music Awards are back in a big way. The digitally-driven event that celebrates and honors the artists, fans and innovators impacting digital-music culture is set to return on June 27 with the world's first 24-hour live stream.
This extra-special event will unfold via a historic bus ride through the Mississippi Delta, the birthplace of — rock and roll — during which one courageous band will board a tricked-out bus and zigzag across the region in attempt to break Jay-Z's Guinness World Record title for Most Live Concerts In 24 Hours (Multiple Cities) by hitting a total of eight cities. The run will start in Memphis and end in New Orleans. Fans at home can watch the entire journey from any screen and, naturally, interact, influence and play a part in the voyage as the band heads toward the final destination.
Beginning Friday (May4), you can suggest potential categories and nominees via OMusicAwards.com. Categories, nominees and the selected band will be announced at a later date.
"We started O Music Awards as an experiment and it keeps gaining momentum as an incubator for experimenting with interactive storytelling across multiple platforms," said Dermot McCormack, executive vice president of Viacom Music & Logo Group, which includes MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo. "We invite the audience in and together we want to push the boundaries of how stories are told. We also have some fun, give out awards and break a few records."
The categories and nominees will be announced on Wednesday, May 23. Past O Music Award winners have included Björk (Digital Genius Award), Kanye West (Best Tweet), Tokio Hotel (Fan Army FTW), Nirvana (Best Vintage Viral Video), Spotify (Most Addictive Social Music Service), Aquarium Drunkard (Best Independent Music Blog), Way Out West (Most Innovative Festival) and CrowdJuke (Best Music Hack).
In the coming weeks, the identity of the band slated to take on the world record will be revealed, along with the lineup of artists who will join them on the road. Previous O Music awards shows have featured a myriad of performers spanning multiple genres, from the Flaming Lips to Robyn and Mumford & Sons. The online show has also been springboard to help launch acts like Foster the People, Mac Miller and Alabama Shakes.
The O Music Awards is more than just an awards show, though: With a news blog, monthly live-event series (O Music Awards Unboxed) and more, OMusicAwards.com has become one of the premiere destinations for all things related to digital-music innovation, both online and off.
Head over to OMusicAwards.com and cast your votes for the awards show's categories and nominees! Stick with MTV News for updates.
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Galaxy S III vs. Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S II: what's changed?
We're here live at Samsung's unveiling of the Galaxy S III and while it was going on, we furiously built this chart to see how the biggest phone of the year stacks up against its two progenitors. Here's some trivia: that 4.8-inch display is 22 percent bigger than the Galaxy S II's, but its overall dimensions only grew by 16 percent. If you're interested in those sort of details, then after the break is where you need to be.
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Galaxy S III vs. Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S II: what's changed? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 May 2012 14:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Friday, May 4, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
'Saturday Night Live' Will Have 'Some' Cast Changes
'I'd like everyone to stay,' Lorne Michaels says, addressing rumors that Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis are leaving the show.
By Jocelyn Vena
Kristen Wiig and Darrell Hammond on "Saturday Night Live"
Photo: NBC
Last month, there were rumors that "Saturday Night Live" standouts Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis might not be back for another season of the late-night staple. Wiig teased her possible exit in an interview with Alec Baldwin, while Samberg and Sudeikis have remained tight-lipped on their rumored departures.
On Wednesday, during a conference call about this weekend's Eli Manning/ Rihanna episode, the show's boss, Lorne Michaels, confirmed there would be some cast shakeups next season but didn't specify how they would take shape.
"I'm not really certain myself," he told reporters when asked whether there would be any exits. "I know there will be some, but it's just sort of the nature of the way we work that no one kind of talks about it until the season's done. Needless to say, I'd like everyone to stay. Did that avoid that question successfully?"
While he didn't want to fully commit to commenting on the future of the three actors on "SNL," he did share that fresh meat would be brought in to liven up the cast for next season. "Every summer, we go out and make the rounds of Chicago and L.A. and New York and various other places where people do this kind of work, and invariably that leads to somebody joining [the cast]," he teased. "The show has always been about bringing new people in."
With the season nearing an end, fans might not have to wait much longer to find out who will stay and who will go. But before any announcements are made, it seems the show has plans for this season to wrap with a bang. Per the show's Twitter page, Will Ferrell and Usher will be on hand for the May 11 episode and Mick "Moves Like" Jagger will pull double-duty on the May 18 season finale.
Who do you hope sticks around for another season? Let us know in the comments!
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Rimac Concept_One EV now a reality: cash in those stock options (video)
If you don't have a sonorous v-something under the hood guzzling gas, do you still have a supercar? Judging by the nearly one million large needed to buy its Concept_One high performance EV, Rimac clearly thinks so. Since our last dalliance with the sinuous eco-powerhouse, the Croatian maker has announced that it's producing 88 units priced at $980K each -- with its carbon fibre body, 1088 HP, 190 mph top speed, and 2.8 second 0-62 mph time all still intact. Sure, there's no Lamborghini rumble, but at those speeds you'll be gone so quickly no one would appreciate it anyway. Watch it cruise sedately in the video after the break.
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Rimac Concept_One EV now a reality: cash in those stock options (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 May 2012 22:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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