Yep, there is footage of “I Kissed A Girl” singer KATY PERRY topless floating around the internet. But not in the way most people would immediately think. Ms. Perry is taking part in a charity called Keep A Breast to help raise money for breast cancer. Celebs and musicians have molds of their torso’s taken, these molds are then auctioned off to raise money for the charity.

Travis McCoy, from Gym Class Heroes (and Katy’s boyfriend) will put some art on Perry’s mold before it’s auctioned off, making one lucky fan even happier about their purchase.

Video of the mold taking process can be found after the jump. (more…)

AGAINST ME! is looking to help the charity, Harvest Of Hope Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to raise money for migrant farm workers and their families. The band and foundation are currently working to help a 6 year old girl from Tifton, GA who needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant.

Last year, Diana Olalde was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, an aggressive cancer that makes white blood cells multiply and damage normal cells due to overcrowding. Olalde recieved chemotherapy, but relapsed in August 2007. Her doctors are saying the young girl needs a transplant within the next month and mounting medical bills and the costly proving to be something the family is unable to raise. Against Me! has urged people to to make a contribution to the over $500,000 in medical bills.

The Olade family has set up a myspace page to handle donations. They ask if you can help in any way to please visit www.myspace.com/olalde2007 and make a donation.

To continue in the tradition of helping out their local scene, THURSDAY are also going to make an appearance at Looney Tunes to help with the store’s grand re-opening in December. The band will join the likes of Cobra Starship and Long Island natives Patent Pending and Brand New to help draw people out to the legendary record store that was just rebuilt after a massive fire earlier this year.

The appearence will be on Wednesday, December 5th at 6pm, right after Patent Pending’a appearance. Here’s what the band had to say about the appearence.

Everyone that’s in the Long Island / NY area and had the pleasure of going to the Looney Tunes store in West Babylon, NY it’s exciting news for us that after a destructive fire the store is finally re-opening. We are so excited that we will be there on Wednesday December 5th at 7 pm to show clips from our new DVD / CD Kill The House Lights as well as answer any questions you may have and do a signing. Make sure you get there early because our friends in Patent Pending will be performing at 6 pm! It should be a great time so make sure you head out to Looney Tunes (31 Brookvale Ave West Babylon, NY 11704) on Wednesday December 5th.

BRAND NEW will be the headlining act at their formal label Triple Crown Records 10 Year Anniversary show this December. Also on the bill are As Tall As Lions and The Receiving End Of Sirens.

The show will take place at Blender Theatre at Gramercy in New York on Monday, December 17th. It will not only serve as a celebration of 10 years of Triple Crown records but proceeds will also benefit the Fealgood Foundation, a charity founded to help and assist those that were first to respond to the scene of the World Trade Center and spread awareness of those responder’s healthcare issues. You can purchase tickets here.

Earlier the same day the band will be performing at an already sold out benefit show for the grand re-opening ceremonies of Looney Tunes Records. They join the likes of Patent Pending and Thursday who will also be on hand that week to help with the grand re-opening.

A lot of people have been coming to the aid of one Callum Robbins, son of producer/musician J Robbins who was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

On of the more interesting of them has been the work of Gordon Withers and his group Triscloth who have put together Jawbox On Cello: A Benefit For Cal Robbins which is exactly what is sounds like. Withers is a freelance rock cellistwo put arranged the songs for the Robbins family. The album will also be available from major online retailers by Tuesday, December 18. The group has/is also embarking on some tours as well to help raise money. So if you want to hear some of your favorite Jawbox tunes done to cello and give money to a good cause here’s how you to it.

STREAM: Trisloth :: Jawbox On Cello: A Benefit For Cal Robbins
ORDER: Trisloth :: Jawbox On Cello: A Benefit For Cal Robbins

We were lucky enough to score tickets and attend one of The Dismemberment Plan’s reunion show in DC earlier this year for the cause. The entire show was archived, you can hear J Robbin’s explaination about his son and introduction of the band now.

THE BREEDERS will be making a live performance this holiday season, and for a good cause. Both Kim Deal and twin sister Kelley will be getting together to play a charity show on December 4th in Chicago.

The group will take part in The Second City That Never Sleeps: Letters To Santa. A 24 hour improv charity event put on by the popular comedy troupe, Second City, who has boasted a tremendous amount of comedic talent over the years.

The Deal sisters will appear along with Will Oldham and Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy. They will take time off from working on a their new album with Steve Albini to make the appearance.

All monies raised will go towards the purchase of Christmas presents for children in need. Ticket info can be found here.

To co-incide with the release date (which is today) of their new benefit album for victims of violent crime, ANTI-FLAG have just posted a video of their performance of the song “911 For Peace”. It’s live footage of a concert recorded at Mr. Smalls Theater in Pittsburgh this past April.

A friend of mine just turned me onto this organization that does some pretty amazing things so I wanted to share it with you all. The basic premise of it is that they create a system where people can lend money to entrepreneurs in third world countries so they can get a business off the ground. Then, once they do, the donors are repaid. We’re not talking about starting corporations or anything here, either.

For example, I was told of one story where a a woman had a peanut butter business in which she was pressing the peanuts by hand. Someone loaned her $50 with which she was able to buy a machine to press the peanuts. She tripled her production and was able to repay her donor almost immediately. Pretty awesome that the type of money that we piss away in a bar in one  night can be used to make such a significant, direct, impact in someone’s life.

If you would like to get involved, please click here and do so.

Via notcot.com -
The Adopt a squid program is awesome in two ways -

a - YOU GET A FREAKIN’ (stuffed) SQUID!!
b - A portion of all proceeds go to charity.

get all up on it at www.adoptasquid.com.

Back in September, my roommate and I joined up with the SSE group to take part in a cancer walk in NYC. SSE, which stands for The Syrentha Savio Endowment is an amazing organization that has been fighting cancer with equally amazing programs for a while now.  One of their larger programs, Shirts for a Cure, prints shirts with exclusive designs from TONS of bands in the world that is Warped. Click the above links to learn more and click here to read the article from Death & Taxes.