The '80s saw the rise of truly creative and expertly directed rock videos, and late boomers were treated to some of the most ...

The first sound on 10,000 Maniacs’ MTV Unplugged is an announcer introducing the band and its lead singer to the assembled ...

May 15, 1985, Prince and the Revolution released their psychedelic dance hit, “Raspberry Beret.” The song marked a ...

MTV debuted the wildest animated series of the 1990s, and you certainly couldn’t make it today. We’ve seen a lot of classic ...

When MTV launched in 1981, it did not just play music videos, it rewired pop culture. Image was inseparable from sound, and ...

About halfway through “Michael,” the new blockbuster biopic of Michael Jackson, there is a scene in which Jackson (played by his nephew Jafaar) and his lawyer, John Branca (Miles Teller), are sitting ...

EXCLUSIVE: Neon has acquired the feature adaptation of Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum’s oral history : The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution which Patti Cake$ filmmaker Geremy Jasper is ...

Call it the day the music died. On December 31, 2025, MTV’s last music-only stations shut down forever . The last video played on MTV Music in the U.K. was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles ...

In 2025, we bid farewell to the best part of MTV. And no, we do not mean endless hours of Ridiculousness. We mean the very reason why the network had its name in the first place and why we fell in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2025, we bid farewell to the best part of MTV. And no, we do not mean endless hours of Ridiculousness. We mean the very reason ...

The unofficial website MTV Rewind has recreated the channel’s classic era, pulling in thousands of clips. Its developer says it’s an antidote to the algorithms. By David Browne Like many who’d grown ...

At the very end of 2025, a quiet but seismic shift marked the true end of an era: MTV officially shut down its remaining 24-hour music video channels worldwide. For many fans, that closure felt ...