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MTV Networks Company

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    August 31, 2011

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    December 23, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2009

    Voices Carry

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2009

    Black Rock City

    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 >>

  • Music

    September 23, 2009

    Living Colour

    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 >>

  • Music

    January 14, 2009

    Meat Puppets

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    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 >>

  • Music

    June 18, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2008

    Mike Myers to Host MTV Movie Awards

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 20, 2008

    New Giants of Comedy

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2008

    Human Giant Hit SF for NoisePop

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2007

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2007

    Your Precious YouTube Videos May Go Down the Tube

    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 >>

  • Music

    June 27, 2007

    Still Not Gonna Take It

    New DVD collects Twisted Sister's video 'bangers

  • Home Entertainment

    November 23, 2005

    Your Government at Work

    New DVD collects Twisted Sister's video 'bangers

  • Home Entertainment

    November 9, 2005

    Blessed Are the Buttmunches

    New DVD collects Twisted Sister's video 'bangers

  • Film

    July 20, 2005

    Boyz N the Studio

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

  • Music

    December 1, 2004

    Dirty Vegas

    One

  • Music

    October 27, 2004

    Various

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

  • Music

    October 6, 2004

    Bouncer

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

  • Music

    July 21, 2004

    Beat Box

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

  • Music

    May 5, 2004

    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.

  • Culture

    December 10, 2003

    A Fan's Notes

    Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

  • Music

    October 1, 2003

    Behind the Music Videos

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

  • Music

    August 20, 2003

    Hear This

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

  • Music

    June 11, 2003

    Fleshies

    The Sicilian

  • Film

    April 9, 2003

    Hallway Gangstas

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

  • Music

    September 18, 2002

    Various Artists

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

  • News

    September 18, 2002

    The Sounds of Silence

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

  • Music

    January 26, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Basuki Bala, Kevin Dabbs, and Jim Ryan

  • Calendar

    May 26, 1999

    This Is Your Brain on PSAs

    Basuki Bala, Kevin Dabbs, and Jim Ryan

  • Calendar

    August 26, 1998

    Savage Love

    Basuki Bala, Kevin Dabbs, and Jim Ryan

  • News

    December 27, 1995

    Heavy Rotation

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

  • Music

    October 18, 1995

    Samples

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

  • Music

    September 13, 1995

    Samples

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

  • Music

    August 30, 1995

    Samples

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

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