Gym Class Heroes Collaborate With Kelly Rowland

RnB singer Kelly Rowland will re-release her "Ms. Kelly" album next year. She recorded a brand new song called "Daylight" with Gym Class Heroes and it will be the lead single from the forthcoming album edition. You can listen the fragment of the track below!

Gym Class Heroes Recruit Ne-Yo

The last time MTV News spoke to Travis McCoy, he was dodging hurricanes and doling out half-baked Voltron metaphors to describe his band's new album.

Things were a little less hectic when we caught up with him backstage at last week's mtvU Woodie Awards in NYC, just hours before the Heroes walked away with the night's, uh, biggest honor: Woodie of the Year. He was appropriately loose and ready to chat, be it about fellow Woodie nominee Amy Winehouse ("You gotta take care of yourself, girl. We've been on the road for four and a half years, and we haven't let it get that out of control") or GCH's hotly anticipated follow-up to 2006's As Cruel as School Children.

And while he didn't mention any mecha-bots this time around, that doesn't mean he wasn't in a name-droppin' mood.

"We're doing a bunch of preproduction, and it's going real good thus far. I think people are going to be stoked by it. We just did a track down in Miami with Cool & Dre. Busta Rhymes is on it. It's going to surprise a lot of people," he said. "This is me reaching out right now, but we're hoping to get Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys on the record, Daryl Hall on the record. ... And we're looking forward to writing a couple of songs with Ne-Yo; we got to be good friends with him through the VMAs."

That's a whole lot of guest-star wattage. And when you couple that wish list with the fact that McCoy kept using phrases like "surprise a lot of people" to describe the record, you get the feeling that there's gonna be a whole lot that's different this time out. McCoy is the first to admit that might be true, but he's also quick to point out that for all the cameos on the new album, there's also gonna be lots more from the Heroes themselves. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

"It's just gonna be a real, real solid record. The demos we have now are just bananas," McCoy said. " Dasashi is just a monster on the new stuff. You're going to hear a lot more of him singing on this one and a lot more of his guitar skills that I don't think he really got to flex on the last record."

McCoy said that Gym Class hope to have the yet-untitled album in stores by the summer. Though that's still a ways off, he said the band has already begun giving friends sneak previews of some of the tracks. And so far the reactions could be summed up thusly:

"I think the song we did with Cool & Dre and Busta is going to surprise a lot of people. It surprised me," McCoy laughed. "We played it for management, and their jaws dropped, but in a good way."

By James Montgomery, with reporting by John Norris, www.MTV.com

"Futurama" Is Back. Grab a Can of Slurm and Settle In

David X. Cohen is watching a short animation clip on a computer monitor. It's a tight shot of two robots' pelvises. They thrust their cube-shaped midsections together and swap a DVD from one of their disc drives to the other. This, Cohen explains, is footage of a sci-fi stage show, a suggestive all-robot version of Cirque du Soleil. "Nothing makes me happier than a scene with no living being in it," he says.

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Upcoming Events!

Gym Class Heroes will be preforming at the following Verizon Wireless stores soon:

Saturday, November 24th @ 1:30pm
Verizon Wireless Store
7900 San Pedro NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109

Sunday, November 25th @ 1:30pm
Verizon Wireless Store
9184 W. Northern Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85305

Saturday, December 1st @ 1:30pm
Verizon Wireless Store
2689 Via De La Valle
Del Mar, CA 92014

Sunday, December 2nd @ 1:30pm
Verizon Wireless Store
1351 Sunset Road
Henderson, NV 89014

Hayden Panettiere is GQ's Obession Of The Year

..."Hayden Panettiere is weary of paparazzi and celebrity meltdowns. And at only 18 years old, this Heroes star in it for the long haul, which is fine by us..."

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Gym Class Heroes Apologize to Their Canadian Fans

Dear Canada, Due to a death in the family of one of our members, Gym Class Heroes will not be playing the following two shows in Canada.
11/16 @ Scotia Bank Place in Ottawa
11/17 @ John Labatte Center in London
We are very sorry and apologize to all our fans. The rest of the bands on The Young Wild Things Tour will still go on as scheduled
and we hope you enjoy them in our absence. We will be back on the Tour in Rochester at the Blue Cross Arena on the 18th. We hope you
understand and look forward to returning soon.

By GymClassHeroes.com