Subject:

MTV Networks Company

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Backstreet's Back, All Right! Kevin Richardson Dons a Tuxedo, Talks Lusty 12-Year-Olds

    Kristin Kay PhotographyKevin Richardson and Rob Gonzalez​Kevin Richardson strutted into a Sherman Oaks café for breakfast recently -- and none of the preteen girls even noticed. If this were 1998, things would have been different: As a member of the Backstreet Boys, Richardson was the suave ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    What Will Be The Most Popular Music-Related Halloween Costumes This Year? And How Can They Be Made Slutty?

    ​By Lina Lecaro and Andrea Domanick Nothing is a more fun cultural zeitgeist indicator than what folks wear for Halloween. And, of course, musical personalities are prime fodder. So here are our predictions for what will be the most common music costumes this year. Of course, despite the fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Top Ten Greatest Videos from TRL's Heyday

    ​MTV turns 30 this week, and on Monday we spotlighted the five '90s shows the channel should bring back. The end of that decade, of course, saw the rise of Total Request Live, which kicked off in 1998, by which point MTV had long succumbed to the domination of reality shows. Part of TRL's appe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Top Five '90s Shows MTV Should Bring Back

    True Life: I used to play music.​MTV turns the big 3-0 today. You know what that means: No more twin beds, Froot Loops or takings shots on a weekday. It's all back pain, fiber cereals and apple-picking trips from here on out. But seriously though -- the "music" channel hasn't aged well. It on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Nic Harcourt Wants His MTV: Tastemaker Leaves KCRW for New Gig

    ​Influential music tastemaker Nic Harcourt will be leaving L.A.'s KCRW after more than a decade for a new gig at MTV, the Santa Monica-based station announced Thursday. Harcourt served as Music Director and host of "Morning Becomes Eclectic" for ten years before ceding the position to Jason ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/23-5/27

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The words 'authentic,' 'New York' and 'pizza' in conjunction mean nothing but trouble around here." Ask Mr. Gold: Filling the New York-style Pizza Vacuum. "Instead of the usual long, dry, and oft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Gabriel Ben Meir, Top MTV Production/Music Coordinator, Shot Dead on Sunday Morning in Quiet L.A. Neighborhood

    NBC Los Angeles30-year-old Gabe Ben Meir​Update: Ben Meir was reportedly shot execution-style in the back of the head while walking from his car to his home just after midnight. Shocked responses from those who worked and lived near him, after the jump. A rising creative force at MTV Los Ange ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Congrats! LA-Based Aquarium Drunkard Wins MTV's First Indie Blog Award

    ​ A big congratulations to LA-based music blog Aquarium Drunkard, which beat all other music blogs in the country (including some high-profile ones from Brooklyn that like to proclaim their dietary restrictions) on an nationwide Internet vote for MTV's first "O Award." According to MTV, As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Nicki Minaj Wins an Award for Twirling Her Bubblegum

    ​OhmiGAH Barbs! Nicki Minaj just won! The Pink Barbie brought home an early award from the MTV O Music Awards. The inaugural awards, the remainder of which will be handed out in Las Vegas Thursday night, are billed as "online, open, ongoing." Categories include Fan Army FTW, Favorite F**k Ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    From the Archives: A Young Ian McKellen & The Fleshtones Perform Gay Shakespeare Sonnet for Andy Warhol!

    Never Mind the Gandalfs--Here's HOT New Wave Ian McKellen!​ The endless archive of cultural amazement that the Internet has become already yielded this week evidence of Ricky Gervais' past as synth-pop pin-up in the '80s. Now our friend Ms. Bukkake Karaoke points us to the awesome blog Danger ... More >>

  • Music

    December 23, 2010

    Dirt Nasty: Famous for Being (Almost) Famous

    A strangely successful indie white comedy rapper conceived by former model/MTV veejay Simon Rex, who early on did porn to pay the bills? Welcome to L.A.!

