The Avett Brothers teamed up with the Brooklyn Philharmonic last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live for an emotional performance of "I and Love and You." The songs lyrics, which include "Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in" made it a fitting tribute given the recent devastation from Hurricane Sandy.

What do you get when you cross a bunch of monsters with a popular dance song? It might look a little something like this video. The monsters of Scarowinds offered their own video for Psy's song "Gangnam Style." Check it out the video:

(Who else wishes that the Grim Reaper would have danced at the end?)

It was announced earlier today that Psy will be performing at The Fillmore on Dec. 12 for the Kiss 95.1 Kissmas 2012 concert along with Cher Lloyd, Conor Maynard, Rita Ora and Cody Simpson.

We can't really hear what they're saying — it sounds like a bunch of mice arguing over food — but Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey got in a bit of a tizzy over the American Idol cheese during auditions yesterday in Charlotte.

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There have been rumors the two don't like each other, but reports that they buried the hatchet for the good of the show seem to be premature. Or, maybe they just dug it back up. In the video of the Tuesday fracas, Carey and a pink-haired Minaj chastise each other while fellow judge Randy Jackson tries to call time out and Keith Urban just looks like he wants to go home. TMZ is reporting that the video includes the following gems:

Minaj — "I told them I'm not fuckin' putting up with her fucking highness over there."

Carey — "Oh why, whyyy do I have a 3-year old sitting around me?"

Minaj — "I'm not gonna sit here every fucking minute to have you come down and harass me every minute every day."

Idol auditions at Charlotte Motor Speedway continue today. Good luck — to the judges, not the contestants.

In addition to performing live at festivals and clubs around the region, Charlotte quartet Simplified has found its music tied to ESPN and NASCAR. It's accessible pop-rock that's made its way up and down the East Coast since 2004.

The Charlotte Video Project recently captured the band's performance of "Something Bigger" during CarolinaFest on Sept. 3 to kick off the Democratic National Convention. The video is part of a series of high-quality music videos CL is running between Sept. 11 and 15 in collaboration with the Video Project, an arts venture that set out to document Charlotteans through 100 Web-based videos showcasing the city's arts and culture. From sports to music and more, the Project's mini-documentaries have been giving viewers outside of Charlotte an inside look at what the Queen City has to offer.

Simplified has been touring in support of its third album, Brighter Days, released in 2011. Enjoy this look back at the band's performance at CarolinaFest:

If you're a Charlotte music fan who loves bluesy, folky Americana, you know where you can go to get your fix every Friday night: the Comet Grill, a hamburger joint hidden away in a little strip mall off Park Road. That's where Lenny Federal and his musical friends have been packing folks in every week for as long as we can remember.

Federal has been a staple of the Charlotte rock scene since the 1970s, and once had a band with his brother Michael called - oh yes! - the Federal Bureau of Rock 'n' Roll. Lenny also has a son, Case Federal, who carries on the family musical legacy with his own brand of singer/songwriter fare.

Members of the Charlotte Video Project recently caught up with the Lenny Federal Band for the video clip below: a performance of the folk standard "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad." It's part of a series of high-quality music videos CL is running between Sept. 11 and Sept. 15 in collaboration with the Video Project, an arts venture that set out to document Charlotteans through 100 Web-based videos showcasing the city's arts and culture. From sports to music and more, the Project's mini-documentaries have been giving viewers outside of Charlotte an inside look at what the Queen City has to offer.

The Lenny Federal Band just finished recording its fourth album, which is due in spring. You can find the band's other discs, including the aptly titled 2007 release It Must Be Friday Night, on Rentsdue Records, at Federal's website.

Enjoy this typical slice of Friday night at the Comet Grill with beloved Charlotte musical stalwarts the Lenny Federal Band:

One of the more exciting hip-hop crews to come out of the Queen City in recent years is Forever F.C., a music collective that's dropped a string of interesting tracks from core members Lute - whose West1996 mixtape's already gotten solid national and even international buzz - SchylerChaise, HighImRy and Jimmy Kelso.

In July, Forever F.C. released a compilation, 704, which includes tracks from all four major players as well as a few guest spots. The collective's sound combines each of the players' influences. Lute cites his parents' jazz and blues collections as well as his love of 2Pac, Common, the Pharcyde and, of course, Nas, whose classic 1994 Illmatic album cover Lute pays homage to on the cover of his own debut. Ry, born of Jamaican parents and raised in Queens, N.Y., refers to himself in a Lute track as a "yankee boy on some country shit," and brings that attitude to some of the collective's other material. SchylerChaise credits his eclectic tastes - which run from the Beatles to Nirvana to Kanye West - with bringing an adventurous diversity to Forever F.C.'s mixes. (SchylerChaise can be seen running around in T-shirts ranging from Biggie to Nirvana to Marc Bolan of T-Rex.) And Kelso brings it all together as both a fellow MC and studio engineer.

Members of the Charlotte Video Project caught up with Forever F.C. at Crown Station on Elizabeth near Central Piedmont Community College for the video clip below. It's part of a series of high-quality music clips CL is running between Sept. 11 and Sept. 15 in collaboration with the Video Project, an arts venture that set out to document Charlotteans through 100 Web-based videos showcasing the city's arts and culture. From sports to music and more, the Project's mini-documentaries have been giving viewers outside of Charlotte an inside look at what the Queen City has to offer.

Keep an eye out for Forever F.C., which stands for "freshman class," the name hip-hop magazine XXL uses for its regular feature on the best emerging rap artists. Also, in addition to the clip below, check out this mini-doc the Video Project did on the group. But right now, enjoy Forever F.C. at Crown Station:

The Avett Brothers released a video for the first single off of their new album, The Carpenter, which hit stores earlier this week. "Live and Die" has the comfortable familiarity of the Avett's signature acoustic sound.

Dead Sea $crilla — Fred Rock and Red Jesse — have been spitting rhymes and taking names since their formation roughly three years ago. With Rock becoming a dad, the Aug. 2 performance by the duo at The Saloon was expected to the be its last for "at least a year" Red Jesse told the crowd.

The Charlotte Video Project captured the band's performance that night. The video is part of a series of high-quality music videos CL is running between Sept. 11 and 15 in collaboration with the Video Project, an arts venture that set out to document Charlotteans through 100 Web-based videos showcasing the city's arts and culture. From sports to music and more, the Project's mini-documentaries have been giving viewers outside of Charlotte an inside look at what the Queen City has to offer.

Enjoy this look at the group's performance:

For more than 15 years, the Monday Night Allstars — including percussionist Jim Brock, bassist Rick Blackwell, drummer Chris Allen and horn player John Alexander — have been churning out the classic covers at the Double Door Inn. They've weathered the storm of lineup changes and the death of singer Charles Hairston in an effort to continue letting the good times roll.

The Charlotte Video Project captured one of the band's recent performances. The video is part of a series of high-quality music videos CL is running between Sept. 11 and 15 in collaboration with the Video Project, an arts venture that set out to document Charlotteans through 100 Web-based videos showcasing the city's arts and culture. From sports to music and more, the Project's mini-documentaries have been giving viewers outside of Charlotte an inside look at what the Queen City has to offer.

Enjoy this look at the band's performance, including a solo from Alexander: