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  • Columns

    April 11, 2012

    TV Sucks! 43 Reasons Why I Can't Watch Anymore!

    43 reasons to hide the remote

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    MTV Star Is Coming Out As Gay

    No, not Snooki. Paul Iacono was the young star of MTV's The Hard Times of RJ Berger, in which he was a sophomore with a large penis. He played young Patrick opposite Christine Ebersole in Mame and was in a version of Sail Away starring Elaine Stritch.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    For the Love of God, It's Not 'Downtown' Abbey!

    Have you seen the extremely popular British period drama called "Downton Abbey"? It's all the rage right now. It won a Golden Globe! People are talking about it, watching it, DVR-ing it, weeping with joy and raising their glasses to it as we speak. And people and news organizations, which are bigger ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 4, 2012

    Bootsy Collins

    Have you seen the extremely popular British period drama called "Downton Abbey"? It's all the rage right now. It won a Golden Globe! People are talking about it, watching it, DVR-ing it, weeping with joy and raising their glasses to it as we speak. And people and news organizations, which are bigger ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Sound Of The City's 11 Clickiest Posts Of 2011

    We're about to close up shop here until 2012, and what better way to send out the year that birthed trollgaze than to run down the 11 posts on Sound of the City that generated the most pageviews over the course of the past 52 weeks? Enjoy this look back on the psyche of our readers, and have a happy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Radio Hits One: Raising The Bar For "YouTube Platinum"

    Justin Bieber and Ludacris: Congratulations. A lot of people watched your video.​On August 28, MTV will throw the 2011 installment of its Video Music Awards, honoring achievements in the art form that used to make up the majority of its programming. While it's all too tempting to note the iron ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    This Week In The Voice: Matt Pinfield, Archers Of Loaf, Cave Bears

    ​This week in the Village Voice, out now: Michael Tedder speaks to rock evangelist Matt Pinfield (left) as 120 Minutes returns to MTV; Dan Weiss looks back on the recently revitalized Archers of Loaf; and Ray Cummings talks to the high-concept act Cave Bears.

  • Voice Choices

    June 15, 2011

    SANDWICHES & SHOWALTER

    Spend your lunch break with Michael Showalter and Jenny Slate

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    The Death (and Comeback) of the Music Video Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

    This week's New York magazine features a short article entitled "Why MTV Is Bringing Back Music Videos," which it isn't exactly. What MTV is doing is using its sizable funds to pair working directors with musicians and possibly even famous actors for a music video series entitled Supervideo. The fir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    "Eat It, Michael Musto" Is Now A Video

    ​LCD Soundsystem, whose song "Pow Pow" features the immortal line "Eat it, Michael Musto/You're no Bruce Vilanch," has just come up with a video for the song, starring Oscar nominated actress Anna Kendrick. That's exactly who I'd pictured to play me!

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Tickets Just Released for Tonight's Katy Perry Show at the Roseland

    So that Katy Perry show tonight? The one we gave away tickets for on Friday with the trivia question that nearly crashed our servers? Well, we have good news all you kids who bombarded the Sound of the City mail room. We've just been informed that they've released a limited number of walk-up ticke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Ottomanelli & Sons Sees Marketing Opportunity, Takes It

    Jason Kottke​A week after telling the Daily News that the dress Lady Gaga wore to the MTV Video Awards was fashioned out of cheap cuts of cow, Ottomanelli & Sons is apparently offering sartorial services to the plebes, to be accessorized with PETA's undying hatred. [Kottke.org via the Daily Wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    MTV Hires Twitter Jockey for $100K Per Year

    ​We told you about MTV's Twitter Jockey competition at the beginning of the summer -- it's a little like being a blogger, except you only have 140 characters and you make enough money to take cabs to work whenever you want. Last night, MTV hired Gabi Gregg as the company's first-ever TJ, givin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2010

    Reactions to Village Voice's Jersey Shore Queer Issue Keep Coming; Ronnie Still Silent

    ​On the day of the 2010 Gay Pride Parade in New York City, it seems worth checking in with our unwitting Queer Issue cover stars, the boys of Jersey Shore -- Vinny Gaudagnino, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino -- who had no idea they were posing for anything other than ano ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 4, 2010

    HIM

    ​On the day of the 2010 Gay Pride Parade in New York City, it seems worth checking in with our unwitting Queer Issue cover stars, the boys of Jersey Shore -- Vinny Gaudagnino, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino -- who had no idea they were posing for anything other than ano ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    "Jimmy, What Up Baby?" Raekwon Performs on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

    "Good looking out man, word up"--always nice to thank your hosts. No surprise the Roots and Raekwon are a winning combination, especially on "Catalina," and even more especially with Black Thought guesting. I dunno, what's left to say? Best year for rap on television that's not BET or MTV ever? So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2009

