Summer Is The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year... FOR MUSIC FESTIVALS!

Don't you love the summertime? Bands are on tour, there are music festivals everywhere! The first-ever “mtvU Sunblock Music Festival,” a four-city Festival featuring the hottest and most buzzed about performers. Co-headliners Boys Like Girls and Gym Class Heroes, with special guests The Academy Is, The Veronicas, and Never Shout Never are partnering with mtvU and MTV to bring this killer musical event to MTV’s summer-themed Sunblock programming on mtvU, MTV, MTV2, MTV Tr3s, and online on MTV.com and mtvU.com.

Boys Like Girls, who won the mtvU Breaking Woodie Award in 2007 and have been in the studio working on their second album, due later this year, will take the spotlight as one of the Festival headliners alongside Gym Class Heroes, who won a 2007 MTV Video Music Award for “Best New Artist.” 2007 Viral Woodie Award winners, The Academy Is, will also take over the stage with their guitar-driven pop-rock tunes. Performing tracks from their hit album “Hook Me Up,” MTV’s New Year’s Eve 2009 co-hosts The Veronicas will also play alongside Never Shout Never, a recent mtvU Freshmen winner who previously performed on MTV’s Total Request Live’s “On Your Radar” segment.


The “mtvU Sunblock Music Festival” will hit the following cities this summer:

7/23-New York City, NY- Jones Beach Bay Stage
TBD-Boston, MA- Suffolk Downs
7/25-Meadowbrook, NH- US Cellular Pavilion
7/27- Baltimore/DC- The Pier 6 Concert Pavilion

For more information or to grab Festival tickets, check out www.tours.mtvu.com.

Full Coverage Of 2008 Warped Tour

PCM is headed to the 2008 Warped Tour and we'll have your complete coverage of the show next week! Come back and visit our main page for live concert reviews of the bands that will be performing at the show, exclusive photos and all the juicy gossip surrounding the day event! Some of the tour's headliners include Angels and Airwaves, Relient K, The Academy Is, Katy Perry, Gym Class Heroes and We The Kings.

Summer Hits '08

Although it is just the beginning of June, several songs have emerged as hits for Summer 2008. Some of them are new and specifically about summer, such as Kid Rock's latest, and others are old releases that keep hanging on. Here's a list of top requests from artists both old and new:

1. Damaged - Danity Kane
2. No Air - Jordin Sparks Duet With Chris Brown
3. Sexy Can I - Ray J & Yung Berg
4. All Summer Long - Kid Rock
5. 4 Minutes - Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake
6. Forever - Chris Brown
7. Pocketful of Sunshine - Natasha Bedingfield
8. See You Again - Miley Cyrus
9. Leavin' - Jesse McCartney
10. Shake It - Metro Station
11. Don't Stop The Music - Rihanna
12. Low - Flo Rida featuring T-Pain
13. Shawty Get Loose - Lil Mama featuring Chris Brown & T-Pain
14. Take A Bow - Rihanna
15. In Love With A Girl - Gavin DeGraw
16. Run The Show - Kat Deluna f./Busta Rhymes
17. Our Song - Taylor Swift
18. What You Got - Colby O'Donis Featuring Akon
19. Mercy - Duffy
20. Love In This Club - Usher Featuring Young Jeezy

Go here to check out the rest of the June 2008 Top 40, and other favorites throughout the beginning of the year.