MTV Video Music Awards

Why Kanye West May Prove to Be the Perfect Punk Rock Rapper

This weekend Kanye West released two new singles off his upcoming album, Yeezus, in the most grandiose possible fashion. On Friday, he announced the video for his newest single, "New Slaves," would be projected onto 66 buildings across six cities around the world in one night. Crowds gathered by the ... More >>

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 >>

Ten Fall Concerts You'd Be Crazy To Miss

Ten of the Best Fall Concerts

See also: Six of the summer's best concerts With this recent open-window weather comes the pitter-patter of the fall concert season, tugging at our sleeve and asking us to pleeeaaase hold it. There's plenty to teethe on in Dallas over the next three or four months, including bigger festivals like ... More >>

The Problem With... Britney Spears' "Criminal"

In the last months of 2011, Britney Spears' career is the cat in Schrodinger's sealed box -- it's both alive and dead. Most often, the swan song of a pop star's career is a Lifetime Achievement Award, which Spears received at this year's MTV Video Music Awards in August. As a contrast from her earl ... More >>

Young the Giant Grows Into Its Name

Foster the People is Living Out a Fairy Tale

In Defense of... Bush's "The Sound of Winter"

I feel a bit sorry for the the U.K.-spring alternative-rock band Bush. They appear only in the footnotes of '90s rock, sandwiched between the end of grunge and the rise of Oasis and Radiohead. There was a time, though, when they were huge. If nowhere else, you've probably heard tracks like "Comedown ... More >>

Lady Gaga's VMA Performance Art: 2012-2016

Wait, Lady Gaga has a tattoo? She's edgy!​One year after showing up on the red carpet in a dress made of raw meat, pop singer Lady Gaga arrived at this year's MTV Video Music Awards dressed as a man, and she remained in character throughout the duration of the show.Most critics agree that the perf ... More >>

Selena Gomez Says She's Almost Done With Music

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 >>

Looking Back at Some Other Local Music MTV Moments (Not All Involving the Toadies, Swear)

I see our music blog's celebrating MTV's 30th today by ticking off a few Dallas-music-related moments featured on the former music network over the years. I have since reminded our music editor: I'm old. So old I recall off the top of my bald head a few that were left off the list -- like, say, the ... More >>

In Honor of Nicki Minaj's Dallas Hotel Skirmish: The Ten Best Musician Fights of All-Time

​By nature, musicians are a rowdy bunch. When tempers run high, as they often do with this hot-blooded bunch, stuff gets broken. And by "stuff," we mean musicians themselves. When musicians fight, it's often very public, very bloody, and the source of national news.Such was the case this week when ... More >>

Matt & Kim Skip Along the Sidewalks.

Pomplamoose's DIY Revolution

Listomania: Top Five Lead Singer Switcheroos

Can you really blame the rest of Creed for wanting to ditch this guy?​In the late '90s and early 2000s, there were few bands higher on the proverbial food chain than Creed, with their first three multi-platinum albums amassing a total sales of over 30 million copies during their heyday. But dozens ... More >>

Arbitrarily Grading The Year That Was: A Look Back At The Major Music Happenings of 2010.

Not quite an A . But 2010 was still a pretty good year for music.​If the '00s were dominated by hip-hop, this decade looks as if it's being dominated by electronic music. While electro-pop has had some resurrections over the years, it's now a mainstay of popular music. Look no farther tha ... More >>

Last Night: Gorillaz and N.E.R.D at the Verizon Theatre

Gorillaz, N.E.R.DVerizon Theatre, Grand PrairieOctober 20, 2010Better than: an evening spent watching the Cartoon Network.Roger CaldwellDamon Albarn, triumphant at last night's Verizon Theatre show. For a full slideshow from last night, click here.​Shame on anyone who expected a cartoon-ish displa ... More >>

The Problem With... Taylor Swift's "Mine"

​Taylor Swift's formula for charm makes her accessible to much of America. She's got a Rust Belt background that plays well with the country music audience, a girl next door vibe that pulls in all the young-uns, and a sense of humor that just warms your heart, doesn't it?However, one thing is stic ... More >>

Today In Music News: Kanye Goes Back To VMAs, Parody Is Now Infringing And Nelly Hits The Radio

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, August 12, 2010...Apparently MTV has forgiven Kanye West. The rapper/producer/twitterer will perform at this years VMA's.So, now parody songs are violate copyright infringement? The former rap star known as Nelly has gotten a part-time job as a ... More >>

The Problem With... Usher's "DJ Got Us Falling In Love"

Take it from someone who's been there: DJs have great power if they do their job right. They can get people to shake, sweat, and pick invisible apples. But I can't remember ever getting people in the crowd to fall in love. I guess it wouldn't hurt to get back on the turntables and try doing that som ... More >>

Year in Review: The Best Hip-Hop of 2009: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love da Bomb

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 >>

Britney Spears, Jordin Sparks

Friday, September 18, at American Airlines Center

Asher Roth Talks Award Shows in Honor Of Our Very Own DOMAs

Black Tie Dynasty Tones Down Hairdos, Posts New Video

Onward, Christian Soldiers

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

Grandmaster Flash

Friday, September 30, at Liquid Lounge

Move Away and Shine

After scoring the movie Thumbsucker, The Polyphonic Spree ponders what could come next. Perhaps a musical?

Oh, Olivia

Britney, Jessica, Mariah: They learned it from watching you!

Odds & Ends

Jack FM, Fatty Fest 2004 and Hard (Rock) Lessons

Odds & Ends

The Polyphonic Spree on MTV, a benefit for Deep Ellum beating victim,and Snooping the Snoop

It Took Some Time

Why Morrissey is newly hip among bands that sound nothing like him

Johnny Cash, 1932-2003

The Man in Black left his mark not only on the music world, but on ours as well

How You Doin'?

Plus: Never Been Kissed; Wanted

Gossip Folks

Thanks to The O'Reilly Factor and Pepsi, Ludacris got a bad rap

Nap Time

Straight outta Kentucky, the "Country Boyz" of Nappy Roots are on the rise

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Folk 'Em

The new Broadside boxed set resurrects the intimacy and immediacy of New York in the 1960s

Those Crazy kids

A talented cast transcends teen film's familiar, cheesy formula

Roadshows