We can’t talk about ’80s MTV without mentioning Michael Jackson‘s “Thriller.” It’s perhaps an obvious choice, but it wouldn’t feel right to leave it out. “Thriller” epitomized the music video ...

MTV’s first ever broadcast on August 1st, 1981 starts with footage of the Apollo 11 rocket launch. As the rocket lifts off, the footage cuts to an astronaut jumping on the moon, an acid-pop colored ...

MTV helped bring music videos to the masses. Artists rose to the occasion, creating timeless videos for the network to play on repeat. While we’d shy away from crowning one band as the greatest music ...

Back in the 1980s, before they discovered the joys of young people living together in various cities, in Winnebagos and on the Jersey Shore, MTV played music videos -- all the time. They even ...

When it debuted on Aug. 1, 1981, MTV was a business and technology experiment without much downside and without much chance of succeeding. Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Co., only slightly better ...

Recent videos by The Flaming Lips, Nick Cave, and DIIV have gotten some attention online for their liberal use of scantily clad and/or totally nude people, but this isn’t exactly an original tactic ...

MTV was still a year away from coming into existence when the Rolling Stones released Emotional Rescue in the summer of 1980, but that didn’t stop them from making a couple of videos to promote it.

Some old dogs learned new tricks when MTV came on the air 40 years ago. And some had the tricks already in their repertoire. They say that video killed the radio star, but some of those rock artists ...

All around the world, people are reflecting on the life and legacy of David Bowie – including the time he went on MTV and publicly shamed the network for its lack of diversity. Rock videos by white ...

Over the past six episodes, the PBS documentary series Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music has chronicled how the art of recording music has evolved over the decades, and ...