Viacom's 3Q profit jumps 15 percent

MTV EXIT wins Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award 2009

By: chnarendra

 MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) has won this year’s Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award for producing the music video for Radiohead’s “All I Need”.   The powerful video gives insight into the realities of exploitative child labour and shows that we are all touched by it no matter where we live and that ...

25 days ago

I Don't Want My MTV

By: robertecrump

Call me old, call me a cynic, call me a post-Gen X crybaby, but I no longer want my MTV. Before you go and break out the crazy like a republican at a town-hall, you must understand that I am member of an exclusive club. A mystical generation in fact that is both old enough to remember how exciting it was to finally get ...

1 day ago

MTV Europe Music Awards Winners

By: Sherrill_Fulghum

On Thursday November 5, MTV held their sixteenth annual MTV Europe Music Awards.  this year the event was held in Berlin.  Celebrating an anniversary of another kind Irish rockers U2 gave a free concert at the site what was formerly the Berlin Wall.  Two thousand nine marks 20 years since the wall came down on November 9.  ...

25 days ago

Scott Wilk + The Walls made greatest lost '80s album

By: SlowNewsDay

"The handful of conglomerate-owned record companies that hold American popular music in their iron grip continue to lay off employees, think twice about signing untried new bands, and complain about poor sales." Robert Palmer "Today's Pop:  A Period of Pluralism" New York Times, 24 August 1980   Has nothing changed in 30 years?   ...

27 days ago