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By Zachary Swickey

Many Radiohead fans have been scratching their heads wondering when the experimental group plans on hitting the road for their first proper tour following the release of their last album, King of Limbs, which came out way back in February. Well, rest easy folks, because the group has finally shed some light on their future touring plans.

Talking to Britain’s BBC 6Music, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien revealed the band will be on the road for the majority of 2012. “We’re finalizing dates now, we’ll be on the road from the end of February to November and we’ll be playing in both the UK and US, the usual ports of call,” he said.

The usual ports of call indeed, as Radiohead’s scant appearances since KOL’s release have been a pair of much-hyped club shows in New York City and a semi-surprise gig at this year’s Glastonbury Music Festival. O’Brien then elaborated on the set list concert-goers can expect, saying, “Last time we went out it was In Rainbows and a greatest hits. It’s not going to be like that this time. It’s going to be predominantly from this record and the last one and then we’ll see which songs fit around that.” Read more...

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Beyonce famously declared her alter ego to be Sasha Fierce, so we're not too surprised to read that she's not feeling any anxiety about becoming a first-time mom. The always sassy momma-to-be opened up about being preggers in a new interview.

With her baby expected to enter the world in the New Year, this former Single Lady explains that, for her, becoming a mom was all about timing.

"It's going really well, I am so happy with everything right now. I am not nervous because I know it's happening at the right time," she told New Magazine, via Press Party. "I felt I got married at the right time for me, and now we are having the baby at the right time."

So while 4 might be her lucky life number, it seems 30 is just right number and age to become a mom. "I feel like we didn't rush anything," she added. "And now we are being blessed with everything naturally." Read more...

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With reporting by Rya Backer

THE DISH: Being a touring musician is tough. The many things we normal folk take for granted, like a nice home-cooked meal, get pushed aside in the name of rock and roll.

Just ask Florence + The Machine's Florence Welch, who tells us that while she isn't much of a cook – her father says she's good at making salad – she misses being able to just make dinner for herself. "You end up just living on funny bits of stuff like crackers and peanuts," she told MTV News of life on the road.

She also let us in on which London restaurant she misses most when she's away from her native U.K. Check out our interview below.

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Britney Spears' "Criminal" video is very, very, very sexy. Like "wowser" sexy. In the Chris Marrs Piliero-directed ("I Wanna Go") video, Video Britney and her Video Boyfriend, played by real-life boyfriend Jason Trawick, share a lot of steamy moments, including one hot sex scene as well as a very naked shower scene.

While those moments are ingrained on our memory, it's a less NSFW but still passionate moment that really is the video's Key Scene. And, what is that moment? That first kiss the new couple shares at the apartment is the key scene because it kicks off the sultry onscreen love affair between Britney and Jason, the video's "criminal." The kiss comes right after Jason saved her from her abusive beau and takes her back to his place. Read more...

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By Sterling Wong

It’s been quiet in Britneyland, USA, as pop princess Britney Spears has been busy conquering Europe with her Femme Fatale tour. What’s a news-starved American Britney fan to do in the meantime? Look out for the star’s soon-to-be released video for her fourth Femme Fatale single, “Criminal,” of course!

The video, shot last month in London, is due to be released this week, and yesterday, Britney made fans’ hearts go aflutter by releasing on her official Tumblr five GIF files that feature short clips from the video.

To be sure, this first look we’re getting at “Criminal” defines the term sneak peek – the footage we get probably totals less than 3 seconds. But, nonetheless, we took out our Britneyscope to see what we can gleam from this brief glimpse of Britney in action: Read more...

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There's not enough lip-gloss, guyliner and MAC foundation in the world to describe how catchy Heart2Heart's "Facebook Official" is. But that's not why we're obsessed with this robot-like boy band that claims former N'SYNC member Lance Bass as their mentor.

No, we're freaking out over the FB song because the very first line of the audio crack tune appears to take a big, fat slap at Bass' former bandmate, Justin Timberlake, who recently signed on to help resurrect the sinking social networking site MySpace. And while we keep holding out hope that JT will one day come to his senses and return to making music, it seems pretty certain at this point that we should wave "Bye Bye Bye" to any hope of that 20th anniversary N'SYNC reunion tour in 2015.

