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Viral Videomaker Brian Firenzi: Filesharing Is Why MTV Doesn't Play Music Videos Anymore

Maybe you remember the hilarious video we (and lots of others) posted earlier this week, in which a (fake) MTV executive answered a question that bugs many of us: Why doesn't MTV play music videos anymore? Brutally, cruelly funny -- and probably way too accurate -- the clip made by Brian Firenzi an ... More >>

Watch: Nasty 'MTV Exec' Explains Why MTV Doesn't Play Music Videos Anymore

Remember when MTV's name was a straightforward summary of what the network showed, and not a cruel joke? Remember how long you've been bitching about that? Well, prepare to get skewered. In this YouTube satire, a fan asks a fake MTV exec why the network doesn't play music videos anymore, and instea ... More >>

MTV Gains Weight -- and Some Insight

​As a child of the 1980s and '90s, I routinely saw a handful of plus-sized bodies on my MTV  interspersed between taut video vixens and studs. The Fat Boys. Heavy D (rest in peace). Missy Elliott. Biggie Smalls, Fat Joe, and Big Pun. Since then, MTV has ceased playing videos and has corn ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

MTV at 30: The Top 10 Most Controversial Music Videos (NSFW)

via Flickr​As MTV celebrates its 30th birthday, it seems poised for a calm middle-aged life in a nice neighborhood, where it can safely raise Jersey Shore and Teen Mom into even more reliable moneymakers. But it wasn't always that way: Before it gave up on music, MTV swept through American hou ... More >>

MTV at 30: A Reflection on the Journey from Beavis and Butt-Head to Jersey Shore

​When I was born, MTV had already passed its eighth birthday. Now that I've dated myself, I'll make another confession: I never had cable television growing up. So I watched MTV take over the planet like someone who lived in a different dimension -- I watched music videos with my friends at th ... More >>

MTV Wants You to Hear Local Synth-Pop Outfit the Limousines

Calibree PhotographyThe Limousines headlined Popscene in February.​ Like most reasonable people, we tend to ignore MTV. But even our jaded hive-mind goes a little aflutter when the media giant gives a nod to one of the Bay Area's up-and-coming artists. We've seen Oakland crunk-dance outfit Wal ... More >>

Lil B Goes Gaye (Happy!) with New Album Art

No, not that gay!​ Inciting outrage, death threats, and -- at least for us -- wry chuckles, the controversial Berkeley rapper Lil B has named his upcoming album I'm Gay. Despite his past threat to rape Kanye West and jokes that he was a homosexual, B says the title is about happiness and the m ... More >>

Lil B Receives Death Threats, Insists He's Gay -- But Not Like That

Matt SeufererHe's just really happy, okay?​He didn't make much of it at his Mezzanine show last night, but Berkeley rapper Lil B plans to call his new album I'm Gay. Reaction to that news from the stubbornly homophobic parts of the hip-hop community? Death threats. Really.

Regrettably, MTV Is Creating a Digital Music Awards Show

​ Not content with merely throwing a Video Music Awards show (maybe because the channel doesn't actually show videos anymore?), MTV is moving into the Internet culture space with a new awards show called the OMAs.So what does the "O" stand for? Apparently it's up to you to decide -- MTV wants to ... More >>

Beavis and Butt-Head Are Coming Back. But Can They Recapture Their Former Glory?

There were rumors last year that Beavis and Butt-Head might return to our television screens -- now, it's been confirmed that the brain-dead, music video-critiquing metalheads will reappear on MTV this summer. And while I should be nothing short of thrilled -- I watched this religiously as an eight ... More >>

Watch Lil B Explain 'Based' Music, the Cook Dance, and Ellen Degeneres -- On MTV

The Based God on MTV​Last night, rising Berkeley rap sensation Lil B appeared on MTV. If, like me, you follow him on Twitter, this event pretty much dominated your evening. If you don't, well, let's just say B retweeted a stream of silly, profane, and occasionally hilarious comments from pretty mu ... More >>

Ludacris Shows Up in S.F. To Motivate High School Students

Ludacris at Thurgood Marshall High School in S.F.​So why should San Francisco high school students hang tough through chemistry, French and European history classes? Among other reasons, because Ludacris says so.The rapper/actor showed up at Thurgood Marshall High School in S.F. last Fri ... More >>

Arigato! Jamiroquai Wants to Sell You A Virtually Insane Cup of Noodles

​If you don't know the Jamiroquai song "Virtual Insanity" -- and its iconic, dancing-on-a-moving-floor-in-a-big-hat video -- you didn't watch enough MTV in the '90s.But even though we saw that floor retract across our screen a zillion times, and tried to sing along when the song came on the radio, ... More >>

Watch Crash Test Dummies Confess Comic-Book Nerdiness and Play 'Superman's Song' At Cafe Du Nord

Crash Test Dummies' frontman Brad Roberts told a cheerful Cafe Du Nord crowd this week about the origins of "Superman's Song," which he said "kicked our career in the pants" back in '91. Yes, his voice is still as shockingly deep in real life as it was on MTV when MTV played videos, and in cas ... More >>

Ten years of music videos: A treadmill, a stanky romance, and a YouTube dream

Voices Carry

Black Rock City

Living Colour

Meat Puppets

Free Tix: Keys to the City at the Independent

Yet another line between web project and live show will be blurred on Tuesday, December 9, as the Keys to the City online imeem series on hip-hop culture with a street perspective comes to the Independent (628 Divisadero Street). The concert will feature U-N-I (who was recently awarded MTV Video Mus ... More >>

Hollywood's bad b-boys: Dirt Nasty and Andre Legacy

Mike Myers to Host MTV Movie Awards

New Giants of Comedy

Human Giant Hit SF for NoisePop

New Music : Ghostface follows SF Performance by checking into " Rehab"

Your Precious YouTube Videos May Go Down the Tube

Still Not Gonna Take It

New DVD collects Twisted Sister's video 'bangers

Your Government at Work

Blessed Are the Buttmunches

Boyz N the Studio

Hustle & Flow is short on action, long on scenes of recording

Dirty Vegas

One

Various

Left of the Dial: Dispatches From the '80s Underground

Bouncer

Find out what dancers at "The Crib" thought of last week's debates

Beat Box

Music videos rule "The Crib," Ladytron's Danny Hunt gets party-tastic, and "Peppa" shakes with lusty ladies

The Art of Reuniting

Once upon a time, S.F.'s Death Angel was poised to bring thrash metal to the mainstream. Then its bus crashed. Now the band is back to finish the job.

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Behind the Music Videos

There are some pretty cool videos out there, but you won't see them on MTV

Hear This

Andrew W.K. is just a frat boy dressed up like a rock star, right? Wrong.

Fleshies

The Sicilian

Hallway Gangstas

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

Various Artists

Like, Omigod! The '80$ Pop Culture Box (Totally) (Rhino)

The Sounds of Silence

Why the Bay Area has stopped producing big-time rock bands

Riff Raff

Basuki Bala, Kevin Dabbs, and Jim Ryan

This Is Your Brain on PSAs

Savage Love

Heavy Rotation

Mark Kohr, S.F.'s leading music video maker, hasn't had a free moment all year

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