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MTV Video Music Awards

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    R.I.P. Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boys' Visual and Humanitarian Genius

    Adam Yauch, the musician and filmmaker best known as Beastie Boys member MCA, died today of the cancer he was diagnosed with in 2009. Yauch was 47.It's so easy to underrate the Beastie Boys, in part because nobody did what they did, and for so long. From fighting for their right to party to fighting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    The Top 10 Worst Film Performances By Musicians

    By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO Rock star, singer-songwriter, producer, interior designer -- now we should add thespian to the many creative hats sported by Lenny Kravitz, who performs tonight (Feb. 14) at the Fox Theater in Oakland. In keeping with the family business -- his mom was the late Roxie Roker, a.k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Divorces Galore: Eight Musical Couples We Wish Were Still Together

    Since Monday, media everywhere has been agog at the news that Kim Kardashian and her husband of just 72 days are getting divorced. If you ask us, that union was doomed from the get-go. Anyone who watches Keeping Up With The Kardashians knows that those two barely even knew each other (Not that we wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Bump & Grind: The Top Five Pregnant Performances

    ​What the hell is up with the tabloids and pregnancies? Usually when a lady celebrity has so much as a big lunch, or gets photographed from a bad angle, they announce that an offspring is probably imminent. And here's Beyonce Knowles, being totally upfront about her and Jay-Z's baby-to-be, rubbing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    Deconstructing Adele's Sanity-Preserving Video for "Someone Like You"

    It's humiliating to be imparted a thuddingly obvious life lesson by an individual 14 years your junior. They've circumvented the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. In the new video for her massive hit "Someone Like You" (at 7.9 million YouTube views and counting), English soul singer Adele t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Nicki Minaj's Chicken Wing Necklace, and 10 Other Crazy Musical Accessories

    Oh, look at that. Nicki Minaj just emerged with a chicken wing around her neck that had been painted hot pink and dressed up like a necklace, and called it fashion. Hot! ... Or not, depending on your perspective. Regardless, in Minaj's avian-slaughtering honour, we'd like to take a look back at 10 o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Hey, When Did Metallica's Lars Ulrich Turn into a Cool, Funny Guy?

    ​Over the years, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich just hasn't done a lot of things to make people like him. Let's recount: he's often an obnoxious interviewee; he pulls some of the most annoying faces in drumming history; he played a role in one of the most embarrassing music documentaries on earth, ... More >>

  • Music

    August 31, 2011

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

    ​Over the years, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich just hasn't done a lot of things to make people like him. Let's recount: he's often an obnoxious interviewee; he pulls some of the most annoying faces in drumming history; he played a role in one of the most embarrassing music documentaries on earth, ... 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

    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 >>

  • Music

    February 23, 2011

    Pomplamoose Calls the Tune

    No record deal? No CDs? No problem. How Pomplamoose is modifying the music industry.

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Jimmy Eat World's Timeless Emo Inspires Flashbacks of Lost Youth at the Warfield

    Richard Haick​Jimmy Eat World September 30, 2010 @ The Warfield Better than: all those dudes in eyeliner that people think are emo now. In an attic in Arizona somewhere, there are four hideously deformed paintings, getting old, Dorian Gray style, because the members of Jim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Lady Gaga Destroys DADT -- While Wearing Meat

    Can Lady Gaga do away with DADT before this dress goes bad? ​In the last episode of the Week in Gay, a federal judge ruled that the military ban on gays serving in the military (Don't Ask Don't Tell) was unconstitutional. Since then, Lady Gaga won 101 Video Music Awards on MTV and then kicked some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Lady Gaga Dons Meat Dress for The Gays

    Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty ImagesDon't ask: Gaga said she did it to protest military policy.​We already guessed that Lady Gaga loved meat after her recent reported visit to the Mission's Rosamunde sausage emporium. Eating meat is one thing for a best-selling singer to do. Wearing an outfit that lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Why Kanye West and Twitter Are Meant To Be

    via Kanye West's Twitter​Kanye West was late to join the social media party, but he was caught up to speed immediately upon stepping into Twitter headquarters here in San Francisco earlier this week. At one point, he was gaining 80 followers a second. Where did we learn this? Kanye's Twitter, of c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2010

    Listomania: Top Hip-Hop Picks For 2009

    While year-end, catch-all wrap-ups are common to every musical genre, in no other style of music do they turn into the hand-wringing, "state of the game" examinations that hip-hop seems to provoke. (I've certainly written a few.) We worry because we care, of course. But at some point, like a thirty- ... More >>

  • Music

    December 23, 2009

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

    While year-end, catch-all wrap-ups are common to every musical genre, in no other style of music do they turn into the hand-wringing, "state of the game" examinations that hip-hop seems to provoke. (I've certainly written a few.) We worry because we care, of course. But at some point, like a thirty- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Halloween Tricks: The 10 Creepiest Singers of All Time

    For all of America's pretty pop idols, we also have a healthy appreciation for singers who make us really uncomfortable. Who give us the creeps, if you will. As a special Halloween treat, here are the top ten performers who give us that special form of skeeves:1. Corey Taylor bill from jersey city†... More >>

  • Music

    September 23, 2009

    American Idiot the musical fails to give Green Day’s anthems narrative arc

    For all of America's pretty pop idols, we also have a healthy appreciation for singers who make us really uncomfortable. Who give us the creeps, if you will. As a special Halloween treat, here are the top ten performers who give us that special form of skeeves:1. Corey Taylor bill from jersey city†... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2008

    Russell Brand to Perform at Cobb's in Nov.

    For all of America's pretty pop idols, we also have a healthy appreciation for singers who make us really uncomfortable. Who give us the creeps, if you will. As a special Halloween treat, here are the top ten performers who give us that special form of skeeves:1. Corey Taylor bill from jersey city†... More >>

  • Music

    April 16, 2008

    The Raconteurs transcend the members' other bands

    For all of America's pretty pop idols, we also have a healthy appreciation for singers who make us really uncomfortable. Who give us the creeps, if you will. As a special Halloween treat, here are the top ten performers who give us that special form of skeeves:1. Corey Taylor bill from jersey city†... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2007

    JUSTICE Up For MTV Award: Tweens Discover Coke

    For all of America's pretty pop idols, we also have a healthy appreciation for singers who make us really uncomfortable. Who give us the creeps, if you will. As a special Halloween treat, here are the top ten performers who give us that special form of skeeves:1. Corey Taylor bill from jersey city†... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2007

    LILY ALLEN POSTPONES DATE WITH SF: Is it our shoes?

    For all of America's pretty pop idols, we also have a healthy appreciation for singers who make us really uncomfortable. Who give us the creeps, if you will. As a special Halloween treat, here are the top ten performers who give us that special form of skeeves:1. Corey Taylor bill from jersey city†... More >>

  • Music

    September 13, 2006

    Never Mind the Oxygen Tanks, Here's Guns N' Roses

    Five excuses to see Axl Rose's new band

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2003

    Fanning the Flames

    In-your-face flamenco

  • Music

    December 24, 2002

    Love Plus One

    Or five ways to make existing groups that much more super

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