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"Feel So Close" to Calvin Harris at LIV Miami on September 7

Calvin Harris has been a busy little boy. His massive hit "Feel So Close" landed him his first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 12, and he penned a lucrative endorsement deal with Pepsi Max to feature his smash "Let's Go" with Ne-Yo. Riding that wave, he just got picked up to play an hou ... More >>

Nicki Minaj's "Stupid Hoe" and Five Other Rap Videos Banned by Viacom

​Nicki Minaj is too hardcore for BET. Viacom-owned Black Entertainment Television is refusing to air the rapper's "Stupid Hoe" music video. Evidently, naked Barbie dolls and fishnets are far too risque for the network. We've embedded the 210-second, Hype Williams-directed video below. You'll ... More >>

Why Stop at Stadiums? Four More Tax-Funded Buildings That Could House the Homeless

​With the newfound revelation of a state law requiring tax-funded stadiums to house homeless citizens when not in use, just about everyone is thinking the same thing: "LOL WTF?" Team owners have long striven to ignore this obscure law (when they're not tied up counting their white cotton sacs of m ... More >>

Ten Reasons the MTV Video Music Awards Are a Total Joke

​The MTV Video Music Awards are a sham. Every year, the network interrupts its regularly scheduled scraping-the-barrel reality television programming to pretend that there are people over at MTV who actually listen to music. To soften the blow of turning its focus away from pregnant teens and p ... More >>

Three Acoustic Lil Wayne Covers to Celebrate Weezy's MTV Unplugged Episode

​Did you see last week's episode of 16 and Pregnant? It was about a vulnerable teen girl and her decision to keep the baby growing in her junior-year belly. It's OK if you missed it, though. MTV will probably air that episode again. But don't expect it to be on June 12 at 9 p.m. 'cause that's wh ... More >>

WVUM Still Working Toward That Woodie!

Sebastian the Ibis insists: "Vote now, mofo!"​Sadly, FIU's Radiate FM went soft in the second-to-last round of MTV's marathon contest for best college radio station in the nation. So they're out. Thanks to WVUM 90.5 FM, though, Miami can continue to dream about bringing home a big beautiful Woo ... More >>

WVUM 90.5 FM and Radiate FM Halfway to an MTV Woodie!

A glimpse of the coveted MTV Woodie!​Dear devout fans of Miami's college radio jocks: You did it! You gave two of our raddest local broadcasters a Woodie. Well, almost. Yesterday, WVUM 90.5 FM and FIU's Radiate FM both advanced to the final pool of 25 nominees in the furious fight to win this ye ... More >>

Jackasses Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine talk about their new 3-D movie

Jersey Shore Damage Report: Launch Them Into Space

via MTV​Last night was the penultimate episode of season two of Jersey Shore, and judging from next week's previews of the gang hitting up the Everglades, the last with the majority of the action happening in Miami. It's sort of a shame, we were just getting used to watching the gangs' escapades i ... More >>

Jersey Shore Damage Report: The Situation's Bitchuation

via MTV​With the recent Angelina defestation of the Metropole hotel it seemed a new era of peace and prosperity was about to rule through the Jersey Shore house. Even Sammi and JWoww made awkward attempts at burying the hatchet. But then a bigger bitch emerged: The Situation. The manchild didn't g ... More >>

A New Reason to Catch Jersey Shore: ANR on Last Night's Episode!

​We're finding this really hard to admit, but yeah, we watch Jersey Shore. Sure, it's kind of a train wreck, but aside from the predictable cat fights and nonstop drama, there's now at least one other reason we can think of to not change the channel: The music. MTV has made it a point to start add ... More >>

Jersey Shore Damage Report: The Guidette Letter

via MTVWho knew Ronnie could read?​Some people thought the second season of Jersey Shore wouldn't work because the formerly anonymous guidos had become media superstars. Others thought the move to Miami Beach would take away some of the magic. So far, that hasn't been the case. What's really dragg ... More >>

VV Brown Talks Fashion, Heartbreak, and Rapping Before Tonight's Show at the Bayfront Aphitheater

​VV Brown doesn't take anything lying down. The alternative pop songstress started her career in the music business when she was 18, but abruptly quit when she realized she wasn't getting things done her way. Cue two years later, and she's singing about heartbreaks and bad breakups with the same g ... More >>

Jersey Shore Damage Report: The Guidos Come to Town

via MTV​Just a few months ago everything was right in the world. South Beach was home to its own particular brand of party trash, and the world's most famous guidos and guidettes were in their native Long Island/Statan Island/Rhode Island settings. Then MTV shook everything up and decided to set S ... More >>

