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 ...

Like so much rock ‘n’ roll from the earliest and most formative years, Southern rock took a little bit from here and a little ...

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 ...

I'm sure that you've heard the heartbreaking news that MTV has decided to stop broadcasting its music channels—MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live after 31st December, 2025—which means ...

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 ...

If you live in the UK, you are about to lose access to the following MTV music channels: MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live. Each of the channels will be shut down Dec. 31, according ...