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Three Things The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards Results Can Tell Us About Pop Music Right Now

The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards were handed out on Thursday, March 13, and though it was happening right in Austin I'll forgive you for not noticing. In any case I'm not sure how you can have an awards show at SXSW without handing out a prize for Least Essential Social Media App To Receive Venture Capit ... More >>

Joyce Manor's Matt Ebert On What To Do When Your Amp Is On Fire

It's easy to think four-piece Joyce Manor is a local band. They make their third appearance in the area this year on Sunday at Dada with Hate Your Friends, Hop Along and Fairbanks. We caught up with bassist Matt Ebert on his experiences playing in the area, an imaginary show with OFF!, and their wor ... More >>

Air Review's Douglas Hale: "Salt-n-Pepa's 'Let's Talk About Sex' Was The First Cassette I Remember Owning."

Local quintet Air Review has a pretty busy summer ahead, including a stop on KXT's Summer Cut June 1. Frontman Douglas Hale recently shared some of his musical firsts, including his first cassette, video, and when he heard his band on the radio. What was the first music-related item you bought? Who ... More >>

Cedars Open Studios Exposed the Day-to-day of Local Artists

On Saturday, as a part of the 9th annual Cedars Open Studios, more than 60 artists provided the opportunity to share a little insight into their own creativity by opening up their studios to the public. Complete with food, music, and of course, wine, most studios were at capacity with the steady flo ... More >>

Live, From Reunion Arena, It's R.E.M. on MTV

Over on Unfair Park a little while ago I said my piece about R.E.M.'s unexpected farewell, conveyed via the band's website, and directed your attention to the band's 1986 stopover at the Fair Park Band Shell -- a must-have on this or any other day. I also reminded Pete about the '95 show at Reunion ... More >>

The Ten Best Music Videos Banned by MTV

​MTV has gotten some flack for censorship over the course of its 30 years on the air. The station, in addition to helping proliferate the music video concept, is equally known, it seems, for bleeping words, playing only censored versions of certain videos, relegating racy videos to late-night pla ... More >>

Five Music Shows We Wish MTV Still Aired

​At the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Justin Timberlake got on the mic and pleaded with MTV to "play more videos!" Timberlake's sentiment was hardly a new one. The station switched from heavily playing music videos to being a reality TV-based network in the early 2000s -- shortly after the old for ... More >>

The Ten Biggest Dallas-Related MTV Moments

​As you've no doubt figured out by now, MTV turned 30 years old today. Indeed, that's a formidable amount of time -- enough, for sure, for almost entity to leave a mark.And, for sure, MTV has made plenty of marks. But beyond its ground-breaking debut as a music-centric cable station and past, eve ... More >>

Early Look: Play-N-Skillz-Coached Episode of MTV's Made Set To Air Tomorrow Afternoon

Steve VisneauPlay-N-Skillz​Juan and Oscar Salinas, the Grammy-winning production duo and brothers behind the Play-N-Skillz moniker, have a lot going on these days: a lawsuit against Lil Wayne; a recently released mixtape and single (with Bun B) to promote; a new mixtape on the way; a celebratory M ... More >>

Picture Show: Play-N-Skillz Start Auditions For Their In-Development MTV Reality Show

Roderick PullumPlay-N-Skillz have reason to be smiling these days.​ Oscar and Juan Salinas, better known as Dallas' Own two-time Grammy-winning superproducers Play-N-Skillz, hosted a pair of MTV producers in their Deep Ellum studios on Friday evening as a group of eager young Latinas lined up for ... More >>

Dallas' Play-N-Skillz Are Getting An MTV Reality Show--And Want You Be On It, Maybe!

Steve VisneauP-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-play-N-Skillz!​I was lucky enough to spend some QT with Dallas hip-hop super-producers (not to mention two-time Grammy winners) Play-N-Skillz last week on the set of Tum Tum's new music video for his Salinas brothers-produced track "Smoke Something" off his excellent n ... More >>

Neon Indian's Gravy Train Keeps Rolling, Now With Moby and MTV's Stamps of Approval.

Neon Indian's Alan Palomo. And, before you ask: Yes, those are his real eyes.​The red-hot promo train just keeps rolling for the North Texas-bred Neon Indian, whose next stop back here at home will take place on Tuesday, October 5, at the Granada Theater.On Friday, the band (Alan Palomo, Ronnie Gi ... More >>

Today In Music News: UMG Pulls Videos, Mellencamp Gets Awesome Opener And Bieber Gets Pwned

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2010...Like the rest of the major labels, Universal Music Group continues to act like a bunch of bitchy little girls as they pulled all their videos from MTV's web sites.  But, considering MTV rarely airs music videos, it may not ... More >>

The O's To Have Three Songs On Tonight's Season Premiere of 16 and Pregnant

Steven VisneauThe O's putt from the rough.​...or so this here press release we just received from Idol Records' Erv Karwelis says. We'd watch and see for ourselves but we generally try to avoid shows like 16 and Pregnant, which seem to imply the impending apocalypse and/or inspire things like teen ... More >>

Tonight on MTV, the Trip Thorugh Dallas That Helped Change Artist Sam Fuller's Life

The Buried Life - MTV ShowsTonight MTV's The Buried Life -- a show about four Canadians, I believe, crossing things off their to-do list -- takes a detour to Dallas, where the lads meet up with artist Sam Fuller, who, at the time, was living on the streets while bouncing in and out of the Austin Str ... More >>

Dem Southernfolkz's "The Message" Earns MTV Jams' Approval

Congratulations to the soulful area hip-hoppers in Dem Southernfolkz, who this morning saw their video for "The Message" get MTV's approval for rotation on its MTV Jams channel. It's the band's first video to earn airplay on one of the cable station's many subsidiary channels--but, if the band has ... More >>

The Bright Pop Up On MTV's Mini-Show Valemont. But, Wait, There's More?

