We’re gon’ let you finish but – here’s how to get free VMA tix
Be there if it happens again As has been reported, the MTV Video Music Awards are coming to the Barclays Center this month. We won’t do an old person joke about how they don’t play videos anymore,...
View ArticleMTV savagely disses Mos Def while trying to promote VMAs
Who am I, Vanilla Ice? via Facebook Have you guys heard the VMAs are coming here? MTV’s yearly celebration of that time that Kanye West told the whole world the truth (Beyonce’s video was better) is...
View ArticleThe VMAs are in town. Let’s party to MTV’s glory days instead
Money for nothin’. Poster by Meghan Doherty The MTV Video Music Awards are in Brooklyn for the first time this weekend, and this makes us laugh, mainly while thinking of the Kim Kardashians and their...
View ArticleMoney for nothin': 10 classic music videos shot on the cheap
That’s just mirrors and tin foil, kids. Nearly every director that was interviewed for the forthcoming book Welcome to the House of Fun: Directors Recall Creating the Golden Age of Music Video says...
View ArticleThe Moonmantini and other drinks you’ll find at our anti-VMA party Sunday
Teen Momosa, anyone? While One Direction draws legions of tweens who’ve never been to Brooklyn before to mob Barclays Center for the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, the rest of us actual music fans...
View ArticlePost-election terror is so bad that it’s becoming an MTV ‘True Life’ special
I never thought I’d find myself citing MTV as an accurate read of America’s cultural climate, let alone its political one. But with the recent […]
View ArticleMy Brooklyn sex life, as compared to MTV’s ‘I Just Want My Pants Back’
Get ready for a new crop of teenagers to covet your lifestyle, Brokelynites. After a whole mess of promotional buzz and Jersey […]
View ArticleRemember MTV? It wants to help musicians make money again
Pay attention, musicians, because we like you and want to support you, but forcing us to go to a glitter-vomit MySpace page […]
View ArticleWatch out for the moon men: The VMAs are coming to Brooklyn
If you’ve been sitting in front of what’s left of your Google Reader waiting for some kind of life-changing news that’ll break […]
View ArticleMTV loves them some Brokesters too
Brokesters are the new Jersey mooks. Exhibit B: a trailer for I Just Want My Pants Back, a new MTV show about four hipster-derived, hookup-happy BKers who are "single and broke: living the dream."
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