Models and dancing usually don't mix. Something about gangly arms and legs flailing all over the place is just ... awkward. It's kind of like when you were little and made your Barbie dolls dance. Whatever mobility their limbs have ends up looking mechanical.

But Kate Upton, the incredibly hot Sports Illustrated cover model who was lambasted for being too thick (um, OKAY crazy people), pretty much kills L.A. group the Rej3ctz's "Cat Daddy" dance.

Pro tip: Fast-forward through the first few seconds to avoid being grossed out by Captain Creepster/Photographer Terry Richardson.

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​Millions of sites are protesting the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, two bills that purport to censor the Web and, according to Google, "impose harmful regulations on American business." Internet users across the world wide web are opposing the legislation; we took to Twitter to see what celebrities were saying about it. Everyone--from venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher to harem-pants purveyor MC Hammer--had something to say.

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​See also: KROQ Acoustic Christmas Night One

The Intranets (it's a series of tubes -- look it up) is reporting that Sublime With Rome drummer Floyd "Bud" Gaugh has quit the band. Now, before anyone freaks out and burns all their Sublime With Rome merchandise, there is a sweeter, softer side to this story that has nothing to do with turmoil or the unnecessary alliteration I just used.

For starters, in this here video taken at the KROCorporateRockStation Christmas party where they pretend to be all down for the bands and shit while not paying them a dime (little known fact -- bands often get the ol' "play our concerts or we won't play your records" treatment at these shows), Gaugh explains that he's about to have a child and he wants to spend more time with his family. You can't hate a guy for that, right? I mean, I guess you could, but you'd look like a total asshole if you did.

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​Bing.com, Microsoft's search engine, recently compiled its 2011 search trends for musicians and came up with some interesting results.

Their list of the top ten most searched musicians is entirely made up of femme powerhouses (Who run da world?), save for the top slot, which was nabbed by Justin Bieber (get it, girl). Biebs stole No. 1 from Lady Gaga, who has fallen to fifth place over the course of the past year.

Whether these results indicate a shift in the power dynamic within music industry or Bing's girl-heavy consumer base remains a mystery. Regardless, we hope JB is celebrating his new title as top bitch, and the fact that his baby mama drama seems to finally be coming to a close.

The full list is after the jump.

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​Cats with rock stars is an undeniably awesome combination--we told you so with our first set of kitten covers, made in-house at OC Weekly in August. Now, we bring you another awesome set from the blog The Kitten Covers inspired by ours, so here you have it, some of the cutest kittens in the world on legendary albums by your favorite artists.

Thanks, Internet!

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​Gosh, how great is the internet for music geeks? As if YouTube + Wikipedia wasn't enough to research virtually any band that mattered, there's also other great database-y sources like Allmusic.com and last.fm. And now there's this: Albumlinernotes.com. Here, site contributors have transcribed verbatim liner notes from thousands of albums across time and genre--why, you might ask? 
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​Jimmy Page will be launching a new website on July 14. The site, JimmyPage.com, currently features a sand hourglass and a link for subscription, as well as the number of days (in Roman numerals) until the launch of the site's full content on July 14.

Because it's so cryptic, everyone's theorizing on what the hourglass and the roman numerals mean; last month, Page told Ultimate Classic Rock that his new site "will bring a few surprises to how thing[s] normally are." He added, "Once that's done, then I'm going to start working on some new music." The Led Zeppelin guitarist's last solo album, Outrider, was released in 1988. 

After the jump, check out what the interwebz is saying about the site.

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