For those of you who haven't yet discovered PS22, they are an elite children's choir at Public School 22 in Graniteville, State Island, who make YouTube videos of themselves singing pop songs. And they are awesome, adorable, and incredibly talented. The notion of children performing pop songs is hardly new - I remember faking my way through a recorder-only rendition of M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" in third grade. In 2001, we got the release of The Langley Schools Music Project, a collection of reverb-heavy recordings from the 70's of Canadian school children doing rock classics, including a knee-weakening rendition of "Desperado" as sung solo by an eight year-old girl. PS22 has more in common with the Langley Schools than my 3rd grade class: both play on the discordant and powerful juxtaposition between thematically adult songs and childishly innocent yet deceptively complex interpretations. Like this new performance (after the jump) of MGMT's hit "Kids," a song about nostalgia for lost youth as sung by kids who haven't yet lost said youth. Plus, the drummer kicks ass.

Are they savages or savants?

● A 1:45 clip from the upcoming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is now available online and more people have already watched it than Remember Me and The Runaways combined. [Vulture] ● Little did Ke$ha know that her American Idol performance, in which she dressed in a headdress in war paint, would spark an essay entitled "Feminist Intersection: Ke$ha and the ongoing cultural appropriation and sexualization of Native women." [Bitch] ● Instead of listening to the leaked new MGMT album, just listen to Sigur Rós' Jónsi covering "Time to Pretend." [ONTD]

● An ice skater throws on some plaid and triple toe loops the hell out of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." [Boing Boing]

• Because between this, this, this, and this, there haven't been nearly enough Pride & Prejudice remakes to date, Natalie Portman has signed onto star in the crucial book-to-film adaptation of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. [BBC] • Apparently Avatar has an Oscar curse against fantasy genre flicks to defy...that is if you conveniently downplay the landslide victory of that last Lord of the Rings movie. [L.A. Times] • On tour, Pink's been sporting a heart-shaped pasty on her breast, as initially dreamed up by Lindsay Lohan for her Ungaro collection. [Holy Moly]

The Notorious B.I.G. isn't going anywhere, anytime soon. Tupac may put out posthumous album after posthumous album, but B.I.G.'s rhymes apparently live forever, and ever, and ever. Nowhere is there better evidence of this than in the mashups produced with his tracks mashed into them in it year after year. The latest batch aren't too new, but they are nothing short of stellar, and we've rounded them up: teen popster Miley Cyrus gets her party on, epic post-punk/R & B revivalists The xx go "Runnin" with B.I.G. and 'Pac, MGMT gets their electric felt, and Passion Pit goes toe to toe with Biggie Smalls and Beyoncé Knowles.

We spent a pleasant Saturday at the 'Roo under blue skies and only a moderate amount of mud and standing water. Right in the middle of some dedicated people-watching, when we thought life couldn't possibly get any better, we snagged a few treasured minutes with Chris Keating, lead singer of Brooklyn-based band Yeasayer, and Gregg Gillis, the sometimes controversial mash-up DJ known as Girl Talk. Gregg attracted a monstrous crowd for his 2:30 a.m. set on Friday night, and Yeasayer, directly followed by MGMT, filled the house and killed it at their late-night Saturday show. Luckily for those in attendance, they threw in a few very catchy tracks from their soon-to-be-released album. MGMT followed suit, and although every single one of the festival's pseudo hippies/wannabe hipsters was there to pay tribute, no one was feeling their new tunes.

Here's a toplist with a difference, courtesy of GQ. It's topically relevant, it's functional, it's their pick for "Men of the Year." The magazine casts a wide net in drafting "athletes, actors and newsmakers" and consequently ends up running the gamut from hipstery coolness to brazen impudence to extraordinary humanity. The roster includes Shepard Fairey, Mad Men's Jon Hamm, the guys of MGMT, the Boston Celtics, and naturally, our incoming President. More telling, however, are entries for M.I.A. and Megan Fox -- a pair of women whose subversive inclusion echoes the far more interesting roster --i.e., which ladies rocked the "Men of the Year" party.

MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, creators of insanely catchy electropop tunes like “Kids” and “Electric Feel,” give pointers on partying naked, stoned and succumbing to the temptations of cookies and sparkling water.

All season long, the Sundance Channel has been showcasing musicians, both emerging independent artists and established legends, on their acclaimed series Live from Abbey Road. Tonight's episode features a little bit of both. Alanis Morrisette joins British rocksters Elbow and 2008's breakout band MGMT. I spoke to the one half of the latter irreverent duo, Andrew VanWyngarden, about the experience.