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On October 31st, Vice and EA are teaming up to throw a rager of a Halloween Party in San Francisco. To celebrate our favorite holiday and the release of EA's appropriately themed Hellgate, we'll all be putting on our best disguises and heading down to Fat City in downtown SF to party with 700 of our closest friends and an open bar. With a soundtrack provided by DJs Omar (popscene) and Franki Chan (iheartcomix) and a live performance by Chromeo at midnight, this one is sure to add a new chapter to San Francisco's storied Halloween party tradition.

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Hot damn! Chromeo got together with their friend Nima Nourizadeh and made one amazing video for Bonafide Lovin'. Its a total tribute to the Dire Straights "Money For Nothing" one of the best and most recognizable videos ever made. Back when MTV still played videos this one was a staple for sure. So check it out and let us know what you think about their latest video masterpiece.

There is a benefit exhibit going up on October 26th for the band featured in Heavy Metal Baghdad, Acrassicauda. Featuring the works of over 30 photographers, it's going to be an amazing gathering of works from some of our favorite picture takers. If you live in Montreal, check out the flier and RSVP and if you live elsewhere in the world and want some amazing photographs for a good cause, check out the photo web site for more info.

When the Black Lips first starting sending in music of the new stuff they were working on, one of the immediate favorite was "Veni Vidi Vici." It's just so sexy and different from what you'd expect to come from the mind of Cole Alexander. For some reason listening to this song makes us want to wear tassles. So it makes sense that when shifting through new songs to remix, Diplo would settle on this guy. NME premiered the track today, click over and see how he sexed up the track even more.

"Veni Vidi Vici" Diplo Remix

Chromeo just wrapped up a week of funkified MTV 52/52, "Tenderoni" has been added to the MTV rotation and we just finished a week of Chromeo Jaxxy takeover and we're just beginning. On October 17, Chromeo will be taking the stage Justice tore up to show Kimmel how to look sharp and lead the audience in their own brand of rump-shaking dance. Wanna party? Party here.

The perfect Halloween? If you think, excellent excuse to dress up and get down, have we got the party for you. Tuesday, October 30 will see Chromeo take over a church and turn it into a hall of ass shaking. Dan Deacon and Kudu are along for the ride and there are tickets available now. There's an all night open bar if you feel like drinking and our favorite kind of prizes awarded for a pre-show scavenger hunt and costume contest. The money kind of prize. So seriously. If you're in NYC and you feel like dancing and dressing up, we've got the party for you.

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It's with heavy hearts we report that Panthers had a substantial amount of gear stolen - in Canada of all places. Between a broken window, a forced missed gig in Toronto and a tragic loss of amazing gear, the fellas have fallen on some serious hard times. If you have ANY info on any gear or shady characters in Montreal, please email wassup@vicerecords.com. Here's the run down from the band:

missed the show in toronto yesterday cause we didnt get there in time and they wouldnt let us play. but we had to file a police report and check pawn shops and try to get the window fixed. so yeah lost 300 on what we would get paid. and you know how expensive hotels are in canada. and the window is going to cost us 200 bucks. and as you know our budget was tight as hell already so it is a real fucking bummer. not to mention all the shit......but anyways not to drag on. here is the list

so yeah. sucks. but we are going to keep trucking on. maybe put out a donation jar. "help we lost 5000 worth of gear. help us not be broke."

Lucky you, Vancouver, Black Lips are coming to town. Tonight they play Richard's on Richards but this afternoon they are doing a free instore OUTside of the store at 5pm at Red Cat AND the halal butcher shop next door is going to have a kebab cart for the kids! Meat on a spicket and the Black Lips. Vancouver, who could ask for anything more? If you're that demanding, check out the Black Lips' Canadian tour diary over at Exclaim! Not too shabby.

Now, we were pretty excited when we saw the opening graphic card with "Black Lips" on the Conan background, and when O'Brien introed the band saying "I love the music guest tonight...they're great," we got a little giddy, but when he held up that pretty vinyl and the boys launched into their rousing live rendition of "O Katrina!" we just about burst with pride. You can stream the entire episode for a month here (show aired October 9 for those not keeping score) and if you want to skip right to the good stuff, it's the second to last tick on the player around the 35 minute mark. And an enterprising youngster put a clip up on YouTube. Watch now and watch often.

mtvU, the arm of MTV that still rejoices in playing music videos has a little "contest" each week for favorite new videos called the Freshmen and Black Lips' "Cold Hands" is in the running. Up against Hezekiah, the Winter Sounds, Schoolyard Heroes and the "I’d still fuck that one" Pipettes, "Cold Hands" sounds like it could beat any of those guys up on a playground - but will it be so lucky on the interweb? Go vote for "Cold Hands" over at mtvU and keep the Black Lips on top. The winning video actually makes it on air - if "Cold Hands" looks that good on your computer screen, imagine the wonder of watching it on a real actual TV.