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Kennedy, the MTV VJ Everyone Loved to Hate, Has a New, Salacious Memoir

You know you're a polarizing figure when Courtney Love takes a liking to you. For anyone who regularly watched MTV from 1992 to 1997 during the height of grunge and gangster rap there was no presence on the network more memorable (or more irritating) than the single-named Kennedy, she of the nerdy ... More >>

How Can Entertainment Attract Eyeballs While Making the World Better?

I was a little nervous about attending USC and UCLA's joint annual Transmedia Hollywood Conference, whose focus this year was on how social media and storytelling are changing the face of digital marketing and philanthropy. Sure, I'm interested in web entertainment, but am I eight-hours-of-panels in ... More >>

Here Are Five Banned Beavis and Butthead Episodes

Last month marked 20 years since Beavis and Butthead debuted on MTV. But with that anniversary came the news that the show won't be seen there anymore. Fans have been petitioning for Comedy Central to pick the show up. But if they do so they might want to keep in mind the show's controversial hist ... More >>

American Idol Meets the Museum

The Hammer's Mohn Award is a grand experiment in art-world democracy

MTV's Diggity Dave Says James Holmes Called Him Before Dark Knight Massacre; Did His Sick Batman Spinoff Inspire Aurora Shooting?

In the answer-seeking aftermath of the Dark Knight massacre, many have fingered Hollywood as a prime suspect: Was alleged shooter James Holmes so numbed by blood and gunfire in the movies that he became capable of blasting a theater full of innocents? In a creepy interview this morning with CBS Los ... More >>

Hardcore Deathmatch: Cro-Mags vs. Beowülf

[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two artists who have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] See also: Top Five Best Post-Hardcore Records Harley Flanagan, founding bassist of New Y ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.!

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 >>

The Last of The Hills

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

IT'S ONLY COMICS BOOKS, BUT WE LIKE IT

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 >>

Images for the Post-Video Age

Director Keith Schofield Makes Viral Video Stars

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 >>

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 >>

Silversun Pickups Debut New Video for "Substitution" on MTV

Silversun Pickups Debut New Video for "Substitution" on MTV

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.

NIGHT FLIGHT HAS FLOWN, BUT THE MOUSSE HAS LANDED

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 >>

XIV: Royal Tease

Michael Mina’s swank Sunset Strip restaurant gilds the coconut

MTV Video Music Awards: Keeping Up With the Vamps

VIP = Very Irate People

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 >>

Global Disorder Takes Center Stage at DocuWeek

Lights, camera, reality

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Kids in the Mall

Who Hates Their MTV?

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

Man of Few Words

Gus Van Sant talks about his minimalist Last Days

Danger-Humor

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

Dancing on Live Grenades

How David LaChapelle�s Rize beat the odds � and MTV � to bring us the ghetto art of krumping

Hollywood Overheard

Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

Will Jam 4 Food

Improvising an alternative music scene

Trash TV, Obsessive Love and Colette

Stronger Than Pride

With Sade at your side

Up Close

And personal

Mother's Milk

What�s the best gift for a Latina mom on Mother�s Day?

Truth and Beauty

And adolescent mind control

The Empire of the Air

You have been colonized

Real Cartoon World

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

The Green Monster

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