photos by Gabi Porter

Face-melting faux guitar and a pair of furry red legwarmers led Matt "Romeo DanceCheetah" Cornelison to victory at the National Finals of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships at Irving Plaza Thursday night.

DanceCheetah, from Milwaukee, will go on to represent the United States at the World Championships in Oulu, Finland. He played Daft Punk's "Robot Rock" on his way to the title.

The champion came dressed in cheetah-print leggings, a flare-collared top and a massive belt buckle emblazoned with his initials.

"My mom helped me out with this belt," he said.

Cornelison beat out Ryan "Dreamcatcher" Laman, who played The Eagles' "Witchy Woman" in the final air-off.

The event's judges were comedian Myk Kaplan, talk-show host Rachel Maddow and her on-air contributor Kent Jones, and "Daily Show" correspondent Jason Jones. [DNA Info]

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photos by Gabi Porter

I don't even fully understand what the "Fung Wah Metrocard Dark Horse Invitational" is, but it happened at Lucky Cheng's last night, and is somehow related to the Air Guitar National Finals happening at Irving Plaza tonight (7/22). So in honor of that, here are Gabi's pictures from it...

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Tickets are on sale at 10am for the Wolf Parade show at Terminal 5.

The Clipse are playing Highline Ballroom on May 6th with Ninjasonik. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets go on sale at the same time for a July 22nd "US Air Guitars Finals" show at Irving Plaza.

Tickets are on sale for the Buzzcocks show at Irving Plaza.

Tickets are on sale for the Goldfrapp show at Hammerstein Ballroom.

The final episode of Lost airs Sunday May 23rd. Tickets are on sale if you want to watch it at the Bell House.

Crystal Stilts, The 1990s, and Tanks Amigo plays The Bell House on April 22nd. Tickets are on sale.

The Middle East, Neon Indian, Crystal Castles & Local Natives tickets also went on sale.

Hold Steady & Willie Nelson tickets also went on sale.

Only three tickets left for the Will Johnson & Anders Parker NYC living room show.

David S. Jung (C-Diddy) (cred)

today in NYC
* Museum Mile Festival
* Rilo Kiley & Thao @ Terminal 5
* M83 & Berg Sans Nipple @ Music Hall
* US air guitar championships @ Bowery Ballroom
* Cursive & The End of the World @ Mercury Lounge
* Northern State & Gay Blades @ Knitting Factory
* The Wombats & Jukebox The Ghost @ Blender Theater
* True Colors w/ Regina Spektor, Cyndi Lauper B-52's @ Radio City Music Hall

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Yoko Ono Loses Battle To Bar Use of "Imagine" In Film

Tori Amos splits with label, goes indie

SpiralFrog to add songs from EMI

Rocker Gabriel launches The Filter (except it crashed)

The US Air Guitar Championships at Bowery Ballroom tonight are sold out, but tickets recently went on sale for the Brooklyn Regionals being held at Music Hall of Williamsburg on July 9th. Video of last year's winner, Brooklynite David Jung, below.....

RIP, Jordanaires Member Hugh Jarrett

RIP, Harvey Korman (I didn't forget you)

What else?

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