American Songwriter

3 Overplayed Music Videos From the 80s You Want To Forget but Can’t

In the 80s, overplayed music videos left you in the same predicament as the radio: You couldn't escape the songs on endless repeat.
Yahoo

MTV Legend, 80, Is Unrecognizable Reuniting With Fellow On-Air Icons

MTV Legend, 80, Is Unrecognizable Reuniting With Fellow On-Air Icons originally appeared on Parade. If you grew up watching MTV in the '80s and '90s, there was one name you knew you could trust: Kurt ...
Yahoo

MTV Returns to Original ‘80s Music Video Format for One Week, But There's a Catch

MTV has announced a return to its original music video format, first debuted in 1981, ahead of the 2025 VMAs. For one week, the network will play exclusively music videos, but there's a catch. Here ...
American Songwriter

4 Rock Musicians That Blew up Thanks to Early MTV

Before the age of the music video, most big musicians had to settle for foregoing music video footage entirely or investing in whole films. (See: The many musical films The Beatles produced for their ...
Rolling Stone

MTV’s the State Look Back on Early Years in New Documentary: ‘It Was Intense in Every Way’

In this exclusive clip from Long Live The State, Michael Ian Black, Kerri Kenney-Silver, and others remember New York in the Eighties In this exclusive clip from the movie, the group remembers the ...