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Alamo Drafthouse Singalongs Bring '80s Music Videos to Big Screen

The Alamo Drafthouse people are known for bringing you great movies and TV to their big-screens every week. Plus, the "coolest movie theater in the world" serves booze, which is never a bad thing, and their "no talking or texting" rules are even better. With locations coast to coast, the Austin-ba ... More >>

MTV's Best Year: The Top 5 Videos of 1992

In 1992, the recording industry was riding high. The compact disc had become a major success, with music lovers purchasing new albums and old releases in astonishing numbers despite the format's comparatively steep price tags. And the music-video juggernaut known as MTV was helping major labels to b ... More >>

MTV Unplugged's 10 Strangest Moments

Those of you fond of criticizing the lack of music on MTV, take note: The network's venerable Unplugged series returns on Sunday with a performance by British indie-poppers Florence and the Machine. It'll be the first of eight shows planned for this year, with The Civil Wars and Dierks Bentley alrea ... More >>

Here's The Pitch: Top 10 Commercials Starring Musicians

Madonna's infamous "Like a Prayer" Pepsi ad, 1989​Every now and then, name-brand companies need a little extra pizzazz when it comes to advertising, and often they turn to the music world to do this. Either way, it's a win-win situation for both the artist and the company because the artist us ... More >>

Eight Shows MTV, VH1 & BET Should Bring Back

We live in a time where crappy reality television has taken over three of the networks that were once originally dedicated to music videos, artist interviews and delivering current events from the younger generation's perspective. With all the flack that MTV (Music Television) gets about not really ... More >>

Grosse Pointe ?: An Incomplete High School Reunion Playlist

This weekend, I am heading back to Pearland for my 10-year high school reunion. It's funny, I say "going back" like I wasn't there on Sunday sitting on my parents' couch watching cable and letting them feed me mashed potatoes and slip me gas money. This trip is different, though, because I will be p ... More >>

Meat Puppets

MTV's Early VJs: Where Are They Now?

vegastripping.comMTV's original VJ crew (l-r): J.J. Jackson, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn and Alan Hunter​When it comes to the attention spans of teenagers, entertainers are on borrowed time. Which might explain the turnover rate of MTV's Video Jockeys, or VJs for short. Currentl ... More >>

Turn It On, Leave It On: MTV's 10 Best Music Series

"Henry Rollins asks Kevin Shields how much he can bench on the next 120 Minutes..."​This week marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of MTV, that loud, hyper-colored behemoth that changed pop culture and the music industry forever, endlessly providing viewers with visual and mental stimul ... More >>

The Seven Ages Of Britney Spears: A Poem

By William Shakespeare and Craig Hlavaty ​All the world's a stage, even things like MTV and stuff. And all the men and women merely players, even Fred Durst and that one chick from that one show that we forgot the name of. She had long hair probably. They have their exits and entrances, like ... More >>

Massive Montrose Fire Burns Agora Cafe and Antiques Store

Photos by Craig Hlavaty​Click here to see a slideshow of last night's blaze and this morning's aftermath. Last night in the midst of Halloween drinking festivities and the Montrose Costume Crawl, Agora Cafe and Antique Warehaus burned down. The two businesses, at the corner of Westheimer and ... More >>

MTV Struggles to Remain Relevant By Naming A Twitter Jockey

​This week MTV announced an online campaign looking for the network's first-ever TJ, or Twitter Jockey. Unlike the video jockeys of the cable station's past, these folks would instead live-tweet from MTV events for a year, earning a salary, and live in New York City. In addition to Twitter, th ... More >>

Jersey Shore: Exile In Guidoville

​MTV has a great deal to answer for -- reducing our attention span to half-second jump cuts and paving the way for American Idol for starters -- but the network still erroneously referred to as Music Television might have finally trumped itself in sheer loathsomeness with their latest foray into ... More >>

He Said She Said: Songs from the Year We Were Born That We Still Listen To

Yes, we are older than MTV. Shut up.​The thing that struck She Said most when researching this list of songs that came out the year we were born (May 1980) was just how much of this music we regularly listen to now. 1980 marked the end of disco, the middle of New Wave and punk, and a damn good tim ... More >>