    Italian-American groups, Jerseyans object to MTV's Jersey Shore "guidos"

    ​Italian-American heritage groups and residents of the Jersey shore are threatening boycotts over a new reality series, Jersey Shore, which MTV is promoting as a look at nine of the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" displaying big hair, good abs, and various forms of lack of continence in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    "You're All So Hammered You Don't Give A Fuck What I Say": Live From The Woodies

    Girls not having much fun. Pic by Connar Walik, more below.​Once a year, mtvU hosts the Woodies, an event that's a lot like the Teen Choice Awards, except that it caters to college kids and music-industry people who can say stuff like, "I started listening to that band, like, two years ago." T ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 29, 2009

    A STATELY AFFAIR

    Rarities and unseen footage from a sketch comedy favorite

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    News Roundup: Trent Reznor, Eminem, M.I.A., Pearl Jam

    --Trent Reznor spoke out against former protege Marilyn Manson, saying, "He is a malicious guy and will step on anybody's face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he's become a dopey clown." The Nine Inch Nails mastermind doesn't hold bac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Week in Review: Boom! Woah, What Was That? You Transcend.

    In the week we got ourselves a whole new look, we celebrated by staring David Lynch and Kate Moss directly in their awesome, newly expansive faces. This was a bookish week at SOTC: Brian Evenson soundtracked his novel, Last Days, Jonathan Lethem reintroduced L.J. Davis and his walls of mucus in P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    "The City" Toff, Golden Globes Get Ahead of Themselves

    No, no, no -- you're supposed to get arrested for soliciting after you're famous, and announce the winners during the award ceremony. The Smoking Gun reveals that James Nevan Donahue, who plays a friend or something of "social" Olivia in the MTV car-wreck "The City," was arrested in 2007 for approa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    Interview: Comedian Aziz Ansari

    Aziz Ansari performs at Comix on January 9 and 10. Tickets are still available here. Comedian Aziz Ansari studied marketing at NYU and came up through the city's underground comedy scene before earning his break as co-creator and co-star of MTV sketch show Human Giant. He's now departed for L.A., ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 31, 2008

    COUNTRY GOT SOUL

    Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    The Knives Come Out in Williamsburg

    Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

    This Town Deserves a Better Class of Idiot, and MTV's Gonna Give It To 'Em in Red Hook

    Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2008

    Bonde Do Role Tonight and Tomorrow

    Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2007

    The VMAs: A Running Diary

    Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2007

    Let's Never Mention the Three 6 Mafia Reality Show Again

    Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2007

    I'm From Rolling Stone: The Finale

    Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2007

    I'm From Rolling Stone and The White Rapper Show: The Progress Report

    Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

  • NYC Life

    August 29, 2006

    Fergie Is a Man

    And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2006

    The MTV Movie Awards: A Running Diary

    And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards

  • Screens

    March 7, 2006

    Remote Patrol

    And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards

  • NYC Life

    December 6, 2005

    Return to the Blue Lagoon: Get Smashed Without Much Effort

    And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2005

    Yet Another VMA Running Diary

    And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards

  • Books

    August 3, 2004

    Sgt. Pooper

    And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards

  • Specials

    April 13, 2004

    Letters

    And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards

  • News

    April 6, 2004

    Rage Inside the Machine

    MTV News star Gideon Yago incites young voters

  • Art

    February 10, 2004

    My Big Fat Obnoxious Prank

    The Lawless and Ever Expanding World of Hidden-Camera TV

  • Columns

    July 22, 2003

    NY Mirror

    The Lawless and Ever Expanding World of Hidden-Camera TV

  • NYC Life

    September 3, 2002

    Celebs Take Manhattan

    The Lawless and Ever Expanding World of Hidden-Camera TV

  • News

    July 10, 2001

    Door Diva

    Musto Mans the Velvet Rope at Eugene and Spa

  • Columns

    May 22, 2001

    NY Mirror

    Musto Mans the Velvet Rope at Eugene and Spa

  • Music

    April 10, 2001

    Video Kills the Video Star

    MTV Used to Be Madonna’s Playground. Why Did It Have to End?

  • Music

    May 2, 2000

    Beat It

    MTV Used to Be Madonna’s Playground. Why Did It Have to End?

  • News

    September 14, 1999

    MTV: Behind the Music

    VJs, Video Awards, and Li'l Kim's Boob

  • News

    August 10, 1999

    Boho Boohoo

    MTV Rides a Downtown Train

  • Columns

    November 10, 1998

    NY Mirror

    ''Most high-minded of all was Madonna, a spiritual lady who wears her heart on her jewel-encrusted sari sleeve.''

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