Earlier this year, something inevitable happened: Oasis was finally torn asunder. Noel Gallagher and his brother Liam, who made up the core of one of the biggest bands in the history of England, had always had a contentious relationship, often squabbling in public and undercutting each other in interviews. They managed to survive through seven studio albums, a handful of genuine worldwide hits (including "Wonderwall" and "Live Forever") and more than a few drug problems. Now that Noel has left to pursue other interests, Liam announced that he will continue performing with the remainder of the band. Noel's future remains uncertain, though there are so many former members of Oasis that he could still recruit a band and reasonably call it "Oasis."

The name will be free, because Liam announced that his new old band would not be using it. But what will this new project be called? Liam hasn't announced anything yet, but here are a few suggestions.

Better Than Ali: The Gallaghers always declared themselves as the greatest band in the world, but at this point one of them should declare himself the greatest single performer in the world, surpassing James Brown, Sir Laurence Olivier and Muhammad Ali.

No Way Sis: This is actually the name of an excellent Oasis cover band, but they would certainly give the name up to their heroes, right?

Boring and Ugly: That's what Liam once called Radiohead fans. Since the singer always needed a good feud to keep him going, why not take aim directly at the group that supplanted them as one of the U.K.'s most beloved acts?

Liam & the Blokes: Because nobody ever cared about anybody in that band not named Gallagher anyway.

The Beatles: They might as well, right?

What do you think? What should Liam name the band? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

The soundtrack to "New Moon," the forthcoming second film in the hit "Twilight" series, was originally supposed to hit stories this Tuesday, October 20, but fan demand (and a leak) pushed the release date of the hotly anticipated album up to today. The soundtrack, which features decidedly indie-centric contributions from the likes of Death Cab for Cutie, Muse, Thom Yorke and the Killers, immediately shot to the top of the iTunes album sales chart.

One music video has already come from it — Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me on the Equinox" — and it's possible there could be more. This is an excellent development, as many of the bands involved have a tremendous visual sensibility and could really push the envelope for a lot of these songs. Grizzly Bear have produced a number of trippy, engrossing videos, including the psychedelic "Central and Remote." Yorke, of course, has always focused on imagery (just as he did in the clip for his solo song "Harrowdown Hill"). And Muse's "Knights of Cydonia" is an appropriately epic, cinematic presentation.

To get a better sense of the sort of bands who are on the "New Moon" soundtrack — as well as the sort of imagery they tend to work with — check out the "New Moon" video playlist. It features the new clip from Death Cab for Cutie as well as contributions from Lykke Li, St. Vincent and OK Go.

Put 47 candles on the cake for Michael Balzary today, as it's another birthday for the man known as Flea. Back in the early 1980s, Flea and friends Anthony Kiedis, Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons formed the Red Hot Chili Peppers, a band that infused Los Angeles hardcore punk with Sly Stone-esque psycho funk, surf-friendly reggae and twists of metal and hip-hop. Flea's bass grooves stood at the center of the band's sound, so it's no surprise that on the band's biggest hits — including their 1991 smash "Give It Away" — the elastic low end acts as the hook. Throughout the band's long and sometimes troubled career, the diminutive bassist has always provided energy, creativity and plenty of pants-free performances.

He's also made a career as a coveted collaborator. He filled in on bass during the first Jane's Addiction reunion in 1997, formed a band with Johnny Depp called P, provided grooves for Alanis Morissette's smash debut Jagged Little Pill and was recently recruited for a still-unnamed project by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. He's also a passionate advocate for music education, and was so put off by the lack of music programs in Los Angeles public schools that he founded his own conservatory.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have always had a stunning visual sense and have collaborated with some of the best video directors of all time. Flea's finest performance came in the 1995 video for the lead single from One Hot Minute, the only album the band made with Dave Navarro as their guitarist (and a total "Bargan Spin" if there ever was one). "Warped" is a supremely odd clip that nevertheless expresses the sort of energy that Flea has brought to the proceedings for more than 25 years.

Early Friday (October 9) morning, NASA fired the latest salvo in its ongoing war with the Mooninites, smashing a rocket into a lunar crater just because they felt like it.

OK, that's not necessarily true. The stated purpose of NASA's mission was to discover water ice buried beneath the surface of the moon, but we here in the MTV Newsroom would like to think that NASA's real intent was twofold. First, to get revenge for the infamous Mooninite invasion of Boston in 2007, and second, to remind those moon jerks that the Earth still is the big dog on the galactic block … and, well, if you can't run with the big dogs, YOU BETTER STAY ON THE PORCH.

