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Parents Television Council's Dan Isett Wants to Pass Legislation to Stop All Future Mileys

By David Rolland The fallout from Miley Cyrus' performance at Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards has run the gamut from discomfort to laughter to accusations of racism and sexism. But only the Parents Television Council demands legislation result from her tasteless performance. According to th ... More >>

Katy Perry in Brooklyn Bridge Park, a Drone in Williamsburg, and Other Key Differences Between Regular VMAs and Brooklyn VMAs

It's over. The vision of the charming, artisan awards show MTV execs imagined when they decided to hold this year's Video Music Awards at the Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn is gone, replaced by images of Miley Cyrus grinding up on a foam finger, and the sad, sad sound of N Sync's faltering voi ... More >>

The 10 Most WTF Moments In VMA History

This Sunday, the MTV Video Music Awards come to Brooklyn and are sure to make us LOL, say "OMG," and definitely go WTF!?!?! To celebrate, we've compiled a list of the 10 most WTF moments in VMA history. See also: Your Guide to the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards

How ObamaCare Created A Nation of Zombie Sluts: An In-Depth Talk With Kennedy

When Lisa Kennedy Montgomery was 18 years old, her parents gave her an ultimatum: She could either stay home and pay rent, or they would pay her to move out. So Montgomery did the respectable thing and left her home in Oregon, moved to Los Angeles, interned at KROQ (L.A.'s famed alt-rock radio stati ... More >>

Spring Reading: Top 5 Book Events of the Week

Julia Solis Spectacle Theater Thursday, 8pm, $5 There aren't any actual deaths in the ghost story Solis tells, but it's still mighty chilling. In her new photography collection Stages of Decay (Prestel), she chronicles the fallen grandeur of abandoned theaters across America and Europe, affectionate ... More >>

Beavis and Butt-Head's Most Controversial Moments

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 it up. But if they do they might want to keep in mind the show's controversial history. After ... More >>

MTV's Video Music Awards Enters The Post-Music-Video Era

Three Rappers Who Should Be The Center Square For MTV2's Hollywood Squares Reboot (And One Who Definitely Should Not)

Next month MTV2 will debut Hip-Hop Squares, a rap-centric takeoff on the "tic-tac-toe with trivia and celebrities" game show Hollywood Squares. (The non-genre-specific version of the show aired its last episode in 2004.) The show will be hosted by Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg, and MTV has announced a fe ... More >>

MTV Accessorizes Itself With Music On I Just Want My Pants Back

I Just Want My Pants Back protagonist Jason Strider—a receptionist and aspiring music journalist who appears to live alone in a one-bedroom apartment despite claiming to have just $100 to his name—doesn't remember what sex tastes like because it's been six whole weeks since his last enco ... More >>

People Love Nostalgia, So Why Doesn't MTV Go All In?

MTV's 'True Life: I'm Occupying Wall Street' Coming Very Soon

Bryan, a star of 'True Life: I'm Occupying Wall Street'​Last week we confirmed that MTV's Real World is looking for Occupy Wall Street protesters to be on season 27. But that's not all: MTV is also coming out with an episode of True Life starring Occupy Wall Street protesters, as New York Tim ... More >>

I Want My 18-34 Demographic: MTV's Research-Heavy (And Kinda Unhip) Approach To Melding Radio And TV

MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. via Tacky and KitschSend a self-addressed stamped envelope to the above address, and you could have your own Dial Sticker. ​ The first 59 minutes of MTV—12:01 a.m. to 1 a.m., ex ... More >>

The Five "Best" Retired Categories At The Video Music Awards

MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. Would you look at all that postmodernism? For a multimillion-dollar event orchestrated with the dictatorial hand of all awards shows, there's always been a certain thrilling seat-of-the-pa ... More >>

The Top Five Music Videos Directed By Oscar Winners

MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. ​Earlier today, we counted down the best music videos directed by people who took home (or, more likely, left at the podium) the Razzies' "Golden Raspberry" award for worst director. ... More >>

Beavis And Butt-Head Return To A Racier, More Snookified MTV

MTV turns 30 on Monday. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. You may have heard by now that Beavis and Butt-Head are returning to MTV—a real comeback after years of cruel teasing rumors, none of them particularly believable. Mike Judge an ... More >>

Matt Pinfield And 120 Minutes Return To TV; Will The Audience Follow?

MTV turns 30 on Monday. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. ​Back when he was a music-obsessed teenager growing up on Long Island, and long before he started the influential music website Stereogum, Scott Lapatine never missed an episode o ... More >>

100 & Single: The Dawning Of The MTV Era And How It Rocket-Fueled The Hot 100

​What was the first rock and roll song? Ask music historians and you'll get a range of '40s and early '50 candidates, from "Good Rockin' Tonight" to "Rocket 88." Ah, but when did the Rock Era begin? That's easier. Everybody knows that Bill Haley and His Comets' rendition of "Rock Around the C ... More >>

The Creature Behind Snooki's Success Is a Flatulent Horse

I don't know why you would want to watch this either.As the fourth season of Jersey Shore creeps upon us like red tide, and we learn more about Bridge & Tunnel, a precursor MTV show that the Shore's guido-monsters ate, let us remember how hyperventilating poofball Snooki came to be.

