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When Not Making Rap Hits, Harry Fraud Surfs With Manatees and Rocks Out to Sublime

Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Hit man Harry Fraud dropped his new Adrift project yesterday, which the hip-hop producer has teased on Twitter to be a mix of "stuff you may have heard and stuff ... More >>

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.

Bootsy Collins

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 >>

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 >>

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.

SANDWICHES & SHOWALTER

Spend your lunch break with Michael Showalter and Jenny Slate

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 >>

"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!

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

HIM

"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 >>

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 >>

"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 >>

A STATELY AFFAIR

Rarities and unseen footage from a sketch comedy favorite

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 >>

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 >>

Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Last Vegas's "I'm Bad"

Last week's prediction: Kiss My Ass. Five guys with stage-names chasing the wobbly dream of '80s hard rock superstardom, Last Vegas bear the all important 2009 Mötley Crüe cosign, which will surely come in handy when soliciting Guitar Center endorsements. World historical developments have cons ... More >>

"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 >>

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 >>

COUNTRY GOT SOUL

Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

The Knives Come Out in Williamsburg

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

Bonde Do Role Tonight and Tomorrow

The VMAs: A Running Diary

I'm From Rolling Stone: The Finale

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

Fergie Is a Man

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

The MTV Movie Awards: A Running Diary

Remote Patrol

Return to the Blue Lagoon: Get Smashed Without Much Effort

Yet Another VMA Running Diary

Sgt. Pooper

Letters

Rage Inside the Machine

MTV News star Gideon Yago incites young voters

My Big Fat Obnoxious Prank

The Lawless and Ever Expanding World of Hidden-Camera TV

NY Mirror

Celebs Take Manhattan

Door Diva

Musto Mans the Velvet Rope at Eugene and Spa

NY Mirror

Video Kills the Video Star

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

Beat It

MTV: Behind the Music

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

Boho Boohoo

MTV Rides a Downtown Train

The Consumer as a Fan

I'm With the Brand

MTV Contest Hacked