So, in celebration of the Earth being #1 — and to rub it in the face of those lunar losers even more — we've made a playlist of our favorite "Moon" songs. Yeah, that's right, we're calling you out, Mooninites, and we await your inevitable rebuttal.

Ozzy Osbourne, "Bark at the Moon"
Prime solo-career cut from the Prince of Darkness. Featuring Jake E. Lee on lead guitar and Ozzy dressed as an awesome wolfman in the music video. Seriously, what else do you need to know?

Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Bad Moon Rising"
John Fogerty was right, there really was a bad moon on the rise … or at least there was until the folks at NASA laid down the intergalactic law. Bonus points for this song serving as the inspiration behind Chris Berman's nickname for the immortal Andre "Bad Moon" Rison.

Echo and the Bunnymen, "The Killing Moon"
Swoony, atmospheric post-punk with a message: The moon is a killer and must be stopped at all costs (or something like that). You probably remember this song from the opening sequence of "Donnie Darko," or from the roughly 10,000 cover versions that exist.

Feist, "My Moon, My Man"
Believe it or not, Canada has a space program, too (it's so adorable!), and this sexy, sumptuous tune is its official theme song. Okay, you got us: We made up the part about Canada having a space program.
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Ever since Phish announced that they would be hosting their own three-day festival, which will be taking place on October 30 & 31 and November 1 in Indio, California at the same site as the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, speculation launched immediately about what the band would do for their "musical costume." One of the group's many traditions is to cover a classic album in its entirety on Halloween (past costumes include the Velvet Underground's Loaded and the Who's Quadrophenia), and this year will be no different.

As a way to build anticipation for the Halloween show (and the weekend itself, which is simply being called Festival 8), the band's official Web site currently contains a massive gallery of album covers. Each of these covers will be eliminated one-by-one (via a scary animated axe, complete with horror movie blood) until the last record standing gets crowned the victor. (It should be noted that we managed to guess a whole bunch of the potential albums in the above blog posts, and we still think the best idea is Billy Joel's 52nd Street.)

So far, the band has ruled out the following albums: Duran Duran's Rio, Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, Pink Floyd's Meddle, the Beatles' Rubber Soul, Firehose's Flyin' the Flannel, the Who's Who's Next, Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man, David Bowie's Scary Monsters, the White Stripes' Elephant and Peter Gabriel's So, among others. The remaining albums are a mix of the strange (Hall & Oates' Private Eyes, Frank Zappa's Hot Rats), the divine (Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, Radiohead's Kid A, Love's Forever Changes) and the too-on-the-nose (the Grateful Dead's American Beauty, the Allman Brothers Band's Eat a Peach).

Of the remaining albums, it's probably reasonable to eliminate all of the metal (which means Metallica's Master of Puppets and Black Sabbath's Paranoid can take a walk) and hip-hop (say goodbye to the Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty). Since the newest album the group has ever covered was Talking Heads' Remain in Light, it seems unlikely they'd roll out anything too new (like Radiohead's Kid A, Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or MGMT's Oracular Spectacular).

Any of the remaining albums could probably get the nod. The Newsroom's vote? Go ahead and jam on Purple Rain, boys. You've earned it.

By Chelsea Devine

At this point, there is little doubt that the soundtrack to "New Moon," the next entry in the "Twilight" series, is going to be in constant rotation on all of our iPods this year. Between Grizzly Bear, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and Death Cab for Cutie, who could deny such musical greatness? Add to that the beautiful and talented Lykke Li, whose brand new single "Possibility" is being released exclusively on the soundtrack, which hits stores on October 20. With the release date fast approaching, Lykke Li paid a visit to the MTV Newsroom.

The Swedish electro-pop songstress sat down with MTV News' James Montgomery to discuss her unexpected participation with the "New Moon" soundtrack. But she also dove into a discussion of everything else that was going on in her musical life and beyond. She mentioned her endless appreciation for all things hip-hop, name-checking the Pharcyde, MF Doom, A Tribe Called Quest and the Roots. As Lykke continued to drop names like Royksopp and fellow "New Moon" contributors Grizzly Bear and Yorke, I realized I could listen to her talk about music for hours.

If her soft-spoken and mesmerizing vocals aren't enough to sweep you off your feet, her compassionate, friendly demeanor and killer knack for musical experimentation certainly will. In an oversized fur jacket and combat boots, her outfit was far away from her relatable and empathetic character. She is proud to be a part of the emotional attachment girls across the globe have for "Twilight," as she openly discussed her own emotional experiences with heartache and heartthrobs — essentially, everything "Twilight" stands for.

