View the first installment featuring Brian Kennedy below and be sure to head over to Idolator to see the rest.

The Go Fug girls will continue to bring fugged up fashion from the around the world, 24/7 so you don’t miss one fashion faux pas.

• a trending topics module — your quick an easy guide to who’s big in the news that day.
• enhanced photo galleries with easier view and navigation, as well as names and information alongside every picture
• improved navigation and search features
• upgraded commenting so it’s easier to chime in on any juicy story
• new modules highlighting our most recent and popular stories, videos, polls and more

It’s still the site you’ve grown to know and love complete with it’s biting wit and fun sense of humor — only better and more appealing to the eyes.

The event kicked off with a invite only show featuring Wavves, Two Door Cinema, Matthew Dear, Oh Land, Bear Hands, and DJ Skeet Skeet which was one of the most talked about events at CMJ 2010.

If you didn’t get to make it out to the PureVolume House, you can catch all the great photos and amazing performances on PureVolume.com.

BUZZMEDIA has just launched a new music video site called The Live Buzz, under the curatorship of Nic Harcourt. How famliiar you are with Harcourt depends on whether you buy your CDs from Walmart or stream music from Hype Machine.

Harcourt rose to indie-rock prominence over the last decade or so with his program “Morning Becomes Eclectic” on KCRW, the Los Angeles public radio station, by showing a knack for spotting up-and-coming talent. The New York Times dubbed him “The Star Maker of the Semipopular” in 2005. “He has impeccable taste,” the Times quoted Coldplay’s Chris Martin as saying–perhaps self-servingly, since Harcourt was the first to put Coldplay on American radio. He also was an early champion of Interpol, Nora Jones, Franz Ferdinand, and many others who thereafter went platinum.

Fast Company caught up with Harcourt to ask him a few questions about his plans for The Live Buzz, whose initial documentary-style videos have an aesthetic that steers well clear of the inanity and spectacle of MTV and Vevo, while also avoiding the dull, static feeling of the plain concert broadcast. Indeed, it looks like Harcourt and his new site might be heralding a new age of the art house Internet music video.

How did this all begin?

It was probably around December of last year. Somebody told me they [BUZZMEDIA] were looking to get in touch with me. We had a couple of conversations. As with a lot of these things, you have to have a couple of conversations and figure out if you want to play with each other before you make a commitment. We jumped into it together in the beginning of June, and it’s pretty remarkable that they’ve built this site from scratch in three months.

What is the central ingredient missing from Internet music video sites?

I think a sense of intimacy. The stuff that I’ve seen out there up until this point has been fairly–has been good stuff, don’t get me wrong–but fairly bland-looking in that it just showed the band on stage. With Live Buzz, we’re getting up close in personal in the way we’re shooting sessions. You’re feeling like you’re closer to the music, and I haven’t felt that in anything that I’ve seen before.

Who, if anyone, do you see as your competitors?

I don’t think we do. I think we’re creating something that’s new. It’s obviously gonna evolve. Day one is gonna look different from day 51, and from day 101. We’ve been working for 3 to 4 months building this out, shooting sessions with great unsigned indie bands out in Los Angeles–which we’re hoping to do in other cities as well. The reason we got into this is we identified something we felt wasn’t being served.

Will your focus be on spotting new artists?

It’s gonna be a mix. I have a history, a reputation or whatever, for launching new artists, and the funny thing is that whenever you read a bio of me, it usually mentions Coldplay or Norah Jones or these artists I was fortunate to, I guess, hear before a lot of other people did. But there are plenty of other artists I’ve championed over the years who haven’t become platinum-selling artists. At the end of the day, I’m a fan. I come at this with the perspective of a fan, and I have this personal thirst for discovery. You can’t be too hip and groovy, you know–you have to have the glue that holds it together. We don’t want to be a marginal site. By having sessions with people like Interpol, which we’re hopefully gonna be doing next month, that will help bring an audience to the site to discover the other bands and artists we’re supporting as well.

This award is a true testament to the site’s recent redesign created by BUZZMEDIA and wouldn’t have been possible without the extraordinary vision, voice and dedication of Stereogum’s founder Scott Lapatine (who’s very excited to have beat out John Mayer) and his staff who have made it their lifelong mission to deliver the best music discovery site on the Web.

We also owe major kudos and thank you’s to the superstar talents of BUZZMEDIA’s  design and engineering teams, especially  Ron Parsons, Charlene Gladden, Justin Street and Greg Jackson, who worked tirelessly on every aspect of the Stereogum redesign, accepting nothing less than perfection.

Now stop reading this and go check out the Award Winning Stereogum!

The Temper Trap at BUZZMEDIA's Pre-Lollapalooza Bash

BUZZMEDIA got the Lollapolooza party started early on Thursday, August 5th with a private soiree at Chicago’s Angels & Kings with help from Aussie quartet, The Temper Trap. The “Sweet Disposition” band rocked a packed crowd of over 200 fans with a taste of what to expect this Sunday from their first ever Lolla set.

We can’t wait to bring you the buzz from this year’s Lollapalooza!  Check out Idolator, Buzznet, AbsolutePunk, and Stereogum for the latest coverage from the hottest summer festival around.

As the largest celebrity community on the web, ONTD!’s editorial team will closely collaborate with BUZZMEDIA editors to create and cross-promote content to BUZZMEDIA’s user base of 55 million highly social, pop culture fanatics worldwide.  In addition, BUZZMEDIA will work with ONTD! to create integrated marketing programs and customized campaigns grounded in user participation and self-expression.

Welcome to the BUZZMEDIA family ONTD!

KimKardashian.com Celebration Hosted by Celebuzz and Sony Ericsson -- June 25, 2010

Kim Kardashian now can officially be called Queen of the Internet. Celebuzz and Sony Ericsson took over the tea.room in Hollywood, CA this past Friday, June 25 to throw a special soiree for Kim in celebration of the relaunch of her official website KimKardasdhian.com and to honor the E! star, business entrepreneur,
and social media pro her for her dedication and constant site updates, which has led the site to become the #1 official talent site on the Web.

After walking the red carpet jam packed with photographers and press, Kim was presented the first-ever “Digital Supernova Award” by BUZZMEDIA’s CEO Tyler Goldman, along with MEC’s Krystle Corredor and Shannon Wilcox on behalf of Sony Ericsson.

Kim gives her fans a very real and intimate look into her life through her blog each day, and uses it to break news, share photos and videos, makeup and fashion tips.

Watch E! News’ broadcast coverage from the event

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- A new and improved mobile version of The Superficial is now live

- The site received a an updated design while still maintaining its classic look-and-feel.

- The site also moves faster which means 3MM people will now be twice as unproductive at work.

- The picture galleries are improved with better usability.

- We’ve created an all new commenting system so users can create their own profiles, see what posts they’ve left comments on AND directly reply to other comments.

- A new “Dirt” category has been added which cuts right to the gossip for those addicted to superficiality, that is, everyone.