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Wacka Flocka Flame's Mom Denies Being a Pimp

    ​Flamboyant rap star Gucci Mane (see yesterday's awesome list) and his "associate" Wacka Flocka Flame (who maybe is a novelty rapper, maybe not, we don't know, maybe the joke's on us, maybe not) are both managed by Wacka Flocka Flame's mom, a lady by the name of Deb Antney. Today, ATL police b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Lady Gaga's Raw Meat Dress: Your VMA Meat ID Test

    MTV/Christie BishopLady Gaga's VMA Meat Dress​If you tuned in to Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards and thought that Lady Gaga looked like a piece of meat, you'd be right. The singer, praised as much for her extreme fashion sense as she is for her consistent presence on Billboard's Top 10 l ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    July 15, 2010

    The Last of The Hills

    Remembering what Spencer said to Brody about Lauren, and all that crazy drama

  • Calendar

    May 27, 2010

    IT'S ONLY COMICS BOOKS, BUT WE LIKE IT

    Remembering what Spencer said to Brody about Lauren, and all that crazy drama

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Hipstergasm!: Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire Working on Precious Short-Film Together

    ​MTV is reporting that popular-yet-monotonous pop group Arcade Fire and eccentric trust-fund-skater director Spike Jonze are collaborating on a secretive movie project (a "short film"). That faint sound you just heard is the controlled explosion of thousands of heads of hipsters (aka Pabstafa ... More >>

  • Music

    March 11, 2010

    Images for the Post-Video Age

    Director Keith Schofield Makes Viral Video Stars

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    WTF Is Vince Vaughn Doing in the 'We Are The World II' Video?

    The new version of "We Are the World" recorded by Quincy Jones and a galaxy of stars will be unveiled tonight during that big Olympics brouhaha on NBC, but MTV News has already been offering up a torrent of videos, photos, and tasty news morsels. For example, look at this picture here: Photo by Ke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Behind-the-Scenes Footage of Depeche Mode at the 1988 MTV Video Awards

    While doing a routine search of recent uploads to YouTube, we stumbled across these fantastic behind-the-scenes videos of Depeche Mode preparing for the 1988 MTV video awards in LA. Among other awesome sights, we see the band playing cricket in a parking lot, we watch them leaving the Sunset Marquis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    MTV's "Remote Control" Host Ken Ober Passes Away at 52

    ​If you watched MTV between 1987 and 1992, chances are you were a big fan of Remote Control, the zany game-show hosted by Ken Ober, who passed away at 52 in Santa Monica this past weekend. There's a nice Kurt Loder tribute at the MTV site, reminding us how cool and innovative Remote Control w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    Silversun Pickups Debut New Video for "Substitution" on MTV

    Silversun Pickups Debut New Video for "Substitution" on MTV

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Kanye Who? VMA Moments That Didn't Suck

    Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift, continuing a long tradition of unspontaneous VMA quackery. Back in the day, VMA's didn't suck, here's evidence.

  • Calendar

    August 20, 2009

    NIGHT FLIGHT HAS FLOWN, BUT THE MOUSSE HAS LANDED

    Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift, continuing a long tradition of unspontaneous VMA quackery. Back in the day, VMA's didn't suck, here's evidence.

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    Bastille Day & Marie Antoinette-Inspired Gift Guide: Shop Til Your Head Drops

    Happy Bastille Day! Are we back to shopping yet? If you're into stimulating the economy--and the Dauphine could have used that excuse had it been available to her at the time--here are some Antoinette-inspired items (from Etsy and other internet environs) for your consideration. The storming of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Filming Snoop's Dogg After Dark: Behind the Scenes at The Kress

    We members of the press are gathered on the roof of The Kress in Hollywood, four floors of elaborate clubby terrain beneath our feet, and menacing gray clouds above. It's cold and Snoop Dogg is late by almost an hour. Down on the sidewalk, the doormen are screening and waving through a slow line ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 20, 2008

    XIV: Royal Tease

    Michael Mina’s swank Sunset Strip restaurant gilds the coconut

  • Music

    September 11, 2008

    MTV Video Music Awards: Keeping Up With the Vamps

    VIP = Very Irate People

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2008

    Party Like A Rockstar: MTV VMAs Take Over LA

    After last year's chaotic (if much talked about) ceremony in Las Vegas, MTV has brought the annual celebration of video vamps and hams back to good ol' Los Angeles. The ceremony will be held this Sunday at Paramount Studios, and like the Sin City edition, different segments are set to take place in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 21, 2008

    Global Disorder Takes Center Stage at DocuWeek

    Lights, camera, reality

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2008

    LAFF 2008: Gardening at Night

    Scott Hamilton Kennedy is one of the whitest looking white guys you’ll meet, and yet he makes movies about South Central L.A. that come from a real place of knowing. Of course, OT: OUR TOWN was on one level just a movie about his girlfriend (now wife), but she also happened to be a drama teacher i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2008

