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Favorite Spring Break Music Performances

It's Spring Break 2012 time, suckahs! A time for all that overrated hanging out on a boat stuff, drinking until you're blackout drunk and hooking up with pasty-wearing hard-bodied strangers. Even though MTV dropped their "music television" moniker, they are still synonymous with the college-aged ho ... More >>

Happy Birthday, MTV: 30 Videos to Celebrate 30 Years

I want my MTV back​Music Television turns 30 today, but the network doesn't look a day over 16 and Pregnant. Well before MTV started exploiting the incredibly difficult lives of irresponsible teens expecting a first child and balancing high school algebra, the Viacom-network played music vid ... More >>

Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World Reflects on MTV's 30th Anniversary

Jimmy Eat World​Cable channel MTV turns the big 3-0 today. Maybe this would be a big deal to music fans if the station was actually dedicated to music, like it was back when it launched on August 1, 1981, but these days, MTV's demographic keeps getting younger and the programming keeps moving towa ... More >>

Ska Parade Tour @ The Clubhouse Music Venue

Jimmy Eat World​Cable channel MTV turns the big 3-0 today. Maybe this would be a big deal to music fans if the station was actually dedicated to music, like it was back when it launched on August 1, 1981, but these days, MTV's demographic keeps getting younger and the programming keeps moving towa ... More >>

J.T. Ready on MTV: And No, It's Not a Rap Video

MTV.comReady tells MTV's Ryan Duffy all about chupacabras and the dreaded Arizona jackalopeWhat am I to make of a recent segment of MTV's Vice Guide To Everything, which featured a gushing portrait of Arizona's best known neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, as he hunts "narco-terrorists" in the Sonoran desert?(You ... More >>

Elton John is Now a Father

​Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish are now proud parents of a baby boy, according to MTV News.The pair welcomed Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John into the world on Christmas Day. Man, what a name.The surrogate mother is unidentified. Regardless, the baby is "healthy and doing well," th ... More >>

Praise Yo Gabba Gabba! for Teaching Kids to Not Be Cynical Old Bastards Before Their Time

​Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish are now proud parents of a baby boy, according to MTV News.The pair welcomed Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John into the world on Christmas Day. Man, what a name.The surrogate mother is unidentified. Regardless, the baby is "healthy and doing well," th ... More >>

Praise Yo Gabba Gabba! for Teaching Kids to Not Be Cynical Old Bastards Before Their Time

​Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish are now proud parents of a baby boy, according to MTV News.The pair welcomed Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John into the world on Christmas Day. Man, what a name.The surrogate mother is unidentified. Regardless, the baby is "healthy and doing well," th ... More >>

MTV President Leaves Network

​Longtime MTV president Tony DiSanto is leaving the network, according to Variety.DiSanto is moving on to pursue a role as an independent program producer on primetime reality series.He'll be sticking with MTV through the end of the year to help with the transition process for his replacement, who ... More >>

The Hills Paved the Way for Lady Gaga, The Script, and More

Lady Gaga on 'The Hills' with Lauren Conrad​ Call it vapid, call it superficial, call it genius: whatever you think of MTV "reality" show The Hills, the program's managed to make its mark on the music scene. Thanks to star Audrina Patridge's cushy "job" at Epic Records, as well as castmates ... More >>

MTV Takes Away The Music

​No, this isn't some snide commentary. It's the truth. They're taking the words "music television" from their logo. I think everyone does suspect, though, that it's got something to do with the fact that MTV rarely plays music anymore. Some poor intern for Paste even forced himself to watch 24 hou ... More >>

Stinging Lessons

UK electro-house duo hits the Rogue

The Meat Puppets

UK electro-house duo hits the Rogue

2009 MTV Movie Awards: Quite Enjoyable, Actually

No, host Andy Samberg didn't high five any cats, but he did introduce one that plays the keyboard The blogosphere is abuzz from last night's MTV Movie Awards, and it's not because MTV viewers are all huge Twilight fans (I'll let you guess that particular demographic). True, the vampire movie based o ... More >>

Meet The Maine at Hot Topic in Tempe Marketplace

AZ pop-punkers The Maine, who have quickly hit the national circuit, will appear at Hot Topic at Tempe Marketplace Sunday, May 29 for a meet and greet with fans.Fans are invited to purchase any Maine CD or shirt before the event at the Tempe Marketplace Hot Topic prior to the event and they will re ... More >>

Kings of Leon to Play Something Called 'MTV Movie Awards'

Kings of Leon: Putting the "music" back in Music TelevisionFuture Valley rockers (Mesa Amphitheater on May 19) Kings of Leon have just been awarded a prestigious performing slot at this year's MTV Movie Awards. The show takes place May 31 at Universal's Gibson Amphitheater over in Universal City, Ca ... More >>

Snoop Dogg uses MTV to Release New Album

Rap star and Mary Jane-toker Snoop Dogg will bring his new variety talk show "Dogg After Dark" to MTV at 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 17. The new weekly variety show, which will air on MTV for seven weeks, was filmed in an LA nightclub and features Snoop chatting up celebs and musicians as well as ske ... More >>

Red-Hot, White, and Brown

Canadian-Indian comic seeks world domination

Valley Metal Demons Abigail Williams' New Video to Debut on Headbanger's Ball This Weekend

"Big in Scottsdale" feat. Christopher "Big Black" Boykin

The Academy Is . . ., Hello Monday, & We the Kings

fU, mtvU

It Came from YouTube: MC Bener One represents the PHX

The Mansion Family

See the house that chewing gum built and potted meat restored

Español Sung Here

Crossing over — who's doing it, who's not

Blur

Blink and you'll miss it

Armor for Sleep

Dead, or just from Jersey?

System of a Down

Hypnotize
(Sony)

Your Government at Work

Hypnotize
(Sony)

Blessed Are the Buttmunches

Hypnotize
(Sony)

Let It Ride

Aaron Homoki

The Last Vegas

Success is a pretty good bet

Spiked

The Spike gets down with MTV and Jello Biafra

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Hallway Gangstas

When bad things happen to good kids, their Luck always holds

Golden

Apollo Stars (National)

The Hives

Veni Vidi Vicious (Epitaph/Burning Heart)

Astro Creep

Rob Zombie rebounds from a Universal nightmare with another Sinister offering

Pretty Vacant

New Times' panel of critics searches for musical gems in a disheartening 2001

Ooh Child

MTV's blockbuster TRL Tour proves black is beautiful and profitable

Fighting Bullies

No one likes a bully. So why are Rose Mofford, Janet Napolitano and MTV distancing themselves from Arizona's Safe Schools, Safe Students program?

Guilty Conscience?

MTV does an about-face with a tele-film on the Matthew Shepard case and the launch of a yearlong information campaign

House of Stiles

Save the Last Dance is MTV's happier version of Romeo and Juliet

Booty Up, Kids!

Giving meaning to bad TV

Loose Pucks

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Puck is master of ceremonies

No, Just Ixnay

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Puck is master of ceremonies

TV RATION

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Puck is master of ceremonies

SOMETHING TO CROWE ABOUTCOUNT ON CHRIS ROBINSON AND COMPANY TO CARRY THE ROCK 'N' ROLL BANNER FOR AMORICA

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Puck is master of ceremonies

PARTY POOPER

NOT EVEN MTV AND THOUSANDS OF DRUNKEN KIDS CAN TURN WASTE-TAINTED LAKE HAVASU INTO A SPRING-BREAK MECCA