Sound Off on The Kanye's Jackassery at Sunday Night's VMAs

This is what happens when MTV pulls all its VMA footage from YouTube... their lawyers were up early this morning.​ By now you've seen or at least heard about Kanye West's latest bit of spotlight-grabbing at Sunday night's MTV awards - Rocks Off doubts morning-drive DJs are talking about little els ... More >>

MTV's Brand Of Birth Control: 16 and Pregnant

Okay, so this show makes me nervous about getting pregnant, and I'm 32.I admit that when I first saw the previews (yes, I'm in my 30s and watch 16 and Pregnant...don't judge), I was worried that the reality series -- which follows girls who are (guess what) 16 and pregnant -- would merely glamorize ... More >>

Memories of Michael

Also: Secessionist Session

Yo! MTV Rap Fest

TUTS Thanks MTV For Legally Blonde Crowds

Photo courtesy Legally BlondeFrank Young, the man who is Theatre Under the Stars, has been known to refer to his subscription audience as "blue-hairs" when defending the conservative, warhorse musical choices that usually make up TUTS season.So who knew TUTS would be raking in the bucks this year be ... More >>

Rice Students Win That MTV Contest And Head To The Oscars

And it's Rice FTW!!!Sure, the basketball team sucks, the football program's a perpetual work in progress, and even the baseball team ain't what it used to be. But the Owls have DOMINATED the MTV contest to send people to interview celebrities on the Academy Awards red carpet!We told you about the tw ... More >>

The Cornbreadd Report: A Moral Victory, If Nothing Else

Well, things didn't quite pan out for Houston MC Cornbreadd on MTV's 50 Cent: The Money and the Power. After a good run, he came in third, lasting until last night's season finale. A couple of dozen people assembled at Boondocks to watch the finale and wish Cornbredd well, but he seemed to be p ... More >>

Tonight: Cornbreadd's Season Finale Watch Party at Boondocks

Courtesy MTV The Cast of Tha Money & Tha Power; Cornbredd is at far left Cornbredd rocks the Westheimer Block PartyHouston MC Cornbreadd, frontman for vicious rap-rockers Tha Fucking Transmissions, is one of those people you call with a couple of simple questions and wind up on t ... More >>

Exiled: Not the Sweet Revenge I Thought It Would Be

Okay, so My Super Sweet Sixteen is this hellaciously horrible MTV show about rich brats whose mommies and daddies throw them insanely crazy parties to celebrate the fact that they haven't died in the past 16 years. And it's just terrible. And sometimes I watch it. Observing such snots makes me wa ... More >>

Retro Active: The Five Worst '80s Christmas Songs

OK, sure, the truly worst '80s Christmas songs are doubtlessly "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" and Band Aid's (above) "Do They Know It's Christmas?" But everyone knows this. However, there were many other holiday songs released during the '80s that nearly reached such heights of crapulence ... More >>

Tha Fucking Transmissions Are For the Children

The 2008 MTV Movie Awards Turn Back the Clock

MTV in Houston? YES

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony

‘90s hip-hoppers return to tha stage

Drenched in Blog: Radiohead Gets Nekkid!

Bill Bellamy

Comic turns on the charm

Calling All VJs. Calling All VJs.

Them’s Fighting Words, Broseph!

Español Sung Here

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

Q&A with Alex, Your Real World Home Boy

The High Score

We Showed Up to Leave

Your Super Sweet Fifteen

The Academy Is..., with Panic! At the Disco, Acceptance, Hellogoodbye

Wednesday, February 22, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-629-3700.

Extraordinary Machination

Sure, Fiona Apple is crazy...like a fox!

Your Government at Work

Blessed Are the Buttmunches

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

Best Fetishist

Yaqi the Tickler

The Hives

Veni Vidi Vicious (Epitaph/Burning Heart)

Welcome to the M-Machine

Local Music News

Gotta Get the Money!

News of the Weird

!Quermos Rock!

The chords are the same, but the lyrics are en espanol. The rockeros like it, yes they do.