After the disastrous 83rd Academy Awards show that is likely still giving former hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco nightmares, this year's Oscars had to be a major improvement? Especially with the return of fan-fav...
Fresh off the huge success of his Oscar-nominated "Boyz N the Hood," director John Singleton was hired to helm the music video for "Dangerous" cut "Remember the Time," and ...
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Nov. 30th marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” the best selling studio album in the United States.
Not only was the album a blockbuster that forever sealed Ja...
It has been said that death as a good career move and we're certainly seeing that crass saying hold true for Michael Jackson. Jackson, who died suddenly on June 26, holds the top 13 positions on Amazon's list ...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the debut release from that little ol’ band from Texas, ZZ Top. To commemorate the occasion, a number of bands— some clearly influenced by the trio, others not...
On Aug. 1, MTV turns 30. The big 3-0. The channel is now much older than anyone in the 12-24 demographic it caters to.
I was music video editor at Billboard in the early ‘90s. Covering MTV fell under my purview...
Look, anytime you have an episode in which the most dramatic event involved a rock-salt laced Slushie potentially blinding one of your leads, you know you’re in for a special hour on your hands. And so it was wi...
Hunter McCracken and Elizabeth Olsen (left) give amazing performances in "The Tree of Life" and "Martha Marcy May Marlene" respectively this year. And in each case, it was their first at-bat. We us...
As our own Melinda Newman previously noted, Michael Jackson's 1982 breakthrough album "Thriller" changed the music industry forever, with the title track's revolutionary 14-minute music video becoming the fo...
