​​Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here.

Two CBGB staples from two different scenes, Talking Heads and Sick Of It All get in the Round of 32's pit as we try to determine the ultimate New York musician. Will Sick Of It All follow its upending of No. 1 Bob Dylan with another surprise victory over a higher seed? Or will David Byrne and his ex-bandmates triumph?

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MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future.

​Earlier today, we counted down the best music videos directed by people who took home (or, more likely, left at the podium) the Razzies' "Golden Raspberry" award for worst director. Now we're counting down the best music videos by those directors' raised-brow, Oscar-winning counterparts. Let's get right to it.

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Have to love when the crowd erupts as the song kicks into overdrive.

You may have seen the LCD Soundsystem "Dance Yrself Clean" Muppets video floating around today (that's it above) and wondered, "Hmm, what other bands have had their songs Muppetized?" First, that's probably not a word. Second, we wondered the same thing and set out to find the best videos featuring Jim Henson's plushy puppets. Some of these are official videos, some are just fan-made tributes, but all them are excellent:

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We've been here before.

So yesterday former Talking Heads frontman and current omni-artistic silver fox David Byrne dropped a $1 million dollar lawsuit on Florida Governor and embattled Senatorial candidate Charlie Crist, who'd used the Heads' 1985 romp "Road to Nowhere" in a campaign ad without asking. Byrne is in the right here, but let's take a moment to congratulate Charlie on his excellent taste, which beats the hell outta John Cougar Mellencamp, and shows markedly less "actual meaning of song vs. politician-implied meaning of song" cluelessness than, say, the Reagan-era heralding of "Born in the U.S.A."

Crist, a Republican lately turned Independent, apparently used "Road to Nowhere" in an attack ad lambasting his far more conservative opponent, the Tea Party-ish Marco Rubio, as leading Florida on the, well, you know. Problem is, "Nowhere" in the song actually sounds pretty attractive--"We're on the road to paradise/Here we go/Here we go," Byrne declares. Could be confusing. Crist should just pick a better Talking Heads song. Here are a few suggestions, for those across the political spectrum.

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