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Prince’s new album Planet Earth is a few weeks off, but if you’ve got a V CAST enabled phone from Verizon Wirelelss you can download the first single “Guitar” right now FROM THIN AIR. That’s right, with the new V CAST Song ID, downloading a song is as easy as point and shoot - point your phone at the song source and it will scan the V CAST music catalog and offer you a full-song download.

Heres the step-by-step on how to download “Guitar” right now:

1. Download V CAST Song ID for free to your Verizon Wireless phone
2. Navigate to the interactive video for Prince’s new single “Guitar” (conveniently embedded above)
3. Start V CAST Song ID on your phone, select “ID New Song” and then play the video with your phone close to the PC speaker to ID it
4. Your phone will give you information about the song, as well as an option to download it immediately, over-the-air, for free!

The song download is exclusive to Verizon V CAST users, but the rest of you can enjoy the video here. The following phones are initially eligible to download V CAST Song ID for free: Chocolate by LG, The enV by LG, the LG VX8700 and VX9400, MOTORAZR maxx Ve and Samsung SCH-u620.

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Very Tasteful have a knack for writing songs about things that are happening at the very instant that they are writing the songs. It’s a sort of meta-commentary of one’s life, and it’s always told with the present participle. Their classics include I’m Typing LOL and Caller ID (aka, My Phone is Ringing). There is something philosophically valuable in these but I haven’t quite uncovered it yet: I think therefore I am? I sing about things that are happening now, but I film it and people watch it when these things are no longer happening even though I say they are, therefore I was? Hmmmm.

Oh, and they’re not a one-trick pony either. They’ve got cartoons and sasquatch songs, among many others.

Last week, Facebook opened up its platform to third-party applications of all shapes and sizes, and the result is a host of new possibilities for Facebook users. One of those possibiities is posting Revver videos on Facebook profiles, thanks to our pals over at Widgetbox, one of the 30 initial services on-board the platform. In case you don’t remember Widgetbox from our last post on them, it’s a super handy one-stop-widget-shop that makes integrating your favorite widgets with your blog or social networking profile a breeze.

To post a Revver video on your Facebook profile page, just click on “widgets” in the list of applications in the left sidebar. From there you’ll see all the Widgetbox widgets available - click on the Revver widget under “Featured Widgets.” Add a video ID number, adjust the size of the player if you so desire, and click “get widget” - sooner than you can say “web 2.0″ you’ll have a Revver video on your profile. Sweetness.

Hungry for more? Check out Mashable’s post on all the cool new applications within facebook.

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Debra Cassano is going to save the recording industry. CD sales were down, but then…..THIS — the catchiest, most articulate, most expertly-crafted song to hit airwaves since the Beatles’ five simultaneous number 1s. OK that’s not entirely sincere, but we have to give Debra credit for etching the jaded chorus of this song in our skulls forever and giving us some of the most quotable lines of the year. Send this to your friends - the cooler ones will totally get it.

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O Santa Ynez! Once you were just the town next to the town that Michael Jackson lived in, but now you’ve come into your own! Wine snobs and noobs alike have been descending upon this grape-filled valley thanks to the surprising popularity of Sideways. Drawn by the same allure, the girls of Nontourage got out of Hollywood and took a weekend trip that became a part-vacation, part-spoof, part-let’s-get-drunk-before-noon vlog entry. If you don’t know Nontourage, they’re the team that brought us the Almost There series and aim to “reveal an insider’s view of Hollywood not often seen — the view from those hovering just under the radar.”

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Another week of new videos and another batch of goodies from Callie and TheFlux.tv. As usual, if you’ve got a video you think belongs on the top shelf, send your suggestions to Callie@theflux.tv

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If you took the sperm of a delusional conspiracy theorist and placed it in the cervix of the cattiest communications major you knew in college, in nine months she would give birth to a beautiful baby girl. Thirty one years later with joint visitation rights she would be nurtured into becoming the fictional NBC reporter, Taylor. When you put this Frankenstein up against the underdog news team of Goodnight Burbank, you get pathos. Poor Autumn Stanton just wants to file her report and get back to her hotel room, but Taylor always breaks in, sometimes texting Anderson Cooper, sometimes picking hairs off Autumn’s shoulder, but always babbling nonsense (if we used leaves instead of dollars there would be more leaf money to put into cancer research). You get the picture. Enjoy.

As a comic, critic, or social commentator, you always know you’re doing things right when the very people you offer commentary on pick up that same commentary and run with it. Two of our more prolific community members recently had the pleasure of such an experience, so we thought we’d help them share that news. First off, Cute with Chris’s deadpan rendering of T-Pain’s “Buy you a drank” rubbed T-Pain the right way and ended up on his myspace page. I can’t decide which version I like better.

Equally awesome, Peter Coffin made a video about the recent Opie and Anthony controversy that found it’s way to the perpetrators themselves, who promptly featured it on Opie and Anthony.com

Coolbeans. Always nice to know that the subjects of your hard work appreciate it, and even better to know they got a good laugh out of it.

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Just your standard pantyhose-on-the-head tug-of-war contest. If anything, the Japan V. Australia rivalry is intriguing. Everyone remembers the ‘88 controversy when Australia’s Janie Milton snagged her hose on a tree branch thus losing a match that was clearly going her way. This ushered in the no trees allowed era, popularly known as “the slash-and-burn age.” This year’s contest easily goes to Australia. The Aussie’s have been holding back the release of Catherine’s chin-to-the-chest technique until a win really mattered. It mattered this time, and the clouds that have been shrouding that island continent for almost two decades are now lifting. What will happen next year? It’s tough to say, but Superbackers will be there holding the camera with a steady hand.

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Feigned narcolepsy is the new “sorry, I have to wash my hair.” As far as excuses go, it’s almost mediocre at best, which is just the coincidence that I needed to segue into an introduction of the hitmakers from Almost Mediocre:

Almost Mediocre is the collaboration of five remarkably diverse guys, all looking for an outlet for their various talents. While we are currently in the process of succeeding in TV, film, stand up comedy and mass media, we all grew up dreaming of someday making it big on the internet (you know, for the chicks).

We plan to utilize [www.almostmediocre.com] as a showcase, a soapbox, a guilty pleasure and a community of friends and like-minded bastards. You will be our www.guineapigs as we stretch our creative legs. But we hope that you’ll do more than soak up our twisted offerings. If we can motivate, encourage, or inspire you to go out and do the same, then we did our jobs well. If we can’t, then, well, screw you. We still rocked and you just didn’t get it.

These are the guys behind the appropriately obnoxious Super Cool LA Guy series, among other fine comedy shorts. See more at www.almostmediocre.com.