Van Halen's 5150 still rocks 40 Years Later with classic radio friendly hits and Sammy Hagar's Signature Vocals.

From grunge to glam, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York tops the list of the 20 greatest live albums of all time.

1986 was the big breakthrough year for L.A.-based pop-rock band The Bangles. After touring heavily in support of their 1984 ...

Country songs have historically not appeared often on MTV, but these three country jams were standout hits in the channel's early days.

Kirk Hammett (Metallica guitarist): I could tell it was really blossoming into something to be reckoned with. Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we’d write another it ...

Challenger disaster, a new book series explores teen life, history, and culture in 1986 suburban America. I’ve seen a nostalgic longing in the culture to go back to the ’80s, probably because most of ...

There are classic songs we revisit because of nostalgia, because they transport us back to a previous chapter in our lives. The production and style forever hardened in stone is exactly what draws us ...

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 ...

It’s been an eventful week for MTV-related news, which, when you consider the channel’s declining relevance over the years, is news in itself. First came the widespread rumors that MTV had shuttered ...

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 ...

MTV shut down its remaining 24/7 music channels in several countries, including the UK and Australia, at the end of 2025. The main MTV network shifted its focus to reality shows long ago and it ...

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, ...