When the interview was over, I came to firm conclusion: I want Lykke Li to be my best friend.

By Cara Alwill

It seems like you can't throw a stone without hitting some kind of supergroup lately. The likes of Chickenfoot (Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith, guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani and former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony) and the planned Trent Reznor/Gary Numan collaboration have brought together like-minded artists from disparate backgrounds and so far produced some interesting results. The latest marriage of rock royalty sees Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke joining forces with Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, OK Computer producer Nigel Godrich, Beck drummer Joey Waronker and percussionist Mauro Refosco (who has worked with They Might Be Giants and David Byrne). Yorke made the announcement on Radiohead's website earlier today that the group will make its live debut this Sunday and Monday, October 4 and 5, at Los Angeles' venerable Orpheum Theatre.

"In the past couple of weeks I've been getting a band together for fun to play The Eraser stuff live and the new songs to see if it could work," Yorke wrote. "We don't really have a name and the set will not be very long, but come and check it out if you are in the area."

Though Yorke has spent much of his time recently performing solo, and this new musical alliance should satiate his desire to bring The Eraser to the stage with a full band. Considering Yorke recently called his new song "The Hollow Earth" a "bass monster," Flea should be able to put his magical touch on that and other songs on the album.

Billy Corgan has always believed in the notion of "go big or go home." The Smashing Pumpkins founder and only current original member of the beloved '90s Chicago power rock group, has practically made the grandiose concept album his calling card.

And his latest mind-bender is no exception. Following in the footsteps of Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, Corgan will be offering his band's latest, the cryptically titled 44-song opus Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, online for free beginning next month. Based on "The Fool's Journey," the metaphor for the journey of life in the Tarot card world, Corgan said the album "harkens back to the original psychedelic roots of the Smashing Pumpkins; atmospheric, melodic, heavy and pretty."

Still being recorded, the entire cycle is slated for completion in early 2010, to be followed by a world tour in the spring. Current plans call for the free songs to be released four at a time beginning around Halloween, with no requirements for fans to sign up for fan clubs or offer their e-mail addresses. While the songs will initially appear online, Corgan will also offer 11 limited-edition EPs that will represent the physical manifestation of the whole album.

Once the whole hot mess has unfolded, the Grand Pumpkin has also promised to compile it into a box set, which he said will be different from the limited-edition EPs. You can find out more at Corgan's official site. And if you like Corgan's take on spirituality but don't want all that silly music to get in the way, you can check out his new blog Everything From Here to There.

The summer weekends are quickly running out, so make sure you spent the next few days hitting the beach, seeing "District 9," lounging by the pool, hanging out with Kid Rock or whatever else means "summer" to you. But before you do that, make sure you arm yourself with all of the greatness that came barreling out of the Newsroom this week.

» Sometimes a dance on top of an ice cream cart is just an endorsement of frozen treats, but that's never the case if you're Miley Cyrus at the Teen Choice Awards.

» Still, Miley really should have just pointed out that she was simply paying homage to videos by Aerosmith and Juvenile.

» If you're Taylor Swift, sometimes you think, "My life can't get any more awesome." And then you get a tweet from Ace Frehley and it gets infinitely better.

» There is a secret formula to "America's Best Dance Crew." Here's a hint: Experience counts.
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Another Disney star is making the crossover from television into the music world. Selena Gomez, star of "Wizards of Waverly Place," just announced that her first album will be called Kiss & Tell and will be coming out soon. Via Twitter, she also unveiled the name she has given to her band. The group will be known as the Scene. Gomez explained that it's meant to be an ironic jab at people who throw the epithet "wannabe scene" at her.

It's not yet clear what the album will sound like, but she is already setting herself up for a certain amount of failure, as the Scene immediately joins the ranks of the following bands in the pantheon of groups with unbelievably boring names.

The Band: It's one thing to have the cojones to be Canadian and play American roots rock, but it's something else entirely to give yourself that kind of moniker. The most frustrating thing is that when they first started backing up Bob Dylan, they were called the Hawks. The Hawks! That's an incredibly simple, direct, incredibly hardcore band name. Would you rather simply be called "the Band" or be named after a cold-hearted bird of prey?

Coldplay: It must be some sort of rule in the U.K. that if you copy Radiohead in any vague way, you have to call your group a one word snooze (see Travis, Keane, Starsailor, South). But Coldplay stands above those because it manages to take two benign words and smash them together in a portmanteau. In fact, Chris Martin really should have just called his band "Portmanteau."
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