These days MTV and CMT might be going down in flames, but nobody can kill the dream of music videos. Why? They’re the best starmaking machinery the pop world has ever invented, the ultimate expression ...

MTV launched in 1981 with the promise of bringing music to television screens across America, but not every video made the ...

Now 79, Freston presents me with a manila envelope, inside of which is a copy of his new memoir, Unplugged, a frisky account ...

Maniacs made music much more benign than their name suggests. Their hit "Like The Weather" perpetuated those contrasts as well.

The downfall of MTV marks the end of an era when music videos united generations — before streaming split the rhythm apart.

Tony Wellington’s journey through the 1980s is fast, funny, terrible and gloriously fallible - just like the decade itself.

Billy Idol's entire career was changed by the power of one music video, right at the start of the MTV era, when good looks ...

(KGTV) — A story you may have seen online claims MTV is shutting down after 40 years. That is fiction, based on some facts. MTV is not shutting down in the U.S. But 5 of its international channels ...

It is the end of an era (outside of the USA). MTV will shut down all of its music channels by the end of the year. In the UK, much of Europe, south America, and Australia, MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, ...

For decades, MTV has been the heartbeat of youth culture, shaping music tastes and pop culture trends in ways few networks have. From iconic music videos to groundbreaking dance movies and more, it ...

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. MTV premiered on August 1, 1981, and four different videos by Split Enz ...

What has happened in jukeboxes of days gone by. Well, for one thing, video, jukeboxes are fast replacing the old machines we used to love and there is good reason. Dollar for dollar or rather quarter ...