Back when MTV still played music videos. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There was a time when music videos were as important as ...

Sure, us millennials might have a somewhat unhealthy fixation on the '90s, but that's nothing in comparison to the way our parents have and always will cling to their golden years, the '80s. I'm not ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. There’s a certain magic about songs from the 80s and 90s ...

Artists still make music videos to promote their work, but it’s a much different world out there from when every new clip premiered with Ballyhoo on a channel called MTV (which still exists but is a ...

A late 1980s, early ‘90s music group is making a comeback. Grammy-winning new jack swing pioneer Teddy Riley announced that he is reforming the R&B group Guy, now known as Guy 2.0. As the name change ...

Axl vs Bob Guccione Jr. The fifth song on Guns N’ Roses’ 1991 studio album Use Your Illusion II, “Get in the Ring” is a vehement and unruly diss track aimed at music critics. Amongst those explicitly ...

It cost about 300 bucks to book The Replacements the first time they played at The Chukker. Five hundred the second time. This was around 1983 and 1984. Although this boozy Minneapolis group would ...

With a name like Mixtape, it's no surprise the Netflix movie features a killer soundtrack. This coming-of-age comedy drama is set in the late '90s and is filled with classic rock music dating back to ...

Before freestyle — the dance music born out of New York’s Latin community in the 1980s — even had a name, an underage Lisa Velez (before she became Lisa Lisa) remembers sneaking into the storied Fun ...