So there's this MTV mini-show called Valemont, which I think is about vampires on college campuses or something? How unlike MTV to cash in on a trend like that...Back on topic: According to a press release that just popped up in our inboxes, DFW's own The Bright, no strangers to being placed on MTV ... More >>

The Secret Handshake Does It All For You (and The Real World, too).

Clearly, because it's been two months, and hence far too long, since a local artist's song popped up on an MTV reality show, the folks at The Real World: Cancun threw us a bone this week when, during one of the lighter scenes in a dragging, but "very special episode" (this week, we learned  ... More >>

Today In Music News: MTV Confirms Stunt, Up-And-Comers Go On Tour, Elektra Records Re-Opens Its Doors

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 3, 2009... A writer for the MTV Movie Awards has confirmed that the Bruno ass-in-Eminem's-face stunt was staged. Noooooo! MTV would never script any show they produce!  Two of hip-hop's biggest up-and-comers are joining forces on a joi ... More >>

Green River Ordinance Runs To The Hills...Again.

Green River OrdinanceSomeone at MTV sure must like Fort Worth's Green River Ordinance, 'cause, on Sunday night, the fellas in the band saw not one, but a whopping two songs played on the season finale of the channel's not-quite-reality show, The Hills: "Out of My Hands," which got some early ... More >>

Green River Ordinance To Flow Down The Hills Tonight

Preston Jones of the Star-Telegram has word today that Fort Worth's Green River Ordinance will see its song "Outside" air on tonight's episode of MTV's The Hills. And, actually, that makes perfect sense, wouldn't you know?This placement further continues the region's serious pwnage of the drama ... More >>

It's "Dallas Week" Over At MTV.com...

Looks like the fruits of MTV's labor from a few weeks back, when the network followed D-Town production wunderkinds Play-N-Skillz around town for a party at plush and a dance instruction deal at Big T Bazaar are gonna be unraveling over on MTV.com all week--if the above promo, which features non-Da ... More >>

Update: MTV2 Air Times For "Dallas Week"...

Just heard from Play-N-Skillz's publicist, Gina Torres, who checks in to let us know when we can catch "Dallas Week" formally--and not on the Internet, but on actual television, woot woot.Seems the clip, which features Play-N-Skillz "chaperoning" MTV throughout town, will air three times this week o ... More >>

MTV Offers Up A Recap Of The Silver Jews' Final Show

Speaking of MTV, the strictly music (and definitely not reality TV-based) cable network chimes in today with a recap of last night's Silver Jews concert--purportedly Dallas native David Berman's final show.Makes sense, as we've all seen how much love MTV has given artists like the Silver Jews prior ... More >>

The Biggest Stories in North Texas Music, Circa 2008

In a year that saw Ozzy, the Jonases and The New York Times storm through North Texas, which area music stories will go down as the most important of 2008?

MTV Names New Amerykah The 9th Best Disc Of '08`

Considering that I've only seen eight of the 25 artists mentioned in MTV's year-end best albums list (Kanye West, Lil Wayne, No Age, Death Cab, Vampire Weekend, Panic At The Disco, MGMT, Coldplay) actually have their viddeos played on MTV or sister network VH1, you've gotta imagine that, for 17 of t ... More >>

MTV Brings Us The Year In JoBromances

MTV News this morning has a delightful little feature looking back on the year that was 2008--in Jonas Brothers romances. Seems Westlake's own abstinence-pledging JoBros have had themselves quite the year in love, having been seen about town with tween music starlets Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and T ... More >>

MTV, Now Officially the Worst Network in the History of Television

In late October, a woman named Kandice Hutchison was killed in a car crash on W. Airport Freeway in Euless, when her 2004 Nissan 350Z hit a center median, flipped onto the concrete barrier "and slid along the top of it until the car slammed into a bridge support and caught on fire," reported yesterd ... More >>

College Newspaper Gaga Over Unsigned Artist Damian Giglio

Pot, Kettle. Kettle, Pot.

Rocket Summer Debuts on TRL

Midlake Joins the Cult of MTV

Dear Xtina

Onward, Christian Soldiers

Look out, evil Madison Avenue, these Jesus warriors have a battle plan for you

Odds & Ends

A local band gets its big break on MTV. Excuse us while we yawn.

System of a Down

Hypnotize (Sony)

Settling Score

This month, Dallas gets its shot at MTV stardom, and man, does it suck

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Spanking New

The Spree set off fireworks, Corn Mo might be a giant and more

Guster

Thursday, September 9

The Queers

Friday, September 3

Slipknot

Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses) (Roadrunner Records)

The M's with The Chemistry Set

May 21

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Best CD Store (Used)

CD World

Golden

Apollo Stars (National)

Gimme Some Mo

Corn Mo makes an appearance on Total Request Live

100 Bullets

MTV and Rolling Stone pick the 100 greatest pop songs ever, "from The Beatles to the Backstreet Boys." We demand a recount.

The money shot

Jagged and flashy, Lola pulls off a stylistic extravaganza

Out There