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Total Request Live

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Live: 2NE1 Says Hello To America At The Best Buy Theater

    MTV Iggy Best New Band 2011 Concert w/2NE1, Gyptian, La Vida Boheme, and Yuna Best Buy Theater Monday, December 12 Better than: The monoculture. Korean pop group 2NE1 waved at their fans from a wall-sized window above the Best Buy Theater Monday night. "Music is truly becoming a borderless thing, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Radio Hits One: Adele Brings The Ballad Back To No. 1

    ​Adele's 21 has ruled the American charts for most of 2011, and it's done so almost entirely on the back of one song: the lead single "Rolling In The Deep." While the British singer was topping charts in her homeland and several other countries with the follow-up single, the ballad "Someone LI ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    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 >>

  • 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

    August 29, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Wanna Be a TJ (Twitter Jockey)? How About for 100K?

    ​Remember the show Wanna Be a VJ that was on MTV about a decade ago? It was a contest show hosted by Carson Daly, and MTV awarded the winner a one-year contract to be a video jockey on Total Request Live. (Remember TRL?) Well, the Web 2.0 version of the VJ search is calling for open nominatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    X's Exene Cervenka Diagnosed With Multiple Sclerosis

    Fresh off an evidently triumphant three-night stand at Bowery Ballroom by these L.A. punk deities comes the sobering news that they're mortal: X's PR has released a statement from singer/poet/warrior princess Exene Cervenka announcing that she has MS. The full statement follows after the jump; god ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2008

    Passing of TRL Unaccountably Mourned

    Fresh off an evidently triumphant three-night stand at Bowery Ballroom by these L.A. punk deities comes the sobering news that they're mortal: X's PR has released a statement from singer/poet/warrior princess Exene Cervenka announcing that she has MS. The full statement follows after the jump; god ... More >>

  • News

    September 26, 2006

    This Is Constantine Maroulis. He Wishes You Knew That.

    In which an American Idol runner-up tops it all by blow-drying his chest

  • NYC Life

    January 3, 2006

    Hungover

    Where everyone from Parker Posey to Miss Guy played during the holidays

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2005

    Mariah Carey Beats 50 Cent on Billboard Year-End List?

    Where everyone from Parker Posey to Miss Guy played during the holidays

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1998

    Where everyone from Parker Posey to Miss Guy played during the holidays

  • Music

    March 22, 2005

    Riddims by the Reggaetón

    Puerto Rico's hip-hop hybrid takes over New York

  • NYC Life

    November 23, 2004

    The End of Eminem

    Can Marshall come out and play? On his new album, Em just wants to be unremarkable.

  • News

    July 13, 2004

    Newscasters Aren't Stupid

    Wonkette's Ana Marie Cox worries about her MTV gig

  • NYC Life

    April 13, 2004

    Close-Up on Times Square

    Wonkette's Ana Marie Cox worries about her MTV gig

  • News

    March 23, 2004

    GOP's Pimp My Candidate

    MTV Meets RNC in Times Square

  • Art

    July 22, 2003

    The Music TV Wars

    Reality Killed the Video Star

  • Music

    June 3, 2003

    The Avrilette Awards

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

  • Music

    March 4, 2003

    Suffragette City

    You Throw a Punch, You're Getting One Back

  • Music

    November 19, 2002

    18 and a Rep

    You Throw a Punch, You're Getting One Back

  • News

    September 10, 2002

    Hip-Hop Goes Commercial

    Rappers Give Madison Avenue a Run for Its Money

  • Music

    August 6, 2002

    Can We Sell It? Er, I Think So

    Rappers Give Madison Avenue a Run for Its Money

  • Music

    July 2, 2002

    Missouri Loves Company

    Rappers Give Madison Avenue a Run for Its Money

  • Film

    February 26, 2002

    Creatures of Celluloid and Flicker

    Rappers Give Madison Avenue a Run for Its Money

  • Film

    February 19, 2002

    Get It Get It, Get It Get It (WHOOOA) (Do You Like It)

    Rappers Give Madison Avenue a Run for Its Money

  • Film

    September 18, 2001

    No Depression

    Rappers Give Madison Avenue a Run for Its Money

  • News

    July 10, 2001

    No Love

    KTU Jock Louie DeVito Outsold Paul Oakenfold, but Why Can't He Get Any Respect?

  • News

    May 1, 2001

    Sticker Shock

    The FTC Markets Censorship as Consumer Protection

  • Music

    April 10, 2001

    Video Kills the Video Star

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

  • Music

    November 7, 2000

    No Hype to Not Believe

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

  • Music

    June 6, 2000

    Dear Diary

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

  • Music

    March 14, 2000

    All Ears

    Disney Dreams Up the Best Radio Station in 30 Years

  • Music

    November 2, 1999

    Infectious Disease

    Disney Dreams Up the Best Radio Station in 30 Years

  • Music

    October 19, 1999

    A Golden Age

    MTV Names the Only 10 Songs That Matter

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