Video and Photos: Tr3s' Camila Unplugged Special, Filmed in Miami Last Week

​A week ago today, Tr3s -- formerly known as MTV Tr3s -- celebrated its upcoming relaunch by reviving that great MTV franchise, the Unplugged series. While its parent channel long ago gave up on such strictly, uh, music-oriented programming, its foreign spin-offs, notably MTV Latin America, have t ... More >>

MTV Tr3s Revives the Unplugged Series in Miami Tonight With Mexican Rockers Camila

​MTV Tr3s, the network juggernaut's bilingual English-Spanish channel, is relaunching on July 12. It's dropping the "MTV" from its name, instead going with the moniker "Tr3s: MTV, Musica y Mas." It may not have the same punchy ring as before, but Tr3s is definitely making a new entrance in style.C ... More >>

Rick Ross Taps Jay-Z, Drake, and Kanye For New Album

photo by David "Dro" Rosario​Despite the endless drizzle of Haterade, despite the weird YouTube videos, despite the frequent, high-profile beef wars, despite, well, everything, the hype for Rick Ross' upcoming fourth studio album, Teflon Don, only continues to build. The disc is due out this summe ... More >>

Is Jersey Shore Really Leaving Because They Can't Get Into Clubs?

​The New York Post carried a report Saturday that says the cast of Jersey Shore can't get into clubs, setting off speculation that that's the reason the cast is heading back Jersey. The Post says they've been turned away at the the W, Delano, Shore Club, and the Mondrian.Supposedly it's because th ... More >>

Jersey Shore Threatens to Tear Apart South Beach at its Seams

For years the trashy elements of South Beach have coincided in a relatively peaceful, if not complimentary, harmony with its more high brow and sophisticated forces. Leave it to the power of Jersey Shore to upend all of that.While MTV has yet to confirm reports that the trash-tastic show will film i ... More >>

News Roundup

Cat killer strikes again. Victims speak. RIP Tommy the tuxedo cat. [CNN] Actual human beings are moving into condos in downtown. [Herald] A black-owned business at Opa-Locka airport was thousands of dollars behind in rent, so they were evicted. Now they're claiming racism. [CBS4] A group of South F ... More >>

MTV News Celebrates the M-I-Yayo With its Very Own Week

Now that Heidi and Spencer have gotten married for realz, MTV has decided to give our fair city its very own week of in-depth musical coverage. This introductory article mentions the accomplishments of the usual suspects - Lil' Wayne, Flo Rida, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Khaled, and Cool & ... More >>

Fly Khicks: Is That Pronounced 'Fly Kicks' or 'Fly Chicks'?

MTV's America's Best Dance Crew is so successful that they tried to spin the concept off for America's Top Pop Group. Local girl group Las Caprice made it on the show, but it sucked so much it abruptly came to an end after four episodes. How embarrassing. Well, the mother ship is back with a new sea ... More >>

I Want My Gay TV

MTV's Real World breaks barriers with two South Floridians.

Attn. All Local "Thugs": MTV Wants To Turn You Into A Dandy

Can We Have Your Autograph?

Don’t forget the little people.

Birdman Lands in Jail but Still Flies the Coop

MTV Pimps its Tongues

1440 Minutes

An MTV takeover results in better bands, random absurdity, and ... videos

Español Sung Here

Crossing over — who's doing it, who's not

It’s Hip to be Artsy

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

"Gold Lion" (Interscope)

Lil' Rob

"Summer Nights" (Upstairs Records)

Back Then They Didn't Want Him

MC Mike Jones wants y'all to give him a call

Latin or American?

La Ley rocked, Julieta charmed, and the Beastie Boys reminded us who really runs the VMAs LA

Basshead

Winners and Losers

Think Locally

Maria, Lo-Fi, and Rhett and the Pawn Shop Drunks want to crash the VMA party

Let It Burn

At this year's MTV VMAs, Usher is a major constellation in a universe far removed from ours

Vote, You Robots!

Just follow the sound of ka-ching as MTV invades a college campus near you

Where's the Roc?

Wrekonize may have won MTV's latest MC Battle, but he's still looking for a little respect

Yo Quiero Mi MTV

To reach Latin American kids, MTV first has to invent Latin America

How to Read MTV

The cultural-imperialism argument gets complicated

Ozzy Knows Best

The first father of shock rock buries teen pop; Miami's little grrrls grow up and growl

Gotta Get the Money!

Kulchur

Zoot Up, Punk

Nightclub Jitters

New Alternaworld Order

Swelter 25

Program Notes

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