Sandcastle Disco singer Solange shows off her style for Myspace fashion vlog The Fit.

Usher is the Myspace Celebrity: Featured Icon of the Week.

Looking to launch your career in music? Alicia Keys is looking for a few new backup singers and the R&B star is inviting female singers, between twenty-one and thirty, to audition, via MySpace, for a gig on her “As I Am” tour .

Aspiring stars may submit a video, thirty seconds or longer, of themselves singing acapella to Alicia’s MySpace page. Search ends Monday, May 5th.

Candidates “must be physically fit and able to dance.”

Myspace.com will host the Myspace Live Concert Series featuring T.I. in Chicago on Wednesday.

The concert, set to be hosted by Nick Cannon, will be free to the public. Special appearances include Twista, DJ GQ, and Lupe Fiasco.

Don’t forget to check out a free webcast of the concert by visiting the T-Mobile Sidekick Myspace Page between 10:00pm to 12:00am EST on Wednesday.

Nore’s controversial “Cocaine Cowboys” music video was recently banned from the popular social networking site Myspace.

“I moved to Miami last year and one of the first movies I saw when I got here was Cocaine Cowboys,” Nore said when asked to explain the concept for the video. “I liked it and recorded a song in reference to the movie and I wanted to be true to it. I did the song and the people who did the movie approached us about doing a video. It wasn’t my life I was depicting but the life in the movie. The drugs were not my drugs. The money is not my money. It’s all from the film.”

Though Nore maintains that his video is no different from a Hollywood script or any other artistic expression, he does in fact understand why the wildly popular social networking site banned the video.

“I understand that certain people are going to have certain feelings about it. People are on [MySpace] pretending to be other individuals, portraying to be their big brothers or whatever and they’re only 12 or 13-years-old. If they’re that young, then I wouldn’t want them to see it, but if they’re 18-25, this is reality and they’re going to have to face it anyway and make their own decision. They can later say that I appreciate Nore for bringing that to us or I don’t. But I am a responsible adult and I do have kids so I understand. But I never heard of that before…being banned is dope.”

Myspace maintains the video was taken down for violation of the “Terms and Conditions.” Myspace said in a statement that the site reserves the right to take down footage that “may be offensive, illegal, or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person.”

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Myspace members are growing increasingly upset over the placement of offensive ‘Shoot The Rapper’ advertisements in light of last week’s Virginia Tech tragedy.

The ads were reportedly visible on the MySpace pages of Virginia Tech victims-as well as hundreds of others.

The ads features a rapper very similar in buck teeth and snotty-nosed nature to 50 Cent and a photographer whose camera users have to move to “shoot the rapper.”

“You will win $5000 or 5 ringtones guaranteed,” according to the ad.

“The time has come for a company with the global reach and influence of Fox Interactive Media to set some real standards in advertising, and send advertisers with such a delightful message as ‘Shoot the Rapper’ into the trash heap,” Peter Zollman told Media Post.

Zollman is the principal of consultancy at Classified Intelligence on Poynter.org.

“Imagine the outcry if Fox Television ran a 60-second spot that said, ‘Shoot the American Idol star — on our Web site — and win $5,000.’ This is no different,” Zollman said.

“That’s a random network ad that runs throughout out site, and it’s not connected contextually because we don’t place banner ads contextually on MySpace,” said Shawn Gold, a representative from MySpace. “It’s inappropriate if the ads are running on those profiles, and we can eliminate them from our network if that’s the case.”

But two hackers going by the names of Mondo Armando and Müstaschio promise to begin disclosing security vulnerabilities in MySpace, News Corp.’s popular social networking site, every day next month.

“The purpose of the exercise is not so much to expose MySpace as a hive of spam and villainy (since everyone knows that already), but to highlight the monoculture-style danger of extremely popular websites,” wrote Mondo Armando in an e-mail interview.

“We could have just as easily gone after Google or Yahoo or MSN or IDG or whatever. MySpace is just more fun, and is becoming notoriously [obnoxious] about responding to security issues,” he said.

These “Month of Bugs” projects have become a way for hackers to bring attention to both themselves and to security problems in certain types of products. Well-known hacker HD Moore kicked off the craze last year when he published one browser bug per day for the month of July. His effort was followed by a “Month of kernel bugs,” a “Month of Apple Bugs,” and a “Month of PHP Bugs.”

The MySpace hackers launched their project late Thursday expressing simultaneous enthusiasm and disdain for the task ahead. “If it ends up being just as lame as the Month of Apple Bugs, then we haven’t really missed the mark. If it’s funnier, then great,” they wrote on their project’s blog. “If it kills this Month of Whatever fad, then hurray for everyone, it’s over.”

They intend to primarily publish cross site scripting bugs, which can allow an attacker to execute malicious script within a victim’s browser, but they may also publish bugs that affect browsers or technologies like Flash or QuickTime.

Though the project, which launches on April 1, has all the appearance of a practical joke one well-known hacker said he’d been contacted by the Month of MySpace team with legitimate security questions. “Those guys and I have been keeping in touch,” said Robert Hansen, chief executive of Sectheory.com. “It’s funny but it’s not a joke.”

Whatever comes of the MySpace bug month, security experts are paying more attention lately to vulnerabilities in Web sites that allow users to upload their own content.

Last December a fast-spreading worm hit MySpace, flooding users with spam and copying a malicious QuickTime file all over the MySpace network.

If these attacks continue, MySpace will have a tough time balancing security with its desire to provide interactive tools that users love, said Ken Dunham, director of VeriSign Inc.’s Rapid Response Team. “From a design perspective, it’s difficult to wrap your arms around it,” he said. “Even when they have countermeasures in place… it’s trivial to obfuscate to evade their detection mechanisms.”

News Corp. did not respond to requests for comment on the “Month of MySpace bugs.”