Are 'Hipstras' the Next Generation of Hipsters? MTV Is Looking for Them in Greenpoint

via​Miss Heather at NewYorkShitty spotted this poster seeking "Hipstras" in front of T & N Wine & Liquor in Greenpoint yesterday. It may mark a new high in obnoxious terminology. You see, MTV is looking for people, who, given the illustrations lining the borders of the flier, are pretty much " ... More >>

MTV Execs on Skins: It's Almost Too Sexy; No Seriously, Look How Sexy These Shiny Kids Are

​The latest hot and sexy word out of MTV is that their new show Skins, based on the old show Skins, might be in trouble for child porn because it's just that racy and out of control. On the front page of today's New York Times, unnamed executives worry that the "provocative new show...may viol ... More >>

A Photographic History of 'Hipsters' on MTV

​On Friday, Crushable and Guest of a Guest noticed an MTV casting call on Craigslist. "Do you own skinny jeans, old school chucks, cabbie hat, the 70's vest, an ironic t shirt or hat, a fitted sweater, flannel shirt, or chunky lens-less glasses?" it reads. "Do you drink PBR, have an ironic mus ... More >>

New York Post Shills For MTV's Jersey Shore With Full Snooki Arrest Cover

​Yesterday, upon the arrest of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, we got a lesson on Twitter reporting, as TMZ scoured feeds for beachfront witnesses of "America's beloved pint-sized troublemaker." Wait, who called her "beloved," you might be wondering. That's the New York Post in today's cover story, a ... More >>

MTV and CW Rewarded For Representing Gays on TV, Still Lack Diversity

Transgenders on TV!​The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has awarded their first-ever rating of "excellent" to MTV for offering "richly diverse portrayals of gay and transgender people" for 42% of their line-up. The CW fell only a little short with 35% of their airtime devoted ... More >>

Here Is A Video of Matt & Kim and Friends Riding Their Bikes Into Roseland Theater

As part of the MTV Woodies madness we chronicled here the other week. Later, the duo would actually win an award for the song's video, which had them streaking naked outside of MTV's Times Square studio (call it the circle of life). Later still, their bike entourage did keg stands. As Mary Louise ... More >>

So Whatever Happened to "Obama Fried Chicken" Marquee in the Latest Clipse Video?

​It became a blank yellow facade, according to Brokelyn. Unsanitized YouTube clips and the like show the proper Brownsville marquee, but the MTV version has been conspicuously scrubbed. Why? "It is possible that MTV erased the Obama Fried Chicken sign for the same two reasons networks typicall ... More >>

Six Finger Satellite

Streaking Past Viacom Offices in Times Square Now Legitimate Path to MTV Video Music Award Nominations

Hey, so the downy elf with the dilated pupils who dwells inside the padded confines of MTV's viral marketing campaign closet did good today! The MTV Video Music Award Nominations are out, and boy, look at that Breakthrough Video category: the ninja-filled, Underworld-vibing video to Bat For Lash's ... More >>

Team Robespierre Vs. MTV: This Is Where the Magic Happens

Photo by Rebecca SmeyneTy and Mike House at the Silent Barn in 2007 Not sure what's the most unfortunate part about this Team Robespierre and MTV2 mini-saga that's detailed in play-by-play over at the Tripwire: that some drunk stooge flipping off the videocamera at the Chicken Hut last year both co ... More >>

Half-Naked Hotties Make a Splash!

Click here for this week's column--an overstuffed sandwich of tawdry, tempestuous gossip and personal opinions. Among the tasty highlights: *Come visit the hot new indoor pool party, where everyone takes a dive except me. (I can't even doggie paddle.) *Marvel as a noted comic screams "Kim Basing ... More >>

Staten Island Paper Deplores MTV Appearance of Local Girl

We congratulate the Staten Island Advance: "Cursing Staten Islanders take center stage on MTV show" sounds like one of our headlines. The paper says Staten Island continues to "serve as a laughing stock for viewers across the country" thanks to the recent appearance on MTV's "A Double Shot at Love w ... More >>

MTV's Real World Brooklyn Debut: Meet The Cast, Again

Many months ago, our friend Nate "Igor" Smith photographed the Real World Brooklyn cast. We used his candids to make guesses about these fine youth-culture representatives--and as happens with complete speculation, the details were a little off. So we asked Sharon Steel to watch the first episode la ... More >>

Passing of TRL Unaccountably Mourned

'Blogger of the Week' Winner Number One!

People I Hate...

M.I.A. and the Double Standard of MTV Censorship

Celebrity Rap Superstar: What Might've Been

Is Sellout Even a Dirty Word Anymore?

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An MTV takeover results in better bands, random absurdity, and . . . videos

Better Than Guitar Hero: Rock Band

Late-Night MTV: Total Anarchy

Anthemic Canucks Raise The Terror Alert

Game From Hell

Latest plan to save Sudan: Make a video game dramatizing Darfur

Remote Patrol

Newscasters Aren't Stupid

Wonkette's Ana Marie Cox worries about her MTV gig

GOP's Pimp My Candidate

MTV Meets RNC in Times Square

The Music TV Wars

Reality Killed the Video Star

The Avrilette Awards

Tweeenage Pop-Rock Nukes Annoying Hockey Girl's and Holden Caulfield's Paths

MTV Nation

Grown Up All Wrong