A review of Michael, the long awaited biopic of Michael Jackson starring his nephew Jaafar Jackson and Colman Domingo as the ...

Michael Jackson may have been crowned the “King of Pop” decades ago, but his reign clearly hasn’t slowed down in today’s ...

On New Year’s Day 2026, a rumor spread across the internet that the historic MTV cable network had finally gone dark. It wasn’t exactly true, but like an old urban legend it seemed like it could, or ...

Call it the day the music died. On December 31, 2025, MTV’s last music-only stations shut down forever . The last video played on MTV Music in the U.K. was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles ...

In 2025, we bid farewell to the best part of MTV. And no, we do not mean endless hours of Ridiculousness. We mean the very reason why the network had its name in the first place and why we fell in ...

The unofficial website MTV Rewind has recreated the channel’s classic era, pulling in thousands of clips. Its developer says it’s an antidote to the algorithms. By David Browne Like many who’d grown ...

At the very end of 2025, a quiet but seismic shift marked the true end of an era: MTV officially shut down its remaining 24-hour music video channels worldwide. For many fans, that closure felt ...

For those of us of a certain age, it still feels both sad and inexplicable that MTV—a channel that literally used to be called “Music Television”—stopped, y’know, playing music, on television. Sadly, ...

Reports of MTV’s death may have been premature, but it’s still a far cry from the Music Television of yore. Some of our elder readers probably remember their elders telling them that MTV used to show ...