You see, on "Official," Heart2Heart – Chad Future (self-proclaimed "leader"), Nico (youngest and most acrobatic), Pretty Boi Pete ("swag general"), Brayden (rapper/actor) and KX (choreographer and "sub" vocalist) – sing about telling a girl they want to make their thing as official as possible. Future shows her how by dressing up in his best all-white everything, winking into the camera and rapping, "log on, MySpace is dead/I'm checkin' your page to see what you said," just moments after Bass makes his brief cameo in the clip. Read more...

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There are a slew of new music videos debuting this week. Beyonce kicked things off when she dropped her video for "Love On Top," an ode to all things '80s and boy bands. We would be perfectly excited if Beyonce was the only superstar releasing a new clip.

But, of course, she's not.

Who else is gifting us with new videos this week? Well, some rather major artists are getting their premiere on this week. Justin Bieber will drop his holiday-themed video for "Mistletoe" on Tuesday and both Britney Spears and Rihanna are set to also premiere new videos this week (exact days are for Brit and RiRi's highly anticipated clips have not yet been announced).

Brit Brit will get her bad girl on, alongside real life love Jason Trawick, in the Chris Marrs Piliero-directed video for "Criminal," and Rihanna takes us to Belfast for her clip for the Talk That Talk track "We Found Love."

We're excited for all these videos, so picking the one we're most excited for has become a huge dilemma. So, we're turning it over to you guys...

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Tags Beyonce, britney spears, Justin Bieber, Newsroom Poll, Rihanna, video

Rihanna is letting fans in on the making of her video for "We Found Love," the lead single from her November 21 release, Talk That Talk. Shot days before she launched the UK leg of her Loud tour, Rihanna filmed the video in the Belfast, Ireland, and in a behind-the-scenes video she describes it as "the perfect treatment for this song."

Directed by Melina Matsoukas, who shot the clips for "Hard," "S&M," "Rude Boy" and "Rockstar 101," the always-feisty Rihanna added, "We have similar styles, similar tastes."

The video features scenes of a big dance party in a field, solo shots of Rihanna looking GORG in the same field and things even get a little NSFW when Rihanna takes off her top and proclaims “We’re about to f**k on a tractor!... Just kidding — we’re not going to f**k on a tractor. We’re going to f**k on a hot ass car!” (Perhaps, that's must be the scene that got the farmer all mad. But it sounds pretty hot/awesome to us, Ri!)

Later on, she is spotted with her hot co-star, Dudley O'Shaughnessy, (you know the one she got busy with in that car!) getting cute and cozy around town. Check out the video after the jump. Read more...

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SANTIAGO, Chile — The screams started early, like around 1 PM, a full eight hours before Justin Bieber took the stage at the Estadio Nacional on Saturday night. Actually, they started well before that, like on Friday morning, when the first throngs of True Beliebers began setting up camp on the street outside, passing the hours chanting, singing ("Baby" was a particular favorite), and, of course, screaming. Always screaming.

If you've ever attended a Bieber concert, you know what I'm talking about. His fans, young and overwhelmingly female, seem incapable of containing their excitement, and as such emit a particular high-pitched squeal, one that is near constant (though it tends to flare up every so often, like whenever a car with tinted windows drives by, or when Justin bobs his shoulders just so). But on Saturday night in Chile, things seemed to have been taken to another level — by my estimation and according to several folks in his inner circle — because not only were the screams incredibly loud, and constant, but there was a general level of insanity that bordered on, well, insane.

Make no mistake about it, Chile was ready for some Justin Bieber. His face was shown on national news every hour on the hour, his fans shut down the W Hotel (thanks to a report that he was staying there on Friday night, despite the fact he didn’t arrive in the country until Saturday), and 55,000 packed inside the Estadio to catch his show … with several thousand more listening from the streets. Vendors hawked JB headbands and glossy photos, homemade hats and bootleg T-shirts. There were phalanxes of police, angry-looking German Shepherds, trucks festooned with riot-gear finery, and so many security guards milling about that you might’ve thought Barack Obama was in town. It was a very big thing. Read more...

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By Nick Philippou

Steve Aoki may have hit his musical sweet spot with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo on his latest, upbeat, electro-rock track "Earthquakey People" already climbing the Beatport dance chart ,where it's being sold exclusively.

MTV News pried the track's brand-new video from Ultra Records and Aoki's Dim Mak Records, which can be described as pure fun. It's the first song featuring a vocal from Aoki's new album, Wonderland, due in December.

"It's a very diverse album," Aoki told MTV News. "I think I'm going to throw a curveball at people, because I think the songs I'm writing, they're not these big club anthem records. They're proper songs."

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