    Kristoff talks: 'I didn't incite the attacks'

    MTVMusic VideosMTV ShowsEntertainment News Televisa on-air personality Kristoff has finally broke his silence and addressed publicly the wave of anti-emo violence that was at least partly inspired by his "Fucking bullshit!" rant, based what some emos themselves have said, and on how widely it w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2007

    The Great Rap Swindle

    Yeah, Kanye West keeps it real. First his Bush comments on the Katrina telethon, then his stance on the MTV/Britney debacle. (One word: “exploitation.”) He was also the first to admit the whole 50 Cent beef was a stunt to sell records. (And by the way, why did so many new records come out on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2007

    Snooze City

    By Lina Lecaro She had a lot of people rooting for her. But Britney Spears' opening performance at the MTV VMAs tonight -though not the trainwreck some said it might be- was just... blah. Talk about going through the motions. Her moves were robotic, her outfit unflattering, her lip-syncing ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2007

    Shootin' At The Walls of iTunes (bang bang)

    I discovered a way around iTunes Music Store's 60s second samples— youtube. Yep, when you have the audial craving for a song— the whole song, you can just search it on youtube. While you may not find everything, it's amazing the videos you can unearth. It's like MTV circa Thriller. For e ... More >>

  • Music

    June 8, 2006

    Kids in the Mall

    I discovered a way around iTunes Music Store's 60s second samples— youtube. Yep, when you have the audial craving for a song— the whole song, you can just search it on youtube. While you may not find everything, it's amazing the videos you can unearth. It's like MTV circa Thriller. For e ... More >>

  • News

    October 13, 2005

    Who Hates Their MTV?

    How the rebel network sold its soul for bimbos, princesses and bucks

  • Film+TV

    July 14, 2005

    Man of Few Words

    Gus Van Sant talks about his minimalist Last Days

  • Film+TV

    July 7, 2005

    Danger-Humor

    The sick, cathartic pleasures of the put-on kid show Wonder Showzen, plus the closet-anarchist boys of Stella

  • News

    June 16, 2005

    Dancing on Live Grenades

    How David LaChapelles Rize beat the odds and MTV to bring us the ghetto art of krumping

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Hollywood Overheard

    Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    The Beater meets the Swan

    Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

  • Music

    April 11, 2002

    Will Jam 4 Food

    Improvising an alternative music scene

  • Film+TV

    January 24, 2002

    Trash TV, Obsessive Love and Colette

    Improvising an alternative music scene

  • Music

    February 22, 2001

    Stronger Than Pride

    With Sade at your side

  • Film+TV

    June 15, 2000

    Up Close

    And personal

  • News

    May 18, 2000

    Mother's Milk

    Whats the best gift for a Latina mom on Mothers Day?

  • Film+TV

    April 20, 2000

    Truth and Beauty

    And adolescent mind control

  • Film+TV

    September 23, 1999

    The Empire of the Air

    You have been colonized

  • Film+TV

    August 12, 1999

    Real Cartoon World

    The I'm All Like Whatever Generation of MTV's Downtown, plus Random Play and Lenny Bruce

  • Film+TV

    July 29, 1999

    The Green Monster

    Tom Green, from the great wild North; plus, Dick and Paula, and Joe Bonanno

  • More >>
VOICE Daily Deals

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Now Click This

About Us | Media Kit | Work for LA Weekly | Esubscribe | Free Classifieds | LA Weekly Advertising | National Online Advertising | Mobile | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Site Problems? | RSS | Site Map
© 2012 LA Weekly, LP, All rights reserved.
Browse Voice Nation
avatar
Newsletters | Mobile
  • Voice Places

    Voice Places

    Discover restaurants, nightlife, travel, shopping...

  • VOICE Daily Deals

    VOICE Daily Deals

    Get 50 to 90% off every day on restaurants, movies, massages...

  • Best Of

    Best Of...

    More than 10,000 of the BEST things to eat, drink, and experience

  • My Voice Nation

    My Voice Nation

    Join the Village Voice community and get exclusive deals and info

  • Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    Your local Happy Hour guide at your fingertips

or

Log in or Sign up

Social Connect:

Use your favorite account to access My Voice Nation.


Use your My Voice Nation account to log in:





Forgot password?
or

Sign Up or Log in

Social Connect:

Sign up for My Voice Nation with your preferred network.


Sign up for a My Voice Nation account:



Privacy policy