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June 2024

  • Robots from the video to Björk’s All Is Full of Love, directed by Chris Cunningham – one of the great discoveries on music video channels.

    TV channels once championed music. Why have they given up so completely?

    Fergal Kinney
    Channel 4 has axed music video channels like The Box and Kerrang! amid falling revenues. They were once vibrant and full of discoveries – and there’s very little to replace them

May 2024

  • FILE - Morgan Spurlock poses at the Los Angeles premiere of his film "Super Size Me," Thursday night, April 22, 2004, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life’s work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

    Morgan Spurlock obituary

    American film-maker best known for his acclaimed 2004 documentary Super Size Me

April 2024

  • MISSY "MISDaMEANOR" ELLIOTT<br>Rapper Missy "Misdameanor" Elliott performs while filming the Sock it 2 Me music video in New York Aug. 22, 1997. Elliott is riding high on the charts with the recent release of her first album, "Supa Dupa Fly." (AP Photo/Rick Maiman)

    ‘This is an art form – and we’re losing it’: is the music video dying?

    Music videos were once cultural events almost as important as the music they promoted. In an era of digestible bite-size content on TikTok, the art form is in danger of being lost for ever

February 2024

  • Swift booking recommended … Taylor Swift at the 2022 MTV Europe music awards.

    MTV EMA awards to be held in Manchester for first time

    Star-studded ceremony to take place in November at new Co-op Live arena, set to become the UK’s largest when it opens in April

October 2023

  • Kalush Orchestra performing at the 2022 MTV Europe Music Awards, in Düsseldorf, Germany

    Organisers cancel Europe Music Awards due to ‘volatility of world events’

    Paramount postpones global music ceremony until 2024 citing Israel-Hamas war, saying now is a ‘moment of mourning’

September 2023

  • This video has been removed. This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason.

    MTV VMAs 2023: Taylor Swift triumphs as hip-hop and Shakira celebrated – video

  • Taylor Swift onstage during the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday night

    MTV VMAs 2023: Taylor Swift wins big in a ceremony celebrating hip-hop and Shakira

February 2023

  • Whitney Port and Tim Rosenman film their YouTube and Facebook series.

    How’d you find me, Whitney Port? The mystery of Facebook’s algorithm finally getting me right

    The social media giant knew I would enjoy a reaction series of The Hills, a show I was obsessed with in the early aughts

September 2022

  • Steve-O, star of MTV’s Jackass series, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto.

    ‘It’s a midlife crisis on steroids!’ Jackass’s Steve-O on ageing, addiction and planning a face tattoo

    He has survived being shark bait, snorted wasabi and had dog poo fired into his face. Now 48, he has written a self-help book – and is preparing for even stranger and more outlandish stunts

August 2022

  • 2022 MTV VMAs – Show<br>NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 28: Taylor Swift accepts the Best Long Form Video award onstage at the 2022 MTV VMAs at Prudential Center on August 28, 2022 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for MTV/Paramount Global)

    MTV VMAs 2022: Taylor Swift wins and Johnny Depp surprises in chaotic ceremony

    Taylor Swift announced a new album, Nicki Minaj shouted out female genitals and Johnny Depp made a surprise appearance in a strange, profane evening
  • Taylor Swift on the VMAs carpet. She is wearing a jewelled silver dress and bright red lipstick

    Taylor Swift announces new album, Midnights, to be released in October

    The 32-year-old singer used her acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards to reveal her 10th studio album is on the way

    • ‘I needed the work’: Johnny Depp makes surprise appearance at VMAs

    • VMAs 2022: MTV Video Music Awards – in pictures

    • ‘This sucks – again’: did anyone need the return of Beavis and Butt-Head?

February 2022

  • A scene from Jackass Forever

    The joy of Jackass is not only its stunts, but the gang’s enduring friendship

    Hannah Strong
    The release of the franchise’s fourth film is reason to celebrate two decades of daredevilry that never fails to make me smile, says Hannah Strong, digital editor at Little White Lies

November 2021

  • Queerpiphany hosts Munroe Bergdorf and Tayce.

    TV review
    Queerpiphany review: LGBTQ+ bingewatch is joyous – and profound

    Guests including Nick Grimshaw reveal their cultural ‘lightbulb moments’, in a charming series hosted by Munroe Bergdorf and drag star Tayce that couldn’t have come at a better time

September 2021

  • Olivia Rodrigo, 18, wins the award for song of the year for "Drivers License" at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.

    VMAs 2021: Olivia Rodrigo and Lil Nas X triumph in a return-ish to normal

  • Lil Nas X performs onstage during the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on September 12, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

    VMAs 2021: MTV Video Music Awards - in pictures

June 2021

  • Liz Phair with Madonna, Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie in The Hunger, and EE Cummings.

    Teenage kicks
    Liz Phair’s teenage obsessions: ‘I wanted to be a 6,000-year-old vampire with style’

    The singer-songwriter on watching The Hunger 60 times, how EE Cummings inspired her lyrics and discovering magic mushrooms at a Grateful Dead show

December 2020

  • Fiona Apple: ‘I wonder how I would have enjoyed my whole career if I’d been able to do it by myself.’

    Best music of 2020
    Fiona Apple on the album of the year, Grammys hypocrisy and how #MeToo helped her get sober

    Over two interviews and more text messages, our artist of the year unpacks her album Fetch the Bolt Cutters – and explains how she finally found compassion for herself after trauma and bullying
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