Watch *Red Hot Chili Peppers* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/redhotchilipeppers)' interactive music video for "Look Around" here (http://redhotchilipeppers.com/news/301-look-around-interactive-video).

The 54th Annual Grammy Awards are almost upon us! Hey, we'd love to help you with your office pools and living room side-bets with some sure-thing Vegas-ready odds. However, we always seem to be dead wrong (fucking Esperanza Spalding). So here are some completely arbitrary, critical decisions on who should win the nine biggest categories, just in case you want to know who we're rooting for on the SPIN couch. Everything You Need to Know About the 54th Grammy Awards Nominations Record of the Year Adele - "Rolling in the Deep" Bon Iver - "Holocene" Bruno Mars - "Grenade" Mumford & Sons - "The Cave" Katy Perry - "Firework" Who Should Win: Adele Why: This one goes to the producers, engineers, and performer for making the total pop package. Bon Iver and Mumford are a little to insular, Bruno and Katy a little too eager. Adele somehow lives right in between, both muted and bombastic, rockist-pleasing "authentic" and poptimist-pleasing immediate. It’s the "Heart Shaped Box" of a new generation. We had it all! Album of the Year Adele - 21 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Lady Gaga - Born This Way Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans Rihanna - Loud Who Should Win: Lady Gaga Why: It did rank the highest of these five albums on our Top 50 Albums of 2011 list , and we can’t exactly give the award to Fucked Up, can we? Writes our own Mikael Wood: "Beneath the hair and makeup and arena-razing disco-metal grooves, Born This Way delivers a message that old glamazon Pete Seeger could dig: She thinks pop can still move policy, and she might be right." Song of the Year Kanye West - “All of the Lights” (songwriters: Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker, Really Doe, & Malik Yusef) Mumford & Sons - “The Cave” (songwriters: Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford & Country Winston) Bruno Mars - “Grenade” (songwriters: Brody Brown, Claude Kelly, The Smeezingtons & Andrew Wyatt) Bon Iver - “Holocene” (songwriter: Justin Vernon) Adele - "Rolling in the Deep" (songwriters: Adele & Paul Epworth) Who Should Win: Adele Why: This one goes to the songwriter, and naturally we'd want to give it to the co-writer of our No. 1 single of 2011 , a blown-out blowback of relationship bluster and that high D that can drown out car alarms. Best New Artist The Band Perry Bon Iver J. Cole Nicki Minaj Skrillex Who Should Win: Skrillex Why: Before you Bon Iver fans tear us limb from limb in the comments section, let us clarify. Although we clearly love Bon Iver's extra-naked, sensitive, '80s AM gold take on folk rock, our guyliner-and-glasses pal is essentially helping reinvent a new musical language of bowel-busting bass and whirring industrial noise. Bon Iver's forbear Bruce Hornsby already won this very award in 1987, while an electronic artist has never taken one home. Let's hear it for drawing new blood. Best Rock Album Jeff Beck - Rock ‘n’ Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul) Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown Red Hot Chili Peppers - I’m With You Wilco - The Whole Love Who Should Win: Foo Fighters Why: Because exactly one album on this list actually "rocks." Best R&B Album Chris Brown - F.A.M.E. El DeBarge - Second Chance R. Kelly - Love Letter Ledisi - Pieces of Me Kelly Price - Kelly Who Should Win: R. Kelly Why: An underrated classic of throwback soul in the Raphael Saddiq vein, Kells proves he can pretty much do it all. Best Rap Album Jay-Z & Kanye West (The Throne) - Watch the Throne Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV Lupe Fiasco - Lasers Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Who Should Win: Kanye West Why: Not only is it the most meticulously constructed, labored over rap album in the history or time; not ...

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Always ones to push the boundaries of music the Red Hot Chili Peppers have found a way to make an everyday mundane music video a lot of fun to watch. With their new interactive music video for " Look Around " RHCP now allow the viewer to control and watch the video their own way. Featuring controls that allow the viewer to pan from room to room to see what each member of the band was doing during the videotaping and also planting a few easter eggs throughout each room that you can click on and watch small video clips as well ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers recently released a video for their single “Look Around.” Today, they premiered an interactive version of the video on Mashable that allows you to zoom in and out and pan from one room to the next. Watch it below: Social Bookmarking…

The Red Hot Chili Peppers just released an interactive version of the music video for the band’s latest single, “Look Around.” In the interactive version, users can pan the camera back and forth between rooms at will, zoom in and out of different aspects. There are also hidden easter eggs that contain links to photos

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RHCP plan two very big nights this June!

American rock legends to perform two stadium shows only in 2012 Knebworth Park, Stevenage - Saturday, 23rd June 2012 with Dizzee Rascal Stadium of Light, Sunderland - Sunday, 24th June 2012 Tickets on sale now Kililive.com - Tickets for live events, gigs, festivals, bands, music and comedy...

It looks like 2012 is shaping up to be another strong year for live music in the city.  Here are some of the latest shows announced: Justin Townes Earle Vitalic , Wrongbar, Mar 31 Tombs , Hard Luck Bar, Apr 1 Nero , Sound Academy, Apr 6 Mastodon , Sony Centre, Apr 7 Lost In The Trees , The Drake, Apr 7 Of Monsters And Men , Mod Club, Apr 12 Trampled By Turtles , Lee's Palace, Apr 15 Red Hot Chili Peppers w. Sleigh Bells, Air Canada Centre, Apr 28 Yann Tiersen , The Phoenix, May 2 Bryan Adams , Air Canada Centre, May 3 Spiritualized , The ...

He’s often seemed like the most affable man in rock, and now perma-grinning Foo Fighter David Grohl is in talks to create a sitcom. The as yet untitled project sees Grohl collaborating with comedian and Simpsons writer Dana Gould on a story revolving around a rock band on the verge of stardom, breaking up. The show has been commissioned by American channel FX, which is also developing a drama called Scar Tissue written by Red Hot Chilli Peppers frontman Anthony Keidis. Rumours that the channel have also spoken to Mick Jagger about working on The Walking Dead are currently ...

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Lamb of God's new album, ' Resolution ', made it's debut at No. 3 on this weeks Billboard Top 200 Chart with 52,000 copies sold. Their 2009 release, ' Wrath ', sold 68,000 copies it's first week debuting at No. 2. Lacuna Coil's ' Dark Adrenaline ' has debuted at No. 15 with 20,000 copies sold. Halestorm's ' Hello, It's Mz. Hyde ' EP debuted at No. 145 selling 3,000 copies. No. 22 Nickelback - ' Here and Now ' - 16,000 No. 36 Daughtry - ' Break the Spell ' - 11,000 No. 64 Five Finger Death Punch - ' American Capitalist ' - 8,000 No ...

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Winter/Spring 2009 marked a very important moment for me. For the first time I actively began to seek out new music and trust the full album instead of letting it passively come to me through singles via friends, radio, television, etc. I’ll never forget when I woke up on January 27th, got out of bed, got dressed, quickly bought  Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future  without any worries as to whether I’d like it or not,   and hurried to class. I’ve featured   The Bird and the Bee before but to me they’re always worth ...